Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-09-01

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has not Yet arrived everybody is not
-rIch and some conditions exist which
should be remedied. But many OF the
evils complained of cannot be reached
10y legislation any more than the
toothache can be stopped by it. Ii a
man insists upon mortgaging his farm,
and after awhile the interest eats up
the farm, that isn't the fault OF anv
political party. Ii the farmer is too
lazy to put In a crop and take care of
1t, and Is unable to pay his debts at
the grocery store or the saloon and
loses his farm on that account, his
loss cannot very well be charged to
the ''grasping capitalists" as the firm
OF Weaver & Lease claims. Laws can
not make men industrious or put
brains above a woman's tongue or
create an honest money man out of a
greenbacker, nor prevent drouth and
bad crops, nor isolated cases of dis
content. 1t is easy enough for Gen
eral Weaver to preach the doctrine o.
despair and get men to listen to him
| because in every community there are
some who through i'll luck or accident
or sickness or laZiness or intemper-
| ance or some other cause, avoidable
or unavoidable, have reason to COM
plain OF their lot; but the idea that
legislation can change their fortunes is
absurd, and politicians who by ap-
pealIng to the passions OF such men
seek to induce them to commit crime
or fill their minds with hatred of the
institutions OF the country, are them
selves dangerous demagogues, and the
very worst enemies OF the men whose
misfortuneS and discomfort and misery
| they thereby seek to increase tor po-
litical and selfish purposes. Wedoubt
whether there is woman in this
county as utterly rtbroken and
miserable as Mrs. Mary +. Lease, of
Kansas. She and her husband once
mortgaged their farm which they took
up under the beneiicienu laws of the
government that she denounceS. They
mortgaged 1t for more than it was
worth, got the money, spent 1t, and
on account of n bad harvest, were I'M
able to pay the interest and had to
move out while the NOR gage reluct
antly took possession as he had q per-
feet right to do. The fault was with
Mrs. Lease and her husband. Ii they
hadn't mortgaged their farm they
would have had it yet. But they did
mortgage it and probably the only
loser in the transaction is the man
who put up the money. Besides We
don't think that Mrs. Lease is sorry
She is making money out of this ca
lamity business of hers. So is Weaver.
| They probably took in $500 yester
day, which is doing pretty well in "A
! country which is going to the devil at
n Nancy Hanks gait. If they donated
u dollar OF 1t to the starving miners ot
| the Cmur d'Alene or the locked out
heroes of Homestead the labor leaders
of Butte haven't ascertained the fact.
Then there is shrewd suspicion that
| Weaver and the lamb-like Mary are III
the regular pay OF the Democratic ma
| tional committee and will get a hand
some bonus If they can only capture
enough votes in the west to throw the
election into the house and thus in
sure Democratic success, which is
doubtful at the polls. The consider
ate attention which Weaver is receiv-
ing in the Democratic press fully con-
firms this theory. Four years ago he
Democratic party hired st. John to
split the Republican vote in the free
| trade interest; now 1t has hired
Weaver for the same purpose. 1t Is n
beautiful scheme, but it will not woi X
with the intelligent citizens OF this
commonwealth who believe in the sr-
premacy of the law and the protection
OF life and property and the equality
human rights. The Republicans oi
this commonwealth have a clear ma
jority OF votes and they will remain
loyal, and receive the support OF many
law abiding Democrats who believe IL
free silver and who know that the
Democratic party has within eight
months defeated two silver bills and
nominated for the epresidency the most
pronounced gold-bug in all this world
1t is no longer secret that a vote fol
Weaver is vote for Cleveland. Tht
chameleonistic Weaver and the timer
ant female who plays slow anarchist
music while he turns on the red fire II
a political play entitled deaths Heac
and the Crossbones, or the Stuffed
Prophets Secret" will never succeed
in hiding this important fact even !
they shonld advise the hanging o
every governor in the United States
/, including our own Joe. And by tn
, way it is hoped that airy, fairy Mrs
Lease, this angel of sweetness an'
light, this self-sacrificing evangel OF tn
, dawn who has given up her farm t
, the money molochs OF the east ant
, come out to the wild and wooley ives
!, for less than the pittance OF $500
day-it is hoped that she will not ovei
1 look Governor Flower OF New York,
, Tammapy monster, who not longe
/ ago than yesterday called out tn
!. state militia simply to save propert
:, and life In that state, to the end tina
i after the strike shall end, severs
. thousand railroad men shall have en-
!, lployment again. Let us hope tina
Mrs. Lease will not spare her adIe'
;, tives and her maledictions simply b'
: cause Governor Flower is a Democra
:, Besides both she aud her friend ca
y suggest the hanging OF the New lorkt
without hurting the feelings or tt
. prospects OF the sacred OK OF Demo
:, racy now grazing along the foothills I
Buzzards' Bay.
i BIG MONEY IN 1T.