The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-18

A BREATH OF AIR OUT OF THE b.
BILE.

Here are two men. One has only one
price. The other has price according as
he sizes a man up, and marks his goods
so he can sell less than cost and yet get
rich Here are two men who buy goods
of these two men. One goes and looks
at the goods he wishes to buy, picks out
what suits him and pays the price that is
asked for the goods without trying to buy
the goods less than cost. Now, L Will
say this man that bought the goods, 1t
was a suit Of clothes marked $25, and the
first cost was ST. But he sold them
for $25 to the man who paid his price ana
did not doubt his word or did not think
he was so mean and low down to put
two prices on his goods to make his Gus
toner think he was selling less than cost,
and to show how liberal he was he threw
in a pair of suspenders and maybe neck
tie. Now, will say he made $50 in the
other man who bought goods went to the
same man and bought suit like the suit
he sold for $25 for $1450. Now the man
with two prices is $3.50 ahead. Now,
here is the third man. He went to the
man who had one price and bought the
ed one price. His profits were SEQ Now
the third man met the man who had
bought his suit for $145O, and the one
price man catched hell and lost his Gus
toner, but Number One, that paid the
price that was asked for the, goods, had
used the man with two prices as a man,
and the man with two prices had used
him to a good advantage, had gained
new customer. had sold two suits of
clothes, and had come out $3.50 ahead
and had hurt the man with one price for
the time being. Now the man with two
prices had used Number Two, the man
that bought the suit of clothes, for tool
also, and caused the people to say that
the one-price man had only one price, but
1t was a high price, and he was close,
and a dollar looked bigger to him than
wagon wheel. Now Number Three, the
man who bought the suit of clothes of
the one-price man, is deceived by and
with the man who has two prices, by
and with Number Two's $145O suit of
clothes Now the man with two prices
has sold two suits of clothes and he also
represents a man with two suits OF
clothes, but in the shape of wolf in
sleeps clothing. Now Number Three
goes back on the man that has one price
Goes dealing with the man with two
prices Has got q good customer for in
the first place he was deceived, and went
back on the wrong man, and he has been
made wise, yet duck soup for the two
price man. and the first suit of clothes he
buys Of the twO-price man he is patted
on the back. and his breast is rubbed
down, and his chin is tickled with the
two-price man. With his left hand gath
ering the slack of the coat on the back
and says to Number Three, 1T fits you
like the paper on the wall 1t is a
smooth fit, and well backed with two
prices. Now Number Three has been
robbed once, and he is too wise to be rob
bed again, and he is so sure OF it that
he is deceived and robbed with two
prices, and pays two prices for other
things he buys, and what he has to sell
he sells for half price and kicks about
hard times Now one day Number One
happened in the mans store of One-price,
and he had a suit of clothes on he paid
$25 for and One-Price asked him where
he got the suit of clothes, and Number
One said, Il bought them of Two Prices
"Why," says the one-price man, Il sell
the same kind and make a suit Of clothes
for 500. If you take pair of suspenders
It Will cost you $20.50." Now Number
Three is made wise. He has been rob-
bed once, and he is not going to be rob-
bed any more. And the man with one
price can put two prices on his goods by
selling them for double what they are
worth, for Number One has been made
80 wise there is no need to investigate
and he is robbed and deceived every day
Of his life. and he kicks about hard times
Number Two lays his hard times to the
Republican party, and the money bag
says, "If we control the money market we
control all the rest, and the wire pullers
and office seekers play the same game of
two prices, and the money bag says: PRO
tect capital and we will protect labor"
And labor votes to elect themselves
slaves and to buy a legalized law to be
protected with, and they live in hopes
and die in despair. While they are
promised liberty they suck the hind teat
of the SOW and wallOw in their own ways,
to learn that he is unjust in the least, is
unjust in much, and they say, What is
the use to get new broom?' 1t will
only sweep clean for while. and don't
know there is plenty of material to make
a new broom, but have not got the spunk
of a louise to make a new broom and
sweep the two-price man from the earth
and the middle man would fare slim, for
Number One has got onto the racket.
Number Two is getting tired of the rack
ct, and Number Three has found out
that he did not know as much as he
thought he did. Number Four, the mon
ey bag, is being despised, for the love
Of money has made the foolish wise, and
the wise foolish Has made honest Ia
Dor slaves and made people that call
themselves Christians, hypocrtes, and
made them that are wise in their own
eyes fight the rich mans battle. When
he is through has not one foot of land
to call his own, or no roof to lay his head
under and live to fight the same battle over
for he left off wher he commenced, and
did not cut the tree down of the love of
money, for he fought the battle for the
man that took gold put it in the shape
Of money instead of the golden calf for his
idol and a road he has built with his
servants that cost $4,000 mile is worth
900 a mile, and his servants can pay
interest on it at half wages. 1t is a
wonder to me that the money bag pays
so cents a bushel for wheat, for most any
fool ought to know that money without
labor is dead, yet capital cannot be pro-
duced without labor and labor is a testi-
money against themselves. And the
$500 900 drunkards in the United States
are a testimony against the leaders and
shepherds of the flock, for the lambs have
not been cared for and fed.
But the people must put the love of God
In their hearts instead of money, and hui
mainly will blossom in the image of God
and will represent Christ's character in
the right light and way. Now the one
price man is the Republican party The
two-price man is the Democratic party,
and he and the one-price man are playing
the old game. "You tickle me for four
years and will tickle you four years."
and the are like Nicodemus and want con-
verting; and some like Cain, for sin lays
at the door. Now, Number One in only
honest labor and the way he is deceived.
Number Two is a man trying to get some
thing for nothing and got left. Number
Three is man who doesn't know he must
produce and sell as we'll as buy. Number
Four is the man who puts value on the
money for the love Of it instead of putting
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