Mower County transcript., 1903-09-02


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honest toll than all the illegal ex7j g xk7j
str8Vagance of . thousand Croesuses.
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his leads me to rem ark nat there; ere
don't. seem to be the sharp distinct ton q ~
EbetWeen mine and thine that there
Eoushtst to. be noWday chow what a,t
belongs to the other slow is too ~ much l',I
|cohmon .plunder if any body can car on only
WiSgle itsaWay from him and methods yllH % .
|Sdoh' stand in the way no ma liter how E'1'77
n1aig ghteous and cheaty lf you Y only "a !,
sngceed ii gettin' it away intosyou11r our
own clutches with out gettin' into in the lt
Iclntehes Of the law you are q riliiant
Mhncier and the ~ ore millions II n you l[' !
Wflng and twist and extort out fsthe hlte
Erest Of mankind the brillianter Ma: !:
Epohon are ID the eyes Of some mar az )
TOW minds that 60 only BY app aa RANGES g
arid show and glitter. Now I've never
IIffofgot the old motto teacher used y to
set in my copy book at school. It was "a
onesty is the Rest Policy How
many times I hay tried my John Han an
cock on that motto. n OF that folks II,
shouldn't look higher than policy but
even from that low standpoint it alWus
pays to be honest. I'm afraid that
Esome1 Of the young folks today amt
|#Wnlin' to start where their daddy start
IedSIand work up BY slow degrees. W ny,
lived in a log house for over twenty
years after was married and we 'lli had
just as much fun and satisfaction and
Econtent, Il bet, as you can find in lots
Iofs the big houses with skatin' rink
|foors and six foot mirrors: But what
I've got, I got honest and Lean look
any body in the eye and ask 'em to show
up Wherey in one particular | skinned
'eln Of anything wrongfully. And d !
tell you it's a thousand times better
than to be trem mblin' in your boots for
fear ). CIVIL be after you before night
ftoEtake you.to Saltwater. ss z, #SE5! !.
~ \. .:3 q 81 ~ 0 5.ss:
81 It amt wisdom to be too confident
omany thing. Folks that are soyercon-,
1ident lose their heads and energy: Re
lpublicans are SO cock sure that sRoose-
EveltsWill be renominated and reelected
land that they are goin' to keep insconr- e y :
.Itrol that they are liable to get nifty
1eareless. But they've got the people
lstoFeck kon with and We've had setbacks
before now that ough ght IS. be warnings
7s1 aefe Nal
! the trusts and labor troubles and
postoffice scandals and Indian territory
land stinks and general extravaganza
are goin'' to cut more Of a fgger ir
spolitix in the next race than small
minds suspect. 1t wouldn't be the firs1
time that a party cry Of retrenchment
and reform had thrun down the domin
ant party. We've just spent a quarter
Of a million on5a naval review and il
), any Solomon can tell what it amounted
to of good Pm ready to sit at his shoe
and learn. Here the demand has beer
| so loud that a deaf monkey could hea
for tarif # eyision SO as to get. at tn
: trust robbers but no heed b is paid
I Election is next year and the big part.
T bosses are just as mulish and selfsl
} and domino eerin' as ever. T hey eyidentl,
don't intend to pay any attention t
), anything but their own rank idees unl
| til they yeome up smash against the rea
thing in the way of red hot publ
r sentiment. And SO I cogitate that j
t amt goin' to do ITO be too setsure 9
. anything III politix. Prosperity ha
almost alwus heretofore produced eS
: trayagance and public corrupt an
. scandals galore and the other swhirlo
i the wheel brings change Of administra
ton and false promises and fcalamit
and soup houses. Nj ssass
j FARMER BEN.