Mower County transcript., 1904-04-20

so many dogs running on our streets
that might get bitten by one of these
wild ours, but look at the danger from
the small children on our streets. Re-
member ian ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure, etc."
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN. :.
reckon that closin' up half of the
theatres in the big cities amt goin' to
do the world great harm. hav an
idee from what I hav been Informed
that big part of all the show business
nowadays is leg shows and immoral at
tachments that pander to perverted
and depraved taste. I amt been in
side of show for many year so
can't say from personal eyesight but
there's lots that do go that tell the
same story Of lowlived operations on
the degenerate stage in these days.
One of the boys says that in towns like
Chicago even, there is fifty low shows
where the play amt nothin' but a in
coherent mass of shiftin' scenes with
out any educatin' impressions on the
mind but only the exhibition of what
ought to be secret and unexposed. He
says that it's hard work to get out
payin' crowd to stick by the grand old
educatin' plays like Hamlet and Rip
and such. What demorafiZin' place
such shows are for the young, whose
minds and hearts ought to be kept pure
and sweet and clean. l amt saying
anythin' about the baldheaded row on
the front seat for they're past redemp-
tion. The habit is on 'em like the
whiskey and morphine grip. But the
mind of the masses is bein' led away
from the legitimate drama and this
spectacular, diabolical, phantasmagor-
ial, illusionary style of show that gets
unreal things and idees into the young
mind ought to be tabooed and I'm
awfully glad and pleased that the
shuttin' up of the theatres in the big
cities is goin' to cut outa big share of
this kind of attractions. They aresnoth-
in but schools of vice and immortality
and folks that support 'em amt gettin'
the worth of their money.
One of the newspaper ninnys is quot
ed as sayin' that comrade Collins is not
entitled to any extra consideration be-
caus he served in the war of the re-
bellion. The shike excuse for human
bein' that wrote that amt fit to throw
swill to hog. l bet he amt old enough
yet to be fully weaned and SO don't
know nothin' about the war and his
brains are so thin and shallow and
weak and sparse that he amt got the
comprehensive ability to take in it's
real and true meanin'. 1t does make
me tired tho to hear such ingrates talk
such asininity. It's some different now
days from what it was when the
country was in danger of goin' to the
dogs with treason and secession and
such. Then l tell you the boys that
enlisted was awful good fellers. Every
body cheered 'em on and nothin' was
too good for 'em to hav. The little
pittance of $13 a month was no induce
ment for a man to leave his family and
take his life in his hand and 60 south.
It was just pure unadulterated pat
riotism that stirred 'em out. The
soldier boys thought that the nation
meant what they perfessed when they
Dragged up so loftily the courage and
nerve of the boys in blue and patted
'em on to further exposure and danger.
I never expected then to liv to see the
day when new generation of brain
less and heartless upstarts would come
up to steal the glory from the old
soldiers and belittle 'em and Civ it out
that they don't deserve any more at
the hands of the nation than any body
else. I say comrade Collins is entitled
to extra consideration becaus he's an
old soldier. T..
The state board of pardons had
another seance last week. and there
were nearly forty applications for
pardon before 'em. Every. last one OF
'em had backers and Knockers behind
'em tryin to peffsuade tie Ii. y sa,b5aaind5to le,
up ON ths erlnlhsls who haad. ha d been as III.
carceratl f6r alfkinda q s6f IS 4 efrimS Ifoni s
murder aSxn the scals,, fhe2boa
want in 4 Very generous MOOD and
didn't let up on many but the pushin
for pardon by so many only shows
what lots of folks think Of givin'
criminals their just deserts. Ever since
the Youngers were let out, you can't
blame all other murderers and rascals
havin' hopes that they might get out
! also. If the big ones 90 free whv kaon