The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-19
An Evening With
The Street Orators

ten years ago, and the grammar has i'm
proved. What they said does not need
repetition here. They told the same story
they always tell, told it with the same
radiant smile of faith, and l believe they
had found all they claimed. A faith that
lifts man out OF the dirt and puts look
like that in his eyes is a power fol- good.
moved on to where 1 knew 1 should
find brown-faced, keen eyed social econ
omist talking to the same crowd that
drank in his words last night and the
night before that. He explained anew
to us how impossible it is for US
to do anything for ourselves as long
as the poor are ground down to PAM
per the rich, and when he figured out how
many workers had to give their days toll
to pay for one revel of the rich man, all
our hearts swelled with sense of personal
wrong. When he said the laborer is
worthy of his hire we nodded emphatic
ally and thought how much more the
editor gets than we do, while as for writ
ing-well, we would just like to see him.
| So went on, with grievance against
the rich ready to be supplanted by the
particular grievance of the next orator.
"a torchl JOY Linimentp'
why do people suffer when they catch
cold and get pain in the muscles2 From
bigotry. tell you, ladies and gentlemen,
because they won't believe me when l say
this wonderful liniment will cure them in
five minutes. Five minutes! Think of
thatl Is there one of you suffering with
rheumatism or sprain or the toothache?
Come up here and have this wonderful
liniment applied free of charge. and If the
pain amt gone inside of FIVE minutes I'll
give you your money back"
For second my heart was in my mouth.
1 have made vow that the first time such
an appeal is made in vain, l. myself, will
go up and be cured. Not that time
though Up elm bed lad with jump
ing toothache. The medicine was APP
piled and, prestol the boy smiled. Now
another An old man with bent shoulders
and pain in his neck. a brisk rub and
the old man sprang nimbly to the side
walk.
Wonderful liniment indeed My dish is
always upside down when it rains. Not
pain or an ache about me that night, and
the week before, when there was no
heaven-sent liniment, groaned with the
toothaehe.
Downtown next, for 1t neared the hour
of the politician filled to OVERLOOKING with
PROSECUTING zeal. must be converted.
J He was there, but had missed the first
of it, had lost Mckinley and the tariff,
arriving only just in time for money and
immigration.
I've must fight the battle this year on
the same ground. After the workingmen
all have employment and chance to earn
an honest dollar"
"But the great crying evil, the scourge
that is crowding American men out OF
chances to make q living" shouted the
man on the other corner.
On another corner, two blocks down,
was wild figure with tossing locks, and
voice like calliope rang:
"The political parties crawl around this
issue, but don you be blinded" he was
CRYING, and then l crossed over to another
bensfactor OF the human race and learned
that doctors are enemies of mankind.
Listenl
"Don't put your trust in vile drugs, and
fatten the doctors. Cure yourselves! The
hand Of God on your body makes you
whole! Pray in faith, and your pain is
gone. Look at me. l was sick with an
incurable disease, and after the doctors
had taken all my money they gave me up.
had faith in God, and he cured me-"
He looked as though he believed it, but
there are pleasanter faces to look upon.
turned toward home.
The doors of halls were opening and
pouring forth the crowds. Keeping in
L hot.
' "Thev want to rule the country. They
: are not true Americans. We must fight
them with their own weapons and drive
them from our midst. They are banded
t and they will do anything against man
/ who is not of their own faith"
Pretty bad people, thought.
| I walked slower and let another eroup
/. from another hall get ahead.
> ''They are enemies to the constitution.
!. traitors to their country. They have
a banded themselves to get all the country
$ for themselves and they will do anything
to a man who is not of their faith"
s Were these the same bad people or some
s more2
was tired. Too much learning would
make me mad.
b How ever should / reconcile or assimi.
t late all that had heard in that one even
y ing? Ny head went round with nonsense
q What was that standing under the lamp.
n postP A man-and evidently waiting fol
n me- Was at last to have an adventure
It He was short and I had faith in my
good right arm. and if he wanted to peril
J. his soul for the sake of the two nickels in
v my purse he was welcome to them. If thu