The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-02-27
ONLY A TRAMP.
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OH0 udy L was lingering near the
field where a farmer was blowing. and
L thought l would talk to him a little
Says L: "Well, farmer, how's tho
world and the Democratic party snrv-
ing you these times9 Reckon Won ara
happy and prosperous. Let's sea.
what's your nameG' He answered verv
v~oclferously, My name is Sam Plow-
man. live in the little log cabin on
the hill, where the honeysuckles Green
round the door post and the moss and
the Ivy cling to the time worn O O
My wife lives there, too, and her name
Is Betsy-Betsy Plowman. I am the
possessor of a mule with a war record.
n his name is NebuchadneEzah. |
am what the Democrats call a re-
former l believe in kicking and rails.
ing lots of Hail Columbia when things
don't go right. That's according to
mule Observation-Disclosures does that
way. Should l work him too hard
n not feed him, and cuss him and
beat him, why, he'd kick the very fore
ordination out of me in the twinkle of
an eye. So, when I don't make much
and don't get anything for what I do
make, and the politicians begin to raise
the war-whoop about Hawaii, Queen
Lii, Bill Force or force bill, or some,
thing like that, and the devil and all
his hosts. break their chains and vote
for the two old parties, and there's a
great Capitalization about this and that
and the other thing, why, I just do
like NebuchadneEzah-I begin to kick,
to kick like the devil. Pardon my
mule language. And as I go blowing
along l sometimes have a conversation
with NebuchadneEzah. Now says l
to him, as we struck a stump and
knocked me IA feet and broke the plow
and flung my red bandana into the
kingdom come, these Democrats and
Republicans are in a curious condition.
They pretend to be the friend of the
people, yet they vote and work against
everything that is calculated to benefit
the masses. They have been a-fooling
the people 10! these many years. But
they have at last struck q stump. The
honest people won't be fooled any
longer, and by the next election they
will be knocked harder and higher
than 1 was when you raised your an
terror extremities. and the plow of
modern Demfoolery will be broken,
and the old mule of honesty and patriot
ism will march into Washington, give
the monopolists a death kick, kick the
gold bug crew into hades and Jump
upon a free and unlimited silver plank
and there hold the fort for a pair of
centuries. Make way for the kickers-
mule sense is coming! And Nebuch-
adnezzah raised his big brown ears,
shifted the passing breeze, and bayed
and bayed and bayed, and 1 think I
saw a limpid tear-mule tear, twas
understanding in his eye.' At another
time says I to ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: DO
you know how many days we have
worked and worked to raise this cot
ton and wheat, and I'll get 6 cents for
one and so cents for the other9 Re-
member how often, ahl how often, we
have toiled while the sun was hot and
the SHOWS we're freezing, you was sick
but you worked away and I sweated
and sweated. 1 told you that in a lit
tie while harvest time would come and
then I'd sell my ID cent cotton and we'd
all be jolly and glad.
THE Democrats said to vote for
Cleveland and all would be well. Now
we've done u duty as best we could,
| but we have no reward. 0, Nebuch-
adnezzah, when I think of all these
things, I say would that I had the
wings of a Shanghai rooster, for then
I'd fly away and be at rest. O, that 1
had the limbs of a billy goat, for then
I'd climb to some lone mountain peak
and weep away the years. And Nebuch-
aduezzah was sad as John on the Isle
of Patmos, or as Senator Ransom will
be after the next election One day
GAYS l to ACKNOWLEDGMENT, The mule
that pulls the plow ought to eat the
| clover and the hay. These mules what
don't work any live on corn and clover
and you don't get scarcely a living.
It's not right. Now last campaign
| there was Jarvis, Robbins 6 Go. run
ming all over the State pulling Demo
cratic wagons loaded down with dead
beats and loafers, and after the cleo
ton they go home and there is no fod-
der there, so they have to go to work
again to get something to eat, while