The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-03-28
JAS. A.
A lizard Working Farmer" Sails In.
to Our Agricultural
Editor.
Mr.. Arnold Is Taken to Task for
Talking Politics to Farm
er'S Wife,"

To THE ED1ToR:-1t seems from the
pointed remarks made by James Ar
mold, of Vesta, in his reply to Farm
er's Wife" that he thinks he has To-
Gated the lady who takes the reverend
gentleman to task about some of his
ideas.
Now, I wish to say neither the hard
working farmers wife, nor her hus-
band, had anything to do with the ar
ticle signed Farmers Wife," and in
the interest of fair play I hope the au-
thor will disabuse the gentleman's
mind upon the point.
Inasmuch as the Vesta statesman
has seen proper to draw parable
from the life of the hard working
farmer he begs leave to say just
word and then he is done. As to the
gold bug mortgage story hard-work-
ing farmer pleads guilty in manner
and form as indicted. When the said
mortgage was executed he received
from the gold bug good coin of the
realm. Last year when the hot winds
came and blasted his hopes and crops
and he was stranded upon a rocky
shore, he went to the terrible gold bug
and explained to him the true situa-
ton. The gold bug devoured him by
telling him to go his way and clothe
and feed his family with the money
he earned by working with the thresh-
er and perhaps another year God
would not blast the land with hot
winds, Democracy and Populism. He
charges me with trying to rivet upon
the people by my voice and vote the
shekels of the money power of Europe.
I only wish I had the power to rivet a
goodly portion of those shekels upon
my good Republican and Democratic
friends. Shekels are a very good
thing to have riveted to man. The
shackles of Europe which he escaped
by coming to America I have no use
for and never yet saw a Republican
who had.
Ipresume I hard-working farmer is
also one of the >unpatriotic Americans
who cause the reverend gentleman to
shed great drops of sympathetic tears
lin his mind). While not attaching
any virtue to myself because of it, I
wish to say that my ancestors in their
humble way helped to found a free
government here amid the wilds of
America away back in Revolutionary
times, and later some of them gave up
their life's blood that this country
might be free in fact as we'll as in
name.
Yet this great Populist reformer
born upon foreign shore and com.
ing here to enjoy the blessings of lib
erty secured by the suffering and
blood of host of men who we're eth
er born here or came before him pre-
sumes to teach these battle-scared vet
erans and their children the great les
son of patriotism. He tells them it
consists of sowing wild mustard at
night, calling the execution of the
Chicago anarchists "a judicial mur-
der" patting the red-handed murder
er on the back and calling him good
fellow, and villifying and defamine
those placed in authority by the vot.
ers of this nation. He tells them il
consists of educating the debtors ol
America to be dishonest. Borrow good
coin of the realm, set a pay day and
when pay day comes call the creditor
a gold bug or plutocrat, kick him
and keep both the coin or its invested
value and the property upon which
security was taken. In other words
repudiate the debt through form oi
law. How many of the Populists
would invest their money with men o1
the class described. I notice the Pop
ulists get out of the philanthropy
business very quickly after they get
an Office and act very much like Dem
ocrats. Very few of the perquisites
are allowed to lie about unclaimed
and the Office is generally sucked like
an orange for all there is in it. And
now, dear friend, let me tell you why
in my estimation it became necessary
for hundreds of wives and daughters
in this fair land to lend a hand and
help to push the car of fortune on.