The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-30
SAM JONES ON SILVER.
He Thinks the Trouble with
the SiiUeHteS is Above
the Eyes.
COPYRIGHT, 1895.

COPYRIGHT, 1899.
The world takes on craze every
few years. The skating rink craze
struck America about twenty years
ago. Then followed the greenback
craze. Next we had the subtreasury
craze Then the silver craze, fol-
lowed closely, side by side almost,
by the bicycle craze. 1t is like a
stampede of Texas cattle. Some
times nothing dIsturbs them. Again
any little thing will stampede them.
If the precipice is reached those be-
hind push the leaders over. Such
is the case with the free and unlim-
tied sixteen to one-ners, They will
soon get upon the brink of OBSCURE
ty and push the leaders and promo
tiers before them. They, however,
stand some chance in reaching
Heaven. God has made special pro-
vision for fools and children. Sill
verites will get in on the former
bench, But some of them are SO
preiudiced that if Gabriel blows a
golden trumpet they will just lie
still and say: ono, | am not going
to move" Their trouble is above
their eyes. Their heads need work
ing on.
| have thought some over the eau
ses and curses of the various crazes.
Very few really busy, industrious,
intelligent people take hold upon
any of these crazes. The skating
rink craze, if remember right, was
run largely by the same gang that
runs football and baseball to-day.
The greenback party and the sub
treasury crowd were composed
largely of calamity howlers who are
running the free and unlimited coin
age of silver gang to-day.
have lately made tour through
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
The silver craze is epidemic and in
demic out there. 1t is like small
pox, for the less brains a man has
the more he clamors for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at
sixteen to one. They know not
whereof they speak. Their brains,
if they possess any such commodity,
must certainly not be connected
with their tongues. Their mouth
is like pepper-box pistUl-it goes
off anywhere they touch it.
They will lend no ear to reasonable
and sound ideas, and are never af-
fected by them. They pass in at
one ear and out at the other, for the
very good reason that there is moth
ing inside TO stop the words. Men
could have their heads split open,
filled with sawdust and sewed up
and make a better showing and adj |
vance more sensible arguments than
these Independent free silver heret-
les. 1t is like smallpox-those who |
don't die of it will eventually get |
we'll 1t is like smallpox in another
reSpect-nOne ever have it but |
once, Mississippi has it now ire
mendously bad. Every candidate
from constable to governor announ-
ces himself first in favor of the free
and unlimited coinage of. silver at
sixteen to one, and they don't pro-
pose to argue the question either.
| said to some of them:
The most difference between
you and billy-goat is matter of
hair and horns. If you catch billy
goat by the whiskers and tell him
to hold still, you want to give him
an idea, he shakes his head as much
as to say: ''If you don't let me loose
I'll but you down." and when he
gets loose he walks off and goes
to eating grass and dOg-fennel.
He don't want ideas he wants grass.
He's hungry. So with the average
silverite. You catch him by the
lapel of his coat and tell him you
want toAgite him some ideas on the
financial question, and before an |
idea is half advanced he pulls loose /
and gets him a paper of peanuts and 1
a glass of red lemonade. He don't ]
want ideas; he wants something to
Eat. He's hungry. j
| advised them not to go to sleep i
ying on their sides, that their brains :
would all run out of their ear. But g
f they did, they would put them j
pack next morning with teaspoon. {
When times of depression and {
come, then the calamity t
lOwlers get in their work. For in 4