The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-01

MN
Another News And observer scandal"
BrewiDg-No Danger Of Wa Unless
King sbury Tries To Preach In Cuba
The Poor Railroads Excite Pity Around
The Bilkins Fireside.
B-"Hetlol Mr. Editor"
r. Hellol Major. Any news to
dayp
B.-'sNot much out this way. /
reckon the papers are full ov war talk
an perIitical rot az usual. Bill Simp
ION wuz over ter my house yesterday
IN he SD that Henry Upchurch sed
that the News aud Observer WE gOin'
ter be filled up with another big scan
de next Sunday. He sed it had bin
issuin' a Police Gezstte paper every
Sunday with scandal in it, an that iG
thought fiction stranger than truth.
The next charge IL Ter be that f%usionists
hev got coRErol ov the moon IN made
it too drunk ter perfC-m it dusles
R-You mean that the News and
0bsturber Is going to charge that the
moon no longer afillstes with the
Democratic party and hence is not
worthy OF notice, and that 1t will write
two column article and prove by a
maj who doesn't exist that the moor
has been full at least q dozen times
during the past three weeks"
B-"OhI l donE know whut you are
drivin' at, but / started out ter say
Whut Wu7 sppearin' in the paper. I
notis that the battleahip Maine hes
gone ter Cuba. Let her go. The pa
pers needn'5 say so much erbout b
FitEerhugh Lee went ter Cuba too, a
year or so go, an the world continues
ter turn GROUND. Nobody needs ter
cit scared unless this government sends
Col. DIR. KIngsbury down there with hlA
Gatlin' gun. Then they wouldn't be
much danger unless he an Gen BlaDCO
would git jealous ov each other. Kings
bury would try ter defeat the lngur
gents by preachin' ter them an Blanco
would keep bl6Kin' away on hl3 Eype
writer an that mite git up a little dis
cord In the camp. I see that she poor
railroads are havin' awl they kin do
ter keep their heads above the water,
Il makes me awful sorry every time I
read Whsr they say they can't make q
decent livin' il rates are reduced by
the commission. 1 think I'll sell bale
ev five cent cotton an send Kurnell
Andrews an Mr.. Sc. John erbout three
dollars an a half apiece ter hep 'em
cut. Betsy gifts SAD over it, too. She
says If she could sell a COW fer the
cash she'd send Mr.. Pierpont Morgan
half the money, fer she JUS knows he
amt got a respectable suit ov clOShes
ter wear ter meetin'. But woman like
an like awl the other Populista, she
says she don't pity him 81 much az she
mite fer his gold standard skeeme heA
Rxed things 30 l can't git enuh fer .
bale ov cotton ter buy Mr.. Morgan Q
dinner like he used ter eat before the
North Carolina Railroad Commission
began ter try ser reduce rates. But
tell Mr.. Morgan, Mr.. Andrews, Mr..
Henry Muller. Mr.. SIS. John, Mr.. EN-
merson an Mr. Bob Furman an aWl
the railroad uoagnates that we've got a
big heart In us an we wont let them
gtarve. We will sell the last chicken
On the farm at n cents apiece an help
them ter keep the volt frum the door
If the Wust Gums ter the wurst. We
know that the few men who Own the
railroads in North Carolina made more
clear profit last year than aWl the far
mers an merchants in the State put
tergether, but they've got that sailed
away an they couldn't make quite so
much profit next year if the commits
sion maze the reductions, an so we
r standIn' ready ter see that they
don't cum ter absolute starvation
Wen give 'em half ov our last cake ov
0orp bread rather than ter see them
mopin' Ground with ragged clothes an
empty stomachs Gudeoye."
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