Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-19

BIG BAGS OF WIND
Our Rcformcr Drops Into Poetry, Rises
Into the Sublime and Runs Out
of Rhymes.
A Contounding Circular and Some Of
Its Fallacious Generalitics
Reviewed.
The Poetry of Imagination Compared
With the Old Reliable Party
of Facts.

To the Edater: Owing to the small
vollum of mummy in the U. S. no lntaxt
loan was seeking me at the time OF my re-
turn from unpadc Texture trip, tho !
grately needed My wife's plans for
spring work was wze. My two boys was
blowing and soing with mcloius songs. l
rezorted to the shades OF my wifc'S tree
elaine on the rode to lIarlan's stocking
farm, hoping he would pass that way.
dropt into poetiX as ely as guSe into
laik
A lark sored up from the box elders and
sorcd to (mcntcly) and forsaw the ROXY
dawn of mans cmansipashun when the
world wood be full OF lark and of universal
song. My stranes was of the age of fire.
dun, thus:
II Gums. 1t Gums. feel it in me boans;
The railway kings is topping from tlare
thrownS:
The ritch is growing poorer in tharc
hives.
The poor is getting PITCHER by thare
This line is meant for hur who has my
| hecr the braking of usorus banks
Oh, hale it, tolcrS, crushed on ShloX
wheat!
Arize! arzc! go forth and
My thots don't always find suitable robes
Of rament, as lille buds doc. | headed a
continent to rhine with "wheal.' 1t
woodn't do to make the toilers steal, tho
The frazc appropriate TO your nesesci-
ties wood do in prozc, for they have a
rite to the largest part of stored up wclth,
ecscpt what our leaders will get when
they hold the slsailS of iestis with COM
misshuns as the big waits.
Good morning. was the saloot that
drawd my eyes from blew burd that flew
out of cottonwood tree to Hon. II. Har-
Ian, Esq, who had invested his peryious
lawyers fees in horse farm.
"Gad to see you" seq l, wich was one
of the pressingest fax of my ncadful life.
was sort of laing in wait for him so as
not TO have his wife see me and cawsaun
him about emmy little tinanshul accommo-
dashuns, one OF witch my wife had settled
iii my Oenail. They is the best OF trends.
She is one Of them lilly admired wimmen
whose wit is SO exubrent in this section.
whose homes is SO happy and whose ma
tive land is as well cultivated by sum as
there minds is by all.
Harlan is a very retiscnt. thotful man
| and acted SO too, lest mite be too pre-.
vious. AS a lawyer and a staff senitar he
was CRATE on fax and ligsers mot OF retit
| but Of publck affairs. After sum mentlt
| playing around my attractive mind, like {
humble bee around clover blossum, ht
scd:
''Evry day or two diffent men send me
serclcr wich confounds me by its lofty de
mands and obscure fraZes." He didn'
say confound the sircler but did innerly.
'BaRk sercler?" seq I, outerly. New
mining company, mebby.'
so, no: more in the windbag stile o
men who are blowing about the none,
bag power witch they banker to git holt OF
Nearly every one of there HE fraze
has empty sound and SO has a empt,
barrel rolling down hill. 1t draws tn
boys who likes nois more than sense. [
winsed sum- They are put up in elasti
wind bags. This St. Louis bag is full o
EN-. They are so far above my reech tina
was on my way to your house to hay
you interpret en-" lOnty the bags, tho
1; but filling EN- is more in my Incl
Perhaps these shaids will do as we'll,
SEE I. pointing to fallen tree.
When we was seted he went on to say
Gin your offs as a commissioned lecturer
you make study Of these utterenses-
siense indeed-and BEGUN an ecspurt II
detecting emmy possible meaning in a loo
rid whereaz or lofty rezolooshun.''
"Hie complement, sur; very fetching
indeed" 1T fetched up my memory o
that Bangs business.l
Nov here is sample of a large lot.
SEE he, reading from the ST. Louis decko
ration, thus, 1--WE meet IN the midst OF
natien brought to the verge of moral, pc
litical and material ruin" He looked a
me with quiz.
81 didn't write it," seq 1, 81 WASH
thare."
"As a lawyer try to analize it-ge
holt Of its elements, if it isn't all gass, AM
find the fax. Now what are they?"
1.-The fax" seq l, ''yes fax is the basis o
political filosfy. But crate convenshun
for the salvashun of the republic and tn
uplifting of mankind q was koting
ritter on comits or comics for the moment
seem to have no time for fax. They re
docs details-boil EN- down-and deel GU
the glitring generalties."
"But what do these wurds reall
neen?"
81 dout if emmy man knows. Or the
may meen ennything under the blew can
vas of heaven"
Certainly nothing on erth not in thi
land where our moral and relijus force