Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-08-30
YE CONTAINERS. TAKE HEED

Nv e recall the attention OF farm
ers and laborers to the fact that every
thing they complain of is the result of
thirty-fve years of Republican legis-
lation in the interests of corporate
wealth" Thus boldly proclaimed
the Idaho Democracy in convention
assembled in Boise last week. The
force Of this charge came with stun
ming effect-aye, like unto thunder
bolt hurled by the powerful hand of
Vulcan. People fell PROSTATE before it's
power and they wot not what had
happened. 1t came also with the
light of an inspiration, and farmers
and laborers, blinded like owls in
the glare of the noon-day sun,
rubbed their eyes as their perplexed
brains in a chaos of confusion en-
deavored to comprehend the enormity
of the truth fired so forcibly upon
an unprepared and unsuspecting
public. A great army of ghost like
ills and the myriads of things they
have complained of marched feminist
their dazed visions, and they asked,
who gave thee birth, thou ghosts of
things complained of? Camest thou
from within the immutability of the
immutable, from fate uninhuenced by
legislation, from conditions and cir
cumstances resulting not from pollti
cal causes or laws of man, or camest
thou all from thirty-6ve years of Re
publican legislation. Oh, verify, ye
blind and weak of mind, doubt not.
They came as latterly stated, for hath
not the great prophets gathered
themselves together, opened their
mouths and spake as quoted. There
fore why pondereth thou and doubt
eth. All thou complaineth of, and
thou art a complainer from way back,
Is the result of the legislation hereto
fore referred to. The complainers
who complained prior to the birth OF
the Republican party were heirs to
ills, aches and pains, misfortunes
, poverty and the gout and disappoint-
) | 10 +oa to 70 n
| bankrupt treasury and "busted
5 credit, but their many misfortunes
< resulted not from Democratic legisla
ton then on deck, but was the re
suit, rather, of Republican legisla
ton then unborn, but which, like
coming events, cast the shadow of it:
; influence before. Now, it Is cleal
that all we complain of is the resul
> of Republican legislation. Follow
ing right straight ahead on a logica
line, it is equally as clear that will
the cause of all we complain of re
l moved, all we complain of will alst
1 90 glimmering, for with the cause o
}, particular effects removed, the effect
e themselves will fail to materlalize
u These complaints are founded on re
); suits, or effects, which are born o
Republican legislation. Without thi
parent, or first cause, we will not hav
the effects, without the effects moth
ing on which to base complaint
. Therefore with Republican legisla
ton wiped out the many things W
complain of will crawl into their hole
and hibernate indefinitely, Gabrie
will blow his toot horn and the mil
lenium will be here with all four fee
the weary be at rest, all will be Sc
! rene and lovely, high will hang th
- goose the fat, rich juisy goose--th
personi6cation of plenty, for tn
great unterri6ed (that prophetic o.
= ganization that digs down to the yer
" depths of things generally suppose
to be reached only by Divinity, an
~ with the clear vision of an all-seein
" inspiration) scatters the fogs of myst
y c;sm and reveals hitherto obscure
" truth in all its pristine perfection an
y divine grandeur, and pointeth out tt
~ way to peace and plenty, where I
man complainant. All hail, thou wi:
:. :. old Democracy, thou great and GOO
who leadeth us into the ways of wi
dom and pointeth out the trail tn
". leadeth out of the dense wildwoc
n of ignorance, stupidity and want, er
IS powered with the poison oak of p
tv litical heresles, mingled with Il
at prickly thorns and rank smart wee
,d of ruinous error, where the wei
a. ghosts of owls of evil hoot out the
nj solemn boots of dolefu complain
er, and as they imploringly interroga
IN with their sad-sounding "who, whc
,ft echo answers Republican legislatic
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