San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13

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anything. Last year we favored
free coinage, and now we have t.
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. Did ever
dog serve his master more faith.
fully: Did ever dog get less fol-
it? Oh, mighty master, we are ever
ready to serve thee and party. All
the favor we ask is to be patted on
the back by some local politician
and called good Democrat. We
amt got any sense. We don't
want any, only enough to vote
the ticket. 1t don't take any sense
to be good Democrat. What a
joyful thought! We don't have to
think! We don't have to worry !;
our work is mapped out for us. All
that is expected is to do what we
are told to. We thank thee, oh
Cleveland, that we are Democrats.
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, the machinery that has
rusted and the thousands of bust
ness failures since thou hast come
into power. We thank thee for the
hard times. Last year we favored
a change, because, o Joss, thou
didst proclaim that it was neces-
sary for the good of all thy faithful
followers. We have had it and en-
joyed it with more than the meek
ness of Moses and twice the pa.
thence of Job. The "object lesson"
which thou hast given us has more
than satisfied us of thy designs,
while we rejoice in more to come.
1t is necessary that we be chast-
ened, and we thank thee for our ex-
perience to date. Wilt thou now
consider us, and If we
have not had enough of it we will
enlarge our reservoirs for
more. With grateful hearts we
accept whatever thou givest us, for
thou art great and wise, and all
living beings ard things of any &C
count praise the.
Even the dickey birds rejoice in
thee,
Up in the damfoola tree.
Forgive us, o Joss, for any UNI
seemly elongation of our prayer
In much milking there is fairness,
and we feel that we must thank
thee for thy great deeds for civil
reform, that glorious shibo-
leth of the mugwump saints which
keepeth our enemies in the places
we ought to have. We thank thee
also for thy servant Hoke Smith to
carry on thy great pension reforms
and publications. Where thou
didst catch him and the kind Of
bait, are no concern of ours, for we
are here as little children, opening
our facial orifices to prove what
idiots we are. We might thank
thee for Evangelist Gresham, too,
but thou knowest that we mean it
just the same.
And now, 0 Joss, we thank thee
for the promised blessings of tie
Wilson bill, and the cheering pros.
poets that with less cents the com
ing year we shall have more sense
for our recompense. We thank
thee for prospective cheapness and
the assurance that one dollar will
buy as much foddar and fuel as
two dollars heretofore. AT the
same time we pray thee to tell us
how we are to get the dollar? and
we will thank thee again. We
thank the for the royal pompOsity
of thy usurpatiOn of the war-mak-
ing power against the American
sheep by thy ukase for free wool,
with thy mOmentOus
that, No darned
sheep shall ever bite me
and live. Only our great rand
good one could have done that. We
thank thee for these things, be-
cause it is our duty as a good Dem
ocrat to do so. 1t may be "agin
the grain" but we will take our
medicine straight. Thou art of
more account than all of us put to-
gether. Thou knowest more than
the north, 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 next century. Knock
out protection; give more power
to the Whiskey Trust; smile on
the Beer kings who always help us
out; sell more bonds; establish
more banks; bride congressman
l. l. L.