The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-08-23

:sl, you il. tx der queen of his heart.
He vhIl sag dot lie can't live if you
don Iravry him"
IND What will say:' she asked.
You haven't seen him yet, but as
soon as you - it Will be love at first
sight. You hill throw yourself into
his arms una tell him You yhas his,
ind you Will go AWAY nit him to live
fIitIl1s8 10 lis trust aud the congress-
man who has sold his influence to
corporation are going to have hard
time getting away 10 South America,
and the mosquitoes will bother them
after they get there.
You can't make any permanent
change in a civilized race. 1t will be
honest about so long and dishonest
about so long 1t will have a con-
science and admire integrity for few
years. and then every man will seem
TO feel licensed to rob every other
mars hen roo=t. Today we would adj
mire Tie MAN who could raise the price
OF ke!ose.:e Oh to 10 cents gallon
and maize $l0.0OO.00O i'll a week. A
year hence he'd go to prison in spite
of all t.le lawyers III the land.
There was jflst another such graft
ing" era vhan Uncle Jerry was sent
to the lc2i.i ,;tife. lie saw other men
selling their votes, and lie didn't sit
down and figure that it was only a
sDasm He decided that it was going
to be IL permanent thing and that the
people had made up their minds to be
"grafted'' Oh fer all time to come. Un-
Gle Jerry got 500 for his vote and
went home and painted his house and
barn Il beautiful yellow. The paint
was hardly dry when a spasm of viz
tue Gaze ai..Ic and Uncle Jerry had
to hjlI that yellow house and barn
over TO the lawyers to keep himself
out of state prison.
Just now we are permitting the
trusts to rob the dead and the living.
We are !;icnin on the one hand and
buying their stock SO as to reap the
biz dividends on the other. When
these tr:iS:.; can defy the highest courts
III the land and squeeze the people a
little harder every day it looks like a
il; M bog. The people will get up on
their hind legs some day and begin to
howl. and before they are through there
VIII be i new deal all around.
The real rulers Of any country are
the workers.. When the farmer and
tie mechanic have been sat on about
- ions they will begin to squirm.
Then is ill.,, time for the 'Trafter" to
take IL European trip. The squirming
will soon become Il struggle, and there
has never been IL struggle yet between
the oppressed and oppressor but what
the former won.
And, after all. we can't rid ourselves
There are hundreds of mllionaires in
this country. and when it is asserted
in all carneStneSS that not five of them
have made t!irir fortunes honestly
don't you believe there is crnging all
llon.. tie line! The "grafter' may
store up his hundreds of thousands and
VA; ar5"I,, Hi:l his nose in the air,
bNt b. E;.!,t t,v Cat he is an object
Of dist .t:>i it:H suspicion. Money is a
GCo,i ,,..H-". NY son, but if you haven't
E:.:,ir i, il al homes; way and the vii
i;:-.' cooper passes you by without a
Id ! it will SCI you TO thinking.
Cut il out That is. don't join the
''.-r;,f.r;r;. In tie first place. you may
ir '-.'t%v::ti:.it",i when the change
'..:,l,'> AMI ;: Yourself in Il hole. and,
=. 49," .s,,;.ao. there isn't SO much in