Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-30

heve thes little family trubles: fur you
now thes women bee aposed too our
drinkin and wee cant ever take our
trends in with us too drink without it
coses truble in the family and wee
can't do very much in campain work
without wee Gin treet our trends. But
thes cristen people heve got our wives
and dauters pregudis agin US so it is
shure to cose truble some day if faint
stopped soon: wee heve allays bin a
ripublickin and heve used little
whiskey and beer IN campains too elect
republicans; but they bee goin back on
us uf late and bee gitten as fenatickal
as the wemen bee and think wee bee
not capable up guvernin our selvs eny
more. it dos seam too NEE Bro.
Sowards that the only recoarce wee
heve left US is too gine the dino
Gratis and by us gitten all the furriners
to help us wee Gin stamp this falls idee
out of ther heds, our cose is CROWN fast
fur wee heve got neerly all the jermen
men too thinkin es wee doc and eff wee
will be bold and rite too all the dimi-
crat papers often and speek our senti-
ments wee Gin git the wemen and thes
good cristen people too ceep still fur
they bee afrade too rite to the papers
fear wee will find out hoo they bee
then they now they can't bee elected
too Office eff wee find out hoo they bee
we heve got the MAJORITY in this Co.,
now hoo thinks es wee doc, and we
must ceep thes fenaticks down and
not give them any chanse or all our
Efforts and long sufferin will be. in vane,
and wee wont git saloons for a long
time, and our family trubles will con-
tinue too MARI our happiness and we
will continue to pay our taxes until
wee git selloons agin: then things will
be different. we Gin 60 and git drink
when we want it and the wemen cant
help them selvs and at the same time
the selloons will pay our taxes and wee
Gin heve our liberty: as ameriken
sitisen agin; all our wives and children
will heve too doc will bee the work
about home and 60 too scool and wee
will look after the saloons and see that
our tax is paid! Won't this bee
grande! and Glorioussl It wood bee a
CRATE change but CESS wee cud engoy
it wonderful wee wood show the
fenaticks that wee cud guvern our
selvs and our FASHIONS and our
apetights: then We wood soon need
no law to guvern us fur the refining
influense of the sellOon wood regelate
all thes things. Oh am 80 glad that
Bro. Sowards rote his abel artickal fur
it gist put NEE too thinkin what good
time we Good heve; it makes me feel
moor like riting my sintiments fur
heve felt that we heve been restrained
too much fur long time and I wus
afrade if did rite that the editer wood
not print it so [ heve never ritten be-
fore. but since 1 found out that the
dimicrats bee our freens / will rite
often and if sich men as NEE and Bro.
Sowards wood rite too all the papers in
the stait of cansas wee Good have that
sale 20 off soon and one of us Good bee
the Octioneer and we wood sell them
goods down at toOpeekey at the next
meetin uf the legislature fur wee wood
both like to go there and eff the people
will doc their dOOty we Gin heve cleer
sailln by that time, and it is only a
mater of chOise which one uf us they
will send.
But believe in people guvernin them
selvs and so docs he, but as Good go
as we'll as not l now Bro. Sowards will
not Obgect fur he nOWS l wood doc my
dOOty and vote as he wood and we Gin
soon heve thes cristen people quit
teachin our children that men hoo
drink is bad and salons be bad, and
sellin licker is bad, and all sich foolery:
Wee wood heve them tautt as ameriken
sitisens and have them guvern them
selvs in all things as wee doc; and
show thes fenaticks that if they don't
want to drink or doc anything that
they don't think rite they Gin do so,
but they cant say to our Children and
too us that wee shant doc it, simply
becos they heve the power. This is
not liberty and NEE and Bro. Sow;uds
bee going too doc all wee can too enliten
the americkan people as too what is
trOO liberty and if we cant doc it throo
the ripublickin papers we will doc 1t
| thrOO the dimicrat papers. but wee
don't like to rite fur the dlmicrats if
wee Good help it, fur heve allaws been
ripublickans but the women heve got
all the ripublickan papers afrade uf
them and we cant git them too print
our letters and if things don't change
soon NEE and Bro. Sowards will gine
| the dimicrats fur we wont stay where
we cant say what wee pleas and guvern
our selvs. and if we cant convinse the
ripublickan party that they bee rong
we will bid them adew. But Bro.
Sowards let us doc our dooty in tryin
| to bring them up to our high mOrall
plane so when we want drink wee
| wont have to swear to lie too git it
and show them how nice it is fur all
| to guvern them selvs and not heve thes
terribal restraints throne around us
and then if they don't come to time wee
will have cleered our scirts of their
sins and wee will leeve them, and one
of US will go to the legislature next
winter and show them how to make
laws that wont restrain people the way
they heve been doin. We will simply
wipe them all out uf existense and
dimonstrat to the americkan people
that wee Gin guvern our selvs. then
| instead of us selling our empty whisky
coopS and beer hotties we Gin have