The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-10-27

per pound under the last admins
tration, brings from 9 to .lo. cents
per pound under the Mckinley ad-
ministration, will flop to help the
cotton grower, tgss7..ss3 ~ n
When I see an advance in the
price of all farm products ranging
from rs to,I25 per cent, and my
Hopping from one attitude: to anoth-
er will help that farmer, I will try
to be the first man to flop. -.
When I seefurnaces blazing, forg-
es glowing, looms weaving, when I
hear shuttles clicking and spindles
humming, when Drawn and brain
each find fair recompense whether
in factory or field, I will, as a man
who aims to be loyal to his fellows,
his country and his Creator, try my
level best tomaintain that condition,
call me what you will. ~.
| When wages have increased
from 10 to 100 per cent. in nearly
all industries; when in 1899 we
paid 76o, 900, 900 more of dollars to
wage earners of this land than we
did in 1896, with the assured GER
tainty that. they will, still further
increase, if we will only let Our
partisanship, shrivel and our pa
triotism expand: are you justified
in doubling if my attitude of yes
tarday hinders that increase, I will
flop until my position oftoday shall
be on that higher ground, standing
upon which, humanity, from the
heights of the delectable mountains
can see grand visions of a. more
glorious future? Il, 4- ~ r.,
When I see the miners of the
Hooking Valley, who received but
forty cents a ton for digging coal
now receiving eighty cents per ton
for the same, work, and with pro-
portionate advance in all the bitu-
minous coal fields, with steady
work for all, it is an easy matter
for me to flop. ......
When I see the glass blowers re-
ceiving from twenty to thirty per
cent. advance in their scale of wages
with steady employment, for a con-
tinuation of such happiness for
them it will not be difficult for me
to flop.
When see the flag fired upon;
when I see the brave boys in blue,
your brothers, your sons and your
sweethearts, shot down by men in
ambush, my sympathies go out to
l.you and to them rather than to a
Tagal savage, and I have got to
flop. And as I love my country,
my fellow men and" my God, no
man will flop ahead of me.
When we see each month a sur-
plus III our national budget instead
Of a deficit; when we see, instead
of borrowing money of England, as
we did under the last administra-
ton, we have loaned within the
last two years to Sweden, Russia,
Germany and England more than
4 $500, 900, 900; when we see our ex-
ports doubling and .our: imports di-
viding; when we see happy faces
of a we'll fed and a we'll clad citizen
ship, and contrast it with the days
of the Coxey army of the unem-
ployed; when the pinched faces of
hungry men and women and little
children, clad in tatters, in the bit
ing blast of the winters storm,
sought for cold charity and cold
soup in the soup houses, let us
pray that God in His grace grant
that you and I shall never witness
those scenes again, but if, we do,
; my easnest prayer is that He may
so guide us all in His infinite love
and wisdom that no vote or act of
y ours, whether in public or private
life, shall be responsible for the re-
turn of such conditions.
, Robbed the Grave.
: A startling incident is narrated by
n John Oliver, of Philadelphi, as follows:
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