The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-06

An Unfavorable Opinion of Various Kinds of
Northern Enterprise.

An Unfavorable Opinion of Various Kinds of
Northern Enterprise.
| William Arp, in Southern Home and Farm.
| Branson is everlastingy in debt but he don't
care He says it stimulates his energies to be in
| debt and ii makes him friends. He has got q
| poor farm and raises nubbin corn, and humble
bee cotton, out he squeezes along and lives on
hope and trust and good nature. He can get
credit when some other people can't who are bet
ter able to pay for he talks so fair they can't re-
| fuse him. He says he hasn't been out of debt
| for twenty years and never expects to be- When
| they sue him he begs for time and pays little
and laps over and Jokes with the sheriff. and
| shindigs around and fixes it up some way. When
he gets few dollars he goes to Atlanta and talks
with the boys and dimes at the Kimball House
| and picks his teeth at the door as big as any
body. Last summer the boys invited him 20 go
on free excursion to Cincinnati, and he had
| glorious time. He says they wined him and
| dined him and they all had love-feast and
| while tho champagne lasted they Rugged and
| kissed and sobbered all over one another and a
body would nave thought they had all made
+! friends forever and ever but after the jubilee
| was over they went off to slanderin us as usual
| and waved the bloody Shirt and we boys came
home and went to hatin' of them all samee as
| before.
| Says he: Bill, tell you what. they arc the
curiosest people in the world We arc the best
customers they have got and they get all we
| have one way or another We buy their picture
papers, ana tlfe1r Qlnle novels, paper
and patent medicines, and pasteboard shoes, and
| fly traps, ahd fire crackers and all their
tom1ooierles' and We go to all
! their circuses and monkey shows, and
body would think they would
| honey US up and be kind but they cuss us and
| abuse us and prosecute us and we keep trad
| ing with em and buy every doggon thing they
| put at us. We make sugar and sell it to EN-,
and they adulterate it with sand and flour and
glucose and sell 1t back to us refined and cryS-
talized a cert in the pound cheaper than they
paid us for it, and get rich off of the difference.
Why, they sell us striped candy at cents
gssad that was maac out of sugar that cost 'eIo g.
We make cotton-seed oil and sell il TO 'em at 40
cents a gallon. and they refine it and brand it
olive oil and sell it back to us at so cents pint
They adulterate coffee, and butter and lard.
| and flour, and syrup. and baking powders, and
black pepper, and everything else they can.
They are a nation of adulterers. I saw a fellow.
in Atlanta sellin' Yankee buggies for $40 apiece
and throwing in set of harness. and our poor
white folks and niggers were buying EN- like hot
cakes; and the harness were made of leather
shavings stitched onto pasteboard and all
BACKED over and shIned up, and they come to
pieces in the first shower of rain that come
along You can't take up newspaper that amt
full of swindlin medicines and advertisements.
The Rev. Joseph Inman, Station ID, Bible
House. has been running his card for twenty
years and here in this paper is Manhood Lost
and Restored and Startling Discovery, and
'Shiloh's Consumption Cure, and Why Will Ye
DIE, and MY Wife has Been a Great Sufferer
and Wonder Of the World and Worm Medi-
cine and Pain Killer and Hub Punch, and
'Whisker Dye, and Prescription Free and st
Jacobs Oil, and Just Behold and Read At,
tentively, and pills by the million and billion
and quintillion, and $3.50 week, and '$777 year
and all sorts of votaic belts and pads for womens
backs and mems bosoms, or vice versa, and liver
medicine enough to make small ocean, and
don't know how many more of the plagued
things in this one paper. Last night started to
read whole column about the world coming to
an end next July, and before the doggon thing
quit it branched off into kidney medicine. Them
fellers up there beat all creation for in
ventin ways to get our money. They come
along to my house with big book full of beauti-
full pictures of apples and peaches and all sorts
of fruits, and they had samples in glass bottles,
and we all had CRAFTS put in, and we found out
afterwards they put Mack Crawford's limbs in
my trees and limbs off of my trees in DR..
Joness trees, and so on and so forth, and never
brought nary graft with EN-; and here they 60
and there they go, world without end, and if
they can't beat the world, the flesh and the
devil all put together, then I'm mistaken, that's
ALL"
And Branson reached out his hand and
said: Nov, Bill give me a chaw of tobacco,
for I'm tired talkin about them fellers. AS
Bob Toombs says it fatigues my indignation