The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-04-11
ARNOLD'S . COUP
The vesta Farmer, popullst and
Politician, Replies to h.
w. Farmer.
a L1ugh, Lots Of Talk and Some
Sauce In the Lengthy
Response.

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Response.
T0rHE ED1roR:-Permit me few
words in reply to the article by "Hard
working Farmer" which you have fa-
cetiously termed pepper. I assure
you dear Sir, lin confidence) that if it
ever was intended for pepper, it was
taken from the wrong bottle, or had
lost It's strength when it got to me. So
far from producing the usual effect of
pepper throwing (tears),. it had the
CONTRARY effect and has proved most
exhilarating tonic. Ha! Ha! The
letter proves that I can draw a pen
picture which does not need to have
written under it the legend of a GER
tain srtist's picture "this is a horse"
WheA penned that illustratiol for
the lady, who turned from being q
critic to complimentary friend,I L had
no idea that any one would be foolish
enough to put the cap on; and not
onlythe cap, bnt the whole variegated
suit with its attendant bells and wind
bag, and exhibit himself before the
GAzErrE's large audience, in the char
acter of harlequin. The gentleman's
letter proves too, that though I may
have been returning from town on the
occasion mentioned, and the wind
blowing through my whiskers, yet my
vision was not obscured, nor my ability
to reproduce the picture. The gentle
man seems to pride himself in being
born on American soil. Why, the In
dian and buffalo we're here long before
his ancestors, and though they have
had their blood shed in defense of
their natural habitat, they never got
beyond the intelligence of an Indian
or buffalo, and were it not for the hu-
name and more intelligent of the citi-
zeas Of this country both races would
now be extinct. A fig for your PRIDE
of-soil birth. The writer's ancestors
we're in the garden of Eden, the cradle
of humanity, and so was the Devil, who
has been raising the devil ever since.
Moreover, the gentleman exhibits his
ignorance as to the grounds of patriot
ism. It does not consist so much in
being born on certain spot, but in
raising offspring there. hence the stork
and swallow return to their annual
resting place and the wild beasts OF
the earth will not leave the place where
they have raised their) young unless
by compulsion. The same is true oil
our domestic animals. The rule holds
good with the humanl family also
Take an emigrant from any civilized
country, transplant him to another
country, and let him there make &
home and raise a family. After many
years he returns to visit:his birthplace
and finds the glamour of old associa-
tions changed, he enjoys visit
through his organ of adhesiveness,b ,but
love of home rises uppermost and he
contentedly returns to rest his bones
where he has raised his family. Hence
the truth of IngersolPs philosophy
and patriotism when he says "men dc
not fight for a mere boarding house
but for their homes and families.
The writer has raised family of sons
on American soil, the eldest of whom
would if living, be as old as "Hard
working Farmer" whose talk on pa
triotism shows that if he is short or
coin, he is long on brass, but did moi
start out to write an essay on patriot
ism although it would give me much
pleasure to do so and the gentleman
seems to need it. Neither did [ in
tend to write on >current politics, bu1
if the gauntlet is thrown down l al
ways pick it up if any good is likely
to result from the joust. AS Uncle
Sam is no doubt sick, and as there
are different schools of physicians il
this world, it may not be amiss to heal
more than one side.
The gentleman who has already
spoken seems to think as far as car
sift it from the villifcation Ito which