Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1902 — Fooling With the Machine. [ARTICLE]

Fooling With the Machine.

In an Indiana printing office says the Delphi Journal; stands one of the old-fashioned “cutter” an affair operated with the foot. Upon it appears on faded yellow paper, the following inscription, pasted there many years ago by a foreman who knew how to write a warning: ' "Persona having too many fingers are respectfully invited to fool with this machine.” That sign would be a good one, if modified a bit, to hang upon Democratic leadership: “Merchants having too business; wage earners receiving too much pay; farmers receiving prices too high for what they bave to selh are respectfully invited to fool with this machine.” It will take no argument to convince the merchant, the wageearner, the farmer, that this sign tells the truth. They fooled with the machine in 1892, and they chopped the end off of business, prices and wages. If any of them want that to happen again, there is a way to bring it about. Fool with the machine again —it will do the rest.