The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02
fourteen ounces fur a pound. l show.

fourteen ounces fur Il pound. l show.
ed him how to adulterate de eau.
put him up to fifty different .,.-...
but it was 10 use. He Went to- Inf.
falo and continued his honest ul4u
guileless career. Da' was three Years
ago, and now death has him il its
grasp, and we hal,. got to SEN his
family $50 from our treasury to keep
'em off de town.
My frel.s. | don't want to stand I'D
we're and tell you dat de suuar' and
honest man of today has no mo- show
IN de world dan Il straw in a hurry
caine, but l want you to figger some
things out fur yourselves.
When a trust puts de price of ai-s
at 90 cents a dozen. does it encourage,
pore men to steal or buy 'em?
when he butcher puts de price Of a
pound of bacon at one-fifth of your
days wages, does he encourage you to
beat him If you kin?
when all lie trustees and deacons of
a church am bizness men engaged in
maxim cherry dollar dey kin, no mat.
ter how, has de minister any moral
right to stand up and preach agin
greed and avarice?
"When some of dose trustees and
deacons ar publicly charged wild graft.
In, have dey any right to criticise de
minister for runnin' away wild anod-
der mans wife?
when de landlord of your house has
no care for your health, kin he expect
dat you am gwine to squar' up to de
last dollar befo' you move out?
d clothier advertises sixteen dol
lar suits for $3.50. You go and buy
and find dat you have got a six dollar
suit. Ar DER any redress except to
beat somebody else?
you pay your money fur a ton of
coal and it is short from a hundred
to two hundred pounds. II you kin
beat de baker out Of a dollar it will
help you to git chen.
How to Get Even.
"Dar hasn't been a dollars with Of
repairs on Paradise hall fur de last
fifteen years. and yet we git notice
from de landlord dat he am gwine to
raise de rent 10 per cent. We may
protest and argue, but it will do no
good. De only way we kin git chen
is to work counterfeit money off on
him when we pay de rent.
my frens. I'm not standin' up we're
as either a honest or a dishonest
man. Pm simply sayin' dat de man
who tries to go it alone am gwine to
git left. He's got to 60 wild de crowd.
II dar's a dollar in sight he's got to
grab 1t fust and make his explana-
lions afterward. It's greed and graft
from one end Of de land to de odder.
and about de only pussons to say any
thing ag1n 1t am de preachers who am
g1tt1n' no salaries and have muffin to
lose.
Twenty thousand Americans I'm
crossin' to Europe cherry year, and not
a single Il Of 'em dares to sit down
u half an hour wild a German, an
Englishman or a Frenchman and de-
fend u politics or our ways Of dom
business. If he tried to he'd be over
whelmed in five minutes.
"We have had and still have a heap
to say about Venezuela and Haiti. but
from all l kin see in de papers both of
dose kentries kin glib us cards and
spades on honesty and have lots left.
while Is sorry to hear of de death
of Brudder Johnson. I take it dat he
am better off. In fact. l must take it
dat way. He had either to turn bur-
glar or highwayman to git his sheer
Of dis worlds goods, and he was shore
to be caught in time and sent to prison
under a law passed by men charged
wild sellin' DER votes. Brudder John
son had no show. 1t was a wise thing
fur his liver to enlarge and carry him
of. No entrance fee am charged at de
gates of heaven" NJ. QUAD.