The Louisiana populist., 1897-02-12
Letter from the Devil
He Returns His Thanks to the
Gold Bug Preachers.
Explains to Them How a Gold
Standard Helps Them and Him
at the Same Time.
HE'LL, January q, 1897.

To The Gold Bug Preachers
My Dear Brethren: You're a lot
Of daisies. hope YOU are getting
plenty Of chicken. Say, Won +, /.
lows look awfuIly nice in vonG
long tail coats AMI shinev White
shirts. | hope You get all the
chicken YOU want. Sav. vou're
the best looking set Of nrofess;oD u
al men there is up there on eorth
| know it, for | heard the women
say 50. That's the reason thew
rive YOU so much chicken Tbo,, 3
all right, YOU know. Won want TO
stand in" with the women. Rv
the way | don't think Pvo ever
thanked YOU fellows for the GOOD
Won did IN tbe last camn.;on in no
Tending q cold standard. 7 now
emb racethc opnortu,;tv ~ do ca
In fact | think if if Ind not bcen
for YOUR timely assistance ,,s so,lnd
money men would have been ,jn.
featoi, and we shouId have bann
paid "a the s.mn kind Of money
that he Door Trash is maid in Rp-
sides that it would have raised tho
price of everything that labor
creates 50 that Il would havc cost
YOU fellows more to live. which
would have been the same as re-
ducing your salary. Now, this
wouldn't be Scripture, for there il
no record in the Dible of the sala-
ry Of Jesus ever being reduced.
On the oLler hand there is an in
stance in the Bi5le where Gods
chosen people adoDted the single
gold standard, 1t was when they
built the golden calf. True. when
Moses came down ont o6the noun
tain where he had been talking to
God he broke Inc dad gummed
calf all to pieces, bat then, Moses
was mad, and he broke the tables
of the law which God gave him
also. If / was you fellows |
wouldn't 90 TOO much on what Mo-
ses did anyway. He was a sort of
''Iooney" old man and it took him
forty years to lead the people
through q little strip of woods,
and because he Dragged too much
God wouldn't lot him cross OYER
into the ''promised Land" " There
can't be any doubr about the gold
standard being right, for the Jews
all want it, and SO do |. We have
got the most of it, and notes enough
to get all the balance and more
too. Now whenever anybody
jumps onto you fellows about be
Ing in favor Of Il gold standard
just get up on your hind legs and
tell them about the story Of the
golden calf, and the brazen serpent
and you will paralyze them. In
going to try to invent something
that will stop chicken cholera Sc
you fellows can have more chicken
to eat. Say, the beauty about this
gold standard business is not gene.
rally understood. 1t makes mon
ey scarce and hard to get, 1t also
makes work scarce, for the fellows
who have the money are afraid to
put it out. This forces lots of peo.
pie into idleness, and you know
San idle brain is the DEVILS work
shop" People have to eat.
have had laws passed making it
crime to beg. As u rule the peo-
pie won't starve, SO there is only
one alternative; for the men to
steal and rob, and the women to
sell their virtue. So through the
gold standard they are driven right
into my trap. This makes more
sin, and the more sin there is the
better is the demand for preach
ers. The better the demand is
for preachers the higher their wa
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