People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — The Fry-Pan and the Fire. [ARTICLE]

The Fry-Pan and the Fire.

[The Other Side.] As an amused and yet disgusted student of political events, we see, with fancy's eye, a picture which we will try to describe: On the one side we see a brisk fire of coals labeled “republican fire,” and other side a fry-pan labeled “democratic fry-pan.” A fish is seen in the act of jumping out of the fry-pan. In the centre, between the fry-pan and the fire, is a pool of water labeled “Populist, cool water.” Beneath the picture is the inscription, “Will the fish have sense enough to flop into the water? As the Coining* Nation puts it. hard times. The Democrats got into power in 1884 as a result of the hard times” made by the Republicans. The Republicans got into power in 1888 as a result of the “hard times” made by the Democrats. The Democrats got into power in 1892 as a result of the “hard times” made by the Republicans. Are you going to vote the old ticket “just once more,” or find out the real cause of hard times?