The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-01-27
The intellectual South.

The following address delivered at
White Oaks. New Mexico, upon the
division OF the county, was sent US
by Mr.. Ed. Walz, an old Mankat0
boy, and while the speech lacks the
Boston "culchaw" 1t is nevertheless
rich and racy:
Use gwine fur To 'splain de peril.
tikle aspeck of de horoscope to de
ig' nant shines OBJ dis heal aujience
tonight, and IL any Of yer objects to
my views you will please get on de
outside OBJ de korrall befoah de
'sturbance begins.
= Dere am a good deal OBJ chin atmos-
phere wasted OBJ late bout splitin'
dis heah county plumb open in de
middle an 'giben one piece to de
Pecus fellers, de cowboys an de
greasers, while lie oder half am left
to de Linkumites, de Nogallusses, de
Whiteoxens an de niggers. We also
catch on to de county bonds, which
we am 'spected to obliquerate IL dey
can't be made to obliquerate der.
selves, an fall heir to de Apache
Indian in all his nat'yal ramifications
which it am our dizziness to see to.
Now, chil'en, dis heah Dustin up
bizines pears to dis snoozer mighty
much like cuttin' off the crocodile
tail little subsequent OBJ de ears.
Now, cherry ruminatin' sinner in dis
meetin' knows dat a crocodile am
mighty frisky animile when he am
huntin' his grub. You's tickle him
under de jaw an de tail flap around
en- de berry fust ting you knows yer
lvin' bout forty feet away on de
back clawin' de mud outer yer eyes.
Den you fool aroun' him tail and de
jaws somehow am dere kinder simon
taneously to gobble yer in, like de
pelican gobble de sucker in de airly
mornin'. But yer cut him in two In
de region oh de umbilicus, an wha
am he! De tail hab lost him flop an
de jaws hab no noah snap in dem
dan a White Oaks beat, arter buckin'
all mite agin. hi ball game. Pears
to me dat am bout to fix OBJ dis heal
county. De tail an de head must
hook on to one anoder dat de two
bizness ends kin fite de headen round
about us who am pesterin' of US. II
you split um in two n de middle
dere won't be huff left OBJ elder end
to make decent roundup oh a jack
rabbit.
Now it am nat'ral TO de Focuses
to kun up to Linkum ebry few weeks
to cout an swap horses, an it am
jist as nat'ral for de jewrymen an dc
jedges OBJ dis heah town to 60 down
dare an dance de jamboree an de
wild de Senoras Oh dat
place, 80 wat am de use oh 'sturbin
de kounty when it hab jist got sit
down, an since it am sartin suah dat
it hab sit, who can't dey let her sot!
Furdermoah, it am proposed to
fetch de seat up heah to White Oaks,
an de question arises about whah dey
am gOin' to put ii. Dere amt room
in de town chen TO- fixtures, to say
muffin oh de expanshun of de deaf.
DO dey suppose a kounty. whose
straddle reaches from de SacramentOs
To de Gallinus, am gwine to be
an scrOuged an made to
set down betwixt de two arroyas dat
hedge in dis heah town like de rams
hons circumvented de city Of JericQ
l tells you's Use done lost all pa.
thence wild dis obstreperous an emery
generation, an l leaves you to fight
it out 'mong yourselves.
Here Brudder Lazarns strobe out
the audience and into the
soft moonlight to cool off before turn.
ing in for the night.