The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-04-06
Answers .Son Prom Swedsn.

IN H. 4 A
Editor independent:
1.-THE Farmers Son From
Sweden seems to think he has
propounded questions that will
stagger me. Not 80, | think that
even a woman can answer you.
/ believe in treating everyone fair
and square.
You poor man, whom the mid
dlemen have treated go badly. II
do not know what you and Mr..
Wallin expect to charge the rest
of us farmers Tor your stuff, but
I'll expect to get mine for almost
nothing. III show you why l do
not consider we pay exorbitant
prices III Minot. Ill just COM
pare a few staples with a large
city price. We paid in the city
for Mocha 4 Java coffee 35 cts.
per h., or 8 lbs. for $500 and
paid the same in Alinot. We paid
go cts. per ID. for tea in both
places, soap by box $3.50 alike
in both places. Thread the same
and did not find much difference
in dry goods, carpets were a lit
tie higher ! bought q genuine
singer sewing machine in Minot
for less money than Icould have
in the city. ! can not compare
prices on farm machinery as we
did not use them. It's a strange
thing when the middlelnen are
making such enormous profits
SO many go to the wall. You
certainly give the farming class
credit for having no will power,
when they can be persuaded to
buy what they do not need. l
have in mind a family, who drove
into Minot every Saturday after
noon, when the little ones enjoy
ed the sights of the little city and
looked forward to it as a treat.
Would they have derived as much
pleasure if there was oily one big
store there? / do not claim to
be al unseltish in desiring a good
sized town. | think good town
meanya good market. And as
l said before it increases farm
valuation. No never instruct
my husband or sou, they have
been blessed with enough grey
matter to Re able to decide all
business transactions without
my help. And my husband does
not instruct inc. You want me
to tell how many farmers and
middlemen are in Jail at Minot.
Now Pm unable to do so, as |
neither know your Sheriff or
Jailer, and never visited such a
place in my life. My impression
OF people in jail was that they
Stunned work ofany kind. While
l always felt sorry for the fallen
ones Of earth | never did any
Summing.
In reference to my treatment
OF my family, my children all
share alike. The same among
my friends, rich and poor, the
only distinction / see in society
is character. When people move
into city or town they gener-
ally gravitate into the society
they belong in-then for the
ladies" you refer to would not
enter my home. Why should you
want to become mayor, if you |
don't believe a town is a good
place to spend your money in or
stay in?
We have always sold anything
we had to sell to middlemen. Il
have seen those very merchants
you condemn buy farmers eggs
and butter and turn around and
sell same for just what they had
paid. l know just how you feel
about a woman expressing her.
self on any subject. You say a
good place for a woman is in the
Kitchen churning butter and do
ing the general Homework. l
don't suppose you would object
a bit if she did it all and the barn
work too, and for pass time she
might do the washing for some
of the neighbors, using the money
therefrom to buy household
needs. Mrs. G. ID. WOoLvERTON. |