St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-30
ARABIAN NIGHTS TO DATE

ONco upon Time, SO Tie story
runs, fisherman dragged up from the
sea copper kettle with leadeu seal,
which he opened, and out came cloud
which condensed into monster, which
proposed to eat the fisherman up. The
latter, nearly dead with fright, be-
thought himself, and asked the genie to
prove that it was really such by again
entering the kettle, which the foolish
fellow did, and the fisherman clapped
to the seal again and cast the kettle and
the imprisoned genie into the sea again.
Upon another and very recent time
there was great political party wnicn
had fought a great war successfully,
freeing millions of men from slavery
and cementing forever the bonds unit
ing a union OF many states. And when
this great task was done, and it had
rested from its labors, this party became
hungry, as the fisherman Of old did, and
went fishing for new issue on which
to feed, and it cast its net into the pol
icieS of the effete nations of the old
world and drew out kettle of brass,
and it broke the seal, and there emerged
cloud nebulous aud misty, and they
called it Protection. And as it grew
the party pointed with pride to it. and
praised it, and gave to it thanks for all
the prosperity that the industry and
frugality and genius for invention and
the enterprise Of the people and the fer
tiIity of their soils and the rains and
sunshine the good God sent to fructify
the earth had created.
And by and by, as time rolled on, the
cloud began to take other shape, and
soon it became a fierce.looking genie,
and said its name was Populism, and it
SAID to the party, now grown old and
timid: Il propose to eat you up. You
have outliTed your usefulness and can
do no more good and have fallen on evil
courses, and it is time for you to die,
and will absorb you into myself" And
the old party became half dead with
fright, and it knew not what to do. And
some Of the young braves plucked up
courage at last, and they held a
great council in the year 1894.
and they said, I'VE must fight
this monster to the, DEATH" and
some of them girded up their loins
and buckled Cn their armor and filled
up their canteens. and went out to do
battle with the cannibalistic monster
their party had lO0sed from its captivity.
And one McCleary, whose voice was
first raised for war, went one way. and
one Tawney, who was valorous in coun-
Gil, and one Towne, flushed with his
success in fOOling another strange
l,I g..I
they could work The same racket Oh
Populism, and went each to their differ
ent commands. and began to assault
and smite the ravenons monster.
But there was one among them as
crafty as the fisherman of old, whose
name was Nelson. And he went with
winning smile and soft words and held
converse with Populism. and he told it
what great and good thing it was I'm
the days when it was cloud only, and
what grand things were accomplished
by the old party then. 1t had furnished
homes for the sons and daughters of the
land of the midnight sun and those of
lands whose suns went to bed at a more
Seemly hour. IL had taken them to its
bosom and made much of them, and had
sent them to congress, and made one a
governor of principality. and had
made them all rich and happy, and.
even as the fisherman of old asked the
genie to return to the kettle. 50 this
Nelson pleaded with Populism to come
back into the party of cloud and pro-
lection.
AND. the end Ut the story of the latest