The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-01-25
FROM TO3E SPILklNS.
"The Last Feather Has Bin Loaded On
the Kamei's Bak."

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Rubikin haz bin crossed. The pint ha
bin reeched whair fOrbearance ceazes t
bee virchu. The dye is ka.t. | did
, ent think cud git madden than l wuz
I'm SO mad that, in the language NV tn
celebrated statesman frum Alabamy.
don't kno where I'm at If the pc
litikal wurld il notsswinging round tn
sirkle then I'm gone plum. clean krazy
Ill bee drat sWattled if it don't bee
emmy dad bummed thing ever sene o.
heerd tel Nv. If ennyboddy kin tel
whether Cleveland il Demokrat Or
Eepublikin / wish tina wud drop NEE :
postel kard and explane how tina du it
He =, az elekted bi the Demikrats and
rite enuff, but if he don't akt just like d
Republican kant see gud. He wurk>
with the Republicans rite along. But
what bothers NEE wurse than ennythln9
else liz so menny Demekrats fOllerln NV
him. Everybody knOs tibet the Deme-
krats hev maid more speeches IL faver
w fire silver than ennybody else. Now
everybody knos that majority Nv
Demikratic congressman voted against
it. Now what | want tn knO liz how a
man kin faver thing and at the same
time vote agin it: 1t don't talk menny
wurds tn settle this question. If the
d. mikratic party liz in faver NV fire sill
yer viii don't it Civ it tn Us: If it haint
viii don't it stop lyin and sa viii it OPP
poses it: Aul this racket about we kant
du it @ithout England giys her konsent
liz bosh. If them fellers had sed that in
THAR speeches last campane we wud hev
bin ashamed NV them. Tha cud not hev
got a kOrporals gard tn voted fur them.
We hev whipped the stul1in out Nv Ing
land twice and we nin du it again if she
IL suffering fur it, and ackOrdin tn the
appearance NV things she IL. The idee
Nv us :skin highland how menny and
what kind Nv dollars tn maik. The next
ling she will want tn be debating how
menny and what kind Nv guns she wants
Us tn manufacture. She heZ the biggest
navy in the wurd. IL that emmy reezin
wee shud pattern after hur ships: 1t
E!aiks NICE so tarnel mad / want tn fife.
And I'm goin' tn tte if this thing haint
stopped. I've got tn fife or bust if cit
envy madder. | sert Off the uther da tn
git me u Winchester gun-one that you
kin wind up in the mOrnin' and shute
sul da without loadin' agin. know THAR
IL got Q be sum titin' dun and if waite
til it commences the felers what got 80
mach mummy and WHO'D air running this
government on the you-rop-e-in plan
v il hi up the factories and | kant git it
then. | hope everybody WHO'D IL ). DIN
tn du emmy titin' fur themselves will du
the saim thing. Ifyou expect tn fife fur
sumbody else tina will furnish the gun
when the time Gums. Mistur editur. |
see in the papur that kOngres adjourned
ez sune Ell it demonetized silver 1t viii
met again in December to see what
Cleveland wants it tn du. | don't see
enny use tn hav d kongre=s if it liz goin
III du jist what the president tells it
tn whether it wants tn or not. | red
Cievelands prCclamashun of thanks
giyin'. He wants us tn stop our wurk
and Civ thanks to God for what we've
got. Ill be burned if du it.. Ihant got
much and don't mind thinkin' the Lord
far it, but don't want to tel Him. what
Il burned phool I've bin in lettin pax
ov politikal thieves ron me NV what |
ought tn have tn give thanks fur. I'm
yittin ashamed. to sa ennythiny tn
tho Lord emmy more. In maxim myself
useful to the Demikratic party | hcv
acted phool in site NV God. | use
tn ask God tn send rane and sunshine tn
help us gro krops, and the Lord sent
EN- and then | turned round and
Civ the biggest part NV the krOps tn
lot Nv dad bummed raskels who don't
wurk nor thank God nor.ennybody else
And now mi children have tn wair old
klothes and mi pants air nearly aul
patches and mi wife hant got no klothes
fit tn go tn meetin' in. I'm dad bum
med .phool. that's what | am, and old |
Cleveland IL Il raskel. If he viii appint |
a Ga tn thank the Demikratik party fur
what wee hxint got Ill go, and git aul
mi nabers tn go. No. sur. | don't du |
emmy sich thing. old C.eevy. I'm goin
tn so I'll votin' right furst and then
when hav a tolk with God Ill tel him
what burned phool I've bin aul the
time and ask him tn let me liv long |
enuf III git fursivness fur it. If L had |
kept the hel itage God give me | |
wudent mind goin intu the dee! and |
thankin Him fur it. but ez l phooled it |
ava tn sustane a fu poiitikal bosses intu
good payin offices and helped du the
r.iyin myself. don't feel like hayin en-
ny konversashum with God til | du |
tn sho him I've turned over a |