The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-10-18
A STORY OF COUNTRY LIFE.
BY ALMA /. PARKER, GUIDE ROCK, NEB.


The chairman, seeing that everyone
was eager to hear what she wished to
say, gave her that'privilege. Yinnie's
remarkable speech was as follows:
ITO begin with, gentlemen, i have
lost all faith in the Populist party. 1t
has ceased to be a party Of. reform, If
1t ever was one. / do not wish to crit
icise the gentlemen of this convention,
but ! mean the Populist party as a
whole. 1t is almost entirely composed
of fault-inders, men who are never
satisfied with anything. You know as
well as I do that we: are having good
times, yet how many men in the Popu-
list party are willing to acknowledge
1t? If you find one, ten chances to
one he will say it is because of sup
ply and demand or the late war, or
something else; the Government has
nothing to do with it. Now, suppose
this is true. Just trace that same man
back to a few short years ago, before
our last presidential election. He
would then have told you that supply
and demand had nothing to do with
the regulation of prices, and that moth
ing could bring good times with gold
for our standard money. You know as
well as | do how they told us that the
rich would get richer and the poor
poorer; that we would all be slaves if
Mckinley was elected. Now we know
that was not the truth, for no man is
more independent to-day than the
farmer.
THE laboring man has no excuse for
being idle now. There is plenty Of
work and good pay. Factories by the
hundred have opened, giving men en-
ployment. They earn plenty of money,
and can now afford to buy the farm
ers' beet and pork. All, yes, it is sup
ply and demand, but there wouldn't be
such a demand were 1t not for our new
protection law enacted by our Repub-
lican Congress. Those men who trav-
eled over this country, persuading men
to join their ~so-called reform party.
were false prophets. Would you COP
tinue to believe them? You had bet
ter trust the sure captain, who
lost a ship. When this Peoples indie
pendent party started as a party of re-
form we We're all anxious to join it.
we We're honest enough to wish to be
on the side of reform, but, all, gentle
men, time has proven that we don't
need free silver.
Free silver will o cease TO he vonr
hobby, for we all now know that we.
don't need that. They can't deceive
US mat way any more. 1 hope the GEN
tlemen here assembled will reason in
your minds that the man who deceived
you once may deceive you again.
Many of those who voted for free sill
yer didn't know what free silver
meant, and, believing that these Popu-
list speakers and papers told them,
thought it was their only salvation.
They have been very pleasantly saved
now.
Suppose a foreigner came to this
country and he didn't understand the
English Language, and some people told
him that he was a slave; that he'd
never get rich until a cyclone struck
him.
Why, il he believed what they told
him, he'd probably pray night and day
for a cyclone to come. If he was wise.
he'd first find out what a cyclone
meant, then he might come to a diff
ferent conclusion; but if he made no
study of the subject, no investigation.
OF course he would never understand
until a cyclone did strike him; then he
would learn to his sorrow what it
meant, and he would curse the men
who deceived him.
Nov, these men who deceived MS by
saying we couldn't have good times
without free silver, were false proph-
cts. Let's not believe them n longer,
but change our politics. Let's treat
those gentlemen right who have
brought good times to our door, and
who have saved our country's honor
in time of war.
You, gentlemen, who are favored
with the power to vote, I beg Of you to
vote sensibly. There is no one more
contemplate than the hypocrite. IL
you believe n way and vote another
you are committing a sin before God.
l beg Of you to reason for yourselves
n then vote as you conscientiously
believe to be right, no matter what
may think. Some people If they
find they are wrong, won't acknowl-
edge 1t, but a truly honest, upright or
Christian man is glad to confess his
mistake.
We should not be foolish like the old
woman, that owned a goose which laid
a golden egg every day. Her neigh
bors told her to kill the goose and she
would find it full Of golden eggs. Now
this old M was prospecting, but she
wasn't satisfied, so she did as they ad-
yised her. She killed the goose, but to
her sorrow there were no golden eggs
to be found; SO she didn't even have the
goose left, because of her foolish greed.
Let us not do as she did, but let us
be satisfied with the good times we
have.
lyon all know now why l will not ac-
cept the nomination so kindly offered
me. thank you she said as she re-
sumed her seat.
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