The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-07-06
Gamblers In-uis ximisnty God.

w. 9. Brann, the great rooster,
gives the Wall street people the
following turning-over
When the Cuban resolution
was pending in the United States
Senate the stock gamblers of
New York met the old john
Street Methodist church and
''prayed earnestly that our legis-
lators might be suddenly ar
rested in their mad career, which
was bringing untold suffering
upon the people" Suffering on
what people, and how ? Why,
bless you, should we have the
temerity to recognize the natural
right of men to contend against
O worse than Turkish tyranny,
Spain would take offense; we
would incur the ill-will of nat
ion which has insulted and has
assassinated so many American
citizens since her wholesale
slaughter of the Virginius pas
sengers q quarter Of o century
ago-a cowardly, cold-blooded
crime for which her name should
have been erased from the map
of the world. Her naughty
dons' and other lousy, misbegot-
ten beggars might indulge in a
demonstration in the tumble
down streets of Madrid and howl
for tanned blood, in which case
the war scare" would probably
squeeze o trife of wind and water
out of bogus stocks and bonds
which the prayerful New York
patriots employ for gambling
purposes. There should be NO
shrinkage in the real wealth OF
the nation, no serious unsettle-
ment of legitimate commerce
Spain's believing could not cur.
die an ounce of cream or blast
the cotton crop; but it might
cause gang of constituencies
conspirators against productive
industry to drop a few dollars
Hence the earnest prayers" fol
Observation-Disclosures to Jehovah
The God of Israel, or Mercury
the God of thieves, / disremem
Der. Anyhow, they lobbied with
the Lord to induce him to come
to the rescue of the imperiled
country--to preserve their wind
blown bonds from the possibility
of puncture. / have not beer
favored with a stenographic re-
port of their petitions-the chap
lains of the Texas legislator,
being the only people who senC
their prayers to the newspapers
but that they ran somewhat al
follows is fair presumption i
we consider the eternal fitness o
things
Almighty God, thou who max
est the poor and oppressed thy
special care Pity and protec
thy servants of the New Yorl
Exchange, who are humbly striv
ing to earn an honest livelihood
by SO Juggling the market tina
corn and cattle will be cheap il
the farmers field, and bread ant
beef dear on the poor mans
board; by initiating and depress
ing the price of securities a
pleasure, thereby appropriatinl
the widows savings and the or
phan's patrimony; by the shear
ing of many lambs of their gold
en- fleece, and the construction O
pitfalls for the .unwary, upoi
whose misfortunes we do fatten
Behold, o Lord. body of jing
oes for whom we have piped ant
they have not danced, do adher
to the damning heresy that pleb
ian blood is more precious thai
rubies, and national honor bette
than fine gold. Thy servants
are in dire distress, for we d.
fear that the folly of these peopl
will send fictitious cotton off
point, shade make believe corn
sixteenth and leave the beauti
fully engraved bonds of Catcher
q Cheatem without buyers.
the lamb bleats not to be shori
and the sucker comes not mig
unto our net, then are we indee