Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-02-02

FRIDAY. FEBRUARY :, 1900.
AfEAS,r OF FAT HOGS.

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High heeled shoes made OF ennmcle l
leather; rose ted silk stockings fasten-
ed with diamond buckles; satin waist
coats Powered and embroidered; shirts,
ruflled, laced and jeweled; velvet coats,
with golden buttons; plumed hats; tas-
seled canes. or diamond Tilted swords;
gold snuff boxes; curled and powdered
hair, &C, all that, in its time and
E place, was very nice and dainty, sup
ported by purse wcll-filled with god.
But 1t did not suit the plain. common
people. nor men who had 10 do the
not only too costly for them, bat utter
4 ly unsuitable The working -bee must
hav, different cost, me from the gay
& butterfly.
Not only so,-but the purse OF gold
is for the man of wealth, not for the la
boring man, not for the hon
est industry and frugal neces-
sites of the poor. The char
latan and demagosue is loud and
impassioned in declaimng that honest
men must have honest money, and that
as gold Is the best money the working
man must have 1t, because he is not
only as good as anybody else. but bet
ter, and more deserving. 50 the char
latan might dec.aim that only silks.
satins and fine linen, the costllest and
best Of everything, should be furnishe |
to the people,-supplyi ing nothing suit
able to small incomes ard hard labor,
but making everything desirable FOR IN
rich and idle cheap and abundant.
comparatively. for them. 1t is the story
over again of the fox inviting the crane
q large, shallow dish, from which the
cunning co., Tapped his fill at ease. viii c
the crane could only laboriousiy dip his
bill in and obtain nothing. a hawk
once invited the barn-yard fowls to din
ner. There was partridge on tcast; a
barbecued hare; and dish OF stewed
mice. 1t was all very niJc; tut none
but the hawk could OF eat it. The fowls
yearned for grain. and all the fine talk
and display of the gorglng hawk could
not stay their hunger.
SO Congress has spread great feast
at Washington; but the people who
elected these Congressman and sent
them there are left out in the cold, with
out even the scraps and crumbs that
fall from the table where the ga-r and
festive capitalist, banker, bondholdcr,
y cfn Ofjno-bolAor oo,l ~ I,oId
ers Of all things are rejoicing over their
gold, bank-notes, bonds, stocks, inter
est. dividends, income, and other swag
of which they despoil the people and
the government and neither labor nor
spin. Why should they? Are not these
HONORABLE REPR
u OF THE PEOPLE turning the pockets
OF the people wrong-side out and g v
ing all to the men who scorn to be
called people? Pious and right hon
orable gentlemen! they are busily full
fiulling the Scriptures that say: "For
unto every one that hath shall be given,
s, and he shall have abundance; but from
I him that hath not shall he taken away
u even that which he hath"
Not only 80; but the unjust stewarl,
& making friends Of the Mammon OF un-
Fri righteousness. has his National City
q Bank where, when he fails he Will b,
received, prepaid. into everlasting hab-
kftations, rent free! He clliei on tina,
B bank: ow much owest thou?" "a
3HUEDBED MEASURES Of OIL" was
Sfhe response. And he said: Take thy
Bill, and sit down, quickly, and WRITE
sgIyyy!T SO Il was done: The unjust