Mower County transcript., 1902-09-17
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN.

FARMER BEN'S COLUMN.
I tell you it ain'tsgoin to be ominous
Of good to the g. o. r. if the feeina
and animosities and scrappin' lof the
primary campaign ain't teetotally
dropped from now and henceforth
You can't win out with party divid.
ed against itself. What the other side
are ticklin' themselves over is to see
division and rents in the ranks of re-
puDlicans that ought to be pullin' to-
gether with all heart and soul. That
is the only way they can lick out the
party that has given 'em all prosperity
1t amt goin' to makea matter Of life
or death which candidates are nom
mated if they are true and loyal to the
party and the candydates that didn't
get nominated should feel just as loyal
to the party and whoop it up Just the
same as they would hav wanted to
be whooped up for if they had been de-
clared the winners. l tell you in union
there is strength and in lack of har-
mony there is weakness and defeat.
It's good thing tosask ourselves some
times what our enemies would like
best for us to do and then just be sure
and don't do it. Don't you forget it,
the opposition push want us to get
scrappin' among ourselves and then
they will come in and take the persim-
mons. A real true republican will stay
by his own candydates fairly nominal
ed every time. =22*>.&s =:
You see if the subject of tariff re-
vision and reciprocity don't come to
the front in the national campaign this
fall. The every day people up in these
diggin's hav got their minds made up
that when it comes to shuttin' out our
products and manufactures from such
splendid and neighborly markets as
Canada and Cuba it is high time to stir
up the animals a little. And there's
one thing that Farmer Ben feels cock
sure of and that is that tariff revision
must be handled by the G. O.. P. who
will do it wisely and along protection
lines rather than by a lot of free trade
will-o'-t '-the-wisp followers who would
smash up things just as they did in the
old Cleveland ruin times. know lots
of the trust fellows down east are
cryin' to let we'll enough alone and {
don't deny thatwhen you come to stop
the threshin' machine by thrOwin' the
monkeywrench into the cylinder it's
dangerous. But all the same the trusts
don't need protection and reciprocity
along protectin' our own interests is
goin' to hurt nobody's toes. [ calker-
late if the other countries get their
backs up in some concerted under
standin' and retaliate, things will slow
up with us far more exceedingly than
they will slow up by reciprocitatin' and
revision. I bet my old hat that repub--
licans can make revision that won't
bring in any calamity or panic or
slump. ~, -
I see that up to the state fair both
the premiums for the best county ex-
hibits were taken hands down by south
ern Minnesota counties. Nothin' else
could be expected or possible if they
tote fair. Houston and Wabasha
counties whipped out the whole rest of
the state in the variety and extent and
superiority and excellence and 'magni
fcence of their shows. The only way
for the fair management to do is to haV
a double competin' and put northern
Minnesota in one class and southern
Minnesota in the other. Up toward:
the British line they can raise No. one
hard wheat and potatoes and flax and
lots Of other useful and profitable pro-
ductions but when it comes to fruit
and big variety like southern Mime.
sofa they amt in at all. I hope the
rumors that the fair managers are goin'
to monkey with the points of judgin'
next year in the interests of lettin' the
north counties hav chance town out
on less variety Of exhibition won't
come true. It would be the worst pro-
position they could lay down because
if would be jughandlded and unfair
and class legislation Of the rankest
variety. Northern Minnesota is all
right in it's class and southern Mime
sofa is all right in it's class but let 'em
trot in their own classes and then
there won't be any partially OF unfair
ness shown. - s.4.3s. 5$s.... .s5s S.