The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-01-15
Pepper and Salt,

Some days ago Nnlle lOOklnS over u
poor little harmless paper which has
the honor of being published at lola,
and which is said to represent the in
terests of the calamity party, very
Unexpectedly came upon q half col
umn article headed From Bayard,
and which was written by one of
those misunderstanding, poverty
shrieking, repudiating Simpson-Pef-
er apostles, who, from either igno-
rance or prejudice is unwilling to
admit that his party is on the decline
and will soon be numbered with the
unimportant things of the past, and
who claimed that he was trying to
answer something which had been
written by the MOntcvale correspond
ent and published in the REGISTER.
While hesitate to ask for valuable
space in which to answer such an ar
ticle, and while l am lOath to give
ear to a thing 80 shallow, frivolous
and untrue, we would like to say u
word in order to vindicate ourself i'll
the opinion of those who do not know
the gentleman as well as we do.
Though we have been very good
friends socially for a number of years,
we have always crossed political
swords. For when he was Republic
can was Democrat, when he was a
'Mongrell' l was Democrat, when
he was a Greeubacker | was a Demo-
crat, when he was u Union LabOrite
was a Democrat, and when he was
transformed into a calamity bowler L
remained Il Democrat.
All, my misguided friend when the
hen which now hovers your political
faith has hammered her brains out
against the doors of a sub-treasury
crib, where will you go for shelter?
. We feel very sorry for any young
man who has been reared within the
last half of the nineteenth century and
who has had the advantage of living
in this free and enlightened country
of ours, who has become so blinded to
the dictates of honesty, common sense
and reason that he is not able to conf
prehend something of the greatness
of this nation. He either has no idea
of its extent, or is forced by his pOlit-
zeal RIGHTEOUSNESS to cOntine his
thoughts to the narrow limits of a
township or voting precinct, and
measure the life and strength of What
he calls great national reform party
by its majority in a petty township
election.
We would advise the young man to
try and obtain some of that gUmption
that he heard SO mnch about and ap-
ply it in reading something besides
the Farmers Fri6Rd.
You accused me of joining hands
with the Republicans in order to make
ga common cause against common
Justice"
Justice! Did you say justice? Now
nv friend, know what is the matter
with YOU. You are swapping and
snarling because / did not join hands
with your sOcialistic mother and hell
to elect your molly State ticket. And
| will say right here that when my
party fuses with your party or adOpt'
its principles as they now exist, Twill
vote the Republican ticket straight.
/ | am neither Il politician nor ,
stump speaker, and hate to discuss
political questions with an orator wh'
spends much of his breath in telling
the farmer how lin the language o
Bill Nye) ''he is reviled secretly 10y
the politicians, and hoodwinked a
the polls, ground down by the money
lenders and skinned by the merchant
ridiculed by the comic papers anC
: lied about by the uncomic papers
: fiayed by the lawyers and then bar
becued by the fruit tree peddler, bun
coed by the buncO steerer, gOuged b.
the green goods man, ignored b,
Congress, cursed by the consumer
shun by the wealthy and pepper
sauced by the poor, peeled by thu
penniless, and tobacco sOused by tn
usurious, logged by the sheriff ant
taxed to the grave that he-may pros
per the nonresident" But if h
wishes to discuss either of the follow
ing questions | will meet him: Sui
treasury scheme, Government lan'
loan scheme, transportation scheme
or. coming to the State, the state pub
= LEGATION of text books. But ma
with even ordinary intelligence know
5 that it would be impossible to discus
. the amount of matter contained il
two political platforms i'll one, two q
even in a dozen nights.
NV friend ! will say to you that
!. am man, and not "a dog, and as to
1.-The best yon have in your shop"
1 was able to devOur that when only
2 school boy. You said you were nc
/ ashamed of your party. Now, fu
Gods sake do not write any more al
! ticles for the Friend or your part
will be ashamed of you.
J. NJ. COLLINS.