Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — "The Fool’s Revenge." [ARTICLE]

"The Fool’s Revenge."

THE) FABLE. There was once a man who climbed a tree, and had in hiH hand a saw. And while he was in the tree his enemy came beneath it and lay down to'sleep in the shade. And the man said to himself: “Behold, iny enehry is, asleep and in thy power! I will avenge myself niioii him by sawing off a limb of this tree and allowing it to fall upon him and crush him,’’ And asbti said he •did: but he sat upon thd limb, and when it fell k* fell with It, and was grievous- .... — i: ‘ i ' . ~ '

ly injured. | But the sleeping man was not injured. THE MORAL. There was once a farmer who went in debt to a banker. V And values declined and money became scarce, and he said: “I will have a law passed making my debt payable in cheap money, and thus I will be avenged upon this Gold Bug.” And as he sai<l lie did. But when debts had been made payable in cheap money he received only cheap money for the products of liis farm, and he was required to pay double the amount of cheap money for his necessities; and the Gold Bug foreclosed the debt and was not injured, but the farmer was ruined! And this is the story of “The Fool's Revenge/* _ .