Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-03
FROM UNCLE ELD0RUs."


advice from men who have ''been
around" a little. Your uncle wants to
drop few suggestions that you can
think over during the long winter eve
nings. may be little late in enter
ing the arena of politics. and what
say may have no influence on the re-
suit of the scramble for positions Of
road overseers. dog pelter or such; but
mean we'll, and say my say now, in
order that the excitement of y campaign
may not rattle me or make you party
blind. Here are my suggestions:
If you are living in town and de-
pending on the sale of calico or shingle
nails. coal or corsets for living. don t
call the country boys Hey Reubens, va
hoos, or calamity howlers just because
they see fit to get up little circus Of
their own. At least don't condemn
their show until they assess you to pay
the clowns.
2-f you happen to be the owner Of
quarter section with a mortgage,
some wheat and a few cattle ON it, ar d
have failed to make financial connec-
tion with the exactness of brakeman
coupling cars, don't rant about and call
all town people bloated bond holders,
silk stockings, money sharks, or counter
hOppers. The fellows who are 50 un-
fortunate as to depend upon your pat
h,,r Zen
ing tO make that financial connection
than you are, for they take the greater
risk in the long run.
3-Don't set yourself up as the only
living example OF THE nOblest work "f
God. There are many fair samples of
His workmanship. The trouble is tue
devil slipped in while the Lord was out
to dinner and got in IA few licks when
most of us were being fashioned, and
marred our mental features somewhat.
But don't lay that up against the Lord,
or the rest of the boys.
4-Don't think you have monopoly
of the English language and try to
place a gag in any mans mouth. Ma
ture intended that every tongue should
wag at one end at least, and neither
you nor your interests will suffer if
only truth comes out; if falsehood is
thrown out instead of the truth the
tongue that it slips out over will be
scorched the most. A wise Providence
fixed things that way.
5-DOn't discard every book or paper
that is not labeled with your particular
political creed. Read everything that
you have time to read, and read slow
enough to give your mental organs time
to digest the whole business. If such
organs are not constipated by reason of
too long diet of one kind; are not in
famed with having absorbed too much
bloody shirt, calamity or hard money.
they will easily assimilate anything
you run through them and throw IF
the worthless while absorbing the good.
6-Don't be party-blind. You know
what's the matter with you better than
anybody else does. Make up your miId
what is to your interests that will
be your nei9hbOrs' and your neighbOrs'
neighbors' interest also--and then go
to work to further that interest in the
most reasonable way. Get your
neighbors to work with you; but don't
open up arrangements for the partner
ship by calling your neighbor fool OK
a scoundrel. If you do he will hit back,
and he will try to get his neighbor also
to hop onto you. And while you are
fighting some other. fellows, who have
been successful in advancing their
Interests for years aud years by work
ing together, will get and maintain the
upper hand of you.
7-Remember you are either pro-
ducers or depending on the success Of
producers, and don't let your eastern
relatives who are manufacturers or de-
pending upon the success of manufac-
turers run any more of their protection
rheinecabOo on you. They have bad
their turn long enough. and should
know when they have enough-if they
do not you should teach them. But if
you have borrowed money from them,
don't try to crawfish out Of paying it
back; square up the account according
to the bond but don't sign any more
such bonds.
S-Dou't think your Uncle Sam is a
rich old cOdger who wants to make you
a class of perpetual debtors by loaning
you money. 1t is true he has favored
a few of the boys in that way; but he
was wheedled into it by fellows who
got around him when he was little
ratified over a family quarrel. My word
for it.. be don't want tO do it any more.
9-Wheu you start tu Washington to
visit Your Uncle Sam and to capture
the White House. don't divide your
forces and straegle along over half d
dozen roads. Gather your crowd in one
grea. mass. composed of ALL the boys
who want a fair and equal divvy, and
march in with a certainty OF getting