The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-18
SILAS THORNAPPLE
Gives His Opinion On Free Silver and Ad-
vises His Friend.

come down to the town hall w en- thet
feller from New York told wat
Bryan's goin' to do fur the kentry
wen he's 'lected.n
"Sho," sez l, ''thet air speechifier
don't know wat he's a-talkin' bout.
McKinley's good 'nough fur me-"
"W'at hez Mckinley ever did fur
your asst 'Lias.
"Thet's whar 'tis," sez l, 81 don't
want Mckinley to do nothin' fur me.
want him to lemme alone. The hull
trouble is in folks allus a-doin' things
an not lettin 'em be-"
"Do you mean to say" pursood
'Lias, "thet the kentry's all right,
and thar's nothin' can't be did fur it?''
"That's Jest what | mean to say"
sez l.
kin you look me straight in the
eye, Si' Thornapple, an tell Inc thar's
nothin' wrong with the kentry, wen
you an erybody else knows thet it's
bein' ruined?'
"As to how?n sez |. "Ive been so
tarnal busy workin' the farm, thet |
hain't he'd no time to watch the ken
try"
"See here, ST., you've got some
sense, or ruther l sh'd say hope ye
hey. Now, hev ye money 'nough to
pay off that air mortgage on thet
farm O. yourn?' An 'Lias laughed
kinder triumphant like.
mo, l hain't. 'Lias JONES'" sez l,
''an' eff l stan here talkin' politics
with ye much longer, never will git
it paid off, l wuz gettin' kinder
mad, fur | wanted to git back an
strip corn.
II tell ye, ST. Thornapple, thet eff
Bryan's 'lected yell git yer mortgage
paid right off, fur thar'll be slathers
Nv money"
"An' who's goin' to give it to me-
'thout l work an 'arn it, ye gol darn
ed ijut," sez l, right out loud. An
whar be ye goin' to git the money to
give me? Air you an Willyum J.
Bryan goin' to take it outen yer own
pockets, er steal from sombody else's
pockets?n
"Sho," sez he, ''ye needn't git SO
mad bout thing thet's goin' to do
ye good. Wv course we can't take
the money out Nv our own pockets,
cause 'tain't thar to take out. An
we ain,t goin' to take it out Nv no.
body else's pockets neither, cause
thet'd be stealin'. We're goin' to put
silver back onto its peddystal by re-
monytizen' NV it, ez Bryan sez, an
maxim it 16 to ~
can whar ye goin' to git the sill
yer?n sez |.
"Why, out Nv the groun'," sez
'Lias. "All yell hev to dos to dig
the silver out Nv the groun', take it
to the mint an git it made into silver
dollars. Amt thet simple 'nough?"
"Simple," sez 1, tits ez clear ez
spring water an emmy burned iiut kin
see clean through it. Tell me this
'Lias Jones, eff ye hev the sense Nv
my year-old heifer calf; be goin' to
dig silver outen this farm and git it
coined at the mint?"
mo, but the fellers ez hev silver an
silver mines kin do so, an they'll dig
it out in sech quantities thet thar'll
be 'nough to pass round"
"Who gifts the money fur the wag-
on loads NY silver took to the mint?"
asst |. "Is it jest handed round my
way to pay off the mortgage on my
farm with?"
"Well, no, not perzactly thet air
way" sez 'Lias, beginnin' to scratch
his head, fur he he'd the impression
thet the free an Unlimited counage of
silver would be follered up by it's free
an Unlimited disteribootion, an my
question he'd sot him a-thinkin'.
"Ye see, it'll increase the quantity
Nv money an you'll git the benefit NV
it, an
"As to how?" asst |, interruptin'.
"Why, yell sell more stuff often yer
farm, won't yer" sez 'Lias.
'How the tarnation kin sell more'n
kin raise? I'm workin' the farm up
to the limit now"
81 wuz intendin' to say thet you'd
git more money fur what ye do sell
double yer money"
"An' won't everybody else double
ther money!" sez |. EFF they don't
what's the use hevin' silver eff it won't
go all the way 'round?'
: "Uv course" sez 'Lias, "thet's wal
silver III do"
, "Thet bein' the case" sez |, "it
won't do nobody emmy good, fur things
, IL be riz all round. Eff git double
fur wat / sell, won't l hev to pay
double fur wat buy? Whar'll the
be emmy odds, 'Lias Jones?
When sed thet, 'Lias wuz a-leanin
agin the fence, with a fur-off look e;
tho he wuz a-lookin' arter tn oil Gov
: Nv his'n thet got lost a few day