The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-12

III
Can't Get Betsy RecOnciled--The Presi-
dents Message The Wits
key Trust.
B.-"Hellol Mr.. Editor"
R.-"Top Of the morning, old boy
How do you feel9"
Bob! feel all broke up; feellike
had bin run threw a thrashin' mer-
sheen erbout four times inside oV a
week"
R.-"What is the trouble now@'
B.-''Truble? Well, I havin' enuff
truble. All the folks on the Hawwle
Islands haint he'd as much truble in a
month az I've he'd in a week. l can't
git Betsy reckonsiled. SAe is wantin'
ov a new dress an I amt able ter pay
fer it. If I could got that Tevernew
offs under Simmons everything would
be as peaceful as a Sunday mornin' In
May, but I didn't git it. Betsy lows
that 1 git a new suit ov clothes every
campaign year so I ear go ter the con
vention an git in the hands ov my
friends. She says she haint he'd a new
dress in five years an she thinks she
has bin a faithful wife and has helped
me economize an wurk an save things,
an she says the new dress orter be
forthcomin'."
RI think she is right about that.
A woman who only asks for a new
dress once in five years, and a cheap
one, too, ought to get it,"
B.-"I reckon you are right, but you
see I sold my crop fer less than it cost
ter make it, an 1 didn't git emmy rever
new reform nor emmy tariff reform
either. So money is too skase ter be
THROWN it erway on dresses Betey Is
still scorin' me erbOut my party beln'
in power an it doesn't make times
guide enuf ter git her a new dress. l
tell you we Democrats has ter do some
tall excuse maxim ter explain just how
an why things are gjttin' worse"
R.-"How doyou like the Presidents
Messenger
B.-"Blamed if I know. 1 thought
1 wuz goin' ter like it purity well when
Iwuz promised that revernew position,
but everything makes me sorter giddy
an sick at the stomach now. Them
fellers whut got an offs on emmy sort
kin afford ter blow the message a little,
but I don't feel like it. I'm sufferin'
with the failure to git Gifts cramp now,
an nothin' sets we'll with me-"
R.-"A revenue position won't be
worth much to some Of them now.
About four f1fths Of the distilleries
have shut down already, so the list of
store keepers who will get work will
be mighty small"
B.-"You don't say so. What does
that mean9'
R.-''It simply means that the
Whiskey Trust, like the gold bugs.
have their grasp upon the Threats of
the administration. Under the new
rules the small distillers cannot make
three gallons Of whiskey to the bushel
of meal. The large steam distillers
can, and they all belong to the Whis-
key Trust. The small distillers helped
get the gold bugs and Whiskey Trust
in power, so Gid the small bankers.
Now the small distillers must close
down, and nearly 800 small banks have
closed and more are closing every day.
The big banks and the big distilleries
are reaping a rich harvest out of the
misfortunes of their weaker neighbors
and the public generally"
B.-''That is awful. 1t makes me
fghtin' mad. I wonder if President
Cleveland belongs to the Whiskey
Trust an the gold bugs"
R.-"He belongs to the Brewers
Association and owns a big beer brew
cry at Buffalo, N. Y. The Brewers
Association is closely allied to the
Whiskey Trust, both being close akin
from the nature Of their products. He
evidently belongs to the gold bug crew,
as they are the only crowd who have
anything good to say of him."
B-"Well, well, 1 reckon I would
have defended him if 1 he'd got my
offs, but az the kase stands 1 amt
goin' ter say a wurd fer him. Good
bye"
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