White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-10-08
FINNEGAN'S PHILOSOPHY
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Single Track Minds.

at I~njainnypoles he said he was full
of Annymated Concerv'tism. Fwhat's
that We say? TVS the turn-table on
the wan thrack mind. 1t kapes spin
MIN round and round an divil a man
can tell fwhat switch 1t will pick up
1t dinnau itself. So We dinnau where
to lay for il.
Twas so wild the arrumed freight
ships. They're not warships,' he says,
'onless | change me mind he says,
which | have he says AM annywan
who says so is a liar he says. but !
refuse to discuss it, he says. I'll
pass the buck to Congress- he
says. 'on'y l won't he says. for It's
no business of theirs he says. though
they must vote on the resolution he
says. TO show where they stand he
says. 'Hince yell lay it on the table
he says, AN thin they can't vote
says Wudthrow to Stone.
"'I-I-thought | seen a fallacy,-
says Stone, timid like, but the Great
Idaylist brung down his fisht wild a
lump.
""Table the r~isolution,' says he,-an'
away goes Stone.
"tFwhat does this mean?' axes the
Sinit.
Gentlemen says Stone, weepin'
bitterly. 'Ye can frisk me. But thim's
the ORDERS says Stone, an II amy
man ivir knew fwhat 1t meant he's
KEEP quiet about it,
aSo urfd tho Arhttnf xuurI syIvnsra
too proud to fight says this turrible
man to a bunch iy %just-overs at Phila-
dephy. 'Haw-Haw-Haw,' say the
wurld "a laugh gets his goat, Jawn).
I was thlnkin' iv somethin' | didn't
say yells Wudthrow. 'Haw-Haw-
Haw.' says the wurld. laughin' to split.
BE this an be hat Toe Proud to
Fight has made the reppytashun IN
Wudthrow. IT'S like the Monroe Doc
trine to Monroe. or Emanshipashun to
Lincoln. Twas TRANSLATED into ivry
tongue. tbs better known than the
twenty-third psalm, or the famous or
alton iv the Guv-nor iv North Carliny.
If an Ashtantee poked another in the
eye, he's give him the coo FIR Are Ye
Too Proud to Fight?' an they'd both
laugh befure they whit TO the fiure.
All the recruitin' signs abroad had 1t
an the shame wud bring three recruits,
where 'Tipperary' or rum wud bring
wan. oh. won't we PLACE stop laugh
IMP says Wudthrow, but they laughed
the more. So he sinds Jim Ham Lew
Is to explain. He's called Ham by rea-
son he's so fond of pork.
"'Three thousand years agone,' says
Jim Ham, or maybe less says he, AN
ould Dago said Non Dinny Carey win
Kerry Tor the like o. that, Jawn. Ii
means not to have a chip on yer
shoulder). Non Dinny Carey win
Kerry says Jim Ham. AN Julius Say
zer,' says he. AN Tolmy Philadelphy,
says ne, AN the Earl iy Cheatem,
says Jim, AN William Hatch Seward,
says Ham. AN II lot more | forget,
says Ham, who felt the same way.
says Jim, although he says, they
nivir said So says Jim Ham to the
Sinit.
Now says he, how. l axe We, cud
the Prisidint know that the cultivated
Christian aujience,' he says, iv immy-
grants says he, 'wud fail to grasp the
nooance,' say Jim Ham An lawn,
they shut the dures the way the peo-
pie wudden't see the Sinit lose Its
dignity
"Fwhat's a nooance?" asked NAL
umphy.
'T'is a sort iv intellectual gold
brick" replied Finnegan, slightly puz-
zled, "be which We say fwhat We doant
name. an name wye doant say. The
nOoance comes out Nv IL somehow.
Tis like l dinnau what. Just exactly
like It," he added after a short pause,
II cudden't tell thin apart"
SWELL" said Malumphy. "the single
thrack mind gets nowhere, I'm think.
in"
9Th gauge Is none too broad re-
piled his friend, AN the thrafic's
heavy" he added.
Non Dinicare est vincere.