Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-09-11
POUND CAKE VS.. ASH CAKE.
A Parable and an Analogue.

POUND CAKE VS.. ASH CAKE.
A Parable and an Analogue.
And this is the parable of the
staff of life:
In Felicia the Lord had provid-
ed two grains for bread, and one
of these was called wheat, and the
other corn, Or maize.
And the King had opened mills
for the grinding of these grains,
where both were ground equally,
without price and without limit.
The land was fertile, yielding
both wheat and corn, but the
greater yield commonly was of
corn, and wheat sold at a higher
price among the people, because
it was scarcer and made finer and
winter loaves.
Yet the two grains gave album
dance and happiness. If the
wheat lacked, the corn supplied
the deficiency; if the corn was
scarce, the wheat came in answer
to the call for bread, so that no
man suffered of hunger in Felicia.
And the corn was every mans
crop. They who would not grow
wheat, grew corn, and they who
ate no wheat were satisfied with
the corn ground freely at the
Kings mills.
Both in quantity and price the
two grains thus co-operated to-
gether to feed the people, without
possibility of monopoly and ex-
tortion.
But Mammon, who distributed
the grains and the -four and the
meat thereof to the people, saw
how he could control the situation
and make a mighty deal in wheat
(the scarcer the grain the more to
be desireD, if he could persuade
the King to close the mills against
corn.
And so he sent his professors
and his banker and his scribes
and his lawyers to the King; and
they said:
20 King! Wheat is the only
food fit for thy people. Itabounds
it is healthful, beautiful and sweet
it is more desired of all men ant
nations; corn is food only fo
swine. Therefore, close thy mill
,, against corn, and allow whea
only to be ground therein. s.
Twill Felicia wax greater and great
: er among the nations; and will
!, wheat as the sole and single stat
? of life, our people will live longer
grow richer and richer, and becom
the happier as the delicious biscui
= shall on every table take the plac
of the coarse and unsavory as
cake!"
So it seemed wise to the Kine
forthwith he issued his edict thu
n thenceforth no corn should b
ground in any of the mills of Eel
cha, which should remain ope
! to the free and unlimited grindin
# Of golden wheat. =
IS For time all things seemed
: work well, Notwithstanding til
d edict. But soon the people VIII
v had eaten corn bread found tina
a they could not turn their corn int
: meal, as the mills were closed
i anything but wheat. They had
d eat wheat, or starve; and 10! /
b reason of discrimination against i
v corn became almost worthless
It exchange for wheat, as everythil
70 else had also become by reason
Vt the mill edict.
If And they who had eaten whe
D only found that it had risen enc
l. mously in price, not simply becau
le it had been made the sole staff
g. life, but because Mammon and
IS men had cornered the wheat pro
l. uct, which had now become cas-
or as this product was much less tn,
f. that of corn and as corn had be
a excluded from the mills and t
I'd bread market, and could no long
come to the rescue of wheat a
e. it's consumers.
rs Thus it had come to pass tn
he even the Kings baker was sore
ly put to it to furnish the accustom
lis loaves for the royal table. All I
to Kings household and retaine
ad who had formerly been served WI
er. corn pone, had now to be fed
oh flour.
IL So that with the royal garn
Ter bursting with corn, there was see
n bread on the royal table.
Ks But Mammon & Co. had store
Ia wheat, and for awhile they che
un fully took the Kings orders
ife bonds) in exchange for wheat;
mt the peoples orders or bonds W
ng disdained, Mammon & Co. dout
nix locking their wheat bins agai
Q all popular demands, insom,
he that the people starved, while
King Toasted and still kept a
IN serve or surplus of wheat b
rd- liberal issue of royal orders
as bonds warranted to produce VIII
L and nothing Int wheat