The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-15
HIGGINS1VTIIlL.lL.E Al C0NCORDlA!l. IA.

when the operation was over the
had the cheese and the cats
had nothing. Now, then, all the
lawyers in. christendom never have
added a single dollar to the worlds
wealth, and then they pretend to
dict ate the opinion of tins county, and
OF this state. and of all the other states
how they should vote about matters
that interest the personal interests of
the yeomans. They are as dictatorial
as it is possible for men to be who
never earned a SINGLE farthlng 10y the
sweat of their brow. God Almighty
intended that man should earn his
bread that he eats by the sweat of his
brow, and also by the use of his arm
and his brain. And one of these little
lawyers can come into u
like this peaceful, quiet
and industrious neighborhood of Con-
cordia, and create as much confusion
and as much stencil as any other animal
know of above this green rolling
earth except the skunk; and the differ
ence between the skunk and the lawyer
is that when one of them is dead his
skin is worth seveniy-five cents in the
money of the realm, while the petit
Jogging lawyers skin would not sell
for a single farthing. Aud the only
in making manure to enrich
the land of your country is, the differ
ence in weight between the weight of
the lawyers body and of the skunks.
And this class of men come into your
and create confusion and
among you, and tell you
what your duty is TO your country, and
your family and yourselves.
l want to tell you further that | am
not the editor of a two-penny news
paper, and l am glad am not. Not
that / am better than the great news
paper editors of the country, nor halt
so good, but there are so many news
paper editors that get hold of little
papers all over the country that have
lacked the moral and mental training
in their boyhood days; and many of
these have found themselves utterly
untitled 10 make n living in the
ordinary walks of life, and they believe
that there is not anything else that God
intended they should be but
the editor of country newspaper.
They are like the Quaker's dog, where
they have tried themselves in every
other walk Of life and found themselves
a complete faiIure,. aud they believe
that they are intended for q country
editor. The Quaker sold
his dog to his neighbor in good
faith for coon dog, and he believed,
because Quakers were honest, that the
dog was coon dog, because he had
tried him for everything else on earth,
and he was utterly unfit for all the uses
and purposes. that dogs are offended
for. Now one of these little fellows
may have not been citizen of Your
but three or six short,
when he gets a pencil above
his car and pair of scissors in his
pocket and he at once goes right TO the
duties of editing the newspaper; and
he at once starts out, and he begins to
tell the farmers of the neighborhood
and how many eggs to put
lnuer an old setting hen; and he
begins to talk political economy; and
begins to be dictator in a small way
% learned men that have got four
lines as much brains as he has, what
1 ey should do to be saved; they are
5he wisest, knowingeSt critters that
aver were hatched-many of them are.
And what they lack in argument they
generally make up in the low slung
oalder-dash that they learn in slums of
;ities and villages where they were
'aised. Instead of education God
Almighty. gave them impudence and
,rass; in the place of brains he gave
hem gall and they usually get the
points of their pens and slash away IN
uch Il way as to set the neighborhood
Ill going for a number of years, and
,reate more confusion rather than the
'pettifogger. ----.l
There is another thing L want to say,
Is am a stranger here-yon don't
now who | am or what | am-that |
I'M not the owner of single vacant
ut in the town of Higglnsville and l
bank God for it. | come not here to
ell you corner lots for own none;
I'M glad of it; am not a speeulator in
eal estate-in real estate in Higgins
lille. And L want to tell you another
hing, that you may not be mistaken,
hat am not 4 merchant, and | don't
ome into competition with the mer-
hants around Concordia in any one
hing | know of. | am glad that | am
ot a merchant, because there Is a
lass of men who slip into that business
lho are unfit for any other. and as
oon as they begin 10 vend peanuts and
otton eggs and sinking butter and
alico, they think they carry all of the
1isdom of the world in their vest
ocket. They begin to go out and tell
ou-they begin to go out and tell you
Phether you shall raise Jersey cattle,
r short horn or Pol Angus and what
lme in the month you ought to plant |
hem. And | am glad | am not one, of
hose fellows. | don't own news
aper, and don't run peanut stand.
nd | am not n lawyer, and thank |
iod | am not = candidate for Office. |
hose fellows have Il hard time of it ; |
. takes about four years 10 get an office,
ard work man spends as much us
he. whole term of Office is worth, and
lhen he gets the Office he has nothing |
mt the Office, and nothing but the
onor left; and some have very little |
onor LETT. No, sir; | am not IL can
idate; did not come here TO ask you
D vote for me for nothing. | am glad
can make living without a>county
flee.
PROF. JONES TALKS.
Prof. Jones, of Warrensburg, Che
Did the editor of this paper that he
we'd in Warrensburg) made speech.
his young man who has Henry Clay
cad with the Henry left off, made a
oud speech about politicians, lawyers,
evils, &c. &c. lie is not II tax
aver, just an orator. His maiden
fort would have made Patrick
Ien,y call for another revolution, for
D hear him m-speak war is inevitable.
RANlrER HoEFEE TALKS.
Banker Henry lIocfer talked in
iernAn. We did not know at just