The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-11-18
A MOCK PRAYER.

The Gunnison (Col.) Tribune con-
tains the following:
Previous to the close of the Demo
cratic county convention last Tues
day Edward Croke, Mayor of Irwin,
arose and all the delegates reverently
bowed their heads while he offered
prayer to Almighty Cleveland. Here
it is:
"Oh,' almighty and all-powerful
Cleveland, who art in Washington,
when not fishing, thou who art the
father of Ruth and Ruth's sister, and
of Maria Halpin's boy, and the god
father of the Democratic party, tits
father wouldn't own it if he were
here) we hail thy name as the great
political prophet of the century. We
bow down before thee in humble po-
litical obedience. When thou sayest
60, we go; when thou sayest come, we
come. We have no desire but to
serve thee. If thou sayest black is
white we will swear to it and lick the
ever lastin' stuffin' out of the man who
disputes it. When thou takest snuff
we will sneeze; when thou sayest free
silver we echo thy words; when thou
sayest gold, then gold it is. We are
Democrats after the improved modern
type. Our business is to vote the
ticket and vote'er straight. What is
it to us whether we have free silver or
mott We are but dogs that eat of the
crumbs that fall from our masters
tables. When the crumbs fall we
wag our tails; when they fall fast we
wag faster; when they don't fall We
stand and wait until they do. This
is Democracy. This is the kind of
Democracy which elected thee, our
great and almighty Cleveland. Oh,
most adored master, we love thee for
what thou hast not done for us. We
love thee because thou art Cleveland.
We humbly surrender ourselves to thee
Do with us as thou wilt. Though
wheat is but forty cents bushel we
love thee; though cotton is low we
love thee; though business is dull we
love thee; though thousands, millions,
are out of employment We love thee;
though our children are clothed in
rags we love thee; though our wife,
the dear companion OF our bosom, is
scantly dressed and looks SO shabbily
she can't 60 to church, we love thee;
though we are sinking deeper III 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 offsprings by throwingit
under the crushing wheels of the Jug
gernaut. Oh, mighty Cleveland,
words cannot express our love for
thee. We love our party, too. What
care we about the many promises it
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 indepeL dence. Thou, oh mighty
Cleveland, hast all the manhood and
independence in the party. We are
fools, liars, lickspittle J, mudsils. We
have no business to want anything or
to say anything. Last year we favor
ed free silver, and now we have to
oppose it. We favored it then be-
cause 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 dog
serve his master more faithfully? Did
ever a dog get less for it! Oh, mighty
master, we are ever ready to serve
thee and party. All the pay we ask
is to be patted on the back by some
local politician and called good De-
mocrat. We amt got any sense. We
don't want any, only enough to vote
the ticket. 1t don't take any sense to
be a good Democrat What a joyful
thought! We don't have to think.
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,