Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-09-20
"Dear BOyD Letters.

My Dear Boy-In your last letter you
say that old man Skinner, your employer,
says that he doesn't see what farmer
can be thinking of to vote for Mckinley
when the trusts are squeezing the life out
of the farmer and the country is drifting
right into imperialism every day"
You want to know how to oanswer him.
Well, | will tell you what to say to him
and then | have few words to say to
you.
Ask Mr. Skinner if he remembers that
that in 1896 he sold that sorrel mare that
used to work on the nigh side with old
Jim for S45. Ask him whether the sor-
rel wasn't better horse than that bay
that he sold to Crawford the other day
for $50. Remind him that he sold his
wool in 1896 for II cents, and that he
sold this year for q cents and kicked like
a steer because he didn't get 30.
Gently suggest that he sold couple of
steers in 1896 for So per hundred,
and that they were as good as those splen,
did fellows that he sold last week for
$40.
The old man runs huckster wagon
into Nesonville and sells produce to the
miners wives. Ask him if he remembers
that four years ago a woman would come
out to the wagon and say:
"Can you let me have a peck of pota-
toes and trust me till John gets work."
Remind him that the same woman
comes out now and says: "Give me three
dozen Of eggs and two pounds of butter
What are those peaches worth? I'll take
a basketful of them. Give me a peck of
those tomatoes. How much does it all
come to? Here's your money. When
are you going to bring in some veal?
John likes veal for breakfast"
Ask him if he doesn't know that more
money has been paid out as wages to
working men during the past year than
in any other year in the history of the
Hooking Valley. Ask him whether a
considerable part of this money hasn't
found its way into his capacious pocket
book.
Remind him that he told me- that
whenever the Mayhem farm is put up for
sale he intends to bid on that upper eighty
that joins his, and that he has made
enough money in the last two years to
pay for it,
And then gently suggest that he does
not appear to be suffering much from lm-
periaIism or trusts either. Tell him that
perhaps he had better let well enough
alone. Tell him not TO vote for what he
doesn't want. Tell him that when trade
is good and business confidence strong and
heathful, it is not wise to tear the whole
thing down by giving the administration
into untried hands.
| think that this is the only kind of
argument that will touch old man Skinner,
but you, my boy, have larger soul [
want to say some other things to you
My boy, thank God that you live in
country prosperous at home and honored
abroad, and never so prosperous and hon
ored as now.
When you come to vote this tall, re-
member that the national credit has
reached its highest point; that the work
of American laborers has gained its high
est reward, and that the glory of Amer-
can arms on land and sea has been most
widely maintained under the wise, thought
full, patriotic administration of William
Mckinley.
Remember that his administration is
carrying out the principles and policy of
the Republican party.
Remember that the blood Of four gen
erations Of American soldiers runs in your
veins, and then vote so that you will not
be ashamed Of your vote on the day after
election.
Your FATHER.