Milford chronicle., 1893-11-24

though we are sinking deeper in debt
and poverty is knocking at the door,
and hunger is staring us in the face,
we love thee still. This shows our
great faith and love for thee. Our
wives and children we are willing to
sacrifice, even as the HindOo mother
sacrifices her offspring by throwing
it under the crushing wheels of the
juggernaut. Oh, mighty Cleveland
words cannot express our love for
thee. We love our party, too. What
care we about the many promises 1t
made. We know it promised free
silver, and we know it won't give it
to us, but we will stick to the party.
We know we said if it did not do the
things it promised to do we would
leave it, but we lied when we said it..
We thought then we had some man
hood about us, but we amt. We
have no independence. Thou, oh
mighty Cleveland, hast all the man
hood and independence in the party.
We are fools, liars, lickspittles, mud
sills. We have no business to want
anything or to say anything. Last
year we favored free silver, and now
we have to oppose it. We favored
it then because we thought it was
right. We oppose it now, most
adored master, because thou tellest
US to. Amt we honey of the first
water? Did ever a dog serve mis-
master more faithfully? Did ever a
dog get less for it? Oh, mighty
master, we are ever ready to serve
the party. All the pay we ask is to
be patted on the back by some local
politician and called a good Demo-
crat. We amt got any sense. We
don't wany any, only enough to vote
the ticket. 1t don't take any sense
to be a good Democrat. What Joy
full thought! We don't have to
worry. Our work is all mapped out
for us. All that is expected is to do
what we are told to do. We thank
thee, oh Cleveland, that we are Dem
ocrats. We thank thee for the panic.
We thank thee for the hungry and
idle men and women in the land. We
thank thee for low prices. We thank
thee for the banks that have busted
and the thousands of business fail
ures since thou hast come into power.
We thank thee for the hard times.
We thank thee for the rags our chill
dren wear. We thank thee for the
clothes our wife needs and can't get.
We thank thee for what thou hast
done for the banker and what thou
hast not done for the people. We
thank thee for all these things be-
cause it is our duty as n good Dem
Ocrat to do so. 1t may be against
the grain" but we will take our med
icine. We will work our wives to
death, starve our children, sacrifice
our homes, cruelty liberty and kill
prosperity, but will never go back
on our dear old party, and on thee
our most adOred Cleveland. Thou
art more account than all of US put
together. Thou knowest more than
the South and West. Call us fools !;
spit in our faces wipe your feet on
us; we will love thee all the more.
And now, our great political father,
we leave US IN thy care. Do with
us as thou wilt. Kick silver into the
middle of the next century; give
more privileges to the National
banks; issue more bonds preserve
the Mckinley bill; establish State
banks; foster trusts; bribe Congress
men with patronage; fish whenever
thou wilt and hunt snipe whenever
thou carest to, and we will indoTse
everything thou doest, carry Cleve-
land roosters, campaign torches and
forever sing thy praise. Amen -