The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-09-19

less drubbing, such as the times have
administered upon these self-constituted
and self-centcred apostles OF reform.
would make even a brass monkey blanch
and a bronze statue turn pale, but slip
perry political sharks and shysters,
never: they are not built that way.
Lamentation is heard on the streets
that gold is leaving our shores.
Why shouldn't IL leave?
Why should IL stay?
IL is leaving us for the very good
reason that the balance of trade Is
against us. Because we are buying
more than we are selling. across the
sea. Because for the first four months
OF 1895 the value of our imports ex-
ceeded the value of our exports by $685.
05l ,55f. Because under this perfdy and
dishonor tariff OF to-day. Europe and
the European importers trust have
American manufacturers and American
wage-earners by the throat.
Gold is likely To leave us until con-
gress ceases TO legislate in the interests
of Europe and commences TO enact laws
| in behalf of the United States.
/. FREE cOindRt iict tiuh'p iiNt
love. free liquor and free lunch never
fail TO strike responsive chords in the
bosom of Weary Waggles" and his
struggling. but rarely struggling CO.
horts.
Too many think with their digestive
! faculties and are always ready 10 gulp
allopathic doses Of fallacy.
The fellow who promises most is their
hero.
The fal<ir who agrees TO transform
Lazarus into Dives by legislative magic
is their Messiah.
Something for nothing" is the rally
ing cry Of anarchists and fatists every
where.
The drone takes as naturally to fnan-
cial fads as the dude to freaks OF fash
ion.
Both are blotches on the body poll
tic.
Both are barnacles on the ship of
state.
Yesterday it was the grecnback her
esy.
| To-day IL is the silver fallacy.
Tomorrow IL will be some other
blooming idiocy.
In all, IL Is fiatism, in one form or an
other.
Harmless? Yes. IL they die a-bornin',
as they deserve to die.
But every one Of these fiat money
schemes carries a singer.
In the end il will wound the very
people who give It the most considera-
ton.
/ am reminded of the story that Eli
Perkins tells on the old Baptist clergy
man.
lie was talking about patience to the
Sabbath school scholars. The after
noon was hot and the air was full of sun
shine and singing birds and buzzing
insects.
The dear old clergyman can see
him now-was telling us boys never
TO get out of temper.
Boys" he said. "you should always
be patient. You should never lose your
temper. Never allow angry passions
TO rise. You should never say naughty
words. Never get excited.
81 did once, but never any more.
Let me
Boys" pointing upward, "you see
that little fly on my nose?
"a wicked, worldly man would get
angry at that fly, but | don't.
"What would I do?"
why, my children, simply say: Go
nway-fy-go away'-and- Gosh blast
tits waspl"
And so of sixteen or bust"
It's wasp.
Kill i'll
The demagogue is far more dangerous
than the dynamiter.
His methods are more reprehensible
Like the serpent of old, which beguiled
our first parents TO their ruin, and then
crawled off into the bushes and left the
unhappy pair TO face the wrath Of an in
dignant God; he wriggles his way into
human confidence, breaches the gospel
of discomfort. promises anything that
will please. and invariably escapes the
fury OF the tempest he excites.
Being on terms of intimacy with the
gentleman of the cloven hoof, he has no
reverence for the truth whatsoevr.
The basil assertion might add also
the base falsehoods OF the modern POI
litical demagogue, and the forests are
full of them--is that "the rich are grow
want and wretchedness among the
want and wretchedness among the
masses are the rule. That the chnsm
between those who have and those who
have not is widening every day.
IL Is true that now and then fortunes
have grown larger, and II is also true
that large number have grown smaller
(if you will pardon the expression).
Just as long as civilization and prog
rcss last, just SO long will there be q
disparity In human endeavor and human
acquisition.
Up till 30 months ago, when the hands
on the dial OF progress were set back.
for Mt least 80 years. there had never
been time in the history OF the world
when the condition OF the working