San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-12-15
A P0PULIST'S PRAYER.
While II is Sarcastic, Yet II Points Out Very
Many Serious 5Iunders.
o, THOU ALMIGHTY GROVER CLEVELAND
ssntIsst and Eobest Of sovsreisns. Whose Course
Has Produced Panic. Crime. Prostitu-
ton. Starvation and Death

The following prayer was read
at a recent meeting of the People S
party club at Dallas:
Oh, though almighty Grover Cleve-
land, the sublime author of every
good and perfect and honest
dollar, We turn to thee revcrently and
trustfully for giving US this golden
dollar that is splendid in its peerless
perfection as rich mans money, and
we earnestly thank thee, dumbly con-
scious that thy divine intelligence in
monetary science permeates the entire
nation, and we send out to thee our
songs of praise in recognition of thy
work and the law and thy backbone.
And oh, infinite Grover, we thank
thee for that prosperity which the Re-
publicans told us we had, and which
the Democrats know we have got, un-
der thy benifcent reign, thy gentlest
and noblest of sOvereigns. And oh.
Lord Cleveland, with what gracious
care thou and Wall street hast begirt
us round with a bankers financial
panic, failures, want, hunger, distress
and starvation. which will have to be
endured by thousands of deserving
poor, have developed an unconditional
necessity for soup houses which thou
hast failed to repeal and where
the plain people in all their
regal manhood can 60 and partake of
thy plentiful bounty as an object les
son of Wall streets patriotic and tri-
umphant Democracy. And thou, oh,
all-wise Grover, know that sophists
say that competition is the life OF
trade and thou desirest to divest their
minds of this falacy by proving that
golden money is the life of trade and
that competitor is simply the result Of
efforts to get money, for thou knOwest
that we have a. much competition foc
scarce, honest money to-day, oh, Gro
yer, as ever, but decidedly less trade.
And thou Grover, oh, most potent
and loveable dictator, didst find our
own Roger q. Mills darkling wan
derer in the rayless, painless night of
monetary ignorance, defending by
persuasive eloquence the cheap gold
that Wall street and boards of trade
and cotton exchanges said was THREAT
ening the ruination of the national
finances in 1886. and which has
changed to cheap silver in 1898,
and thou didst witchingly anG by
an electrical sympathy of heart and
intellect, as it were, instill a golden
charm in his turbid monetary stream
of thought, dds offer unto him in II
caressing. Irresistible, Eve-liBs way Of
the fruit of the monetary tree Of
knowledge, and he did st psrtake
thereof and became as wise rs thee
and Wall street was reused and filed
with loyal attachment to 'Eee and
all gold bugs, and he, wisely inter
preting thy requirements. entered
into a great national cOvsnant with
thee so genuinely Ameri an in its
nature that John Sherman. carry ing
clean, chaste and gentle Republican
peace as a thank Offering Onto thee,
was embraced with careising tender
ness by Roger @ and thee alike. This
tender and gracious act .Ouched and
warmed Johns heart uni his graft
tude could hardly be restr,,ined within
bounds as he saw vivifed into life his
dream of an honest dol ar under a
Democratic administrator; it was a
case of love, oh. Grover, iemptingly
suggestive OF the rustlinS of bridal
robes, hand-clasping of comrades in
bargain, sale and gain, but thou, oh,
Grover, with rare integrity stamped
thyself as benefactor. not only of
this nation, but of the race, IS q great
master of the conservative economy
of empty stomachs and conquered
hearts by this act, which is a marvel
Gus step forward in the governmental
history of man. And, oh, Grover.
we know that Roger q. Mills will put
forth his hand and touch the tree of
everlasting senatorial life. if possible,
but the Populists will cast him out
from the senatorial garden OF Eden.
where all things should be pure; out
among the plain people. where he can
earn his living by the sweat of his
own face. Amen,