Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — CHESTNUTS IN RHYME. [ARTICLE]

CHESTNUTS IN RHYME.

Oh. wbat made the chimney sweep? And whv did the codfish ball? And wny.oh why,did the peanut stand? And what makes the evening call? Oh. why should the baby fam? And why does the mutton chop? Can you tell me what makes the elder ' blow? Or what makes the ginger pop? Say,why does the trundle-bed spring? And why doos the saddle horse fly ? Or what mean cur made t e. ll’owslip? And why do t e soap boilers lye? What made the monkey wrench? Or why should the old mill dam? And who did the shoemakers strike? Or Wuy did the raspberry jam? —New York St .r.

In a groiwe of the New York Club the other night Star Route Dorsey declared that three-ourths of the money contributed for? political purposes luring campaign excitement is stolen by the men in whose hands it is placed for various purposes. “It is a mistaken idea.” he he said, “that you can take a man to one side and give him money to be used illegitimately and expect any results from it. Scarcely one man in a thousand is proof against the temptation of putting the money in is pocket. The only way in which mcney can be ma le effective in a campaign is oy the township canvass, in which sev<cral men are interested, each one be* ing given a portion of the township for which he is made responsible, and the money for his work placed in his hands in the presence of all the ochots. In such cases each man becomes a check on the other. Each man knows what the otht-r is expected to do and the work is pretty sure to be done.”

Star-Route Dorsey is undoubtedly correct. Men who furnish mone- for illigitimate uses, deserve to lose it: while those who accept to employ it in that direction, while no worse than those who supply the funds, are none too good to steal. Frequently money is applied to illigitimate us>-8, and legitimate work is unrecompensed We trust the election laws will soon be so perfected that tho improper use of money will prove dangerous business to eu ih as may engage in it.