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January, 1914.
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THE FOOL-KILLER
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Rates!
A Sermon to the Methodists.
The Methodist church of North
Carolina, in its little weak grunt
against the use of tobacco, re
minds me of a dog trying to bite1
ileas off the top of its head.
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ine price 01 single suDfcnpuoni to me uooi-Kiner is 25 centt a year,
ISm m tlllS State IS Virtnallvi hilt if vnn will irot ooiroral rtf vnnr frlonrl trn in wHi -crm on1 lond in a
club of five or more at one time, you can. all get the paper at 15 cents a
year. The Fool-Killer is creating great excitement wherever it Is intro
duced, and it now goes into every State in the Union. Join the army ol
club-raiiers. Do it 'now. Address:
THE FOOL-KILLER, MORAYIAJ FALLS, N. C.
IDIOTORIALS.
la Clubs of Five, 15c a Year.
The Taft smile these days
looks like a mquldy biscuit in a
basket full of dead cats.
built on tobacco. Trinity Cpl-
lege, at Durham, one of the most
.noted schools in the South, is a
gift from the Dukes and the
Carrs, who made their millions
out of tobacco, x And without
the fabulous gifts of these men,
the Methodist church -of North
This new "expanding cur-
rency works sorter like pulling
a sock-leg over a cow's head.
If Huerta and Villa were put
in a bag and shook, it's hard tell
ing which would come out first.
Which Way is the Wind Blowing?
Carolina would not be as ncn TTia TTnftl-TTilW ;e-n faithful
and puffed up with worldly thermometer by which I am able
pride and self-sufficiency as it to test the temper of the people.
is today. The paper has always been more
i
party and gone over to the Redem-
ocans in the last five years. But
those who have left the Redem
ocans and joined the Socialists are
When the Bull Elephant party
gets itself swallowed, reckon
which end of itself will be the
headend?
political wind blowing
1 was a Socialist for two years be
ore I knew it, and then it took me
acknowledge the fact: It does beat whlle they re sH?om -
the dickens what cowards we all
are, anyhow.
These 'backer millionairs were or-less Socialistic, but for a long I numbered by the tens of thousands.
-imart enough to see that in or- time I was afraid to make it as'
der to make their business re- Socialistic as j reall felt becauge
apectable they must get on the . , 17 '
good side of the church. They lt; was m onl dependence for
knew thac a few millions would bread and butter, and I had an idea
act like sealing-wax on the lips that my own radical and rebellious
of any good Methodist brother feelings put into print would kill
who might feel inclined to crit- the paper .
icize their business V But less goodness, I have
And so it did. They took all , ' , & ' , ...
the tobacco. money . they could learned experience that the
get and stood with outstretched very opposite is true. It turns out
hands asking for more. And that the sort of gab I feared
yU coulcln't tell but what to- would kill it is the very thing it
bacco using was one of the nee- f attens on .
vltibn It is a fact, of course, that
But'now a few members of Socialism and all radical views are
the Western North! Carolina unpopular among the plutes, and
Conference are getting kinder also among that class of wood-
sassy and threaten to kick up a en men who know nothing but to
little rucus over the use ot the dance wnen the plutes pull the
weed. The way . they try to go, g but I find that the great
at it, however, is like cutting . . .
out. a. foot or two of a cow's masses of the thinking common
tail up next to her body' and people are right with me. The
leaving the tassel end for her to more "radical and rebellious" I
fight flies with. They want to make the paper the faster they
compel their young preachers to rajjy to its support.
round the
Wonder why Taft goes ta
Washington every time he wants
I n rent mntJUAf A :x. J.1 .
Gentlemen, if "straws" count w -"
who have been at it
for fifteen or twenty vears can thinking is sweeping ar
jro on using it. A habit that world, and no power on earth can
they believe to be absolutely use- stop it. The toiling millions have
less and positively sinful is to at last discovered that empty prom
- be condemnea m one person ana j eg woll?t empty stomachs,
cwuuuea m axxut and they are4emanding a change of
In other words, they contend - s J.
thiLt blank under certain condi- diet- That s they are droP"
tions is white, and that nastiness ping away from the oldparties like
of long standing purifies itself, rats from a sinking ship, and the
But there is not a word said oniy life-boat in sisrht is Socialism.
about deeding Trinity College on that not
bak to the Dukes tor a cigar
ette factory and making the one true Socialist has deserted his
Methodist church Doorer but
Have you sent in your appli
cation yet for a regional reserve
bank? Better take one or two
The reason they ain't got any
And perhaps the same fear that Ii ,r,- ",tr-
xu-ui eJL'Atbe president is mean enough to
furnish all the ' 'vice' that's
needed.
held me back is holding thousands
of others they are afraid the few
little crumbs that the bosses now
allow them'to pick up will be with
held if they show any signs of
wanting' the whole " loaf. That's
how the bosses have managed to
keep their slaves in subjection so
long.
Really, ithasinever been my in
tention to make The Fool-Killer a
strictly political paper. I am out
after the scalps of all the fools,
rascals and hypocrites in society,
Church and State. But since a large
The House of Morgan must be
expecting something to ''drap, ' '
judging by the way they are
4 'getting from under. ' ' But
there's a mighty little hope that
it will be the cost of living.
And so they are going to make
the currercy "contract and ex
pand," are they? Well I do say!
I never had any trouble getting
per cent of my targets are in pol- mine to "contract," but the "ex-
itics, I find it necessary to wade panding wheel seems to be
iu after 'em. : loose on the shaft.
Yes, boys, I've got sereral
to ttus-nere journalistic QQQD NEWS
,i - 'r.. i 4. Dear Friends: Maybe
to saw on the political string ,;u . .
i
all the time. But whenevr I do hit
it a swarp there's going to be
some music, and I sorter guess
most of it will be in the Socialistic
key.
1 1
cleaner. Shucks! . The whole
thing is a screaming farce, and
111 bet the devil laughs at it
till his belly hurts.
The Democrats have given the
people a currency system that
promises to be the despair of
the Republican party, ' ' says the
Charlotte Observer. Tes, "I have
noticed that the Democrats are
great hands at giving folks "de
spair. ' ' If you remember, back
yonder in the-.days of Grover
the Republicans and everybody
else had more "despair'.' than
they knew what to do with. It
beats .the dickens that the Dem
ocrats can't deliver anything
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