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VOL. II
MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C, APRIL, 1897.
NO. 11
. THE YELLOW-JACKET.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
15 CENTS PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
E. DON LAWS,
EDITOR.
J8NTURBD AT MORAVIAN" FALLS, N. C.
AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER.
When your paper is cross
marked it means your sub-
scnption is out, and, tha
juu win icuui v jufj mure p
pers, unless you renew.
-And Wm. J. Bryan has wr'
a book.
Some of the Democrats are (dis)
cussing the Dingly Tariff Bill.
Japan has adopted the gold
standard at a ratio of 32 to 1.
It is said that Cleveland carries
his bait in a jug when he goes
fishing.
To hades with the so-called Civ
i? Service law. Them's our, sentiments.
The fellow who Avants a feast' of
dry thistles has only to "jine"
the Democratic party.
It is now in order for the Dem
ocrats to tighten their belly-bands
and go to making faces at the Republicans.
Yes, boys, the Dems failed, and
judging by the course they took,
they are thoroughly qualified to
keep on doing so.
What the Democratic party
needs most is fumigation and sev
eral million tracts containing the
story of the prodigal son and the
Lord's prayer.
It is claimed that President Mc-
has an ambition to add the
of Hawaii and Cuba to the
union jack before he gets through
with the White House.
lis
The funniest thing about the
situation in North Carolina is
that the Butler croud have read
the Pritchard croud out of the
party for doing the same thing
the Butler croud did two years ago.
Don't get scared about the Ding
ly Tariff bill. It's all rieht. Bill
Wilson, the author of the ''tariff
tor deficits measure -that sent
this country almost to the devil,
denounces the Dingly bill as a very
bad law. No higher tribute than
this could be paid the new tariff
bill.
Ve want agents everywhere to
take subscriptions to the Yellow-
Jacket. There's money in it for
you, boys. We. propose to make
the Ykllow-Jack jet cover the en
tire field and several acres of th
ocean,Jthi5 summer.
stamp tcwiftycTgentB' outnTanit
go to workr
Poor old wind-broken Democrat
ic party. It is sick nigh unto death.
The places that know it now will
soon know it no more forever. It
has already puked itself into
spasms over a dose of free silver,
and only a little while and it will
be denied free wool to pull over
the peoples' eyes. Such is life.
Selah.
Some job printers boast that
they do job work at starvation
prices and. they do. They starve
the poor fellow who has the work
done. But just send your job
work to the Yellow-Jacket job
office and you'll soon save enough
money to buy 3rou a kicking ma
chine to use on your-self for ever
paying other printers such high
prices for work.
' The fact that Grover hired a
substitute to do his fighting in the
war isn't at variance with his
course in employing a body-guard
to watch him at the White House,
lest some fool might blow His Fat
ness into smithereans. It is also
very natural for Maj. McKiriley
to send these thugs and watchmen
home, because, being a man in
sympathy with the great mass of
common people, he doesn't fear
assassination.
The free silver Democrats and
pewter Populists claim that times
are growing harder and business
duller every day. But the fact
that there are more'peopleworking
for wages in the U . S. to-day than
at any time for three years past,
rather knocks out this claim. In
the state of Pennsylvania alone
there are one hundred thousand
more people at work now than
there were six months ago. But
if you mention such as this to one
of those limber-jack calamity
howling fellows, he will at once
rise up on his hind legs, point his
finger at'you and squall : Hanna ;
Hannal
The Democratic editor down in
eorgia who offers his paper for
ne year to the person who brings
he first load of water melons to
is office, has perhaps conceived
the idea that he can run a wind
mill with water.
It begins to look now like Wm.
McKinley will be one of the most
popular public officials that ever
dwelt within -the District of Col
umbia. The doors of the White
House, have been swinging ten
hours a day since he has occupied
the mansion. The new president
walks the streets, stops and talks
with any friends he may chance
to meet, and manifests every ev
idence that he is a man of the peo
ple and for them, too. But you
needn 't expect to see any reference
to these "peculiarities" of the new
president in the Democratic papers
As time rolls on the more glar
ing is the hypocracy ,-tof the so
called free silver Democrats, .With
possibly two or three exception's,
every one of the 122 Democrats in
the House of the present Congress
were elected as free silver .Demo
crats. But when these Democrats
met in caucus last month to nom
inate a candidate for Speaker, did
they nominate a veteran free silver
man? Not much, they didn't.
There was Bland, who had worn
himself gray in the cause of silver,
and who merited the honor, but
got it where the chicken got the
ax. You ask then, who was the
choice of those "new and purified"
Wm. J. Bryan -free-silver Demo-,
cratfij. Why, bless your life, " It .
was a young man named Baily
fromlTexas, who is a gold stand-
ard Democrat and who opposed '
the. election of Bryan. Now, you;
free silver Democrats, arnvt you
proud of this record of your party?
Now arn't you? You are getting;"
there at a lively rate. Jest keep
on yelling for Bryan and 16 to. 1
arid the victory will soon be yqui: -
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