Mower County transcript., 1902-10-01
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN

AOAO1uAAotOO ea1u O4OCtOu UOSauo0 l. 1CaNy
has kicked shins with him on the mer-
ger and trust business. All right, Mr..
Morgan, set yourself up as little god
against eighty million people and see
how you come out. You may. think
because you are big Injun> down: in
Wall street that you are above all laws
and all CONTROL. I bet you IL run agin
a snag one of these odd days and then
look ~out.s Public sentiment amt un-
like a-cat that seems all kind and
smooth and unresistin' but when you
pull her tail, too hard comes at you
with the sharpest of claws and scratches
your beauty all off. Farmer Ben amt
no scare stirrer but [ tell you this
merger and trust business is threat
and danger to all the interests of all
the masses, teetotally and it's got to
be tackled sooner or later. The idee,
that one man can stand higher all the
laws of the state and land and defy
'em is goin' to play clean out when the
people get their backs up. Roosevelt
is tryin' to enforce the laws and it's his
sworn duty to do this and if Morgan is
fitin' him for this, then I say: "Down
with Morgan and his whole kit.
o o o /.
can't get over that ninny trouble
down in Chicago university over keep
in out the. girls from the boys classes.
When I was lad girls want much ex-
pected to try for advanced eddication.
The colleges was for boys and ifthe
girls got thro common school that was
generally thought to be enough. But
a change has come over the spirit of
the age. We've been jawin' the girls
so long for not risin' higher than:
maxim tattin and embroidery that they
are actually tacklin' the eddication
problem by the horns and they are
swarmin' into our colleges and univer-
sites like flies after black cow in the
pastur in August. That amt all. These
girl students are actually settlin'' down
to hard study and instead of bummin'
out all night and rushin' the growler
and goin' to leg showss55and neglectin'
their studies like so many of the boys,
they are gettin' right to*the front in
study markin's. Now this is threatenin'
tothe boys for the girls to get ahead Of
'em and take all the honors and so they
have petitioned to shut out the girls
from all classes in common at least for
the first two years. All Farmer Ben
has to offer at the present date on this
subject is that if the boys can't get
hump on 'em and keep up with girl
students then let 'em fall to the rear
and bring up that. It's a question of
survival or promotion of the fittest and
I'm Darwinian enough to adopt that
heartily.
So old Granny Hear and his Boston
Anti-everythin' league is goin' to close
up shop and quit fitin' the U. S. govern
ment and the sentiment of the whole
country on our humane and noble
foreign policy Of dealin' with the Fill.
pinos. It's high time they shut up their
shop and their gable. They We been
the means of killin' thousands Of our
soldiers and Of maxim no end of trouble
in settlin' up affairs over across the
Pacific by dingin' away against imagi-
nary conditions and evils that never
existed. When president Mckinley
ordered our troops at Manila that they
alwus had just one thing to do on and
that was to exercise their authority for
the security Of the persons and property
Of the people Of the island and for the
confirmation of all their private rights
and relations, Farmer Ben knew he
meant it. Now after kickin' up all
this fuss and prolongin' the rebellion
in the Filipines and raisfn' Satan gene
rally, they lay down and kind Of calker-
late that what president Mckinley Or
dered is about the way things is comm
out and they hav no further use of
keepin' their claptrap goin'. The idee
of Granny Hoar pickin' up such a
blackhearted rebel as Aguinaldo with
out one iota Of principle or gratitude
and settin' him up as second George
Washington in the light Of the senti-
ment of this twentieth century was
enough to make all decent folks puke
8. O o o
I can't for the life Of me see why
Uncle Sam amt got just as much busi-
ness to regulate and inspect and Cir
cumscribe trusts and big corporations
that hav the interests of the people
under their control just the same as
they control national banks. When
Shaw got a charter of his bank Uncle
Sam told him lust what he could do