The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-12-03
THE PEOPLE DUPED.'
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l,-.-.., s..e.USsI ..a4Hn.s uS.a I@lnIi,y- ef1as
astonishe4 him. Hc talked about the al
vantages of TastLur->. ar ne made the
people believe that !. the capital were
located there permanently the little city
would become the Ee.2 Jerusalem. be
sent ont bogus t'iog-t1:s; got fiCtitiCu5
items IN the p.css: IL led through every
medium known 10 civilization, and, not
to speak prosauciv, he raised the devil
generally. He to!I local property OWE
ers that they ought 20 lake M the fight
it meant big increase IL the value q
their property-aul he soon had the
meanest and stingiest OH hguI:s ~ the
town dropping ten AM twenty dollar
bills into his hands.
Is this all? Not much! He went 70
the mayor and town council. lie got
them stirred ZIP and made them vote an
appropriation Of so 900 for securing the
capital. Then with this as q starter h.
bought several little editors and law
yers (bought them cheap and set them
10 booming Fastburg, and it Leg2n t.
look as though Fa3tbury would have
things all It's own way.
But this wasn't what Mr.. PullwOol
wanted. When he had gotten the breeze
10 blowing pretty strongly he left for
Slowburg. There he went to the mayor
ard town council and told them that
Fastburg was about to win; hal already
planked down $50, 900 and might p!anI;
down more, and the ring had tho
money. The Slowburg council wa
Awfully indignant and wanted 10 expose
the whole business. But Pullwool said:
THAT game never works. OF course
they would deny it and swear yyu
down, for bribing witnesses is a. easy
as bribing members. I'll tell you what
to do. Beat them at their own game.
Raise n purse that win swamp theirs.
The highest bidder gets tho article"
The upshot Of it all was that the city
magnates Of Slowburg voted ;GOO9O for
securing tho capital and put it into An
anias Pullwoors hands And PuIlwool
left. Then ho managed to cqualize the
fight, and to cut II long story short the
Legislature kicked the bill under the ia
Die. The whole result was that a bot OK
fools had given away 100000 and Mr..
Pullwoors little ring got the cash wh!lo
the fools got nothing.
"What does this mean, Pullwool?'
asked Mr.. Dicker when ne saw the bill
defeated. 'Fastburg won't be the cap
ital after all"
Didn't expect it to-" calmly and Sc
renely replied Mr.. Pullwool. Il didn't
want it to be. That would spoil the
game. This is a trick that must be
played every year" Then Mr.. Pullwool
leisurely returned to Washington to look
up signs Of more fools.
Reader, citizen, brother, do you apply
this little story? Did you ever hear of
tho tariff? Have you noticed that the
fight on this tariff question has been
conducted SO that when one section of
country goes for it another section
goes against it; and when the last Sec
ton goes for it the first section goes
against it? Have you observed that
while all this awful row is going on
about the tariff nothing is being done
for the country? Have you suspected
that while the Pullwoois scheme to set
you at each other and look on while Won
fight like lot of fools, they (the Pull
wools) are gathering in the shekels? Do
you believe the tariff is any nearer solu-
ton than 1t was ten years ago? Don't
you know the Pullwools don't want it
settled? Don't you know that when the
Democrats had the making Of tariff
they presented one which was 5 per cent.
less than the one which they professad
to be fighting? If you don't know these
things, you ought to begin to think. All!
how foolish we have been! What dupes
we have allowed ourselves to be! How
much longer are we to go on in this
way? How much longer will we allow
the Pullwools to pull the wool over our
eyes by Haunting tariff" when the All
important questions of national finance
and national prosperity Of individuals
are left unnoticed and unconsidered?
How long, o Lord, how long?
II. W. AVER