Mower County transcript., 1904-08-10
BEN'S COLUMN.

FARMER BEN'S COLUMN.
If the little gang in this county that
is tryin' to manipulate legislative
politix so as to get up opposition to
senator Clapp amt careful they'll get
into a botch of a fix for the people
won't stand for it. There's a lot Of
monkey business goin' on in suggestin'
candidates to run for legislature so as
to divide up the vote and lay out the
regular ClaDp candydates under the
impression that therell be more in it
to bowl for somebody else. Nose Clapp
has made great senator and the re-
publican state convention endorsed
him and he is great favorite all over
the state of Minnesota and Mower
county and he's magnificent orator
and he's just got the run Of congress
down fine and can do things that count
and he has great sand III with the
big leaders of congress and he's On the
peoples side aud when anybody gets
up a stir to clean him out I'm agin it
teetotally. The only reason for tryin'
to beat him is that somebody else not
one hundredth part as good and wise
wants his place. 1t beats all how some
folks are alwus tryin' to stir up op.
position for what there's in it. tell
you the friends of senator Nose Clapp
want to keep their eyes peeled or they'll
be let down thro their unsuspiciousness
of the real situation.
There's no such thing in this world
in human dealin's as gettin' somethin'
for nothin'. Folks lots of times think
they've caught on but they amt. The
street soap yender that givs away
few dollar bills amt out for his
health as the suckers soon find out.
The fool that bucks wheat options and
faro games and is allowed to win for
few laps is like the fool fish that's al
lowed to run with the bait in his mouth
until the fisherman takes the notion to
pull him in. Young folks that hav the
idee that they can get along in the
world and prosper without doin' any.
thin are maxim the gigantic mistake of
their lives. l don't care in what line
you fgger, l repeat it, sir, l repeat it,
you can't get somethin' for nothin'.
You can't buy real prime solid minin'
stock or oil stock for two cents. You
pay all that it's worth if you pay only
two cents. If you think you are gettin'
twenty five dollar land for six any
where on this continent, you amt and
you can't. You can't get real hun
dred dollar buggy at any supply house
for forty, and they lie if they tell you
SO. Folks that get prizes and premiums
and all such trash pay we'll for 'em for
they don't really cost the folks that Civ
'em extra. It's nifty poor idee to get
into anybody's .noddle, young or old, that
they will ever he able to get somethin'
for nothin'. Wind puddin' amt film.
O 9 O
can't see that Austin and the sur
roundup country has tipped up and
gone to the bowWoWs becaus they amt
had lot of travelin' shows and theatres
runnin' in on 'em and drainin' 'em of
their money, for the past few months.
If ever there was demoralizin' power
it creeps into the bare leg featurs and
unreal life notions that young folks
get in spendin' their time and money
on shows. I've heard lots tell of ideal
drama but never could find it outside
of books and imaginations. I amt
talkin' of the real thing like Uncle
TOMS Cabin and such but of the rocky
character of the big bulk of this show
business. What dirty show that was
at the Iroquois theatre in Chicago
where so many hundreds got burned to
death alive. Why, they say that there
was lots of folks on that stage that
weren't any more dressed than what
they say the Filpinos wear in their
native costumes. Just think of such
lowdown, dirty exhibitions drawin' re-
spectacle folks by the thousand and
even a lot Of preachers there when the
fire came. [ amt sayin' but this is an
extreme case but what there is in the
run Of ordinary shows that in one
single particle givs truer and better
idees of practical livin' l can't see with
all my ruminatin' and cogitatin' and
observin' and figgerin' and deliberatin'.
FARMER BEN.
HOw's This?
We offer one hundred dollars reward for any
casa Of Catarrh that cannot he curn6 nv Halls