Iuka Reporter

Sam Jones on Populists.

The third party, or party of the third part, or whatever you may call it, may get to heaven but they'll never get to Washington. It's not on the way. Washington is the wickedest place on earth. It is the home of the devil.

The average democrat and republican politicians are little better than rascals, but the third party man is a fool. You can reform a rascal, but did you ever monkey with a fool? They want to borrow money from the government at 2 per cent. when the government is now borrowing money at 5. We hear a great deal of fool talk about the rich man getting richer and the poor poorer under our present laws. There is nothing the matter with the laws. It's the man that's at fault. There's a lawyer on that side of the house that makes $20,000 a year. Here's a little pettifogger whose family is starving. The law is not to blame. Here is a physician making $10,000. There is a little doctor on the other corner who can't make his salt. The law is not to blame. I preach nearly every day to 800 people, and there's a little preacher sitting behind me that can't average over 200. The trouble is not in the law, brother, it's in your noggin. If all the wealth of the United States were divided out to-day, it wouldn't be six months before some folks would be riding in palace cars and others would be walking cross ties and howling for another division.