Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-08-21
PATRON BROWNS VIEWS


Good evenin', Farmer Donnelly come in and take a
chair;
Here's one that has cushion. although it's the
worse FOR wear.
I'm sorry we haven't a better but wheat Won
And when the money fails 10 come the comfort
has to 90.
We lived little better, sir when times were not
so hard.
And Hannah's wedding furniture was not so badly
Poor dame, forgive her absences it wounds me to
the
To see the bushes mount her cheeks when n
stranger seeks our door.
But women will be women, and pride, You know.
il pride.
And haint the heart to grudge them that, who've
little else beside:
But when her father blessed our love. and gave us
hs good farm,
The fiji sh of conscious pride she wore thonobt
her chiefest charm.
heard your lecture yesterday, delivered TO our
And I've pondered it every minute since. and tried
to get its range
I'm glad Won happened in tonight for if You'll be
so kind.
III take the chance TO free the thoughts that are
strugglin' in my mind.
grant your logic's mainly good. and the case is
pretty clear
That farmers have most of life's heavy Tugs, and
q
Their backs are broad and strong, yOu see-their
arms were made for work
And its easy for drones to shift their loads onto
them that scorn TO shirs.
think the doctrines you advance are mostly right
and sound
The wrongs are many and grcviOus, that grind us
into the ground.
The prices are stiff and steady, on every thing we
buy.
And while orr farm stuff settles low most every
thing else goes high.
And the raroads-what with their cheatin' rates.
and watered stocks, and the notes
We gave to get them started, so that they could
turn and cut our throaN
This verv farm is mortgaged to yonder cursed
track,
And it's beggared me ever since and robbed the
clothes from Hannahs back
All, all. : grant you-erery one is a singing and
And sve have borne their expressions already much
too long:
But whether the remedy yoR prescribe viii cause
our burdens to drop
THAT'S what I'm irwin to consider, sir. and it's that
that sticks IN my crop.
You'd have sunder Old party ties. and obandon
old party friends,
And set mp party of our own for gainin' all our
ends.
Now that advice may be perfect but for plain old
farmer like me.
Why a tree should he fODOe3 to make ii crow. is
more than can see.
'Ti- true, dimly discern the reward that stimu-
lates nOHr desire;
The Changers paws would he handy TO rake your
chestnuts ont of the fire.
But unless my lights deceive me, its the thing for
TO oppose,
To swap the manv who'cc been our friends for
the few that have been our foes.
we've served so long.
j. ready to give us helping hand, to right what
ever is wrong.
I've scanned the list that rallied around the rood
old flag in town,
And there isn't a man but what yearns TO assist to
put our opprcssOrs down
There's merchant Blake down there to the store
his case is the same ours
He has laborcd with us both early and late to nut
down monopoly powers.
And miller Cole that's down To the pond who is
shippin' his tOur to New York.
l. in the same boat with | guess. who are ship
pin our grain and pork.
And lawyer Clough. who lives at the Fork and
served in the Senate last year.
And went for the railroads, under "our bill"
without any haltin' or fear.
And has won us many a case against expressions
l guess that without his shrewd advice we should
90 ii rather blind.
got nothing to saw
Don't monopoly put its burdens on than, and
haven't they tributes TO paw
Why, Jenny Doan, there by the bridge, that's
Just got into his house.
Paid hundred dollars 10 freight his boards and
his hut's too small for a mouse!
And it looks to me, too jest if your close com
muniOn concern
l. lookin for spoils and place in way that honest
folk should spurh.
] take Il that men ground down as we are have
got higher things to win,
Than post-oice pcrquisies, salary grabs, and the
uGYlliH stew OF
And there's our grand old party-I may rs well
own 10 ya,u,
That the thought of goin' back on that is pretty
tough cud to chew;
I've viewed il in all its bearus. and Tn right here
moved to confess,
That there isn't wrong since fined Its ranks it
ever refused to redress.
I've got boy in the burning ground the Wide
Awakes placed him there:
That vacant seat by the mantel-pece was always
his favoritc chair
lie went to the front when Old Abe called for six
hundred thousand more.
And they brought him back 10 me, wrapped in the
flag that at Gettysburg he bore
And when the old Coppcrhcad simon smal,'
looked on and saw woe,
And said II was good enough for us-we no bust
ness to let him GO
Up jumped big Clark, the blacksmith, and knocked
him into the pond.
And think they'd have drowned the critter ONLY
he dove to the bank beyond
Aud | you pushed him for'ard to-day to be
master Of Our Grange.
And when he received vote but his own. Won
counted It rather strange.
W ell, mCbbe il was, but | lest tell Won. II vonr
game had come about
There isn'ta farmer belongs 10 our Grange that
wouldn't have kicked him out
And were all agreed about tjs sir-,yc hain't for
gotten the times
When the good old Republican party DESTROYED
the blacklist Of crimes.
And if the past is any sign of what it's future viii
do.
We haven't no call to betray it., sir for simon
Small, nor-nor you.
And pardon me, sir, l beg you, if my tongue here
lpClincs 10 a slip
| think yo1rd a'beeu in Congress yet if you'd only
stuck to the ship:
And You needn't have been 'mOngst the Grangcrs
aputtn on farmers airs
Arrayu yourself in false Cul0rs, aud takiu' ms I'M
aWares.
Don't rise! I'm sorry to have YOU go: hope I've
not given otfeusc;
TIN be a the came to both you and me T. hundred
or years hence.
don't know W hat view OaF Grange win take Of
what You Yesterday said
But when desert the old colnrs now Won NAV
give me up for deadl
Chicago Ersniag Post
*Ignatius Donnelly. formerly NJ C. from Mime
sofa. who, having lost his seat in Congress by he
traying his party. has since employed every expe-
dieut 10 recover it. At present he Is enaciiny The
role of Lecturer TO the Oranges in which ca
psclty he l. addressed by Patron Brown.