Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-09-12

NE GOES IuE THE ORANGES
lf-. Nasty Emiarls H Nar Enterprise
H LoCqtsS ig Illinois and IS Mfcm0rpho-
S,dHt0 q H0r9-Fi0,3 Farmr.
BEET SrAsuEv. (wich is in the State of
llin0y). Aug. -. l-73.-I hev left the Cor
nerS, temporarily, at least, Tor hey field
NV labor here, wich ez quite ez pleasant ez
that in my old home. am up here in the
anti-mon0p0lv business. ! am in llhnoy,
groanin over the burdens piled upon Us far
mers, and DAMN. with all the vehemence
that : into me. the mOnopolies that i Suckin
the lile-blo0d out Nv the honest labOrin
classes, and tryin - convince EN- that their
redempshun kin only be brot about by
abandonin TO wun~t the Infamous Republi-
kin party, wieh Is responsible for every evil
that's onto the country, from railrodes down
to the potato bug.
We hev at the StaShen noble coterie Nv
sympathsers with the hard-fsted yomanry
"A most gorge0usly sympathisin set ez ever
| see. and 50 afflicted are we at the troubles
wich the perdo0sers are labrin under, that
we hold meetins perpetooly in the room
back nv the bar Nv the jackson hotel, to
consider EN-.
The leedin speritamOng Us aside from me,
Is a veteran sympathizer with labor, wich
his name Is Pettus AbSlum Pettus wus
originally shoemaker, but early in life de-
velOped talent for h0ldin olis. lie wuz
elected sheriff NV the county, and the bench
wich knowed him wUnSt, immeiitiy knOwed
him no more forever. There wuz some diii-
Guilty about some ecolleckshuns wich he made,
wich wuz esteemed Of sufficient importance
to prevent his bein renOminated. and like
Nebuchadnezzar. he wuz turned out to the
thin grass Nv privit life for years, wich time
he spent prinsipally ornamentin corner gro
ceries, and ab0osin society, wich didn't re-
cogniZe him, earnin a lIvin by cOllectin the
bills for his wiies dreSs-makin establish
ment, TO wich, when biznis wuz dull, he
added a laundry. President Linkin wuz
indoost by the citizens Nv the Stashen, to
appint him collector. the Sed citizens vainly
imaginin that eff he he'd a good fat thing,
he mite possibly pay his debts. Ez every
body he owed signed his applicashun for the
appointment, he he'd the longest list Nv
names that ever went out NV that village.
He continyood in offs doorin IJ0hnson 5 ad-
ministrashen. heyin come to the cOncloOshen
that johnson policy was correct, jest after
that CRATE man notified him that he should
chop off the head sfeny ofhshul that didn t.
But Grant busted hin, sencc wich time he
hes bin consistent Democrat and lover NV
the labrin classes. He hez seen close times
sence-often hez he bin without the neces-
sarics Nv life, for his wife is gettin advanced
in years, and can't wash and sew every
| day. Mr. Pettus goes into the movement
agin oppressive mOnOpolies and slch, with
all his heart, sole, body and strength. lie
bleeves in the nobility of labOr-he holds
| that labor hez not its proper reward, and
ez for his part he will enter into a croo sade
agin the bloated monOpolists, and in behalf
~ ..Et ka
country, with all the zeal of his trOoly fer
vid nacher. One NV the most tetchin sites
in nacher Is to see Pettus leanin on bar,
and discoursin on the grandjer nv labor.
He sez that if the farmers, the hard-handed
labrin masses Nv his county want a candi-
date for auditor who lOathes and hates the
oppresshun Nv labor, in wateyer form 1t may
come, he is their man.
Samuel Blather is another one Nv the
| hard-handed who is with us. lie Is De-
mocrat in politics, and alluz hez bin. He
hez diskIvered that the farmers are groan-
in under desputism. He do mt own no
farm hisSelf, nor he do mt buy nor sell any
prodoose, nor anything else, nor hez he any
pertikeler bizniss, but he feels there isan in
cubus wich ways onto the labrin man, and,
fur one, he feels like putin his shoulder to
the wheel and histin it. lie expecks to be
| the Democratic candidate lor county re-
corder, and if the farmers know their
friends-ef they only kin be brought to re-
eOgnize them whose hart beet responsive TO
theirn, and put him on their ticket, he hez
a soft thing Nv it. lie kin truly say that he
never laid under tree, seein the hard
handed victim NV monopoly sweatin
under his ill-requited toll, without feelin
for him, and his buzzum heeves ez he thinks
NV the opportunity he hez now to champion
that class. lie sez he is the best man for
recorder in the county.
Cephas Billins holds that the only refuge
the farmers hev is in the buzzum Nv the De-
mocratic party-that's where they want to
| go. lie feels in his sole that they are op-