Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1899-08-11
WASHINGTON, d. q.

WASHINGTON, ~. u.
Tu the Editur:
Ever sence the agurnment Nv kongress
bad nooze hez bin pourin in frum every
quarter. The rebellion in the Fillipeens
IL peterin out, our moo possesshuns in
Cuba are givin us less and less trubble,
the Turin nashuns ar beginin tn act ez If
tina didn't want Amerikin guns pinted at
'em, and thare IL no prospeck Nv runnin
up agin ennybuddy we can't lick. With
SIGH a sitooashun confruntin the Dimi-
cratic party, whut kin it hope fer beyond
the rollin seas? Nothin, I feer, witch kin
moor tn our benefit ez long ez we name
tame our present attitood NV itin every.
thing witch the administrator proposes.
In this kountry the sitooashun is grow
in and wuss. Kalanity, our only
hope, seems tn be more distant than ever.
The crooel manoofacterers NV Moo Eng
land and Pennsylvany hev hit us a stag
germ blow in the mex bi raisin tho wages
Nv all their operativs and givin them all
the wurk tina kin du. How kin we buck
agin SIGH practikle prosperity Whut kin
we du tn checknate the enthusiasm NV
men hoo hev plenty%tu .du and git. good
cash wages fer doom it? The ''pernishus
activity" Nv laber jest at the present time
is hurtin the Dimicratic party bi shown a
'paneful contrast between the times ez tina
now IL and ez tina wuz wen we wuz run
min the kountry fer the purpose NV maxim
it fit the theoriz NV free traders and
dreemers on politikal ekonomy. Mr..
Cleveland hez wizely sed tn me, ''Wate
Ontil kalamity Gums, and we shell shoorly
return tn our OWL" " but how kin we waite
much longer fer the gosh hanged thing tn
cum? 1t maiks me sick at hart wen I re-
alize tibet the "hard tines witch wuz the
sheet anker wv our hopes Nv restorashun
hez slipt it's cable and thet the old Dimi-
cratic ship Nv staff Is driftin ontu q lee
shoar with all sails floppin in the wind
and the crew standfn with drawn knives
reddy tn chop each luther up, kill the cap'n
and SHUTTLE the vessel. Oh, tibet we Good
agree upon sum Jonah tn fire overheard
tibet wood Civ general satisfacshun wen
the job wuz dunl
I sumtimes think we hev made an orful
mistaik in f1tin agin all the moo issoos
witch seem tn be cumin up fer settlement
CROWN out Nv the war with Spane. Per-
haps we ort tn hev invited the Fillipeenoze
tn cum tn this kountry, jine the Dimi.
cratic party and Iced it and run it. 1t
wood not require much NV a change to
transform SIGH a restless, oneazy and
kwarrelsome heethen ez Aguinaldoo intu a
man like ex-Guvener Atgeld, and the most
Nv his followers Good soon be made over
intu a class Nv Dimicrats tibet Good be
made yooseful fer the purpus Nv standin
up tn be countid even If tina coodn't read
and rite. Tha Good stan the spellin book
test ez well ez sum NV our Tammany Iced
ers, and tina Good take the places Nv the
thousans Nv laberin men tibet we hev lost
under the depressin inflooence Nv better
times. We Good send 'em to sum politikal
Kelley cure, hev a little dose Nv good citi-
zenship squfrted into 'em, and we Good
then march 'em up tn the poles and vote
'em agin whatever the Republicans vote
fer. Thare il alwaze the material fer a
good Dimicrat in a Teller that IL roamin
around with nothin tn ds and hoo il will