The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-08-04
Result Of a Chemical Test.
SAssAFRAs JUNGLE, which is
betwixt Hickory Grove q IS
Hooppole township, Ind.

Hooppole township, Ind.
Nix. NEwsPApERMAN:-l have
been studying chemistry To try and
find out what's the matter with my
farm. The ground on my farm re-
fuses to nourish anything except
crawfish and fishworms, and to sus-
tain anything except rocks and sas-
sairas bushes. ! made chemical
analysis of the ground on my farm
and found gold in it, About -
cents worth To the ton. Please Mr..
Newspaperman, write TO the gold
bug OF your town about il. Ii he
finds il out, it will help him make
speeches against free silver next
year. He will spread himself telling
the people that there is gold in
Sassairas Jungle. That is the way
with these gold-bug.. They can
smell gold in the water, in the air,
in the ground, and anywhere. And
they think everybody else Is hum
bug because their smellers amt 50
acute after gold.
Now, Mr.. Newspaperman, why
amt silver just as good for money
and for filing teeth as gold IS?
And in my humble opinion alumni
mum is better than either. But
these gold-bugs want the money to
be scarce, so they can corner 1t, and
put ii into the vaults Of the banks
and charge eight per cent. interest
on i, and yet nobody ever sees the
gold. That is what they call the
gold standard. 1t keeps the silver
from rusting and the paper from
roltening. The silver and the paper
is loaned out at eight per cent. int
crest, and the gold stays in the
banks. The silver and paper is
good enough to be used as money
by the people, but ii is not good
enough for the aristocrats and the
banks, because eight per cent. int
crest would never be paid Tor gold
and silver, if one was as good a. the
other in the eyes Of the money bags.
Mr.. Newspapermon, | am darn
ed fool because | am farmer, but
| know enough to know that these
banks are highway robbers, and that
the people will never be happy un-
til they take The banks and punish
them. WHAT right have the banks
to charge eight per cent. interest on
silver, if silver dollar is only worth
IS cents, and they keep the gold
which is worth 100 cents on the
dollar for themselves to look at and
hoard? What right have the banks,
backed by Hannah Il CO., to corner
the money by means of the gold
standard and then charge US poor
fellows eight per cent. interest, when
crawliSh is worth only five cents a
bushei2
tell you what right they have.
The right is given them by the
voters. And if that Is the case,
then let the voters take the right
away from them
Mr. Newspaperman, am in favor
Of nominating Bryan next year and
| am in favor of voting for him, on
the same old Chicago Platform. 16
to / or bust, even if my ground in
Sassatras Jungle has ID cents worth
of gold in a ton Of the ground. And
that is why | want you to 60 to
Congress. If you cau't hear well,
YOU can see enough, and you got
hoss sense, which some of the 9TH
ers amt got. Their sense resembles
the sense Of my two gray baking
mules. Yours
PETER LONGsHo1T.
+. ). Hurrah for you and Br, an.
p. l..
n. b. Sassafras Jungle will be
: sid for taxes next week. II you
or the log roller want to get the
support OF Sassafras Jungle for Con-
gress you must come to our rescue,
or we will be ousted out of Sassa-
fras jungle and have to move to
the Palatial Poor House at Ireland.
Mr.. Newspaperman, please to in
fo,m your subscribers OF the inn
portant fact whether tae town law
vers of the town of Jasper was rails
ed IN taxation by the board of
intern ii revenue review. Those
lawyers got 400 dollars, which is
more than Sas 'afras jungle is
worth, and make a motion that
taxes be levied on the 400 thal,rs.
Yours, +. l..
Corydon Democrat We want
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