The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-24
TERRY O'T0OTLE SAYS
THAT SAME STICK
TARRED ALL ALIKE
By George Howard Wyatt)

youse, an how ARE youSe iuiein over
the proposed investigashun av the high
cost av livin' by the guvnor av this
great an glorious state?" was the
somewhat lengthy question with which
Terry O'Toole greeted his old friend
the contractorr, as he drifted into that
genteman's office day or so ago.
kicked the office cat, smiled at the
stenographer and selected the easiest
chair for his own personal use.
"Sure.re, an youse are after teliln
til me that youse don't think whoie
lot ay ut an that youse don't think
ut will amount to a hill av beans via
that blossums picked off, is ut?
well, if thot's the opinion youse
are afther intertainin' Oi aLp not pit
surprised whin 90 rade thot proices
ARE afther remainin' on the roof,
whole the ilivathur in which the IN
vestigashun committy Is a'ridin' re-
names in the cellar.
Faith, an the mon whut writ the
worruds, as ye SOW, so shall ye rape.
handled his pencil wild greater knowi'
edge than he was afther thinkin' az
the tonne For youse. yoursil' satisfy
me thot as long as wan man DO pe
afther acuuirin' a competence, no mat
ter at phwat proices, he Is willin 10
let the public be domned to utsil wid
the diyil chasin' the Who'll caDoodie
an a catchin' up wild the hindermost'
Now, Misther McGonical. me pye'
let me ask youse, mon til mon, now
the divil an Thomas Columbus Walker
do youse think the profiteer class can
)pe made to stop Robin the co~sumin
10 acft ta1
av public opinion, If such min as your
sill stand still and say til thimsils, Am
Oi me brothers kaper? or 'Phwat
matthers ut thot youse ARE caiieu
upon to pay DOODLE for the needses-
sites av loife as long as the "aiis
phvct ARE a.makin' their wad out
av Ne high cost av livin' scatther
few crumbs in me own giniral direc-
ton, enabln' me thereby to pix up
contract now an agin?
"Sur.re Misther McGonigai' were
things loke they wer-re IN the soou
ould days whin yoursiP ana mesh
were carryin' the hods an iaylh N
the brick an earnin' three aoiiarS
worth av sweat. .swatened bread Nery
day. youse ARE the wan what wouio
be afther putin up the most money
menthal kick av the whole boonch'
"But as ut is, ut sames thot youse
ARE continted to safe yoursil III tho'
aisy chair an to turn on the lliict'iN
fan on youse' an twiddle the thoonp
nv vouse and smoile in the luKkii
glass at the phiz av youse an say
agin. "the pooblic be doomed
Nov. LUX here, Misther McGonlgal,
whin Oi last called on youse Oi to'u
IN vouse ay some av the shoppin' IN
axneriences av mesil' an all Oh got
out av ut was the statement thot the
nackthers was arobbin' the widdys
an, orphins an the fathers who was
tbrvin' to akecout a livin', widout De
In, oomnelled to shuffel off av the col
\, human indurance, thereby laveln
kome more widdys. Thot, an ,ne
y statement thot the wage interrosiia'
shun mark was the ruination aV lie
country. IN
AN Oi say til youse today, as 70
said til youse on thot day, thot 'iie
packthers have many sins 10 answer
for but the ratalers av mates nave
NANNY more. An Oi say I'll youse
again. as Oi said til youse on tHo'
former tonne, thot whole the advances
in skilled labor may be a1ther oeii,
responsibul for q parrut aV the az
vancin av livin', OF don't see, nor Vi
can't see how an average Wase-ii
crease av less than SO per clint )ustiiies
. blanl<it raise av from wan huhureu
IN three hundred an fluffy per cliit'
So whin Oi LUX over me ould account
hook and take note av me ouid cana,
celed checks and learn thot vi was
afther payin' six dollars an four pils
for a pair ay shoen for mesll three
Years agone. aginst thirtane banes an
thirty cints today, Oi cant 1igure
out where the advancin' cost av lapor
hoe iustified the advancement av thirty
cints above the multiplied-by-twlce a'
tho ould price. An whin Oi consiuer
tbot eovernmint statistics show thot
tbere is more hoides in this country
,,oyy than there iver was before in
the histhory av it, since the tonne
George Washington an his bully byes,
in their ragged continentals marcheo
IN torn an bladein bare fate across
the SHOWS av Valley Forge, goin' bare
fut Mr. McGonigal, me bye. in orther
thot the lethur trust an the dalers
ginerally may say thot all thim co"s
An, all thin bulls an all thin fatted
ayalyeS tnOt was hiiieu W
Hoier byes, who wuz dyin' and piaoe-
in; and foightin' for the dimmycrats
av the worruld, thot all thin paVes'
me lad. had divil a skin to the wan a'
him an thot ut is on account av the
shortage ave hoides and the hlgh-
: ness ay labor thot we're payin' tor
the shoen for oursiP and for Bridget
an the childer.
"sure. an ut may be possibul that
the packthers dressed the baves "io
tho hoides on. Oi've ate av some aV
the bafe thot was tough enough 10
have the boots still left on ut; an Ut
NAV also be possibul thot they forgot
"a remove the accustix, same as they
forget to remove thin from chlXehs,
an olive ate av some bafe whicn hao
the taste av a long deceased an mourn
ed mummy av the days av Pharon'
I "But if thot's the EXPLANATION, thin
how the divil do we get any shoen at
all, at all? ,,,
/ "Wurra. wurra, Misther McGonigai'
M sames til me thot there surely must
he n gintlemin av dark an brunette
sk,n concealed somewhere in the gas
range. What wild the cost av labor
n,,ttin mate ON the hoof down an
shoes I'D, an wild the cost av labor
nu,tin' brooms up and barein the
narkut av broomcorn down an via
Rr,deet bringin' in the markut paskit
( an, the poxetbook both lighter on shop-
MIN DAYS. OF repate, me bye, thot Ut
AZ ,ook loike wan av the descendants
az Ham is roidin' benathe the coal