Mower County transcript., 1904-11-09
FARMER BEN'S. COLUMN. !.

because he does things. He amt all
the time sittin'. on the fenceIike regu-
lar fraidcat. He. can't be bulld0zed in
to knucklin' to the trusts and big
; toadies. He couldn't touch cent of
that three millions the trusts put out
Monday to defeat him, because he was
, above such trucklin'. He's just the
style of a president I've been wishin'
for and votin' for these many years, q
man that is clean and upright and fear
less and that has got lot of backbone
SOS you know where to find him. I
can't see why every American citizen
with wayup idees shouldn't be proud
of such a president. The world looks
with admirin' contemplation at the
phenomenon of great people of eighty
millions turnin' out fifteen million.
votes pretty near all for such men in
sted Of the Aabby, weak, degenerate
type that kings and czars and emperors
are made out of.
I really am bracin' up in my idees
that things are, gettin' better. +
thought sure that John Bull and Rus
sia was goin' to hav scrap over that
North Sea incident. John Bull hauled
off his coat and was angry enough to
just punch the eyes out of the czar and
let consequences take care of themselves
and all of a sudden they got down to
hardpan agreement that they will
submit the whole business to com.
mission of inquiry made up Of one
Russian, one American, one. British,
one French and the fifth for the bunch
to pick. They will go over the whole
business and will settle it. 1t looks
now like the Russians got scared at
some of their own fleet in the fog
and fired on the British fishin' fleet
seein' Jap spooks in everything about
'em. They must hav been scared like
they was demoralized and shaky. Now
president Roosevelt has issued a call
for another peace conference at the
Hague and we are negotiatin' treaties
to submit our differences with other
nations to arbitration insted of to war
and actually believe that the horrors
of the Jap war with Russia will whip
into line lots Of the jingoes in every
civilized nation and make 'em demand
peaceful measures of Settlin' SCRAPS
and differin's.
What lot of scrappin' there has
been over politix all these weeks and it
looks like with some folks it was
matter of life and death for 'em to hav
their way and say. l can't see why
every man amt got fair right to his
own political opinions. can't see why
my naybor who don't agree with me
has alwus got to be set down as abso-
lutely erroneous in his views: and my
own idees alwus and invariably,'be set
down as Simon pure right. l amt say
in but I stick to my own views like a
burrdock to the cows tail. I reckon
I've got a right to. But that amt say
in thatiI've got to cuss ands.abuse and
jump on the other: fellow that differs
with me. His reasons probably satisfy
him as amply as mine do me. He has
an inalienable right to liberty of views.
hate to run up agenst some of these
hidebound extremistsithat know it all
and know that they hav the whole right
on their side and know that everybody
that don't agree with 'em is tteetotally
wrong and denounceable and know
that anybody that don't vote just as
they do is a traitor and boodler and
q eel and a timeserver and a shifter.
Such folks ought to 60 and:soak their
heads q while. !, - &, ..*.~ ..
Maybe some time the high bloods
will take warnin'' aud discover that
they can't run their stomicks and livers
on the high pressure system or.twenty
four hours in the day for half d century
and not feel the effects of deterioratin'
The Chicago health department says
that six per cent of the Windy City
population is sufferin' from ::Bright's
disease and that this is far more COM
mon, among the members of the mems
and women's clubs and in high sassiety.
than elsewhere. The doctors tell 'em
plainly that halt must be called on
the round of rich dinners: or. ,Bright's
disease will Increase and get beyond