The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-09-19

and dudes ad0rn their fingers with, not
the rings around the moon that por-
tend atmospheric disturbances, nor the
little dark rings under the eyes which
indicate moral delinquencies, but plain,
corrupt, damnable political rings.
About this season of the year a great
many people who think with their
mouths and talk through their hats de-
vote much time and energy to denounc-
ing and belaboring the ring. A man
can't amount to much politically un-
less he is engaged in deadly conflict
with some anaconda of ring. If man
possess no positive virtue and pines for
political advancement, he proceeds at
once to discover ring and then
straightway proceeds to demolish it..
Men who haven't genius or merit
enough to keep out of stray pound
grow great and powerful on the decay
e ruins of rings. But, about rings.
Whenever two men get together and
decide to elect John Doe church war
den, that is a ring pure and simple.
Whenever three men agree that RICH
ARD Roe ought to be watermaster,
that is another ring. If half a doz-
en- electors determine that PELEG
CROUCH is the right man for constable
and attempt to elect him, that is pc.
litical ring. There can he no unity of
action without ring. Just as soon as
one of those keen-eyed ring hunters
and destroyers finds ring. he proceeds
to organize another ring with which to
down the first ring. There are inside
rings and outside rings, positive rinas
and negative rings, good rings and bad
rings, big rings and little rings and
every solitary man that is not in ring
is trying his level best to get in. A man
who isn't segment of some sort of a
ring is no earthly account 1t shows
that he is so everlastingly mean and
perverse that no respectable human be-
ing will have anything to do with him.
If you want to be anybody or anything
in this world, you must attach yourself
to some sort of a ring. The Lord and
the good angels formed the first ring,
Satan kicked out and formed another
ring, then he got kicked out himself.
CHRIST and the Apostles combined and
made another ring, the Jews and Pr
LATE organized an opposition move
ment which was also ring of another
kind. WASHINGTON, FRANKLIN and
JEFFERSON were at the head of one Of
strongest political rings that ever ex-
listed in this country, and along about
that time BENEDICT ARNOLD tried to
make a combination and utterly de-
stroy that ring. So you see, some
rings are good rings and some are
tough. Now, before you join your
howl to that of the professional ring
smasher, you want to be sure as to the
character of, the ring you are trying to
destroy. and you always want to re-
member another thing, which is, that
the moment you try to bust one ring,
you begin to establish another and,
likely as not, your ring is the worst
combination of the two. Thousands of
people who ought to know better are
fooled by this ring business and hun
dreds who do know better use the cry
against one ring in order to cover up
the foul work of their own. Whenever
a man wants you to join with him to
down a ring, ask him how he proposes
to do it, and he will have to admit that
the only way is to form another ring.
One thing, however, is always dead
true: The ring that you and belong
to is no ring at all, it is simply right
eous and holy alliance of pure and pa
triotic citizens who are all wrapped up
in the promotion of public veal. That
is our ring, but the other ring is a son
of Qnn