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The Commoner.
JUNE 9, 1S05
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We are law abiding people citizens
of these United States. We want only
that which is ours. Wo want only
the privilege to live and do for our
selves and our children, and without
having to take the bread out of our
babes' mouths and garments from off
their backs to pay tribute to those
species of animal creation who havo
no souls, who toil not noc do they
spin. Our trust is that your tongue
and pea will bo spared for. many
long years of useful service.
Frank B. Curtis, Patterson, La. I
gladly sign the enclosed primary
pledge. Have recently come here from
Missouri, but it will be effective in
spirit until such time as I can have
a vote. Regular participation made
primaries is as necessary to good gov
ernment as the correct 'bringing up
of children is necessary to form char
acter in the grown inan. The best
form of primary; is where 'each voter
casts a paper ballot for the various
candidates and not for delegates. We
nominated Governor Folk in Missouri
by winning the open primaries and
that campaign demonstrated that best
results are obtained when the largest
number of voters take part. In this
movement you are doing your best
work.
Robert M. Gibson, R. F. D No 4G,
Burgettstown, Pa. Enclosed find
pledge signed. I believe in doing
this. I am performing a duty which
I owe to this great country.
A. B. Goodwin, Lawyer., Carson City,
Mich. Enclosed find primary pledge.
I fully endorse the plan and believo
it will receive the support of those
democrats. who place principles above
party spbils.
H. C. Ray, Dayton, Ohio. Enclosed
find my primary pledge. I most heart
ily commend the plan and hope it
will be the means of putting the nomi
nations "back In the hands of the peo
ple. Each state should enact a pri
mary election law under the follow
ing plan: Nomination day- to be made
a legal holiday. The names of all
candidates of all parties to be printed
on the same ticket. The elector who
does not vote at the primaries can
not vote at the election and ho who
FEED YOU MONEY
Feed Your Brain, and it Will Feed
You Money and Fame
"Ever since boyhood I have been
especially fond of meats, and I am
convince I ate too rapidly, and failed
to masticate my food properly.
"The result was that I found myself
a few years ago, afflicted with ail
ments of the stomach and kidneys,
which interfered seriously with my
business.
"At last I took the advice of friends
and began to eat Grape-Nuts instead
of the heavy meats, etc., that had
constituted my former diet.
"I found that I was at once bene
fited by the change, that I was soon
relieved from the heart-burn and the
indigestion that used to follow my
meals, that the pains in my back from
my kidney affection had ceased, show
ing that those organs had been healed,
and that my nerves, which used to be
unsteady, and my brain, which" was
Blow and lethargic from a heavy diet
of meats and greasy foods, had, not
in a moment, but gradually," and none
the less surely, been restored to nor
mal efficiency. Now every nerve is
steady and my brain and thinking
faculties are quicker and more acute
than for years past.
"After my old -stylo breakfasts I
used to suffer during the forenoon
from a feeling of weakness which
hindered me seriously in my work, but
since I have begun to use Grape-Nuts
food I can work till dinner time with
all ease and comfort." Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Read the little book, "The Road to
Welville," in each pkg. '' . " '
fails to vote one yoAgjto be disfran
chised the following year. The ex
ponse of primaries to be borne by the
state.
Oscar T. English, Taylorsvlllo, Ky.
Please send to my address as above
one of your primary, pledge blanks,
as Juno 5 will bo county court day
hero and as there will bo democrats
from all over Spencer county here
on that day. I will circulate the blank
and see If I can hot secure a goodly
number of signatures in each of the
six precincts in this county to the
pledge and thereby form the "links"
by which we hopo to iorge a chain
that will help to hold "Littlo Spen
cer" more strongly in lino than ever.
Will If. Helm, RbodhouBe, 111. I
was forcibly impressed in 189G and
political events since have demonstrat
ed without further testimony that if
ever plutocratic government is de
throned it must bo done by the peo
ple at the primaries. Representative
government can only bo maintained
by the people Instructing those who
represent us.
J. A. 1'atterson, Moberly, Mo. I
think your plan a good one and if
you will send me a blank I can get you
several more. I am more than willing
to do anything to help the democratic
party, as I was born a democrat, and
am glad of it. You will find my blank
lined out.
J. Z. Higgs. Mano. Mo. Enclosed
please find three primary pledges
signed. I will ask you to send me
twenty blank pledges.
'V. E. Jewell, Piggott, Ark. Please
send me a copy of your primary pledge
I think I can get some signers as we
have true democrats in this county.
J. D. Kendall, Democratic Commit
teeman, Raymond, 111. Herewith
please find primary pledge signed.
"Back to the People" should be the
watch word of every loyal democrat.
I have been votincr the dfimnnrntip
ticket and since 18G0 and have never
missed an election since that date. I
believe The Commoner strikes the
keynote to success in 1908. Send me
some pledge blanks and I will send
a list of names.
Andrew Bruner, Le Roy, 111. I find
it no task whatever to sign the pri
mary pledge. Have been a supporter
of the principles which you advocate
since I have been a voter. With a
united party, standing upon a plat
form of principle, truth and right, we
shall be able to withstand the heaviest
artillery of our opponents. -Victory
will crown our efforts.
J. G. Wooffard. Rudv. Ark. fen-
clpsed find my pledge to attend all
primaries until next democratic na
tional convention. I think your plan
a good one. I know of several in my
precinct who did not attend prima
ries last year. I will do all I can to
get them out.
H. H. Hamilton, Berlin, Wis. It is
with pleasure I sign pledge as en
closed. Democrats must recognize
that to obtain true democratic princi
ples we must follow the motto that
"eternal vigilance is the price of lib
erty." Let the line be drawn and
first of all be honest with ourselves.
If that is done we will gain twenty
five votes where we lose one, is my
sincere belief. The rji jes are with
us if we are right, and are with them.
R. M. Parsons, Hydesville, Calif.
Tou will find enclosed the primary
pledge, which I am happy to sign.
Individually I have always considered
It my duty to attend the primaries
and have never failed to do so. I
heartily approve the plan, as tend
ing to arouse the people from the
apathy which I believe constitutes
the greatest danger to the future of
our country. Once arouse the mass
of the people to the diro need of
attending to political matters for
themselves, just as they attend to
other business and we need have little
fear of the ascendency of corporate
interests in our party councils. This
danger eliminated, the acquisition of
recruits from tho honest yocmon of
opposing parties will speedily follow,
K. L. Anderson, Goodhue, Minn.
Enclosed please find primary pledge.
In the futuro as in tho past it shall
bo my duty to attend the primaries.
Tho trust magnate outlines tho pri
maries for tho purposo of electing
delegates that aid him in his special
privileges that ho enjoys and help
him get as many moro as possible
If the people are going to get their
rights they must select such candi
dates as dro of the peoplo and will
belong to tho peoplo when elected
and leave no stono unturned that Is
placed In the path of justice. We can
havo just what wo waut In this coun
try by going after it In earnest. Tho
trusts have now got just what they
wore after. Get what they ought to
havo and what justly belongs to them.
GOOD BY
Good-by, proud world, I'm going homo;
Thou art not my friend, and I'm not
thine.
Long through thy weary crowds I
roam ;
A river-ark on tho ocean brine,
Long I've been tossed like the driven
foam,
But now, proud world, I'm going homo.
Good-by to Flattery's fawning face;
To Grandeur with his wise grimace;
To upstart Wealth's averted eye;
To supple Office, low and high;
To crowded halls, to court and street;
To frozen hearts and hasting feet;
To those Who go, and those who come;
Good-by, proud world! i.'m going
homo.
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I'm going to my own hearth stone,
Bosomed in yon green hills alone
A .secret nook in a pleasant land,
Whoso groves tho frolic fairies
"planned;
Whoro nrches green, tho llvolong day,
Echo tho blackbird's roundelay,
And vulgar feet havo never trod
A spot that in sacred to thdUglil and
God.
0, when I am safo in my sylvan homo,
I trend on tho prldo of Greece and
Roino;
And when I am stretched beneath tho
pines,
Whoro tho evening star so holy shines,
I laugh at tho loro and the pride ,o
man,
At the sophist schools and the learned
clan ;
For what ai'o they all, In thoir high
concolt,
When man In tlio bush with' 'God' may
meet!
Ralph Waldo Emcrflori.
ENTHUSIASTIC
At tho Players club they ore dis
cussing New Year's 'Wear offs,"
courses of exorclso and othoi' ex
cellent things which, though they give
a great fading of virtue and happi
ness, only last a short time.
"It was a bitter morning," said
Henry E. DIxoy. "The sky was gray.
A Hurry of snow fell now and then.
The wind was cold and dnmi ono
of those winds that penetrate you,
seeming to trlcklo llko Ice water
through the marrow of your bones.
"Shivering and blue. I plodded down
Fifth avenue. Suddenly a hand fell
on my shoulder. I looked up. It was
Blank, his coat unbuttoned, hls.faco
rosy, his eyes sparkling and clear.
" 'Hello,' he said. 'Fine, bracing
weather, isn't it? I an. 'feeling great.
Cold bath every morning.'
"'When did you begin?' said I.
"'This morning,' said Blank."
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