The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-27

D." Hello! Mr.. Bilkins. What can
we do for you?7
B.-"I want to talk to the edition
about that committee that mot in Raj
eigh last week"
R.-"An right, Mr.. BiIkiDa. WRa,
is it,"
B.-"I want to know what that CON.
mittee of ten did"
RI can't tell you, Mr., BiIkns
The address prepared by them / as no.
appeared yet"
B,-"Well, Betsy she says she wants
to know if they did anything to raise
the price of chickens, and l want tar
know if they did enything to raise to
price of cotton"
RI can't tell you, Mr.. Bnkns
If they did anything Of the kind it is
more than any political gathering has
done in a good many years
B,-"Well, why in the dickins don't
they do somethin'? Me an Betsy are
gittin' nifty tired waitin'. Betsy says
if the wimin could get to vote things
would be different. But l told her that
them inspired politicians could fool old
Nick himself. But Betty she thinks
that the wimin wouldn't he fools
enough to just keep ON votin' year
after year with times a gettin' worse
all the time. She says we mel are all
"perlitical FOOLS" for we just let the
money lords keep goin' to Congress
and to the Sinate. They stuff Their
pockets and help some of the other
money lords to do the same and we hov
to foot the bill"
R.-"Your wife evidently has Il level
head"
B,-"You bet she has. Blamed if
she don't make me git ashamed Of my,
self lots of times. Hev you seen Mr.
Smith since last week."
R.-"Yes; e him often. He says
he is going to have things all nght."
B.-"How is he goin' ter do it,
R.-"WelI, they are going to reform
the tariff"
B.-"Blast the tariff. I want that
reformed, too, but it is not enough. I
want the Sub Treasury bill passed. an
I amt goin' to vote another lick if.
can't get to vote for men who are@r
it, heart and soul"
R.-"That is class Legislation, Mr..
Bilkins. 1t would ruin some Of the
poor miIlionalres. Nearly all the
editors of political papers in North
Carolina are millionaires and they oP-
pose it. The lawyers are m~illionaire8,
too, and they can't become partners to
this scheme
B.-"But didn't jefferson and Cal
houn and Jackson and Jeff Davis and
Abe Lincoln favor the farmers gettn
what they wanted, no matter what
other people said?"
R.-"Yes, they all favored that
plan. But at that time the farmers
had the control of public affairs Since
the wal u people have let politicians
run our affairs and have not taken the
interest they should have done
B-''That is sO. But amt the farm
ers sOrter gOin' into pOliticks nOW|'
R.-"Yes, but you e that IS the
trouble. The politicians are Losing
their grip and their pl n is to cry down
the measures proposed by the farmers
and to SANDER the men who have been
elected to prominent positions in the
Alliance"
Betsy wants to talk ter you.
Can she?"
R.-"Yes; my hat is off now.
Mrs. B.-"Hello! Mr.. Editor"
R.-"All right, Mrs. BiIkins.'
Mrs. B.-"Ain't men mighty foolish
to try to break down things by ridicu.
in them?'
R.-"They are"
Mrs. Well, amt men whosIan
der people liars?'
R.-"That is plan language, but the!
belong to the family of liars.
Mrs. B.-"Well, ought We to tl s:ss
them or elect them to public o0S'
when they act that way" ,o
R-"Certainly it looksIik. no3 lTL
to expect such men to make -ool I [e
VI mango Ddu OL6S, OuU we h-'
doing it," bo
Mrs. B.-"You men ou-lter, W
ashamed of yourselves. You ol2"' r
hide your faces for six months.
Zeke don't quit this sort Of blI-lnS.
I'm gOin' to git a divorce. am E3IIL
ter live with a man who don Unto
any more Of his country an ms E ftni
an children than to always be IL I0H'
just because he belongs to the parry
Goodbye"
What did Betsy say:
R.-"She said if you didn't quiz - q
ing a fool she was going To 6e'
divorce"
B.-"Betsy is right. But I'm g4 for
to do better. I'm gOin' to NCle ftor
Betsy and the chi dren here"iVl
Goodbye"