The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-29
%Finnegan's Philosophy
Single Track Minds

What is hei" asked Finnegan. Sure
at Injainnypoles he said he was full
OF Annymated C~oncerv'tism. Fwhat's
that, ye say? IT'S 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 It.
Twas so wild the arrumed freight
ships. They're not warships,' he says,
'onlejs | change me mind he says,
which i have he says, IAN annywan
who says SO Is a liar he says, but |
refuse to discuss It, he says. III pass
the buck to Congress- be says, 'on'y
| won't he says, for tbs no business
Of theirs he says, though they must
vote IN the resolution he says. TO
show where they stand he says,
'hince yen lay 1t on the table, he says.
an thin they can't vote says Wud-
throw to Stone.
"'I-I-thought | seer a fallacy,'
says, Stone, timid like, but the Great
Idaylist brung down his fisht wild q
t'ump.
Table the resolution says he-an'
away goes Stone.
Sinit.
"'Giatlemen,' says Stone, weep.n'
bitterly, we can frisk me. But thim's
the orders says Stone, an IL amy
man liver knew fwhat Ii meant he's
KEEP quiet about it.
80 wild the hghtin' wurd. We're
too proud to fight says this turrible
nan to a bunch Nv j%ust-overs at Phila.
delphy. 'Haw-haw-haw,' says the
wurled ia laugh gets his goat, Jawn).
1 was thinkin' Nv somethin' | didn't
say yells Wudthrow. 'Haw-haw-haw,
says the wurld. laughln' to split.
BE this an be that Too Proud 10
Fight has made the ~reppytashun ~
Wudthrow. IT'S like the Monroe Doc.
trine to Monroe or Emanshipashun to
Lincoln. Twas Translated into ivry
tongue. IT'S better known than the
twenty-third psalm or the famous ora.
ton iv the Guv'nor Nv North Carliny.
Ii an Ashantee poked another In the
eye he's give him the coon fr Are VI
Too Proud to FightT an they'd botI
laugh befure they whit to the fure.
All the recruitin' signs abroad had 1t,
an the shame 'ud bring three recruits
where 'Tipperary' or rum wud brine
wan. oh, won't ye Place stop laugh
lnT says Wudthrow, but they laughed
the more. So he sinds Jim Ham Lewis
to explain. He's called Ham by reason
he's so fond of pork.
Three thousand years agone,' says
Jim Ham, or maybe less says he
an ould Dago said, mon Dinny Care.
win Kerry''' (or the like o. that, Jawn
1t means not TO have a chip on yer
shoulder.) Non Dinny Carey win Ker
ry,' says Jim Ham, AN Julius Say
ger says he, AN Tolmy Philadelphy,
says he, AN the Earl ~ Cheatem
says Jim, an william Hatch Sew
ard says Ham, an a lot more | for
get say Ham, who felt the sam
way says Jim, although he says
they niyir said So says Jim Ham t,
the Sinit.
Now says he, how, I axe We, cue
the Prisidint know that the cultivated
Christian %aujience,' be says, Nv Jimmy
grants says he, 'wud fail to grasI
the nooance,' says Jim Ham. An
Jawn, they shut the dures the way
the people wudden't see the Sinit lose
its dignity
"'Fhwat's a nooance?' asked NAHUM
ply.
"''Tis a sort Nv intellectual gold
brick replied Finnegan. slightly puz
zled, be which We say fhwat We doan'i
name an name wye doan't say. The
nooance ONE out iv 1t somehow. I'll.
like | dlnnau what. just exactly like
it, he added after a short pause. 4
cudden't tell thin apart
Well said Malumphy, the single
thrack mind gets nowhere, I'm think
IN
TIL gauge Is non too broad re
piled his friend, an the thraflc's
heavy he added"
mon Dinicare est vincere.