The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-07-14
Traffic In Human Skin.
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Discovery has been made here Of ancx-
traordinary traffic that has recently
grown up in human skin.
Reputable jewelers. admit that they have
made belts and card cases from human
skin; tanners say that they have recent
ly prepared quantities of il after the
fashion of alligalors and MONKEYS skins;
women boast Of having articles made Of
the stuff that nicely tanned human skin
recently formed a novel though consider
able portion Of the trosseau of a fashion
able bride.
Tho skin is procured from the bodies
Of the dead poor. The skin brings a
nigh price. and as il is now q fad, there
is a steady demand for it,. This Mr., Ed
lure, is b%izncss, aud anything in the biz
ness line the rich people are looking out
Tor
What's the use buryin All OF the poor
men, women aud children aud losin ali
hat good material for belts, and pocket
BOOKS, aud carriers and weddin trosseaus
md SIGH for the richY
Then there arc the eyeballs Of the dead
loor; properly treated what elegant ear
,ings they make for the fair madams and
,airer daughters Of the millionaire bank
RS anG %monopolists and bondhol1ers.
WHAT'S more comfortin to the poor man
Sho is workin the life out of himself to
nable his rich employer and family to
I've in slile than 20 know when he il
lad that his employers daughters will
,lc pleasure in showing her new belt or
.uarler TO her lead beau aud say That
$ the skin of Tom Joues. one Of papa's
tired men" Or when the poor mans
laughter is complainin about her hard
hips and wonderin why it is, that other
iris, no more lovely. intelligent or vir-
uous, can have all they desire while she
aust be deprived Of those things. How
Omfortiu it will BE- for her father TO say,
! Don't complain daughter dear, after
ou are dead your beautiful cyrballs will
~ worn by some queen Of society as ear
Tugs aud then these lustrOus eyes Of yours
AN see all things Elegant and grand. 80
~ when the doting mother of n poor
HID looks upon the little body and with
heart filed with love. notes how like an
ngel's form God has made 1t, how her
leart will thrill with joy whel She thinks
nat somewhere, somebody who has
wealth. untold, is eager fer a belt made
rom u strip Of the beautiful skin of her
herub, from the base of It's littlc brain
II the way down is back. Now this
/ ,ickin again the system that makes rich
'eoplc rich and poor people poor wants
o be stopped. The rich people love the
DOR people Of they wouldn't wear their
kin.
This Socialism is what would stop this
kin dizziness: this Socialism what would
Jury the poor, decrntly; this Socialism
What would keep The poor from being 81.
loor and the rich from being SO rich
wants TO be STOPPED.
DO You want TO tare down the trade in
hose human skins DO you want TO in
erfere with personal rights and hinder
hcrich from wearin tanned human skins.
The wives aud mothers of the land
wan to see to it that their men dou'l
cad any more socialist books or papers,
,Or just MS SIRE as enough of them quit
'otin for the Dimicrat aud republican
flee seekers and 80 to 'otin for the So
'iHlist party, that sure VIII the poor be
gin to get along better, and many Of them
night become $50 well Off that their skin
ma the skin Of their wives and children
wouldn't make good belts aud things fol
he rich.
The way to increase this human skin
o~iziness is to just len things alone as they
ere, keep on yotin for Dimicrat and
Republican office seekers. when YOU get
ired of Notin for one vote for the other
rheir way Of doin bizness makes the rich
'icher aud better able to buy more of the
skin of the poor people and at the same
iime makes Che poor poorer and Increase.
the supply rapidly, SO You See as The de-
maud Increases ANA that is biznsss.
SO. again, wives and daughters of work
uemcn, Z insist that you urge vour hus
bands, fathers and sons 60 vote for either
The Bimicraf or Republican ticket TIM
fall and keepa votiu it,. If YOU don't anC
them Socialists gifts into powder not az
inch of your skin viii ever adorn the beau
uful neck or graceful form ofany million
aires daughter -Gabe Hanksns in Grove