Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-04-21
WIMNLEN is QUERE
She Entertained Committee of Re-
formers and Turned the
Tables.
A Lesson in Political Economy That
Went Straight to the Mark
Aimed At.
Leander Bond as "A HOnist RefOrlnur'
Meets More Difficulties III
His Way.

His Way.
| To the Edatlr: Wimen is querc. They
have a way of giving an unexpected turn
to events that promis 1rnbblc. My mind
was mutch decomposcd by having the fere
of that committy before my watering eyes
| when they shood come to indooce my dill
agent wife to except some offs so as to
game her inhooensc. They lingerd. She
scanned to hecr nothing of it, but you
cant always tell what Il quiet woman doz
heer. held my peicc.
On u October day. when nachur was In
tutch with all prodoosers who got big
prices, my wife came from town saying,
| They're coming tomorrow" ! tride to
| look immazed but her penSive eyes rent
in twane the vale over my famed ignnr-
cnce. and she gently remarked, I'm rcdy
for 'em. To bad you have to make that
spcach at Bangs Corners" didn't
take that view.
got off more erly than brite the next
day. What occurd at my hoam | lernt
from witnesses who was in it. My account
of it is revived by my pain taking wife
who has spelt it in her way, as if good
spelling was a CRATE grace. 1t is tie only
thing she ever wanted me to publish
| The committee entered our plain paror
at lO:4O a. NJ. and the leader said "What!
Mrs. Bond, do you keep school here??"
She replied. 'Thrce hours every other
forenoon. teach our two boys, and the
children of the Jensen and the Harlan
families may come if they wish
'And they always wish, don't they? >
said Mr.. Tungcy. Now go right on and
let MS hear
That was exactly what sne ment to do.
The lessons in percentage, U. S. hisiry,
sittzenship and political sience seemedsto
them quite peculiar. Il guess they were
fixed up for the occashun.] The question
ing grew lively like this:
What is money?" asked Mr.. Tungey.
"Scmctmes it is a commodity. like
wheat or cotton, to be bought in the mar
ket and the market price can't be fixed by
legislation. 1t is controlled by the natu-
raj laws of wealth"
Then, what can we buy with it?"
Anything you have to sell-labor or
products
Suppose government issues it?"
"You have to give something for it jus,
the same.
What if have nothing to give for it??''
Earn it then. Work and you'll ge,
your pay
"What is abor?'
Every kind of work that would bring a
great deal more capital to us if it was well
done and the earnings wisely used.''
'At the present wages and prices can
we save anything to pay debts or lay up?
asked Tungey with clear emphasis.
'Mother says so: and she does it, said
our Tom with more clear emphasis and q
pride in his teacher.
Tie nervous Mr.. Paine led off into U. S
history and government, and his. ques.
tioning ended thus:
SIS it a good thing to hold an ofiice?''
"Yes, If one does any public good in it.
"What, then, are offices for?''
There was wondering silence. All
the young eyes were fixed on Mrs. Bond
who said slowly:
koOlicliucS W scCuIc pcISOldl lulupnct
for an exaggerated cause that does no
need a new party, nor justify the cxpens
of running it,"
No geese on pond ever rose quicker a
a random shot than did these three com
mitteemen. The school was out and the,
were going, but my wife was cute enougl
to have u bigger net for them. She is
| fpl 10 ND ck lol ~,
lite Mr.. Waltz to say: "Well, after all
we trust that you are on the side of tn
people,
g what people?''
"Why-ah-why-our people of the e
S.; the uprising millions groaning fo
E. emancipation"
Pm not groaning; I'm not uprisin
much; I'm free as lark now, and al
on the side of all people who mind thei
own business; let others gain what the
may honestly: labor to get fairly wha
! capital you can: don't lie down on the [
S. government like Il truant sailor on
ships deck; think more of living right
than of rcviving old notions about law
9 that must make worse the wrongs the
q aim to remedy; trust God and make til
, best use of his gifts.'
: "But does not the evolution of socit
), rights call for your influence in new dl
!. rections?''
/ "The evolution of housework calls us t
! the dining room. The door opens. Mr.
= Jensen, gentlemen.;
}. "Oh! thanks" said Tungey. 5"We ha
no idea when we came''--
''Iwant you to have one when 70
leave. Walkr riyhtin."
They did. They could not help it. Th
graceful Mrs. Jensen, whose husband ha
loaned two Of them money and henc
been called hard names BY the three, 500