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ooococo Sol. Flints - : ; .,:;i;etter oocoooooooooooooooooooooco Wild Horse Prairie. Texas, - June IS, 1907. Dear Editor of Yellow Jacket: Just for once I desire to 'express my self freely and unreservedly. Eire to let It fly off-hand like it occurs to me. I propose I de- bust as to say just what I dadgum -please, aid you can do just as you dadgum please about publishing what I say I've jTiade a lot of these Democrats iround here as mad as blue blazes, and I want to make 'em still j madder. I don t give a wnoop in Hades If they get so tarnation mad that they'll come in droves to hunt me up. I can take a tin .horn and a toy pistol and make every Democrat in this neigh borhood think I'm a whole" army. I am just wanting 'em to-come at me. Not that I want to kill any 6f 'em, for I'm not good enough runner for that but I just want toget 'em all eoc on me so I can have a gc od ex cuse to tell 'em' of their low-down devilment. The remarks that I shall make in this communication are gen eral, and will fit a Moss Back, : don't care where he is hiding.! I maybe a litle scatering, but I am going to shell it down just as it pops into my mind. j j A Democrat is the twin brother of an ape. Wouldn't you call a fel low an ape who votes a certain way just because his-daddy did?, A Democrat will vote -agaii st his country, his own home,, and h s own wife and children. Every howling Demmy who voted for Cleveland and soup and who still contends that that was right, is a mortal tht.t God Almighty wouldn't Jet come within a million miles of the pearly j gate. Even the devil has to spike down everything in Hades when a fresh crew of such fellows arrive frcm the earth. They are so hungry fir. pie that they go to devouring his brim stone, j ; -' A few Democrats voted for Roose velt last time, put they sneaked. around like sheep-killing dogs to do it. I do not lefer to the. thousands of Democrats who cussed out the Democratic party and left it for! good, for these were sensible men. i refer to the fellows who voted the Repub lican ticket and then denied it J; The" Democratic party has two dis tinct principles that I want 'to speak of lying and stealing, jit will lie on the Republicans and steal votes to substantiate its lying. The Democrats talk of the glori ous old party. Yes, she's jgloriDus a glorious humbug, deceiver, and hard-time bringer. , . . Darwin was a scientist wb.3 be lieved in evolution. I wish he could have been induced to pass his judge ment on the Democratic larty. No doubt, he would have c ased the Bryan Democrats as- a resur rected tail-end of nothing, the refusal of creation, and ja parody on the monkey. But a great i man like Mr. Darwin could not afford to waste his precious time cataloguing an insignificant thing like a Demo crat. ,. I know a fellow who says that he would. vote the Democratic ticket if Cleveland was to be nominated again. -This same fellow j wasj in dicted for stealing a hog during the Cleveland times, and escaped the penitentiary by telling the 'court that his wife and children were starving and he stole the hog to keep from dying of starvation.! them To thunder with your! tariff ? re duction argument. It smells of those times in which Coxey marched - his army of tramps to " Washington. The man" who wants to trade off our present prosperity for a job lot of Coxey army, supplies and other -Democratic starvation hard-Jtack, .could eat a stewed polecat and never make a wry face. I You must remember that Democrats cussed the the Gold Stan dard a few years ago as a Plutocrat ic Robbing Machine and a- Republic an Hold-Up Scheme, now i they say sbes all right. Inconsistency, "hide thy shamed face. j The Democrats have covered' up more of their thievery and Other devilment by hollering "nigger" than. by any other means. Theyve lied on the Republicans relative to the ne- sro, and then turned around stole every negro vote they coul tneir bands on. !"-' T- . . " : r-rosperity seems to nave a pecu liar effect on most "Democrats It gives them the political Jim jams'and sets them to scheming how tof get in and munch some of the feood taings that are spread on the! i Re publican festive board. A Democratic love feast j Is a as- sembly of run-down-Democratic poli ticians who eat great stacks of die in their dreams. ; : j I considder it a Door vrav to pure the Democratic belly ache to bel con- stantly pratling about the virtu' s of. i nomas Jeffersom- When people can all he le think soberly the Democratic "will last about as long as a tttan would last in nurtratorv. , This is the Democratic party - nut shell: Cuss the Republicans! in power, and damn the country. How would yon like to read; a ful history of the Democratic party? I hardly think-the aggregation wait It written. It would read like the sto-i ry of Jack the Giant KUler, or Cer vantes account of the ; exploftk of on Quixote. The man who votes the Demjccrat- ic ticket must take his medlchie- is he must be lambasted- for bis to Ttarty stow-7 1 . 1 m a IN bnH-hcadedness. VBut the trouble fsv u win go nome and take bia spite ouo his helpless wife and children. The Democrats ars always talking of high taxes and wanting -. Free Trade. If they will quit drinking red Ilkker they will knock' out the $1.20 per gallon5 tax that the government makes 'em nay for their fiamnaipn thunder. The average Democrat Is a Knock er, a Kicker, and a Calimity-Howler. He's the same in hard times " and in good times. Should a Demmy hap- pen to sneak by Saint Peter at the gate he wouldn't be in heaven ten minutes until he would register a kick against tho Lord for the way ne is running tilings. When you meet a. man vho is op- posed to prosperity and progression just set him down as a Democrat. This" he said, changing jaws with When you hear a man talking a big quid of homemade tobacco, about black Republicanism, smell of taking his seat and propping his feet him and you'll find', the scent oh his upon the editor's table, own -clothes, and you'll find him a "I'm very busy this morning," re Democrat. ! " . - sponded the editor. "J'm right in When you hear a man say that the middle of an editorial treating country is going to the devil, set him on the reorganization of the Demo down as a Democrat. and write after cratic party, and I have but little his name: One of Satan's agents. When you find a 1 man talking about rich people robbing ehe poor and howling about the government blowing in so much money building war ships, just catalogue him a Democrat. The Democratic "party has been that force that has dragged many a man to the gutter and turned his wife and litle ones into the street. It has robbed many a home of that halo of happiness which is the birthright of every - individual born beneath Freedom's Flag. Old Glory has. thirteen stripes and forty-five stars; but not a one of them was put there by the Democratic party. f ' '' : Go down to he corner grocery and you will hear some old sguint' eyed, razzle-dazzled Democrat saying, "Fellers, this yer prosperity is not goin' to last alius. It. wud hev ben the same if the Democrats had ben in." Look on his shirt-front and you'll see the effect of a "chaw" of terbakker that he 'has begged to nerve him up to the talking point.. Don't forget that the Democrats and Socialists are about one and the same. : About the only difference is that the Democrat is old and experi enced in devilment while the Social ists have just cut their meanness teeth. A Democrat stepped .up to me the other day and said, "You're from the North aint you, Mr. Flint?" "Why do you ask?" I made response. "Be cause most. Republicans come from the North," he replied. I felt like slapping his jaws for him, but. I remembered what he would do when he got home to his wife and childre: so l desisted. "l am -rrom joj County Georgia," I .told him in as gruff a voice as I could. It's a fact thes5 Southern Demo crats look upon Republicans as be ing what they call "a blue-bellied Yankee." If this letter is published, I'll write again in next issue and tell why I am a Republican, l ve a ousnei or reasons for my politics and I'd like to throw 'em into the .faces of every Democrat that reads the Yellow Jacket. Mr. Editor I hope you will pardon me for being so plain, but it's my style. f Yours- truly, " - SOLOMON FLINT. 4 I "CUT IT OUT!" A story has been going the rounds of the Democratic press that - Presi dent Roosevelt was opposed to any one speaking but himself at the Jamestown Exposition on Georgia Day. He is said to have put forth ev ery effort to curtail the hot air of dis- tinguished Georgians. Whenever a speaker was announced the President would cry: Cut it out!" or "Cut it short!" The result was the sched uled orators were' silent under the Gatling gun fired from Roosevelt, and their orations, were not unloaded. Governor J. M. Terrell has come out in a published statement that the whole report is a. fabrication from start to finish; that it is a newspaper moon-calf pure and simple. He goes oh to say that the President did not interfere In the least with the pro gram, . and at' no' time did 1 he utter a word or show any. Inclination to do so, touching any parf or any feature of the arrangements. This shows again how the people are often imposed upon by: the hun gry news Sharks; of a goodly number Of our secular newspaper. It will be so that the public will not give cred ence to any dispatch seen in the pa pers until it is verified.' Many insig nificant events are touched up by en- tbruastic reporters in such a way as to make them read like startling hap penings. A thunder storm Is conver ted into a cyclone. -Hall as big as bullets become veritable chunks of ice if ailing from the heavens. A de railed train grows into a horrible wreck In which "hundreds lost their lives. Words and phrases are put into public addresses to make them catchy. In fact, our ; public news gatherers are growing-Into colossal exaggerators, ; and facts and , figures are so changed and twisted that they become unrocognlzablGL - The fabrication. toochlnsr th Pres idents conduct on Georgia Day . at Jamestown may. havb been "circulated j piarposely, if so, It hurt r Ore- Demo crats worse i;han It did Mr. Jtooseveit- The ' Democrats may say that , they J had nothing to; do -wfth ft. r hut xor jrure many leadig papers, of -the Dem ocratlc -P3PCSS tdo& delight in gpreal ins th Tiase iaisrepresentatton, 'I I . ; TJIFl DBMOCBAtlOL EDITOR.! It was on the morning .of the day before publication day, and every thing waa moving lively "around the little country print-shop, r: An 'old farmer dropped in-to place a load of stove-wood on - his subscription. . "How are ye, Mister Editor?" in- hands and depositing his ox-whip right athwart the editor's editorial copy, . 441 jest 'thought I'd drap in on ye an' see now ye was gittin' along an' ask ye 'bout lettin'er load of wood thet I hev out here go on what I'm owin' of ye. Ye might tell me any news thet . ye, may , happen to know afore we trade." time to talk. But IH take your wood and set it dov,rn to your credit on my books. You may unload it at the usual place." "But afore I go," put in the old man, "what did ye say ye was do'in'? Writin' an article on the reorgani zation of the Democratic party, eh?" "That's .what I said," answered the editor, appearing unconcerned. "Ha! ha!" ejaculated the old fel low. "Yes, I'm writing an article treat ing along reorganization lines. I suppose you read my editorial in last week's paper giviig the radicals hell on the 'robber -tariff'? Well, I got a number of compliments on that article, and I thought I'd do my best on this one, and make the old moss backs come a-tumbling. I'm getting enough of this lukewarm Democrat cy." - "Wall, yas," said the old man, taking off his hat and scratching his head, "1 read it, but didn't jest exact ly understand a few things ye put in hit. Ye write so highfaiutin like. I believe ye said thet the tariff was the worst enemy that the farmin' class of people ever had; said it made 'em pay more for nails an' plows an' pitchforks an' the like, an' get less fer what they sold. Ye said it made one class rich an' another poor. But I don't jest agree with ye, altho I'm a Democrat, died in the wool an' double hem-stitched." "That's it,", frowned the pencil pusher. "The very people that the tariff robs are blind to the robbery. I meant the article for you fellows, buto e too blind to see the trth Jr-nr 1 rrLr V r-m 1VT icfor Ti,r i for said the old farmer rather lustily, taking a fresh chew of homespun twist and expectorating in the paste pot, mistaking it for a spittoon, "I've been takin' yer paper, ever since ye was at the head of it, an'" long afore thet. "I've alius voted the Demo tic ticket as straight as I knowed how, but somehow, here right of lat3 yeafs, I've kinder soured on its teach ings. Ye say thet 'tariff i3 robbery.' Well, I'll be eonsamed if I can see hit thet .way. I voted fer Cleveland with the understandin' thet we was goin' to hey free-trade, an' we had er. Ye know we had awful hard times them years. Why I'm the biggest liar in seven states if I didn't git so poor thet my backbone come near growin' to my belly band: I jest couldn't sell nuthin'. An' whenI went to buy, I'll be geewhitiker if I didn't hev to pay jest as much as I always paid. So I come to the conclusion thet there wasn't anything in free-trade but starvation. I may hot liev any. tariff lice on me, but I'm ticklish as thunder on free-trade." "There you go," spurted the editor, kicking the paste pot out of his way and looking at his watch; "you old moss - back Democrats need reorgan- izing. You couldn't raise a Demo- cratic yell to,save your lives. You've gone, clear back on the party and its teachings. We editors and the lead ers are doing everything In our pow er to bring you fellows back to your senses, but you are as contrary as a -yoke of hot steers. - We've been banking on you as the backbone and sinew of the party. You've forsak en us and gone off after false gods." This . he said, taking up his pencil as if to resume writing. The old fellow sat for several minutes look out the window meditating. wall," ne saia presently, "its a meat an, bread question with us fel lows thet ye've been bankin' on. We don't hope to git any- office or any thing out of politics. We jest want to-make a good livin', thefs all. We supported Cleveland because he was a Democrat, an' then come along Bryan an' we supported him. We've supported everything the Democrats hev ever trotted ont, hut we're get tin' dadgastod tired of hit. I want to tell ye. Mister Editor, an' I hope ye want get mad. I believe the Re puWicansdo more fer us than we've ever done fer ourselves. Thet may sound funny fer a Democrat to say, but I say hit rT trn iwav " cf1 fh 1if somewhat nettled, and getting tfp and walking the floor, "such talk as that is what is ruining, us. There's that fellow Graves who said, ne thought Bryan ought to nominate Roosevelt 'for re-election pn the Dem ocratic ticBn' ue-ti year. There's Hearst -gone Jack a us. The party Is split into as many fraction as we have leaders. .It is becsase you old- far- mers are . hoodwlnlied ' and bumf ug Sled." - : " ' . " ' -Ye are right." said the old cod-' gep, do say funny . things. It may not he omid IJenaroexirey, hat:.it is the kind thet us fellows arej goin' 1 to stand up fer in the future. - "Of course, If you old standbys are "- ... . . v . . I 1 n 1- t jVl .IT J, euiug uagu. uu ub, we nau.as. wen ais bahd our party "organization.'' - "But," interfered the old fellow, "hasn't- Roosevelt made the best president thet we hev had since the Civil War? Hasn't he proven him self the friend of the people? -Hasn't he gone against some of the- high and mighty In his own party? Is he not the champion of the laboring man? Did he not fix them 'niggers' what shot up Brownsville? Didn't he -say thet big railroad man, Harri man, was an' 'undesirable citizen'? Are not times good now an' money plentiful? I can" sell anything . I bring to to wilt I hev to pay a little more fer whafl buy, but I git more fer what I sell." , . "Yes," said the editor, taking; his seat again and lighting a fresh che root, "I'll admit that Roosevelt has made a good president, and all that, but he's a Republican and an' enemy of the Democratic party. Besides, if we endorse him, we cut our own throats. The Democratic party has a right to some of the spoils. Here I've been preaching Democracy for. ten years and little emolument has come my way." Here the office cat came about his feet purring, and he gave it a kick and threw his fresh-lighted cheroot out the window. "Ye3," he went on ardently, "We are going to reorganize and if you old moss backs don't want to come in, you can stay out. We're going to win next time, and some of you will wish that you had staid with us. The new organization is going to rafse all manner of cane with the Republicans. We're going to lam bast .'em on the tariff, give 'em parti cular thunder on plutocracy, and swat 'em like the devil with our in itative and referendum'." - "Ye may reorganize' responded the old farmer, as he picked up his whip to go, "but ye'll never pull the wool over the eyes of the people agin. Them times under Cleveland killed the Democrat party deader 'an a door nail. I've been watchin' these fellows who want to reorganize. They are ofllce-seekers an' pie hunt ers. Old fellows like me are not carin' a continental durh whether the Democratic party ever gits in power agin er not, so long as we hev good times an' can sell everything we make. I'll" go on now an' flop this wood off an' go home, an I've got to plow in a new ground after I git thar, an' ' I'd advise ye not to come in thet direction while I'm messin' with thet new ground, er ye'll not be able to help reorganize the The old residenter here strode out ,, pothe editor's sanctum, and left the editor to his thoughts. But he could not collect them to save him. , Too much truth had fallen like a dull thud -on hi3 ears that morning. In his heart he was with the old man. but through his paper he must Jbe a reorganizer of the glorious old Demo cratic party. Ye gods, what some Deocle will stoop to for a little loaves and fishes. BE PROUD. Are you a Republican? Then be pround of your party-s record. Let us enumerate what it has done: The country was. in bankruptcy In 1897 it asked the Republican party to get.it. out of the hole; the Repub licans got it out- " The country wanted sound mon ey; it asked the Republicans to give the nation a sound financial basis; the Republicans brought it about. The people wanted to - see smoke curling from the smokestacks of fur naces and machine shops; they ask ed the Republicans to start, the "thing to going; the Republicans started It. Laboring people -wanted employ ment; they asked the Republicans to bring about a condition that vrould give them something to do to keep the wolf from the door; the Repub licans did it. The manufacturers wanted pro tection on their goods; they asked the Republicans to give them pro tection; the Republicans did it. The people wanted a pure-food law; they asked the Republicans to enact one; the Republicans did it. The people wanted the railroads regulated; they asked the Republi cans to regulate them;- the Republi cans did it. The Nation wanted the confidence of every other nation, and asked the Republicans to make the Stars and Stripes an emblem of Freedom wher ever the sun shone; the Republicans did it. .Now in the light of history, in the face of prosperity, in the time of plenty, where is that Republican who is not proud that he is a Republican? Be proud! In the old Roman em pire it was an honor to fight under the imperial eagles of the Caesars. In this new American Republic it is an hdnor to fight under the exalted baimer of Republicanism. '- Republicanism has a glorious ry. You can point to its past d to its present wun a glowing pride. ' If you are a Republican, you-have A not anything to be ashamed of. You are the salt of the earthr the fairest amid ten thousand! , '.. :- It would really be a national calam ity for Japan to swoop down, npon tjs I and wipe tne cartn up . wun us just because a few San" Francisco hood lums need thirty days -in jalL Say, little brown" people, you'd: better give votirscivei running room when you take a sore - enough fall out vftth Un- cle'SanmeL -He. is a. modest.. old sren- flmn. but as" foxy as , - Qld Kick -when you once get hisu dander up." THE BEaLHART COLONY. ! A fellow hy the name of Jacob Beilhart is running a Free Love "pas- pasture at ingiesiae, :; iu,, ? ana tnero k. a. a. . r r. Jt r . and women- who believe in the per nicious lunacy. iere"are a tew or 4- x a "i rt i i nlatform: "MftrrlaR mla thfl inva of courtship. Any marriage which gives possession is a curse. It i3 lawful to desire to be happy. But to set-a standard of eroodnesa and moral- To redeem man means to destroy his ' soul. Soul is the only sinner. The soul has within it. the ingredi ents or self destruction. It must t-jti nnI T nf V. . 1 1 , . w 4d.uufO.AXX. J. vxxxx l ail 5,UUU 13 Hell all evil is Heaven. . Satan is right. God is wrong!" - Now if this blatherskite hasn't reached the limit, then there 13 no limit. If he hasn't taken the plumb line of the devil and reached tho bottom, then the abyss is bottomless. We've read of tho horrors-of, devil worship and all that, but thought it .was confined to other lands, but this fellow Beilhart has brought it right into our midst and set it up within fify mile3 of the great city of Chicago. Devol Worship hath ever been a mystery to theologians. It was stamped out in London. It still thrives somewhat in some of the darkest holes of Paris. Its home is in India. The popular goddess of the sect is Kali, the goddess of blood and revelery. She wears a head dress of snakes, and a necklace con sisting of a chain of skulls. In her hand she holds a murderous lookins knife. Her feasts are generally lield at night. Great crouds gather around her most fearful image. The devotees walk round and round the Idol, bearing torches, beating drum3, and dancing in odd ways. Jacob Beilhart brags that he is go ing to build acolony up on the theory that all men and women are by na ture free like animals, and that any attempt to restrain them is but a ukase against the Creator. He is moral leper who 'is aiming at the very foundation of marriage and decency. He is an assassin aiming at the very heart of womanly virtue. The strong hand of the law has step ped in and put a stop to wholesale polygamy in Utah, but the very worst things the Mormons ever did were godly and virtuous compared with this new prophet's iniquitous doc trine. The Indescribable evil that he will work is beyond calculation. The colony is rapidly filling up with faithful adherants mostly wo menwho are described as "sponta neous love cranks' ' They take a vow to hate marriage ties and detest the bonds of wedlock. It Is said that most of the women are - young a great many of them e.ducated and beautiful. They are not from among the 10,000 prostitutes or Chicago. 11 Xi Ulali' ttr.Wt i LXX4. u ,xxwj . cfcx t xx vxx4 virtuous homes. They voluntarily lay themselves. upon the altar, of last and call It Free Love. They exact .no price for their lewdness. They are happy to gratify their own bestial appetites even tho all woman kind sink down to helL They scorn legitimate offspring , and know no single individual as a husband. Of all the Free Love crazes this country has ever known, this takes the xiake. It is an : exaggeration of anything the Socialists have ever claimed. It is always thus. Let a thing be claimed, and somebody will com along and overdo it. If there i any law in - Illinois by which the colony can he- suppressed, it ought to be done forthwith. If there is no such a law, the legislature . ought to call a special session and get busyv It is a shame on the state of Illinois to have such carrying on within her borders. It is a blow at the virtu of American womanhood. - -.-;v- ,; ; -i- ' THE YELLOW JACKET'S 1 PLATFORM. The YeIIOw Jacket offers the fo! Iow n-g ss its plaifearnv editor occupies every inch of floor-space oa itr : - ' ' ':. 1 ' - V It has no ax to grind It does not run fake advertise ments. -It says whatv it thinks to be true. It does not drfnk froth from tho swill tub of public opfnion.' It does not mince words- straddle I issues or speak: In parables, v It stays at home and does its own knitting. ' - . . 1 1 moulds Its own bullets, cuts the patching and does-Jts ovin shooting. it don t allow tne rasixsn lan guage, o r s c: enc e of grammar, nor the higher critics to get in Us way when it wants t5 say a-truth. . . It does not crawl in a - hole to talk or hide' its face from'the enemy. It caught its inspiration from the eternal mountains, "and it proposes to stay, in that altitude of purity -i - wnere.it was corn. 1 It is the champion of the Repub lican party and had rather see the toiliHg. masses Happy and contented than to feast on the manna of kings. If the -Yellow Jacket suits you, take it a. year and try it; if you do -not Uke.it, take it anyhow, for you'll learn to like it. It's ; our mission t . bring Democrats, Socialists and Pop ulists to' their, knees in a hurry. The big campaign of 1908 is Just now be ginning: It will be the hottest in; the history of the- country. - Ail the com- bined forces of Democracy, Populism- and - SociaKsin wHl. be pitched v against the G. O." P. If you miss an issued you'll mass a lot of fan. The Republicans have their rigging trim med and their sails set for a cruise v country. ': - . r ... "A.v.r- v? -I?..
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