Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-07-10

GEO. CAMPBELL, Sec'y.
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Politics and the Porkers.
From the Topeka Capital.
The bank officer stood with
knotted brow and worry was writ
ten plainly on his face. Talking
with him was we'll known man
whose reputation as a politician
extended beyond the borders of
his own county. He had held Of
fices many, bnt he wanted loan.
The bank official was battling
between his desire to help his
friend and his duty to the stock
holders who had put their funds
in his care. The officeholder
had reached the "just-e personal
favor" stage of his entreaty and
the bank man was perplexed in
deed. The loan wanted was only
n small one and for short time
but there we're past due notes in
the bank already, and the man re-
eponsibIe for the institutions
funds could not bring his con-
Science and judgment up to let
ting more go.
Just then a youn farmer came
in. He wore overa!ls, a hickory
shirt, a SLOUGH hat, and carried
with him the smell of the feed lot
The total cost of all the raj
ment he wore could not equal that
paid for the politicians trousers
alone. The banker smiled and
asked the young man what he
could do for him.
/" I need little more money
for corn to finish up the hogs"
said the son Of the soil.
GLOW much" asked the banker
reaching for the bank notes.
"About u hundred"
GLOW long %
"They will be ready for market
about the first of the month.
Better make it thirty days
Then"
The note was made out, the farm
or signed it, the banker counted
out the money, less the exchange,
the young man put it in his
pocket and walked out.
There were tears in the politi-
clans eyes and there was a culver
to his lip. He wished right then
that he had gone to raising hogs,
INSTEAD of being q statesman.
The mistake Of trying to make
a living out of being great dawned
on him with awful force when he
came to compare his credit with
that of the young farmer.
VIII en- that young man reads
his county paper, hs sees the
name Of the politician in it doz-
ems of times to where he sees his
own once. Ever since he was a
boy he has read of that office
holders glory as politician.
| He has read of how faithfully
he has served the people in the
trusts and honors that have been
thrust upon him. He has read
how that man has gone out and
held the people spell-bound with
his oratory. he has read of the
gatherings of the factions and
leaders at the big city hotels;
and that mans name was among
them. He has seen how the men
who " do things" have taken into
consideration where that man
would stand before determining
their course.
When the convention gathers,
the young man reads how that
man was escorted to the platform
and of how the convention
cheered and yelled at his bright
sallies of wit and his vehement
denunciation of the opposition.
Perhaps the young man was
sweating in the burrows of the
corn field while the politician was
wiping the sweat of oratory from
the burrows of his brow. The
politician could sway the throng,
where the young man would
scarcely know how to get into the
convention hall. But when it
came before the bank official, the
young man had the power, could