The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1894-01-05
MY GOD M N I--HaVe YOU looked at
AM1YouE Palate? Perhaps it's High AEchI


labi and high arch the paatel Exactly. You arr
not ecoundrel, are you Jones? Did any say you
were scoundrel-and q conspirator7 Did you heal
any one say you were phool-or dupe2-or paid
Villain paid to incarcerate an American citizen in
prison. with maniacs because the bankers were on the
eve Of violent exposure of fraud?
No, you old sinner, you don't hear it.
Let us pass down this sewer:
His ideas OF reform are not based on reasonable
premises and his line of argument is founded upon his
belief of facts and upon biblical quotations. He is filed
with suppressed excitement and is liable to outbursts OF
maniacal character from any slight cause"
WE'LL who is to be the Judge of reasonable premises
If banks have $12OO00 OF county funds deposited in
and swear to only $12 900 in cash on hand-it
reasonable premise to anything but idiot that the
banks have not got the County funds on hand That
was Hoskins' premises. And if you don't regard it
as reasonable you are-no, not you-but ii you don't
believe it why it is Hoskins that is insane!
And the miserable maniac quotes the Biblel Most
people feel blessed confidence in that book We know
that in it Christ licked the bankers out OF the temple
and called Jones whited sepulchrel-but we thought
that even witnesses
HAD TO KISS THE BIBLE
before the Judge would believe them We in Wash
ington Courts d. CO. greasy old book kissed by hun
dreds OF poor witnesses, black and white; but when
Secy Foster the robber OF widows and orphans swore
they brought in lovely, dpressed, gltedged vol
ume, straight from the altar OF God The dirty book
was doubtless from the altar Of Goodby-Godl
Christian quoters of the Bble get ye hence!
"Liable to outbursts of maniacal character!"
Did you any, Jones? Did you? We're they tex
pressioness and immobile?' Were they <'laughingly
expressed?' Gov. Nelson ought to send some witless
fool to Fergus Falls to play clown to the ring.
"From these facts believe that he belongs to the
great army OF cranks and has outstrpped the border
line of sanity and in my Judgment is now insane and
probably unsafe to be at la?ge.''
The man who wrote that is dangerous man to be
at Target Every crank to be the border line
of insanty-and there is ga great army of themr And
on the basis OF arguing from premises OF his own,
and of being laughngly immobile and twtchingy ex-
pressionless he is unsafe to be at large.
Oh, ye sleeping citzenshp-that such farceful folly
could live in such age-and not be punished by
raell"
But now comes another royal agent of the kingly
bankers, WEIGH, Supt. OF the Asylum, and says:
Mentally consider him on the border line between
sanity and insanity He is usually able control him
self when not excited and is then apparently in
balance and he then shows unsoundness of mind OF
maniacal type, with decisions of persecution At such
times ne might become dangerous if at large.
Both Jones and WEIGH add that the nervous condi-
ton OF the patient is such to make of hospi-
tai treatment highly beneficial"
He the "border-line between sanity and insan-
ty is he? And you wretches propose to incarcerate
an American citizen who is, in your opinion, only upon
the "border-line?" And, under prosecution fo1
libel, and who challenged his prosecutors? Aye, and
with such witnesses overthrow the So 900 Min
neapolis ?-Such feels as if
prosecuted does he?and therefore unsafe to be at
large? Oh foolsl
You blind liars! You hypocrtes and brutal agents
OF a generation OF boodsuckers! You don't dare to
say Frank Hoskns insane. But you decide that the
nervous condition (of an mmobile and expressioness
mani is such to make of hospital treatment
highly beneficial" Yes-in INSANE ASYLUM
And has Mr.. Hoskins selected Profs Wech and Jones
as the higbjam Hoodoos to practice his ''narves-
or have you got him in durance against his will prac
tice on his immobie laughingness
Outl-thou vipers, who prepare the Christ-curse
closing with these Words sthe greater damnaton Of
Hell!'
How's yer gharch? Is it on yer palate? What?
Never knew? Great Caesar, man-why the hydrophobia
is nothin compared to your condition. Factl If We
haint got no low arch. yer crazy.