Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1895-02-16
AN ENGLISH CLIPPING.

will dare 10 say, with the facts oil to-
day before him, that the picture IL
overdrawn2
The signs OF the times indicate that
before the sun rises ON January LIST,
1900, the great American nation will
groan and writhe in an agony OF revo-
luton, and the streets Of all her great
cities will be slippery with blood---a
hundred drops Of blood for each
gem that flashes on the necss OF the
rich and pampered women and ten
drops for every tear that has washed
the face OF the poor. Politics is 50
rotten that il stinks. Everybody knows
il aud no one cares. America is no
longer republic. II il n plutocracy
The president is merely the creation Of
bank directors, railroad kings and coal
barons, and is the same with the gov
ernors pf the states. The poor whine
about their poverty and gnaw their
crusts OF bread, but can always be re-
lied upon 10 vote for the rich, and nine
tenths Of them would shoulder their
muskets aud lay down their lives IN
defense Of the right Of the rich TO rob
/ them. A nation such rs this, IN which
one million plutocrats tyranni1e over
over sixty million slaves, will be either
overthrown by foreign foe or die Of
gangrene. The various labor organi
cations neither think tOwether, vote to
gcther nor work together, and they
have no money TO buy votes, lawyers
aud Judges. Soldiers and police shoot
down hboring people and are cheercd
on in their bloody work 10y monoI ollie.
and the clergy. But the day will soon
come when there will be horrihl,
dance to death, lighted up by burning
houses and the music OF cries ant
groans aud dynamite and bombs
Rich idlers amuse themselves al New
port and Tuxedo; poor workers toi
ceasclrssly in the darkness Of the min,
and din OF the mill Young men ant
women dawdle over iced champaign
and oyster parties, old men and womer
pick rotten food out of garbage cans
Lap dogs are driven through Contra
Park to take the air; children die o
overwork in filthy garrcts. Pie,y il
the White House is enjoying the fruit
OF bribery--infdelity in the tenemen
house enduring the punishment o
uprightness These are the signs o
the times in America to-day-eign
that point to calamity too dreadful l.
imagine but which nothing can avert
: ------s------
Senator Hill Of New York neve
spoke truer or more patriotic word
than when he said Of the Democratl
majority in Congress: "Why shoul
! we put unnecessary obstacles in tl
way OF successful administration {
) the government, or wait, falter, haggl,
: or do nothing-and turn over Dem
ocratic administration to the tendo
| mcrcies Of an incoming Republics
Conl ress for relief Such cours'
from party standpoint is suicida
, demoraliziug, unpatriotie."
-----s-------
/ A hardened old skintlint gives I'll
@ following manner in which any or
I may grow rich Save your income
don't invest your savings in anytuin
that will build up the country, bl
lend it at the highest rate of intcre
Q you can obtain; grind the need
whenever the occasion requires; new,
u make donation 10 anything new,
e be hospitable; always remember tn
s fat kitchen makes "a lean puTs,
!, never have any politics or religion
: avoid doing charitable act. 0bser'
II these rules stric ~, and il you a
l. proach anything like the allotted tin
for man to live you will Ice a rich ma
and when you die everybody, inclu
is ing your heirs, will be glad Of it.
N A writer not long since in the Cali
well Tribune said that the Prohibitit
committee was the only one OF u
n four parties in the State that prompt
$ paid every bin contracted during q
ie late campaign, and therefore the pr