Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-06-03

Are gaining favor rapidly -
Business men and travel 0aUI~
lers carry them in vest HUS
pockets, ladies carry them
,",. in purses hou'ekeeper. keep them in medicine

kOhc up. rs Judb NORMAL CONDITION
1t allows our farmefs to rise to tn
surface just long enough to get on
gasp OF the sweet air OF heayen, the
down they 20 again. 1t does no
place their feet on solid ground
They are drowning just the same
Next year, or whenever those coun
tries again have a normal crop
wheat will again fall, and IL will fal
lower than ever. 1t requires no glf
of prophecy to see this. And IL the
English financial system has In th,
mean time succeeded IN depressing
the price of silver still lower, those
poor, ignorant, silver using farmers
will be thanking their various gods
for the prosperity which they will
imagine they are enjoying, because
they will be getting the old, or bet.
ter price for their wheat In money
which will buy as much of the things
they want as ever and will pay as
much of their debts, dollar for dollar;
while our,own Mckinley agricultur.
lists, who know. that prosperity is
guaged by the stock ticker, will be
where?
How do you like the prospect,
Farmer9 Isn't it edifying? How
you will be consoled in your distress
by thoughts of the crown of martyr
dom which will be yours in the next
world for your self.abnegation in sac
rlticlng yourself and your children
and your children's children and your
and his children as we'll, all
FOR the sake of principle; the prin-
ciple of incarnate greed; the princl-
pie that robs the producers of the
world under the guise of IAN honest
dollar" dollar that buys more Of
your products every year but doesn't
go any farther toward paying off the
dollar that automati-
cally increases your Indebtedness
while you sleep, dollar that is mex
orably transferring the wealth of the
world from the pockets of the fools
who inYest their money in productive
industry to the pockets of those wise
and superior beings who loan their
money and take your note-payable
in gold.
How happy you will be, working
man, when the farmer is again In his
normal" condition of hopeless pros.
jration How wages will boom when
Ill bonds are made payable In "that
which you have not, never had, never
IAN get!"
Whoop it up for the grand old party,
,he party Of Lincoln and Blaine-Lin-
,oln, who would not sanction even a
,oin bond-Blaine, who denounced
,he demonstration of silver. Yell
hoarse for the principle,
,he party which has Topped in two
'ears, at the bidding of Wall street,
rom bimetallism to that gold stand
lrd which Mr.. Mckinley SO bitterly
Grover Cleveland for up.
the party of honor and hon
sty, which inserted in its platform a
declaration and a promise that it now
acknowledges was a lie and bait for
udgeons. Be gudgeon again.
Vote to send man to congress who
1ill ~stand In with Mark Hanna.
hen vote for servant of the rail-
Dads, the tool of the boodlers, the
ian whose principles are those of the
party right or wrong, who
'ould sell his immortal soul for polit-
,al preferment. Vote for perpetual
lon of the fathomless mystery which |
nvelops the state treasury. Vote for
he friend and intimate associate of
efaulters. Vote for the agent of the
.merican Book Company. Take your
ledicine and vote for the CleYeland |
'emocrat. Vote the whole ticket
'om top to bottom.
Don't pay any attention to these
Opulist orators. 1t might excite you
nd set your mind to working on its
Hn hook and give you brain fever.
o listen TO "safe" Republican speak
S such as we heard at the armory
lturday night. Remember the
'othlng effect on the nerves exerted
= that mixture Of milk and water
I'd soft soap and treacle and glycer-
e. Don't jump unless your owner
Ills the string. Don't squeak unless
presses you. What right have you
mind of your own9 Don't think;
'ur head might get hot, Just howl; ,