San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-12-08

II is rather late in the day to note that
fact, but we have had another land
slide, only this time it seems to have
slid all the other way, and the
knowing ones exclaim. as usual, Il
told you So. Evidently It seems to
be a case of ''whistle my lad, and I'll
come to you, with the average voter,
who seems to be as helpless in the
hands of the politicians as the hypnO-
tized village maid who stole through
the shade, her lovers suit to hear,
shocking as the act was, only in his
case, his seeming weakness, 10 call his
incOntinent folly by no harsher name,
is quite inexcusable. And the case
against him is strengthened when We
consider that 95 per cent of the vote
of this country rests in the hands of
the workingman, who ought to know
better than the average maid how dis
astrous are the consequences of a mis-
placed confidence. For surely he can
not be ignorant OF the fact that to
longer continue placing his trust in
old party hacks must eventuatesin his
complete subjugatiOn and enslave-
ment. At least such is the inference
we are to draw from the manner Of
his first focking to the support OF this
party only to flop back again to the
other on the least seeming pretext
with that total disregard for
the propriety of the whole preceding
which is well calculated TO cause his
friends to doubt, not only his SINGER
ity, but his sanity also. Small won
der that good people are shocked at
the course he is persuing. Hope, in
his case, seems verify to be a vanished
dream.
I'll tell you, my friends, there is en-
tirely too much soldering being done
over the workingman. This sort OF
thing has got him honey-fuggled. He
has been told that he is this thing and
that thing and the other so often that
he actually has come to believe
that he is the people, the great and
only creator and conserver of all that
is good in society. and that the Three
Tailors of Tooley street. measured
in the sum of his Importance, are not
in 1t at all with him, never were, in
fact, when he is the poorest thing
God ever created, is the average
workingman. He should be left to
his fate, an ignoramus that he is. A
few more lickings at the post of the
politician. few more of the knocks
that Paddy gave the drum, would
bring him TO his senses and do him nc
inconsiderable amount of good.
have no sympathy for him whatever,
considering the dance the politicians
have led him for years. first voting
this set of them into Office and then
the other set out and vice versa down
on through the entire decalogue.
There are $4,000 tenant farmers in
this state. II is safe to assert that
there is an equal number of artisans,
mechanics and laborers in the cities.
To say that these people cannot con-
troi the situation. and that a mere
handful OF the citizens is responsible
for all the wrongs they seemingly
think they endure, is. to put it mildly,
reprOach upon their intelligence,
and must not be told TO me. for | can
not believe it. To feign to 40 so
would be wrong, and to knowingly do
wrong is wicked.
But is there nothing suggestive in
this landsliding business? | have
often been prompted to ask. Or are
we to forever 90 on landsliding and
backsliding and sidesliding until the
ground shall have completely slipped
from under our feet, and there is moth
ing left for us to stand upOn-no, not
even the faintest resemblance to Jerry
Simpsons Peoples party log, which
we are to suppose will be swamped out
of sight in the general wreckage-or
are we to go straight forward, doing
that which is right for rights sake
only? Don't you think, friends, that
it is about time we quit monkeying
and get down to business if we are to
ever make a start. Time grows short.
Macauley's horoscope is about to be
fulfilled. The fates seem to have in
tended it so. Is there no way by which
we can stay the impending result?
Evidently no; unless the average voter
mends the error of his ways and quits
landsliding, which is only another
name for backsliding.
JAMES FITzGERALD.