The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-28

iHe tl1Uc, Dut GCn take no
Time for rea0in. so he's got
very crude idee
or the Issues that's before us
AZ the present moment, as II were.
Hes TOO blamed conservative TO
sui me. and up and Just
About told him SO In that r
Many words. He says that II
We look after what we'vc get
Already I'll Keep us purity busy
For aruthcr year or two
says: i want TO see Old Glory
Planted on every square mile
o solid rrourd from the
Ory-o.y-Alicc OF the frozen
North to the rock-Girt shores
y Cape Horn TO the south,
An ell over the Pacific
Ocean. Dog gone It. says to
Him. We're tho grandest people
That ever breaihed this breath :
o. life, and why IN dickens
SHOULDN'T we carry the blcss!n's
" FREQ government to all
The cnGs o. the earth, b-lngin'
enlightenment and so on?'
All he'd say was Rats which
shows that fellow tina. don't
Read Nh keep posted on thcse
isSGes simply cannot discuss
I'm with any degree OF intelligence,
lily, sisters husbands a good man
IN his way. don't deny that
Hes steady worker. and don't
Care 10 have trouble with him.
lit ) ItI tEt nave n little
Aoney, now and then. He's been
\ good deal moro lucky about
Gettin' work than I've been. but
Him or no other man can tell me
Ao3ut this expansion business. The ides
OF him sayin' Rats to me-
Wish didn't owe him rothin'-
Il wouldn't like 10 open
Up on him.
II ever get paid uD-but I'm
Afraid can't. bccuZ my
BACK seems to he gcttin weaker
Every year but If ever do.
III tell rim. in blamed few
Words, just what think OF him
! smashed my fist down
On the table. an ! says:
Firing on your arguments,
Ccntound youi Bring EN- on
He says: We got enough lazy
Skates EanSin' around In this
Country without So!r' seventeen
Thousand miles somewhc-cs or
Others TO adopt couple o. million more
The color OF Il green watermelon
An heads shaped like cocynuts.'>
don't think he meant TO be
Personal. FOR he knows as well
As any one that IL don't work
All the time It amt on
Account o la.iEesS. but becuZ I've
Been poorly, of ard on. ever
Since | was boy.
But leavin' anything personal
Ont o the question, honest now.
Amt that n dar7ed low view to take?
I'll tell you. rs up TO us
To spread the biessin's OF o
Free government far and wide.
Then think O. the commercial
opportunities. Don't we want all
That trade? Are We Ecin' 10 set
Around like n lot O stotinbottles
And let Great Britain an
Germany an some more OF EN-
Whack up everything IN sight?
Say, only wish that
WuE younger man an had
The money TO pay my fare. an
You can bet I'd he on my
Way TO Cuba or the Philippines at
This minute. They needn't talk
TO me. | know blamed well
That there's II mighty good opportunity
an them countries for /. bright.
flslte.prisin'. hus;ling' American.
,Csrer here in this country Il good
Many OF us have get the
Worst o. 1t on account o these trusts
.il;d moHopolics. but you put me
In Il rev country an give nc
Any kind Of q Chance ct n
Business that's indoor work
Ard not 100 much flying around
And gcttia' Ovc-hc;. and I'd
Show EN- IN darncd short order
VIVA. I'd Go.
I hope aIac don't let en-
Fluff him out on this expansion
Business. They can't scare me
BY tellin' ne that we're l!hlc
o bGt INV CINeN III Il European
War. hecu3 | know "cll enough
That this caUntry's full o
Younger Eltn that's ready and
Anxious 10 Sight.
know orc thing.
II wuZn't Goctcrin' all
The time there's no:hin' IA
Like bcttcr'n Eo.a' through
4 war. | wuZ TOO young the
Other time. or I'd been right
In the thick Of Il.
Great Scott. What do We care
For war? We got more money
Than we know what to
DO with. ! just forget
The treasury balance now, but
| usually Keen posted. becuZ
I'm interested IN finances and
Always wanted TO be q
Banker myself only in the
Town where ! lived there
Was bank there already.
An that Kind O. sh@t me out.
As | say. though, I'd like
Mighty well TO I've In some
Such business where the
Hours Is reasonable an
You make purity fair money
Al the time. Like 10 go
An open Il bank In Porto Rico
or Some such place. II tho
Climates all right.
Want to get away from here
Anyway. becuz there's no opportunity.
That's WIZ | say. Let's expand.
Let's get all the territory In
Sight Let's get so much Eroucd
That every man can have
Patch o. his own. Here I've been
ManeUverln' an schcmin'
Around here for twenty-five years
And don't own foot. Ii
Shows that somCthn' must be
Wrong That's why J shy
That We ouCh, to expand
Until we all cit what
We need. I'm for expansion"
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