Mower County transcript., 1902-12-24

Vol. XXXV-No 40.
FARMER BEN'S' COLUMN.
It'll seem kind of queer to see the
new deal in the courthouse a reali-
zation after next week. We've been
kickin' so long for it that I thought
I'd die before lived to see it. It amt
sayin' but what most of the outgoers
are just as good officials as this county
could expect to pick in a hundred years
but it's the principle of the thing. l
tell you Farmer Ben don't believe in
life leases on offs. If it's good thing
pass it round and if it's bad thing
pass it round. Lots of offs holders get
the bighead and think they own the
whole shebang and amt got any hum
ility at all when the taxpayers come
round to do business. I'd like to know
who owns the courthouse any way if
the taxpayers don't. The offs holders
are just hired servants of the people.
There'll be more voluntary changes
two years later and some that won't be
voluntary and then the new deal will
be complete. never believed in life
lease of offs. The man or woman that
knows they've got to reckon with the
voters every so long amt so apt to get
uppish and surly and independent and
lazy. When one is just gettin' into an
offs they promise all sorts of things
that they don't want it only term or
two but when it comes to their lettin'
60 Of offs they hang to it like a turtle
bite. I'm glad to hav the new deal,
and this amt sayin' that won't miss
visitin' with some of 'em who hav been
friendly nor that it won't be an ex-
quisite pleasure to see the room of
others rather than their obnoxious
presence.
Eh2ilsm..- q Q -.:s;@
I never1could see the sense Of the last
legislator lettin' up on the tax on
worthless .dogs and ours with which
the great commonwealth of Minnesota
is infected.QIt looks like the push of a
few city dudes that claim to be sports.
men and::shots but who couldn't hit the
side ofla barn with the big door shut
had more infooence with the low
browed Statesmen than the farmers
and folks that has children. The
papers are full Of the havoc of the
worthless 'kbeasts, bitin' children and
givin' 'em hydrofobia, and bitin' cows
and giYin' 'em rabies, and bitin' and
killin' sheep and scarin' 'em so they
depreciate sixty per cent in vigor and
tameness, and frighenin' teams and
maxim runaways, and snappin' at the
heels of honeste epassers lmindin' their
own business, and helpin' themselves
without invite to folks calls, and all
such, and then to think:that there amt
one out of seven.hundred and ninety
that earn their salt or are one bit of
good or profit. Itfjust makes me mad
to think of such dog-gone nuisances
kept at large: in this enlitened age of
the world. Why Eshouldn't dogs be
taxed heavy? Why shouldn't the
world belrid Of the multitude of 'em?
Why shouldn't Legislators hav grain
of sense in such matters? 1 tell you it
looks like.the rightsGof honest farmers
who are losin' thousands of sheep thro
sneakin ,iworthless CANNES didn't count
with mutton-head men. I say put the
tax on heavy and collect it and put Ed
Sutherland out after every unlicensed
pup and make the world richer and
, safer and better.
Ig';Ilsru>' y o o f.
i Venezuela Is another of those snotty
little South American republics that
ought to be laid across Uncle Sans
knee for a good spankin'. The little
runt don'tknow enough to keep in out
Of the rain when it is just pourin'.
He don't pay his just debts and don't
intend to and when the bigger brothers
try to Civ himIa little wholesome ad
vice, he just gets sassy and independent
as newspaper man that is a dead
beat. England and Germany hav been
tryin' to collect for a long time but
Venezuela!ain't Civ 'em any satisfaction
and when they told the little shaver
just what had got TO come they got the
marble heart. New come England and
Germany with little Italy taggin' on
behind and lombard things down there
and stir up a general rumpus and I
don't deny don't like the outlook of