The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-08-04
BADLY SCARED.
vitrIoIlc Reply to "A Man Holding "a Gov
ernment Position.

vitrIoIic Reply to a Man Holding Cow
ernment Position.
The following extract from letter
written by young man in the weather
bureau at Washington, on a salary of
81, 900 year, to friend in this coun-
ty, calls forth the following red hot
reply:
Here have been working for over
five years for little promotion and
now you and your party want TO cut
my salary in two and make 1t less than
what / started in on, and threaten to
throw me out of Office besides. Every
man who draws a salary and votes for
free silver is a fool It's n splendid
thing for people with mortgages on
their property. Reputation and panic
will go together"
The only man who produces or ere
ates wealth is the man who stands
next TO nature and wrests IL from the
soil, the ranch, the mine, the forest
etc. To make a country prosperous
you must make the foundation pros.
porous. Your old father who has
| toiled hard all hls life and still tolls
with brain and hands sixteen hours in
a day in the dirt and boiling sun, is
producing bread, beef, perk aud othe,
things tn at you eat and wear. and SELL
ing thsm TO you for less money than
IL costs him 10 produce 1t, besides
wearing out his life in the struggle
and deprivIng himself and family -
your mother, brothers and sisters--of
the common necessities and comforts
of life, and mortgaging his old age TO
make up the deficiency between the
cost of production and the price you
pay him for his products, for wbat2--
To maintain a system that viii enable
you TO draw big salary and live in
ease and luxury while he and they and
all who do not live upon salaries are
reduced to want, priyation, poverty,
reputation and destruction
Shame on you, for an ungrateful son
of a noble father, for offering such an
excuse for supporting the gold stan
dard and protected monopoly and gov.
ernment teat suckers TO the destruc-
tion OF those whom you ought TO love,
honor and support-who gave you life
and support when you were helpless,
and who now think more Of what you
tell them will be detrimental to your
precious interests than they do OF their
own welfare.
| Ou sAN thN k00u A0A AiAE A1AAOn tuAh n
mortgaged. Your fathers farm is
mortgaged-not through any fault Of
his No man or family works harder
than they No one lives more eco
/ nomicallY. ThQy are not extravagant
in dFess, wearing for best what you
would not wear for every day Their
case is the case OF every other man
and family who strives TO exc out an
existence from farm.
Time was when the farmers were
prosperous and happy and when bust
ness men went 10 the farmers 70 bOr-
row money. Thi8gs age changed
We car See poW that they have been a
long time changing, but the transition
was so grad dUal, and human nature Is
so prone 20 be hopeful, and we've
said "It will be better next year, 4"
that we have not realized It fully 'till
we're about 10 touch bottom
You mel who Draw government eel
arlSs are ss Ear removed froIn yhese
people that you know nothing oi their
condition, neither can you knox Tdth-
out actual eOdtact We who live next
70 tham sna aepena directly oaon
thela 1or support see and feel tnis
relation Of dependence and know that
. eonditio-. OF pauperism among tie
common people-the producing classes
must reach Us speedily. flom as IL
win extend TO Others aud finally reach
even those fortified behind govern
ment salaries.
II may be that free silye will not
prove ah effectual remedy, but | do
know that something must be done Ia
enable the farmers, miners. ranchegs
ahd other producers 10 produce at q
pfoat, or times win grow steadily
worse and hence harder to remedy,
/ II makes me sick TO hear q man talk
Iof a tariff as the rem, dy. Will the