Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-04-04
DEMOCRATIC PRAYER
No. 1.


them was SO great that he published
the entire list-seven in mum ber-that
had appeared up to January in Nor.
gan's Buzz-Saw, published at Hardy,
Ark, from which we clip the one be-
low. For the benefit of our readers
we will publish one of these ''pray-
ers' each week from nov until the
seven are printed. The prayers are
well worth the subscription price of
this paper for year, and we hope our
friends will take advantage of this
opportunity to increase our subscrip-
ton list
THE PRAYER
oh, thou great and mighty Cleve-
land! Thou art great beyond all
others. Thou art wiser than two SER
pents Thou art all powerful, foS in
the hollow of thy hand thou holdest
the Offices. Oh, almighty master,
thou art great beyond comprehension.
Before thee there was none other,
neither shall there be any after thee,
for thou shalt have a third term. Aye,
thou shalt DE our king, and John Sher-
man shall be our priest at the golden
altar. Oh, mighty Cleveland. we wor-
ship thee. On the altar of our allie
glance to thee we lay our manhood,
our property, our lives and the lives
of our little ones. Do unto us and
ours as seemeth good in thy sight.
Scorch us with the fires of thy dis.
pleasure. Kick us out Of the white
house. Give the Offices to our enc
mics. Sell us into captivity to Wall
street, but we will worship thee and
be satisfied, for is it not written: 1.-THE
dogs eat of the crumb BIS that fall Fl ON
their masters tatle?" Before
thee, mighty chief, we bow. We
lie down on our bellies We grovel.
We eat dirt. We swear we have
lied all the balance of our days. we
asked for silver when we should have
asked for gold. We asked for more
money when we should have asked
for more bonds. We asked for better
prices when we should have asked for
lower prices. We asked for the repeal
of the Mckinley tariff when we should
have asked to let it alone. Thou, oh
mighty Cleveland, seest all these
things better than we do We are
fools. We haven't got any sense
Thou knowest better than all of us
put together We are a stencil in the
nostrels of Thy Fatness." Among
all our tribes thou couldst not find
one that had sense enough to be sec
ond ruler in the land, and thou gavest
us Gresham, the captain of the host
of our enemies, TO rule over us. We
know, oh great Master, that we are
nothing in thy sight. We are not
worthy 10 put fish worms on thy hook
when thou goest afishing, hence thou
hast purchased n device" even a
"bottleshaped device" But, oh,
mighty Cleveland, we love thee; we
worship thee, and none other but
thee; if we have erred it was
because of the false prophets,
Jackson and jefferson. They mis-.
led us. Pardon us, oh, Mighty Chief
and never again will we worship them
or believe anything they taught Put
us on the chair of thy displeasure and
sit on us with the avoirdupois of thy
wrath. Put our noses on the grind.
stone of thy ambition and grind to
thy hearts content Make monkeys
OF us, and dogs, to amuse thy Wall
street friends We haven't got anv
sense; we never had any. All we
know is what thou tcllest us. Give
us chunks of wisdom, little or big, as
thou seest fit. For this we give thee
great gobs of sweat and mountains of
products OF our toll. Give us, occa-
sionally, an Office. Forgive all our
political sins, even as we surrender
our manhood to thee. Lead us not
into temptation of the Populists, but
deliver us from the evils of more
money, Letter prices and less debts.
Give us bonds: give us gold; give us
debts; give us state banks; give us
Cinnamon; give us more Greshams;
give us low prices; give us hard times;
give us our political creed; give us Of
hce' and We will ever sing thy pra ises
and thine shall be the power as long
as we have a "ehance" to vote for
thee. Amen!