The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-25
SHUDAD
And the Trials of Him Who Would
Educate the People.
How True Worth and Self Sacrl-
flee Are Not Appreciated.
To the Editor of the Statesman.

Barley culture; and they unanimously de
sire me to acknowledge the receipt OIL
their favors at once. Now, as it is abso
lutely impossible for me personally tC
write letters to all these parties, and al
though l am ready to make any reasona
BILE sacrifice for my fellow-farmer, yet
am not financially able to engage the
services of all the stenographers and type
writers in this city to assist me in meeting
this requirement. So beg leave to lay
before the public through your columns
four letters selected from amongst thu
hundreds of those just received, and in re
plying to these four imagine the greater
portion of my correspondents will be an
swered, since my remarks shall be so plair
that everybody, including the farmers
cannot fail to understand what kind of &
clothespin l am.
send you fac smile copies
of these letters, as regards
their diction and photography. Tn,
first one lay before you is post-market
"Manchaca" Ia station few miles soutf
of the city,, and signed Jefferson Rains
Here it is:
MANsHAoK, April 10th, 1889.
Mr.. Shudad the Bilhite:
Sir, We have herd of your projicks will
pearl Barley and one thing or mother and
what dicknailin good friend you was tt
the farmer, you understand, so the boys
they got me, you understand, to try and
get you to give US talk at Manshaol
school house, you understand. Come mex
Wensday night week shore. The house
will be lit up and KEEP lit up the whole o.
the indurin time and the biggest oroud yor
ever saw mighty nigh. When you come
Mr. Shudad sir do not tech on nothir
about the Alliance in no manner, SHAPE
nor form you understand. 1t wont do
druther pull mules tail as to prank will
these Manshack boys.
| Just be mild like, and run down tn
storekeepers and lawyers sorter,you under
stand, but will be dad blamed if yol
hadent oughter lay low about the Alliance
now, shore. The whole outfit of our lodg
are goin' to be THAR, you understand, an,
Tom Turner, our lecturer, says as how il
you come to Manshack an get up an g
to oavortin' about how farmers ought t.
rise with the lark and praotess economy
and live at home and pay as they go an
keep out of politicks and sech devilish 70
as that, he will open up lead mine il
you if powder will burn, you understand
Don't GROSS the boys, for tell you tn
pine blank truth, they will not stand il
So, if you can't talk wright, do not COM
to Manshack, you understand.
Yours truly,
| JEFFERSON RAINEs
Yes, Jefferson, 1 understand. Yo
| hat
jefferson, understand. An
when 1 90 to Manshack John Claiborn
will represent Galveston district again
you understand. And when this even
occurs, Macaulay's New Zealander vii
contemp plate the ruins of Austin from tn
crumbling dome of her capitol, 20
understand.
But, jefferson, 1 do not stay away iron
Manshack because fear to go there, 20
understand.
| An agricultural man like mys elf, VIII
has been through so many narrowing an,
pulverizing scenes with frontier farmer
both by flood and field, surely does no
fear Manshack, or Meshach and Abedneg,
into the bargain, you understand.
But, as fear may not "tslk wright,
and not wishing to "prank with the Man
shack boys" it is best for tn
country at largo that l should canoe
my game there, and let Tom Turner di
vide the gate receipts among his "outfit.'
AS have before stated, l am alway
willing to sacrifice myself, to certain ex
tent, in the interest of science, and hav
repeatedly offered my services to tn
state geologist in classifying his rock
andlin helping him keep his Plymouth
Rocks separate from his Leghorns ant
Cochin Chinas; also gratuitously offering
to sample his "Rock and Rye" and "Olt
Crow" and ascertaining whether the fcs
sils were oretacsous formations of tn
Devonian AGE, or the rectified strata of
Kentucky distillery. While 1 am eve
ready to render valuable aid to the soien
fist, but most especially to the farmer il
his search after truth, l am not quite pre-
pared to allow Tom Turner to develop
lead mine in my anatomy, 20,
understand. And will stat
this onnection, that, if there should bt
any galena deposits in my system, 1 wisl
Mr.. Turner to understand l shall proceed
to locate the claim myself and establish
smelling works and bull the market will
lead, without the aid of his engineering
"outft," and you can tell him SO, Jeffer
son, you understand.
So, jefferson, you put it on your bulle
tin board that "my talk" at Manshack il
off, at least until there is considerable
decline in the lead market; and, by wa!
of sxhortation, you can inform Mr.. Turner
should he persist in going into the lesC
business, that 1 advise him to get q decl
of cards, and, with his six shooter in his
bootleg, light out for Leadville or Dead
wood City and open up game of draw
That, in trying to convince the humble
miners that four aces and six-shooter vii
beat royal flush, he will develop enough
lead in his composition to start shot
factory.
Now the public can realize how 1 am
handicapped in trying to right the
wrongs of this long-suffering, much.
abused class-the farmers. 1 am asked
for advice, and in the same breath, by the
same party, am told what advice l must
give. Here is this Jefferson Rains and
his crowd, who, by Jefferson's own Rdmis-
sion, consider me a "dicknsilin" good
friend to the farmer, and yet we find one
of his commissioned representatives who,
because, forsooth, may not follow out
a certain line of argument, threatens to
pour enough lead into me to mould a
Goddess Of Liberty statue!
Now ask what is the country coming to {?
A fter all INV splF-sarrifcas. after all NV