The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-04-14

and me was watchin' her. and she say
TO me. .Henry.' says sine. I've got {
chance to rest and she put one tired.
worn-out hand on top Of the other tir
ed, WORKOUT hand. and j knew She d
gone where they don't work all da,
and do chores all night.
II took time to kiss her then. II
been TOO busy for a good while pre-
vious to that, and then ] called IN the
boys. After the funeral it was too
much for them 10 stay around and cal
the kind of cookin' we had 10 put up
with, and nobody spoke up around the
house as we used to. The boys quiz
whistlin' around the barn and talked
kind of low by themselves about go n
to town and gettin' a job.
They're all gone now and the snow
is four feet deep on mothers grave
up there in the old berr, in ground"
Then both of MS looked out of the
car window quite long while without
saying anything.
81 don't blame the boys for going
into something else long s other things
pays better; but 1 say-and ] say what
/ know-that the man who holds the
prosperity of this country in his hands,
the man that actually makes money for
other people to spend. the man that
eats three good. simple, square meals
day and goes to bed at 9 o'clock. Sc
that future generations with good
blood and cool brains can go from his
farm to the Senate and Congress and
the White House--he is the man that
gets left at last to run his farm, with
nobody to hel p him but a hired man
and high protective tariff. The farms
in our State is mortgaged for over sew
en- hundred million dollars. Ten of ou1
Western States-I see by the papers
has got about three billion and II hal
mortgages on their farms, and that
don't count the chattel mortgages file d
with the town clerks on farm macli II.
cry, stock, Wagons and even crops. by
gosh! that amt two inches high nsa lei
the snow. That's what the prospe cts
is for farmers now. The Governm enl
is rich, but the men that made it. the
men that fought perarie fires and pera'
RE wolves and Injins and pctato-.Dugs
and blizzards, and has paid the war
debt and pensions and everything else
and hollered for the Union and the Re-
publican party and high tariff and any
thing else that they was told to. was
left high and dry this cold winter with
a mortgage of seven billions and a. hall
on the farms they have earned and
saved thousand times over"
Yes; but look at the glory Of send
ing from the farm the future President.
the future Senator and the future
member of Congress.
''That looks we'll on paper. but what
does it really amount TOP Soon rs q
farmer boy gifts in place Ike that he
forgets the soil that produced him and
holds his head as high as holly-hock.
He bellers for protection to every body
but the farmer. and while he sails round
in higbty-tighty room with fire i'll
it night and day. his father on the
farm has to kindle his own fire in the
morning with elm slivers. and he has
TO wear his sons lawn-tennis suit next
to him or freeze to death. and
he has to milk in all old
gray shawl that has held that
member of Congress when he was n
baby, by CORY! and the old lady has to
sojourn through the winter in tile tian-
nels that Silas wore at the rigga tier be-
fore he went to Congress.
so say. and l think that Congress
agrees with me, Damn farmer, auy-
how!'
He then went away.-Neu YORK.
World.