The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-05-31
A DAKOTA FARMERS VIEWS.

Populist Ketchum formerly real
estate speculator of Boomtown, MINI. J
|-"Ah, cd mornin' nabor; hard at it,
I see. Well, work suits some fellers,
but it never did me, nohow."
Farmer Growsum, (who is plow-
ing)-"Guess yeh don't half teh work,
but yeh dress well, and got a good
team and buggy there"
Eyes, pretty fair. Got 'em on a
land deal just afore Boomtown busted,
and with wink thought I'd get a
leetle further West. How's times in
this lowe ality?"
"Bad, nifty bad. Drouth last year !;
gophers ct up most everything year
afore; tibet Rushin thissels spreadin'
like mad. Got to hussel to get liv-
in here. Gee roun there, Gray"
"Hard times, Ell? You're one of the
men I'm lookin' fur. Calkilate to run
for Congrus this fall, and thought I'd
take run through this part O. the
State to kinder get acquainted. Looks
like I'm goin' to get the nomination
all right. If I do, spose l can count
on your vote?"
"Well, I dunno. What mout yer
prinserpils be? So many fellows
roun' now, all wantin to go to Con-
grus, man don't know who's who. "
ooh, me? Why I'm fur the only
party that's fur the farmer. The free
silver party, of course. Amt it time
that you, the toilers of our farms, rose
against the the giant money powers
which like a huge octupus-"
"Hol on. I amt seen no jints out
here in Dakoty. It's the thissels, and
drouth thet's worryin' me. Octupusses
amt botherin' us roun' here half
as much as gophers. But wat yeh
goin' to do for me if I help SEN you
to Congrus?"
"Do? I'm agoin' to break the
chains thet the blasted British gold
bugs hes got on every farmer. I'm
goin' to give you free coinage at 16
to l. I'm goin' to put silver up to a
doller'n twenty-nine cents an ounce.
Thet's wat I'm goin' to do"
"Mebbe yeh are. An mebbe yeh
amt. But wat I want ter know is
how that's goin' teh help me? Hist,
darn yeh, Bill, git yer leg over that
trace.) I see how goin' to Congrus's
goin to help you wear good close and
drive team without workin'. Whered
l come in?"
"I'm afraid, my friend, you don't
see that if silver goes up, wheat'll GO
up. corn'll 60 up, everything you
raise II go up. Then you'll be able
to make twice as much off'n your farm
as you do now"
"Will, hey? I amt SO sure 'bou,
tibet. TIL price of wheat's fixed in
England, where theirs the blame gold
standard. How's free silver goin' t.
to change prices there? Anyway, il
prices do go up, won't l have to pay
jist twict as much for my sugar, glass,
nails, blankets an harness?"
"Guess yeh will, but you can pay
yer debts off in silver, and stead o
havin' to give a thousan' bushel Of
wheat for five hunerd dollars, yeh'l
only hev to give hat as many"
''Think I get yer meanin' now
You're one of these here fellers who
: want to find some way of gettin' ou
of payin' lawful debts, or cuttin' then
down hat. Mebbe if you paid yel
debts back in Boomtown yeh wouldn'
have no team and buggy. Well, In
poor, an 1 work hard. Got to gel
these thissels plow'd under and ain'I
got no more time to argy. But if In
poor I'm honest, and I don't want to
send no man to Congrus to pass law'
cheatin' men who's lent money. G'(
up there, dern yer picters. F"
Then Mr.. Ketchum drove off to lool