Mower County transcript., 1892-04-27

out of lit. I hope that farmers won't
think they are too busy to set trees this
spring. think that IN the towns too,
everybody ought to set trees. Some of
the trees in Austin are worth as much as
corner lot. Farmer Ben says, plant
trees. Townies. and farmers, and school
children and school msrms. all should
plat trees, ..s a. - @asy
Uncle Sam don't look after his woods
as they do in the old countries, The
natural forest of France and Germany
and other parts of Europe are most care
fully managed by the government or else
many districts would now be destitute of
fuel and valuable timber. The vacan.
cies in the natural forests have been
filed up by plantin' trees and sowin' OF
seed. and today vast forests occupy what
was originally loose sand and desert. des
titute of vegetation. In the hilly parts
of this country, the woods on the noun
tains hold back the snow and rain from
being quickly carried off by the sun and
so the brooks aud springs are fed al
summer and there amt no big floods. /
tell you if our big rivers and our springs
dry up every summer it will be as great
calamity to our country as free trade or
Donuelly laws. Uncle Sam wants to
look out for what woods he's got left.
I hope that Farmer Ben will have q
chance to vote for Attorney General
Kingsley this fall. l never knew much
about him until heard him speakln' in
our last election. He argued on the Nc
Kinley bill and he just explained about
tin and pearl buttons and the tariff not
bein' tax and the like till could just see
it as plain as l can see the benefit of
reciprocity. I like to hear him argue q
case. He follows up the trail step by
step, until he corners his opponents and
they can't get away. hear tell that his
arguments in the Supreme Court general
ly win. think he is good enough to go
to Congress or to be judge in this dis
trict. But if he thinks he wants to be
Attorney General, Farmer Ben will sup.
port him for that. His head is chock
full of law and it don't get stuck comm
out when he wants to talk it.
heard some of the boys the other day
to1 w. ho,,t o,r rovf
just made me think of the election two
years ago when Dunnell was put up so
unanimously and then forsaken for free
silver Democrat. I never liked that I
was just hot. I think that if anybody
didn't want Dunnell they ought to have
headed him off IN the convention. But
after he was nominated 80 fair and so
unanimous, it was a iowlived trick to
desert him. guess that some of those
who helped defeat him are doin' some
mighty lively thinkin' just now. If Gray
and some of those other fellows who
want the place this trip, were in the op
position to Dunnell at the polls after he
was fairly nominated, they will have to
hustle for help this fall. No matter
what they thought of Dunne1l, no matter
how much they envied his benz such 3
leader in congress. no matter how long
they had to wait round till Dunne]l had
m,lked his pail full and given them: .
chance, they ought to have stayed BY
and backed him up. Some of 'ems are
goin' to find a mighty poor breed of
chickens comm home to roost with them
this fall. But they set the eggs for EN-
two years ago and they mustn't complain.
-. .......:.. FARMER BEN. ,.