The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-07-16
ONE OF THE CURSES.

People are suffering from so
many different causes that it is no
wonder they are often puzzled to
know what is the matter with
them.
Men and women are born to
trouble as the sparks fly upward.
They have all they can stand when
young. and all they can struggle
under when old. fought to know,
Tor | hs We been young and am now
getting old. Concerning the lat
ter fact, the less you say to me the
better | will like you.
True, there are many blessings
in life, and we should take more
notice OF them than we do, but my
purpose to-day is to write on one
particular cause of heart-burning
among the people from which no
one needs to suffer unless he likes.
1t is the demagogues. who tramp
around the country fooling those
who ought to know better than to
listen to them. and also the large
number of persons who never
thidk for themselves and conse>
quentiy do not know enough to
reject foolish advice.
The dtmagogue is generally ii
weli-dressed, good-looking, glib>
tongued, irresponsible bag of wind.
lie has nohody's interest at he TT
but his own. and can look out for
No. /. whether it rains or shin s.
He can be found il almost
every city aud town in this coun%
try, and can surely be seen on pa
rade during election tines.
And the strangest thing
that can I've said about him is that
his victims never appear 10 open
their eyes us to his true character
until it is too late,
AT Chicago | heard a story told
something to this effect: A little
boy had pup presented to him,
WHICH was so young that it ha
not its eyes open This diI not
please the youth, so he used all the
persuasive arguments at his COM
mand to try and get the little ami
NAL to open its peppers, but to no
avail. Suddenly, getting angry,
he picked the pup up by the tail
aud Knocked its brains out by
hurting it against the pavement.
After death had closed the career
of the pup, the little boy lifted it
up, and to his astOnlshment notic-
ed that its ewes were open. Re-
GREETING what he had done, he talk
el to the dead dog as follows:
you foolish little dog, why had |
to knock your brains out before yon
would open your eyes?'
And there are many people who
viii never learn anything, or get
their eyes open, until after they
are dead.
There are two large classes Ct
people who have listened to the
denagogue until they hardly know
what to think of themselves or Of
others.
The first class are the farmers OF
America. Grand, noble men,
who have worked harder aid longer
hours than any other class of toiIers.
How the demagogue has whispered
in their eari the Importance of
protecting the American worker
against the importer from foreign
shores And they have readily
taken his word jor it and voted tor
protection year IN and year out.
While hard at work from MORN
ing until night, getting more and
more tanned by the searching sun,
the farmer has consoIed himself
with the reflection that he has taxi
en- the advice Of the denagogue
and helped to work up his fellow
fe rmer as we'll as himself in the
great idea of protection to Ameri>
can lndustries-especiaI those of
the "infantV kind. Now the in.
frnts have become giants, and he
finds himself their slaves Instead of
bring their protector.
The farmers tell me that they
are not going to be fooled any
more Oh that issue. | am glad to
h ear it, hut if some of them do not
find themselves even more cons
pletely taken in by demagogues who
prateabout financial refsrn,I will be
agreeably mistaken. Think of men
featuring on public finances who
cannot make dollar over their ex,