People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — A Mistake. [ARTICLE]

A Mistake.

“Perhaps the populists would accomplish more if they would drop the gold bug for the present and devote their energies to the chinch bug.”— New York Press. There you are all wrong. The chinch bug works only in patches; and it does not touch the potatoes, or the cattle, or the pigs, or the chickens, or the horses; but the gold bug devours them all. And then everybody says, “Good!” if we kill the chinch bugs, but there would be a terrible uproar if we killed the gold bugs. And certain kinds of weather produce spores that fasten on the chinch bugs and destroy them by the millions; but there is nothing that seems to have any effect on the gold bugs—they are as salubrious as bed bugs and as procreative. If we put corrosive sublimate on a gold bug, the daily papers of the whole country would shriek as if we had„run a lancet into their vital parts; and the army and navy and the courts would all be put into operation to defend him. Chinch bugs, indeed! Why, they are quiet, pleasant and harmless little chaps compared with the gold bugs. If we could get clear of the gold bugs the chinch bugs would not bother us.— Representative. We now fear that it will require an X ray to find that silver party.,