Mower County transcript., 1904-09-07

60 to the legislator and the merger
organs poke fun at all attempts to en-
force the anti-merger laws. All honor
to comrade VanSant for his noble and
heroic stand against the merger. His
name will go down the pages of history
full of praise and glory while those
who make light of his brave struggle
against the merger robbers will lie in
graves, unmarked, unhonored and un-
sung.
If you don't believe the corporations
hav hand in the law business of this
state you are chump and blind as a
mole. Look at the Pullman cars how
they are run and how little tax they
pay. The state of Minnesota gets pal
try few hundred dollars tax out of this
monopoly while they get millions in re-
turn. Why shouldn't they run sleepers
for the comfort Of common folks insted
of chargin' rates that make extortion-
ate profits and con6ne the use of
sleepers to rich folks and millionaires?
1t looks like nobody had any special
control or regulation of 'em. It's the
same thing all along the line. Now l
hold that the people come first. l reck
on that the natural wealth of this
world belongs to the folks that live
on it. What kind of justice is there
allowin' few men to own, control,
dictate the whole supply of coal and
oil and other natural products and
then sit back and rob the people by
chargin' outrageous and extortionate
prices maxim seven hundred per cent
annually on their investment? There
ought to be brains enough some
where to cipher this problem out for
the protection of the people and to
curb and regulate the corporations
and aggregations of capital ana trusts
and monopolies that now lift their
giant heads in utter defiance of all law
and justice and right and necessity and
comfort / bet that in the right idee
the people ought to come first and their
creatures in the shape of corporations
should bring up the rear.
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1 alwus reckoned that as a general
thing easy come was easy go. My
paper tells of a Minneapolis chap that
cleaned up $4,000 in the recent grain
gambln' and he went down to see
Chicaqo and put up at the SWEETEST
[ rooms of the SWEETEST hotel and charter
ed special fred devil" and took in all
| the highdyers at the rate of SIS, 900
! week and then went to Omaha where
he was acquainted and blowed in the
other $4,000 in wine suppers to his
friends and daily flyers in declinin'
than three weeks without cent
practically and his friends had to chip
in little to pay his expenses out of
town. Wouldn't that cork you? But
it's nothin' more or less than what
might be expected under the circum-
stances. l tell you that there's only
one way to get to appreciate the real
worth of money and that is to work for
it by steady, hard knocks. The curse
of this day is in gettin' money too easy
without the sweat Of the brow and the
exertion of the Drawn and it makes
too many loafers and idlers and
schemers who are just fggerin' day and
night how to get livin' out of the
folks that work. It looks nice in your
minds eye to get fortune easy and
then save it and sit down and enjoy it
but it looks like easy come, easy CO.
was the ruination of all such projects.
| Talkin' about gettin' rich easy makes
me cogitate whether the boys and girls
of this century amt comm up with the
idee of havin' things too easy. 1t looks
lots of time to Farmer Ben like the
young weren't comm to the scratch likt
their forefathers. The daughters pla!
tunes in the parlor while the mother
washes dishes in the kitchen and whe1
it comes to do the weeks washin' o.
} clothes it would kill the daughter tt
take the place at the washtub that he
mother has occupied since she was fif
teen. It's the same with the boys
They leave the farm and leave tn
school disgusted with work on tn
rank idee that things hav got to com
. their way easier. There's lots of boy
: and girls that hav every idle satisfac
tion of desire obtained and they ar
rotten before they're ripe. They tax
short cuts at school and hav thei
knowledge predigested SO they don
hav to work their thinkin' machiner
hard. They are pampered and stufie