The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-10-20
FINNEGAN'S PHILOSOPHY
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Pureina the Heart.

on norm an lVFytnn IallS TOT Ut.
If the people call him liver so soft,
Little Samuel had no quicker ear. An
for sacryficin' what's dear to his heart,
Abraham had nawthin' on him. Sure
he is Dimocricy's shield an exceedin'
great reward.
IT'S his Presbyterian bringin' up,
I'm thinkin.' Furst he adopts a policy;
thin he thries to justify 1t, thin he
sanctifies it wild phrase, while choir
iv Dishurvin Dimmycrats sings
hymn. An there We are. Justification,
Adoption an Sankty-icashun.
The choir med great harmony whin
Jim Smith, George Harvey an Bill
Brine was all in ut. But wan be wan
their vices cracked an they passed out
iv the life iv the great Tdaylist.
Harvey went back to edith an Bill
Brine wint in search iv the Howly
Kale. McCombs was canned. because
him an Billy MeAdoo cuddent sing a
on Tariff ragtime. But Wudthrow die
Grated thin all. Wild f'what say yeI
Wild the Order iv the Double Cross.
Ohio. L mind well the time at the
Manhattan Club, whin he kissed Brine
an kicked Harvey wild wan motion.
Now the choir has what Wudthrow
calls the vital stuffs iv life Stone an
McAdoo; Danyiels an Jim Ham Lewis,
wild Redfield for the high falsetto.
Wudthrow sits wild his hands crossed
while the stuffs sings songs iv praise
an Col. House winds the victhrola.
"Wudthrow is fond iv music, but
Colonel House himself is the quiet
man. Faith av he danced Clog on
a Washbiler ye'd niver hear a sound.
well. wan night in August the
Colonel come tiptoein' in through the
basement dure.
Flows the game, Colonelr says
Wudthrow. $3.50. the Colonel says.
'Ye might round up few more votes,
says he, scratchin his ear wild an
absent air.
"'Aint l got the full dinner-pail's? 2
axes Wudthrow, anxious like. All
that's forgot the first two year and
a half says House pleasantly. 'Aint
/ KEEP EN- out o. warp axes Wudthrow.
Part o. tn time says House rubin
his left shin wild the felt-slipper on
his right foot. Amt my voice our
greatest liquid assetT axes Wilson
earnestly. It's some voice. says House,
but lot iv suckers can't tell asset
firm an li'bility, the Colonel says
Fwhat are We drivin' at, says
Wilson, four flushing little.
"'Arre We watchin' the striker says
House. Half millyun votes might
be useful says House. tiptoein' out
through the dure, an closin ut behind
him.
well, Sir, he left Wudthrow sunk
in profound miditashun. At last he
spakes. I hear he says. in low
sweet tone that vice Nv the people,
which is to me as the vice of Car
negie Penshun.' Oh he says thrill
lin in lvry nerve, must indade sacry-
fee wan more idol says he, on the
altar iv me Counthryi' says Wud-
throw.
WAS not the Wan Turn Plank he
says; AN the Sugar Tax, he says
an the Tariff for Rev'noo he says
an all me friends, beside says he,
sixteen per'tly good Mexican Policies
was not all thin enough?' he axes
in agony. But l will purge me Heart
iv ivry peRs'nal fought says he,
startin' for bed. An before he re-
tires, he takes Heart Purge iv his
own invinshun the way it IL wurk
while he sleeps. l dinnaw fwhat the
purge is. Ills a secret.
In the morn he was puzzled He
wanted great sacryfise of pur-
rinciple, dear to his heart. but he'd
used most iv thin already, an he felt
that this was no time for second hand
or slightly damaged sacrytises. So
he sends for House. Colonel says
he, 'Fwhat pur-rinciple d'yr think
wud be an acceptable sacryfise in this
great morel imargincy? he axes
anxiously.
Whisper says the Colonel And
he said wan wurd in Wudthrow's ear,
and faded silently away through the
dure.
For wan instant Wudthrow stud
spellbound Thin he burst into Il
whoop; The Ram in the Bushes,
cries he wild tears iv j'y.
"T'was an impressive ceremony
whin the sacryhse was solemny-ised
at the Capitol
1.-THE procession started f'om the
White House wild the Prisidint wallIin
ahead carryin' the Ram in wan hand
ana box Nv Safety-First matches in
tn other. He was followed by coon
bearin' four gold pans and behind
came four Union Chiefs ridin' on milk
white steeds followed be group iv
Railroad Prisidints, Stock Holders,
Farmers, Shippers and Consumers,
loaded wild chains. After short ser
mon to Congress on 'Purgin' the