Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26
THOSE SOCKS

The proprietor of the Fort Scott wool
en- mills sent Hon. Jere. Simpson pair
of socks, accompanied by the following
letter. 1t is needless to say that the
socks have advertised the mill to the
extent of several hundred dollars. The
letter is as follows:
OFFICE OF FORT SCOTT WOODEN MILLS,
Fort SCOTT, KAs. Nov. Is, 1890.
Hon. Jerry Simpson, member congress-elect,
Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
DEAR SIR: Hon. J. X. Hallowell of Wichita.
was here yesterday. In recounting to his in
innate friends some of the incidents and facts
relative to the late campaign tin which Jim
thought for a time he was a candidateD he
stated among other things. that you had no
socks, or at least wore none during the can
vass; that when like CorioIanus you appeared
before the populace in the market place ask
ing for their voices, you put your worthy
rage into your tongue" and while admitting
the wounds his body bears, which show like
graves in the holy churchyard," you would
also point out to the populace his patrician
underwear and stockings formed with silk,
aud then you wonld "giye him hostile strokes
in the name of the people, by displaying your
| own underwear which was unadorned and
as Nature made IT,
Now the election is over cold winter is com
ing on and it is not meet that one of the
"Tribunes should thus appear on the steps of
the Capitol. Therefore, Jerry. | herewith
| enclose you pair of socks, not the patrician
stockings of costly silk, but socks made from
good honest wool, wool grown by Kansas farm
ers on the backs of Kansas sheep, and manu-
! featured ct the one only successful wooden
mill IN this state. lake tneIn, JsLry, and
wear them. They are good honest socks and
will do you good service. They are not so fine
as some of y"ur compeers will wear in Wash
ington, but they are well befi ting a good.
straight, honest Kansas American, as 1 know
you to be- In this connection desire to com
mend to you the words of wisdom uttered by
ex-President Cleveland at the late Thurman
banquet. which can well be learned by heart
by partisans OF all parties:
when, therefore, men in high places of
trust, charged with the responsibility of max
ing and executing our laws, not only condemn,
but tiippantly deride cheapness and economy
within the homes Of our people. and when the
expenditures of the government are reckless
and wasteful, we may be sure that something
is wrong with us, and that a condition exists
- = fieSASAR anu IcEHuIIUl Qe-
Tense OF AmericaniSm by every man worthy
to be called an American Citizen
Now, Jerry, when comfortably seated In
your place in congress and the hydra-beaded
iniquities OF corruption, combination and
fraud appear, sock it TO them, When the dem
oerats undertake 10 put the tariff back on free
sugar, sock 1t to 'em. And when anyone nm
dertakes to claim that Americans cannot com
pete with the vile stuff made by pauper labor
of Europe from old horse blankets. cast of nm
dershirts and refuse of smallpox hospitals.
! which the very disiuterested importers call
foreign goods, show them your socks and tell
them how they were made from honest Kansas
wool.
Jerry, live over here in the east side of the
second ''deestIfct,s where the winds were not
Sc hot. and the corn was not so short as II
the Mediciae Ledge country. Crops were
pretty good, and we can stilI hear the early
fog-horn calling the swine to their moot-toct-
footinal feast. but there is 10 telling what win
happen next time. 1t win probably be the Gun.
expected In the meantime. Jer-y, wish
you hearty God speed. Yours Truly.
T. r. ROBLEY,
Proprietor Of Fort Scott WOODEN Nils.