The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-03-24
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/ cheap you can BUY merchandise OF
them. This Is the time Of the year
when you are thinking Of fitting out
your family in spring clothes. You
never in your life found things SO
cheap for the money you are asked
to pay.
Now let's commence on the old
lady. She needs q new dress for
Sunday, to go to church aud the sew
ing society, the advertising columns
will reveal to you the cost OF all she
needs. Then, the oldest girl who
will directly be leaning on the front
gate until It is hopelessly out Of re-
pair, 'sparking" her young man.
She will soon be needing An outfit
to go to housekeeping on. Just look
at the matchless prices that are
asked for napkins, table cloths, win
dow curtains, bed spreads, sheeting,
towels, etc. You had to pay twice
and three times that wnen you and
the old lady got back from your mod
est wedding tour, and the per capita
Of circulation was not SO great by
half as new, you didn't get such good
goods either, and what you did get
had a foreign trade mark on TO boot.
Now let's get at yourself. For $40
you can get suit Of fancy cashmere
with Presbyterian coat of mater
ial that was u1heard OF, at any price,
when you first got big enough to
wear mems clothing. Do you re-
member that suit you had on when
you went up and cast the first vote
Of your life for old Jim Buchanan
for president? Better jeans clothes
than graced your form then can be
had i'm any store in this town
now for 1915. There was "a
tariff for revenue only" in those
days that you have howled yourself
hoarse about for the last twenty
years. The government had no
credit, and the president in a mes
sage to congress said the people had
become so poor that they could not
import anything. You can now buy
three pairs OF seamless socks in
fancy coIors, that won't rub off. for
a quarter, so that initiating Jerry
Simpson is not necessity. A "biled
shirt" may be had for IS cents with
linen cuffs and bands, and the wife
Of your bosom will do it up for you
to the Kings taste. For the amount
you expend for plug tobacco In q
single week you can obtain
enough collars to last you q year,
with neat neck-scarfs to boot. Now
after thirty years Of protection look
at what you can get? The people
don't have to import now, our manu-
factories that were suspended have
long since resumed, and thousands
been built. Is not your political
gospel a little bit wrong?
Now there are those four boys of |
yours. You can dress all Of them up
better on $40 than your father could
for twice that amount clothe you and |
your twin brother Bob who got kill |
ed at the battle OF Shiloh while you
were in Canada for your health. Do
you recollect how you used to go
until your feet got 20
calloused that you could kick sparks
of fire out of a stone? You would
be ashamed to see those boys OF |
yours on the streets barefooted now,
and you don't have TO, either, be-
cause you can buy them good shoes
at 50 cents pair, and the man OF
whom you buy them will throw in
stockings to match IL you kick on
the price.
You want to go back to the good
old times do you? Your memory
goes back to the time when a pile Of
prints lay on one end Of the
in the little store at Bethel
cross roads, that retailed for IL cents
a yard, while on the other end was
a cask Of whisky that sold fer 81.
cents a glass. Now those prints sell
by the yard for the price of glass Of
while the whisky has been
1utlawed altogether. How would
you Kick il whisky was placed In
such an easy place for your son Jim,
70 get at. You should not feel so hard
about Jim's declaration to east
ais first vote for Harrison when you
hink over all this. Suppose Jim
,hewed plug tobacco and slobbered
he juice In such a manner as to i'm
'rint map Of the United States on
lis shir:-front, the way you do,
would you like that? We hardly
hink you would when we remember
he licking you gave him the first
ime you caught him in the act Of
n cigar.
We have often wondered why you
10 not spend more time at home and
ess on the streets, proclaimipg that
the tariff Is a tax" Oily the 9TH
r evening when we went into o
ertain grocery-store TO buy q few
ounds of beans, you were there
slking Of the probabilities and pos .
ibilities Of fusion with the peoples @
arty to some Alliance men, and the
rocery man fscetIously referred to I
GU rs "a counter irritant.r You 4
lay well speak with pride of those
inc children Of yours, but it is to d
heir mother that all the credit OF .
heir bringing up belongs. You pirate =
bout reform" until your auditors .
re tired and your partisans are dis h
listed, but we are OF the solemn b
pinion that you ought to be REFORM =
yourself before you go to tinker n
'g with the tariff laws Of the coun- Il
y, when We consider what the Nc q
inley tariff has done for us. When }.
lie sign is right we purpose deliver
g another sermon for your benefit.
REV. ANNA SHAW says that the q
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