The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-18
THE CUNNING cuckoos.
How the Cievsiandites Are Working the
People.

How the Clevciandites Are Worki ing the
People.
There have been big bluffs made in
the game of poker and the game of
politics since these two methods, de-
vised for the entertainment of man
kind, had their first inning. But the
| hugest bluff ever attempted is the one
Grover Cleveland has been trying of late
| to play on the american people. He has
given it out cold and his cuckoos are
growing il from the housetops that
"the trusts must and shall be busted"
This is almost as logical as was the
deadbeat, who, after he had been
thrown into the street, yelled out to the
barroom bouncer: "Come out here,
dodbing you, and III throw you out"
Cleveland and his cuckoo army, hav-
ing metaphorically fought, bled and
died" to assist the trusts to entrench
themselves in every branch of the na-
tional government, now mount the
breastworks and shout to the country:
Were going to annihilate these Nc
kinley fellows just as soon as they give
up their guns and let us do it,
Our own domesticated little cuckoo.
Davie Francis, was guilty of as absurd
declaration as the one just suggested,
| in that letter he wrote to the two
pronged sound money banqueters who
locally and boisterously glorified over
the Cleveland and Mckinley victory o
few nights ago.
| He warned the Is or 16 members of
the Observation-Disclosures
society present on the occasion that
there was yet grave danger ahead Of
the country in the vast aggregations
of wealth in the hands of combina-
tions known as trusts. What funny
| little two-for-a-cent each His Corpu-
lency, Cleveland, little Mr.. Francis il.
to be sure! How gullible they both
must think the American people. Even
! their own deluded followers, whose
votes achieved the triumph for the
trusts in the election of Mckinley. will
hardly be fooled by such Transparent
bunco game as they are trying to rope
them into. If the trusts are to be
busted" Cleveland, Francis & Co. are
not the persons who can be trusted to
do the busting. Servants who leave the
fastenings undone so that burglars may
enter and loot the house will scarcely
do to commission as thief-takers.
The democratic party Is the sworn
foe of the trusts. 1t can crush them
: with ease when the father of them all,
the sustainer and feeder of them all
the gold trusts deprived of its power
to levy it's legalized blackmail upon all
| the others. and, through them, upon
the people.
} 1t is the devilfish in the ocean of our
commerce, and Mr.. Cleveland and his
trust-busting warriors are doing all
they can to prevent its depredations
from being interfered with. As the
finances of the country are now ad-
justed, the gold trust occupies the place
of the king in feudal times, the manu-
facuring and other trust being the mo-
bility,while the people who embrace the
trading, carrying and producing classes
are in the position of the vassals, who
pay tribute to both.
Having turned the hogs into the peo-
pies corn, Cleveland and his Hessians
are swearing that the weevils have been
destroying the crops, and declares
doughtily his determination to destroy
every last one of the vermin, If he has
to take sledgehammer to do it with.
Some of the people of these United
States need 'gumption powerful bad."
as Uncle Jerry Rusk used to say, but
| none of them are such fools as to be-
lieve any such fub-dub as the ex-sherifR
OF Erie county and his cuclSoos are try
ing to stuff down the throats of the
public Kansas City Times.
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