The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-06-08
NYE ON THE TARIFF
Auti-Billious Bill Has a Talk With a
Good Old Farmer.

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Auti-Billious Bill Has a Talk With a
Good Old Farmer.
New York World: what are the
PROSPECTS, for farmers in ycur state?"
well, they are pore. Never was so
pore, in fact, scnce I've been there,
Folks wonder why boys leave the farm.
My boys left so as to get protected, they
said, and SO they went into a clothing
store, one of EN-, one went intohardware
and one is talking protection in the legis-
iature this winter. They said that farm
IN was gettin' to be like huntin'-well
enough for a man that has means and
ieisure-but they couldn't make a liyin' at
at, they said. Another boy is in a drug
store, and the man that hires him saws he
is a royal Teller"
KIND OF a castor-royal %feller," said,
with a shrek of laughter.
lie waited until had laughed ali |
wanted to and then he said:
I've always hoilered for high tariff in
order to hist the public debt, but now
that We've got International debt coopered
Wish they'd take a little hack ut miee
I've put in fifty years farmin', I've
never drank liquor in ANY form. Eve
worked from ten to eighteen hours a day.
been economical snd close, and never
Went to a show More'n a dozen times In
my life; raise q family and learned up-
ward OF % calves to drink out of a tin
pall without blowing all their vittles up
my Sleeve. My wife worked alongside
q me sewing now seats in the boys
pants, skinmin' milk and wen helpin'
me load hay. For forty years we tcilei
along together, hardly gettin' time to
look INTO each others faces or DARN to
stop an get acquainted with each other,
Then her heclth failed. Ketched cold
IN The sprlng-house, probably, skimmin'
mix and Washin' pans and scaldin' pals
and sspankin butter. Anyhow she took
IN . long breath one day while the doctor
and me was watchin' her. and she saws
to me: Horny a y she, I've got a
chance 10 rest, and she put one tired.
worn-out hand on top of the other tired
worn out hand, and | knew she had zone
where they don't work all day and do
chores all night,
u took time to kiss her then. I'd been
too busy for n good while previous to do
that, and then | called in the boys. After
she funeral it was too much for them tn
stay around and eat the kind of cookin'
we mad to put up with, and nobody spoke
up around the house as we used to. The
boys quit whistlin' around the barn and
talked Kind of low by themselves about
sein, to town and gittin a lob.
They re all gone now, and the snow
Is tour feet deep on mothers grave I'D
there in the old berryin ground"
lhen both of us looked out of the car
WINDOW quite a long time without sayinA
anything.
81 don't blame the boys for going mt
something else, longs other things pay
better; and sny-and l say what
knew-that the man who holds the pro
peflty OF this country in his 'hands, tn
man .hat actually makes money for othyf
people 10 spend, the man that eats th9a
good, simple, square meals a day
goes to bed at . o'clock so that fin
generations with good blood and
brains can go from the farm to the 81
ana congress and the white housed
the man that gets left at last to rus IN
farm with nobody to help him
hired man anda high protective
me farms in II state are moi
for over 800, 600, 900. Ten q
western states, | see by the paper
got about So, 800, coo, 900 mo-
on their farms. The government
nut Inc men that made it, the me
fought prairie fires and prairie VOL
INDIANS ard potato. bugs and b|
anu hes paid the wal debt, and T
and everything else and hollered
union and Republican party a,
tariff and anything else that th
tod to, is left high and dry Il
WINTER with a mortgage of 81, 500
N the farms they have earned al
thousand times over
Yes, but look at the glory of
IN the farm the future preside
nc senator and the future me-
ress.
bat looks well on paper, b
1t really amount to? Soon
" gets in a place like tina
ksoti that produced hill
head as high as a hol
for protection to ey
ger. aud while he sails
&ghty room with a I
HSy, his father on the ii
his W fire in the knrning1
wear his lawn tel Bit
lEeeze TO death he
gray shawl Il has
congress Jlen he
tgoNy. and the'old lady
through the winter in the
HEl1l;;:::;:! , H.. '.ss..'..
Farmer. ~anyhow.A{
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