Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-07-27

PiohAioCS Vuttt AuaNc yOu AuppS. nc-
member the picture that you admired.
Remember the newspapers you swore
by. Don't forget it.
And when you are pushed to the
wall and bankruptcy stares you in
the face, and life seems very dark and
very dreary, remember that there is
just as much money in the country
as there ever was" When you feel
like giving up the fight rene mber
that "you want the best money in the
world, as good in Europe as it is in
America" When you go to bed
hungry or when you can't buy clothes
and shoes for your wife and family
remember that it is better to be hun
cry and naked than to Nexicanize
yourself!
And when the store keeper goes
broke because you and others cannot
pay him What you owe him, just take
that Mexican dollar you received as
a present last fall-that awful, hor.
rible silver dollar, go to your store
keeper and show it to him. Tell him
he is a better man to bust with his
honor untarnished than to pay his
debts in cheap money. And finally
when you go over the hill to the poor
house, take along with you that nice
picture you loved to carry around
and show your democratic friends.
Don't remember it? Of course you do.
"Open the mills and not mints."
Look at the Advance Agent OF Pros
perity" in his broadcloth suit and
the smoke!
''Noddings but smoke!'
The American people love to be
fooled. We know they do. We've
watched 'em bite on every fool thing
that comes along, even when warned
to let it alone. We've bit ourselves.
Its born in us to play the sucker ev-
cry once in while. We once saw a
man in circus with little gllded
ball and three shells. He would bet
$5 against 1, or 800 against $40 that
nobody could tell him under which
she'll the golden pill was hidden. He
bawled out like campaign orator
and invited the people to call and get
rich. And the crowd came and they
patronized him. Gust have conf
dence," cried the fakir and the people
had confidence" They bit. and bit,
and bit, until they were fiat. Then
the sunlight of prosperity gilded the
hill tops, but the suckers were angry.
Why? Wasn't there just as much
money in the country as there ever
was?
Next year the same identical fell
lows called on the same identical cuss,
played the same identical game and
got busted again. They knew better.
They knew they were being swindled,
but they liked it. We often wonder
as we look over our increasing list of
delinquent subscribers and scan the
increasing bills for labor, ink and
paper, whether the same old game
will fool the people again? We won
der if the gold men will work up
something new to blind the people,
or whether they will work the same
old game? We wonder whether these
free stereotype plates now running in
many democratic and many republi.
can papers, one set advocating low
tariff aud the other set advocating
protection, can make the people for.
get the money question? We wonder
if these democratic and republican
4 editors know why they are furnished
free stereotype plates that cost some
body an immense amount of money
We wonder if they are in ignoranc.
of the fact that one set of men pa,
for both free trade and protection
plate matter? We wonder why they
will lend themselves to the disreput
able scheme? We wonder why PEG
pie will encourage such editors b,
reading and subscribing for thei
papers. We wonder good deal, an,
some times we think we are wander
ing along with the rest of the Ameri
can people towards the poor house.
i We went fishing recently. We ha
a good boat. good tackle and plent
of bait. We had an oyster can full Q
big, fat fish worms, the kind of bal
that fetched EN- when you and wer
younger. But somehow the fish di
not bite very fast at worms. w
hooked afew, but not enough. S
we caught some grasshoppers an
tried them. We caught a few wit
! them. Then we tried minnows an
grubs, and got a few more. Then W
tied an old brass spoon hook on til
line and let the boat float down tn
: shore, and you ought to have bee
u along. The old piece of brass WE
dingy and battered and had bee
: used for years in this self same lax,
9 but beneath the water it glittered lik
y gold! And the greedy fish leaped {
V it like fools. They reminded us {
the American people. A few will bill
8 on the tariff question; few more wi
!"