Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-05
THE ILLINOIS FARMER ON COPY
RIGHT,


(AfYer Tennyson's Northern Fdrwer'1
Mighty long drive in the morning, paekin to
Pontiac,
Seventeen miles to market. and midnight a. git
tin back.
But hez to be done if Jimmy keeps on to that
Git up there, Jonas! o thunder. wish I'd
fetched the mule.
Allus wug powerful lonely draggin' across these
plains,
Nothin' to interest you but telegraph poles and
No end of them, like etarnity, and yonder run
min away
As you come, the line o. the steel-blue sky, like
the farmers lucky dag.
Why'd let Jim off to-day, with these blue devils
SO thick?
Wish I'd mentioned the circus, or pretensed I
eFeliers ez hez the 'frmative hez to be ready"
SEE he,
An he'd ruther read Congress speeches than
jolt TO market with me-
Cur GUS his likin' for that there Goose Creek
debatin' club;
called him Bub.
s'pose he's writin' his speech now; wouldn't
wonder eff he
Some timed write his signature James S. Jones,
NJ. c.
Thunder, what am I sayin2 s'pose I'm a
CROWN OLD.
Guess when your own ambition gifts to be git
tin cold
An you warm it up for yonr Children, time to
look for the gray.
Well, i ellus hankered for Congress sence the
evenin' l shuck hands with Clay.
Thought was goin' to git there, too, when the
Granger Convention met;
Hadn't a been for kankakee county might a.
been there yet
Might a been sendin' bags o seeds an talks on
monopoly,
Franked with my name to Payson, stead O.
him sendin' to me.
PAY is powerful talker, voice hez moral
roar;
Pleads pretty well for the soldier though he
wuZn't in the war;
Friend o. the farmer too, as that Washington
letter said
wrilin about the Copyright bill that PAY
knocked over dead.
George What speech that wuz Full of fig
LooRin' SO big and important, and fuller of
pretty twists
of lawyer argument Well, takes mighty
How happy US farmers ought to be with British
books SO low
1 don't read EN-, of course, cept once after Ma
1 tuck up a book to console me just cause its
title read
in and tender and calm,
But it took me week to get my peace with the
Twenty-third Psalm.
The girls they read EN- and read email the
best British books:
Zolers and weeders and Clifford's-though
they amt very much for looks;
And every pliers q nest of EN- n every drawer
in the house,
And Sue hez give the herowines names to all
the mares and COWS.
But jim he laughs at their nonsense and saws
this sort of knowledge
o. furrin ways and doin's amt what they teach
at college
Up to Michigan (he's Softmore), and he
quiZZes the girls like mad
Bout Hawthorne and Lowell and Irwin-books
they amt never had.
And he says that Pay is "all off, in opposin'
the copyright.
And he's goin' to give the reasons at Goose
Creek Monday night.
/ skipped the follerin' speeches, Pays seemed
SO reasoned out;
But Jim said they wuz as refreshin' as freshet
after drought.
Jim SEE tibet the's no use talkin'-you'ye no
more right to take
A Britisber's book then his wallet and often
thes more at stake;
Says morals don't know no geogerphy; that
Pay ought to blush for shame
And stealth a Bank OF England note and a
But the meanest thing, Jim says, is the way
PAY compliments
The whole O. the Illinois farmers an all his con-
stituwents
By maxim it out to the country we've jined the
dead-beat crowd
OF folks as wants sump'n for nothin Well, he
needn't said j. so loud.
Jim SEE he's been readin' o late bout another
Illinois man
That didn't ta1y the people, but made full
harvest han
And stuck TO the Ten Commandments ez fur ez
his eyes could see,
And got statue in Lincoln Park, where Pay
won't never be.
Think O Old Abe in Congress in similar cir
cumstance
Inventin reasons for putin his hands into his
neighbors' pants,
Sayin, Yes, you may have the swag if you'll
give the people shares"
Pshaw. says Jim. Old Lincoln was a splitter O.
rails, not hairs.
And he says beware o the Congressman that
allus praIsin the West,
For all his fine feathers O. rhetoric is only TO
line his nest.
on the Nickerauguway
That the Congressman from this deestrict he
allus looks out for Pay"
Git up there, Jonas Gallop along l-whee-ew
5:4S.
Pay sez book don't belong to no man from
over the sea;
But the ring O that hosss footsteps and my
head and my heart say nay,
prArNA .nrsp Lots, 7