People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — A Wonperful Dream. [ARTICLE]

A Wonperful Dream.

We read in the scripture about dreams and their interpretation, and as I had a rather peculiar one the other night, I will describe it, and leave the interpretation to your readers. In my dream I seemed to be present at a Mexican bull fight, and enclosed by a large arena was a magnificient bull, upon whose sides in large letters was printed, “The People.” Looking to one side of the arena I saw a man with a red flag bearing the words, “Protective Tariff,” and just across on the opposite side another with a similiar flag upon which was inscribed, “Free Trade.” In the centre hid behind a shield was a man dressed in yellow upon whose coat I read, “Gold Basis,” and who held in his hand a long sharp sword along whose blade was written, “Restricted Currency.” When the fight began the man waved the “Protective Tariff” flag and the bull charged it, but in passing “Gold Basis” he received a stab behind the shoulder from “Restricted Currency.” This made him, the bull mad and he tore up that tariff flag in great shape, until he happened to look across the arena and saw that “Free Trade” flag, again he charged but this time at “Free Trade,” only to receive another cut from that coward behind the shield. And so it con tinued the poor bull losing his life’s blood at every step, and I could but wish that he might smash that shield and pitch “Gold Basis” out of the arena. But what puzzled me most, and was the hardest to understand, was that the fool bull that ’twas “Free Trade” that was hurting him. E. A. Perkins. Goodland, Ind.