Mower County transcript., 1903-09-09

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NE fellow thats knows IL al never
adds anything to his stock of know
ledge but stands assstill and dead A. g
floor sill. Farmer Hen Is addin' to; his
stock of; knowledge accumu ulation Il rite EidI
along. I see BY the papers that / "a the
board Of control of the grand comm - il on on
wealth Of Minnesota is furnishln'
chewin' gum TO the insane: :institut tions,
ahayin' discovered that steady and per
sistin' mastication Of gum Is very help
aful and quietin. to the nerves sof
patients that haven't got the jimjaml1lss rl1l
too violent. / for one am very glad to to
pay my share Of tax for this gum
bill and only hope that it will prove: the ! e
solace and cheer and comfort and 4 Re- e
juNenator which it is claimed to be-. t
But now know something that Inever7
understood about this gum cheWin'.
It appears from comm on obsery yatlon
that there are good many mild cases
that amt got into the asylums yl yet,
folks young and older that you see
workin' their jaws at gum eternally in
every public and private place, ch,ewin' ,s II q
and ehawin', chawin' and cheWin' as il
the whole universe depended on it. It's
such crazy habit; anyhow you take it
and it looks like folks that did it lack
ed good sense besides Wastfn' an
enormous amount of valuable saliva
that ought to be saved for real vittles.
I'll know now when see any OF these.
luny gum cheWers just what is the
matter with 'em. LII know where they
belong tho they amt got there yet. Ell
know just what they chew gum for.
The state board: of control has made
the disclosure. and if what they say
don't 60 in this commonwealth, I'd like
to know what does. .', r -5 $s53
o 8 o =, s$.%s., ..-, rs. 81
l see that in the next congress there
will be seventy seven members that
were soldiers in the civil war, forty
seven Union and thirty rebels. It
strikes me that so far as the Union
soldiers bein there goes, it's eminently
right and just. I'd like to know who
can be more Jealous of the nations
welfare and interests than the old boys
in blue that fought and bled for the old
flag. If there's a reliable set Of men in
this whole nation surely youth find it
right among the old soldiers. They
know just what III cost to save the
Union and they don propose to hav:
the country 60 to the dogs after it is
safely saved. They know. more in a
day about what is best for our national
concerns and they've got more stability
of character and maturity of judgment
and responsible unbribeableness than a
whole square mile Of the young snots
of lawyers that gosround the country
maxim soft speeches and get. elected to
congress. We've got far too much of
such truck in congress ten times over
and if there was double the number Of
old soldiers sent it would be the height
of wisdom. The fact is that veterans
of the war make the most reliable kind
of timber for every office from governor
and president and congressman to city
official and policeman and pathmaster.
When i get to be mayor, I'm goin' to
hav an old soldier appointed to every
ottis in my control and then I'll hay an
anti-boodle term and the public in
terests will be looked after and we'll
get rid of all the shameful laWbreakin'
and extravaganza that's now SO COM
mon and that's cllttin' the taxpayers
throats below the pocket book line. Z Z
I see that down in Kentucky they
hav just sentenced Caleb Powers, TO
death on perjured evidence that he
was implicated in the alleged KILN of
that rank old fraud, Goebel, who first
cheated to get the dishonest returns for
governor for hisself and claimed to hav
been shot dead. My paper says that q
bribe Of 100000 was offered for evi-
dence that would convict Powers, and
the perjurers and liars pushed up to. the
witness stand and played the Ananias
act in defiance Of justice and common
decency. Of course, the only real
/ trouble with Powers is that he's a good
republican that nobody can build lose and
he stands up for the rite and the peo-.
pie and he can get elected when he
starts out That is enough to black
him down in Ken ntuck y where they hay
forgotten all about justice and decency
and law abidin' and the mob of sunlaW.