The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-03
SESSION TWO
Of The PopuIistie Sunday School
Yesterday
TO Study THE VIRTUES OF
SIXTEEN TO ONE.


But Brother Sargent Did Most of the
Taiking-A Few G old Bugs Made Things
Interesting-The Chairman PAYS His
Respects to the Minions of the Pluto.
cratic Press.
The Populist Sunday School held its
second session yesterday afternoon. an6
its great campaign of education NAV be
said to be fairly underway. just how
much education this particular branch Of
the army of
SILVERIZED SALVATION,
who are enrolled under the banner of the
eoung Demosthenes Of the prairie, y
will accomplish, it Ia very difficult to
say. The PRESS. man must confess that
after very attentive participation in
Yesterdays session Of the school and loyal
endeavor to find the germ of truth he
is somewhat mixed as to just what par
tioular facts it was the aim of yestsr-
days meeting to establish. We would
make a suggestion that with view to a
more systematic dissemination Of the
tsnets of the new revelation, Elder Mo
Laughlin and his associate professors,
prepare series of leaflets, after the man
ner Of Sunday schools in general, and
aim to drive home to the scholars, one
nugget of truth (silyer nugget of course)
each week.
In this way by circulating the leaflets
in advance, 1t need enable the faculty to
make extensive research and bring to the
meeting all the evidence necessary to
prove the especial truth to be empha-
sized that week. If the Truths" were
like some of those proclaimed yesterday,
IL will give the faculty
PLENTY TO DO,
to tackle one per week, il they desire the
scholars to take much stock in them.
These leaflets could be made very at
tractive too, printed in several colors and
enriched each week with some pearl,
dropped from the lips Of such bulwarks
of our civilization as Altgeld, Tlllman.
LATE Pence, Tom Watson, Cyclone Davis,
Pod Dismuke or some similar leaders of
the So cent emancipation.
sit would be very taking idea and
easy to advertise.
"A truth, a week at Mystic Hall!'
Silver Salvation for one and alll''
Some of the truths it might take even
more than week to establish as for in
stance here is on which will be news to
good many merchants, which was pro-
mulgated yesterday by a leading Popu-
list Of Portland. b
"The United States can't buy pound
of tea of China. It has taken it all of
England and through England"
why is itf' asked modest scholar.
Because we're under this terrible gold
standard Of the blasted capitalists and
China is silver country"
Now 1t would take at least two weeks
to prove this truth" to the satisfaction
of the scholars and even then some man
who had been in the tea importing busi-
ness in California might be unkind
enough to still doubt.
Yesterday SOOTHING gold bug had the
audacity to inquire that if the United
STATES couldn't buy tea in China because
We had gold standard, how it was that
the country which had the wicked gold
standard manipulated by the cut throats
o.
LOMBARD STREET,
could buy this ten of 81 liver China with
out any difficulty and sell it to the
United States2
This question wasn't answered, but it
was probably because it was deemed be-
meath the notice Of the gentleman who
discovered it's TRUTH
The Sunday school began Its session
promptly yesterday. There was a gootlly
attendance, and in response to the
leaders broad invitation tn everybody
from a gold bug to humbug to attend
they were all there. 1t was thoroughly
cosmopolitan class, for the study of the
national currency.
There were silver bugs, gold bugs.
straddle bugs, humbugs and festive
farmer from "Fryebug', and a man
who was once the state agent for the
Cyclone Bug Gun To MAKE the chain
complete somebody across the street was
pounding out OH piano tho strains of
Fly Away Lady Bug" There were
Republicans and Democrats, Populists
and Prohibitionists, Mugwumps and
Stalwarts, Wenk Kneed Populists and
Middle of the Readers" There were
come past masters of Greenbackisin, Jews
and Gentiles, Professionals and Catholics,
Merchants and Clerks, Lawyers and
Doctors, Farmers and Bakers, Brakemen
and Men Broke, Horny Handed Sons of