Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-07-22
HE WAS A JINoo.
A Flats. rs,ar.i.hss. ras,pIs-ss's

A Ffnin, tnrarntsheds tndtptouatte
Hesp-BiE American JinEe.
YEP" said the man on the back
seat Of the trailer TO his seatmate,
you've hit the buII's-eye right in the
center That's just what I am pre-
eIsely-a lingo. I'm a plain. every
day, unvarnished. undiplomatic. whole
team, heap-blg American lingo from
Jingoville. without any renewed as
surances Of distinguished consIdera-
ton whatsoever. I'm glad that I'm a
lingo. don't want to be anything
else but a lingo. George Washington
was a lingo. Thomas Jefferson was =
lingo. John Hancock was a lingo.
Lincoln was a lingo. Blaine WIS a
lingo. That's good enough company
for me. I've got just az much COM
mon horse sense as you or any OF my
nelghbora have, but I'm a lingo, all
the same. and I'm going to keep right
on being a lingo until they have cook
ed up an epltaph for my headboard. II
had the influence and the necessary
organizing skill I'd start In right now
and organize a political party thai
would take the rank and file OF the
taxpayers and good citizens OF this
country right OF their feet-the lingo
party OF the United States OF America
That's what I'd call II. and you can
gamble your last pair Of hose Il would
be supported. Il wouldn't be support
ed by a pack CT anarchists or WARRIOR
plllage people. either. II would be up
held by men from Maine TO California
Just as dead square as | am myself.
and as you know / am. that never
peeped from behind the bars OF a cell.
never gave man or dog the worst OF Il,
never bulldozed a woman, never spent
a cent OF other peoples money. never
did any crooked or dishon0rable work
whatsoever. men like me. that feel
like taking on their bonnets and way-
ing EN- In the air and whooping like
Apaches every time they get within
sight OF an American flag; men like
me. that get hoarse and choked up and
speechess whenever they hear The
Star spangled Banner or Hail Colum.
bIa,' whether they're played on an &C.
Gordon or by a dlnky brass band
That's the kind OF people that would
Jump In a minute under the cover OF q
national lingo party. and be darned
proud TO belong 10 such a party aH
that. II there hadn't been any lingo.
In this country back In the days when
men wore knee pants and powdered
; Wigs there wouldn't have been any
United Staten OF America. I'm a jim
= go. as / say and repeat. and I'll keeI
on repeating e until that place down
I below freezes solid: but that doesn1
; mean that I'm zap enough to feel like
trying to stand on Sandy Hook poln
and heave rocks across the sea at th'
walls OF Madrld. It's ali tommy-rot L
try to make Ilngoes out OF that kind o.
people. But was born and raise,
= over 6n1hs-dppeg~ gaIt u the westerI
= hemisphere. and 30 were all my PEG
! pie for a whole long time back. and
, like II and I'm stuck on Il. and that
the reason l can't understand or ge
A next to some OF the kind Of American
}. that are hopping loose around thl
!, country just now. that Jaw about I'll
% horrors Of war under any and all cir
cumstanoeA and uy to make peopl
n like me believe that rs the real thin
4 Tor this country to lay back and TAX
= cheap gnh and side swats from a
!. hands aafoss the way that think the
can pa, II on us. I'd like to see tn
inside II the heads OF that kind Of 20
SwogG and iellyhsh. I'd like"
7. But what else this self-confesse
lingo lwho looked Ike pretty soil
=, man, soo.) would like. be finished tot
Ing when he got OF the car.