Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-02-05
The Dutchman,s Experience.

'sMine neighbor Wilhelm, vot you dinks o1
boitics, hey ~ asked Peter Won Sin of his
neighbor, Won Sweitzel, the Twelfth Ward
blacksmith, one evening, as he seated himself in
the 'sBierhaus"
II dink much" said Sweitzel, giving his pipe
a long Whit
"Vel, vot you dnks2"
II comes to der conclusion dat bolitics is one
big fool"
"Ah!" said Pete, after taking draught from
his mug, show you make him dat 3"
"Very veil, mine frien, tell you," replied
Sweitzel, after few whiffs. II came to dis
place ten year last evening, by der Dutch alma
nae, NIT mine placksnit shop. builds mine
mine fire, heats mine iron, strikes NIT mine
hammer. gets blenty work, and makes
monish."
"Dat ish goOt," remarked Pete.
II say dat ] make much friends" continued
Wilhelm, relighting his pipe. "Der peoples all
say Won Sweitzel bees goot man he blows in
der morning, he strikes at night and he minds
his pisness So dey spraken to me many times,
and it makes me feel much good here" slapping
his breast
"Yaw, yaw, dat ish gooter," remarked Pete,
who was an attentive listener.
"Vell, it goes long dat way dree year. Dree
Let me see. Won year makes dree hundred
dollar; der next year, dree hundred and fifty
der next, four hundred and swonzey, and der
next FIVE hundred dollar. Dat make five gear,
when old Mike, the watchuan, who bees such
a bad man, comes to me and say, Sweitze!, vot
makes you work SO harda''
ITO make monish," tell him.
II tells you how to make monish quicker as
dat" he says.
II ask him how, and den he tell me to 60 into
boltics, and git big Office. | laugh at him, ven
he tells me dat Shake de lawyer, vat makes
such burly speeches about Faderland, bees agoing
to run for Congress, and as Shake, the lawyer,
tells him to tell me, dat if | would go among de
peoples, and tell dem to vote NIT him all der
vile, he would put in Won big Office, where
make twenty thousand dollars year."
'Twenty thousand!" exclaimed Pete, thunder
struck.
"Yaw, twenty thousand. Veil, dinks,
must shtop der strikin' and go to mine frents !;
and all der Garmins vote for Shake, and Shake
bees elected for Congress"
Here Mynheer Sweitzel stopped, and fixing
his eye on the floor, puffed his pipe as if in deep
thought.
"Vell, mine neighbor," after waiting a due
length of time for him to resume, ''vot you do
den, eh 2"
"Vell, | ask Mike, der swell-head watchman,
for der office, and he tells me git him der next
year. wait until Ger krout-makin' time, and
den say again
"'Mike, ven will Shake give me dat twenty
thousand dollar Office r"
"'ln two year, shure,' he say, if you work
for der party
well, l shtop blowing mine bellers agin,' and
blow two year for der party NIT mine mout."
"Two year NIT your mout2 asked Peter, in
astonishment.
"Yaw, two year. Den again 60 to Nike der
swell-heaG watchman, and tell him der twenty
thousand dollar about, and he tells me in Won
more year get him sure. dinks he fool me,
yet blow for de party anudder year, and den
vot you dinks2"
'Dinks w you gifts him twenty thousand
dollar"
"Gits him by shinks Mike, de swell-head
watohman, tells me bees one big fool, and dat
| might go to der bad place, and eat mine sour
krout."
'He tells you dat!"
"Yaw; sure as mine name bees Won SWEET
zell"
"And you do der blowin' NIT your mout for
der party9"
"Yaw."
''Vat you do den, neighbour
II makes fire in mine placksmit shop
blows my own bellers again, heats mine own
iron, and strikes NIT mine own BANNER says
to mineself, Wilhelm Won Sweitzel, do your
own blowin,' and let politicians do THEIRS"