Mower County transcript., 1905-10-18
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN


surance discovery is the piles of money
they put into the Legislators to keep
themselves from bein' legislated on.
Piles as big as house was stacked up
for the grafters and boodlers in the leg
islation and the big companies got pro-
tected which they bought. Now it
stands to gumption that these COM
panies found enuf chaps that they
could buy or their trick would hay been
turned on 'em. It's shame that
there's so many gets to the legislator
that are leg pullers and hirelings and
strikers. They push themselves to the
front to get nominated and elected and
they hav money from the big corpora
tions sent in by the thousand to pay
their ticker bills and other treats and
fees and expenses and when they get
elected and go to the legislator they're
tools and agents owned body, soul and
britches by the corporate monstrosities
that manipulate 'em. And the people
kick themselves for such doin's but
when the primaries come they stay at
home and let the hirelings run the eau
cuses. lfepeat it. sir, | repeat it, there
wouldn't be Doodle used in our legisa-
turs unless there was fellers to take it
A Chicago husband Civ so much
away talkin' in his sleep that his wife
reported his secrets to the Judge and
she got divorce. If this amt up-to-
date, what is? I'd like to know if
mans secrets amt legally his own un-
less he willingly and voluntarily and
Willingly divulges 'em and givs em
away. This man, it looks like, had an
other woman named O'Halleren on his
mind and domestic joys in his own home
were of too humdrum sort to please
and occupy him exclusively and so his
thoughts and steps wandered quite a
bit and his wife got spicious and laid
awake all night to hearken to his Sc
crets and'tOok miserable mean advan-
tage of him and Civ the whole thing
away. Now l question whether and
how much such evidence is worth
agenst man. 1t looks like the Judge
that would grant a divorce on such
hearsay evidence was daft. | like good
straight wide awake thoughts and idees
and when I've got anything to say to
q rt
and not asleep. It'll get so after a
while if this keeps up that man will
hav to lay awake all night for fear of
giyin' hisself away. The first thing
you know the woman will hav all this
sleep talk Photographed on all innocent
husband
| can't forget how when | used to 90
to school down in old jefferson county
if l got lickin' in school l got one at
home. | knew what was comm before
school opened term. There want no
sidin' with the pupil agenst the teacher
and the teacher had the run of the bows
and girls while they was in school.
Sometimes when the big boys tried to
lick the teacher they got most gloriously
larruped and everybody liked it. The
parents didn't try to tell the teacher
where to head in and didn't dare to butt
in to school management. What fol-
lowed? Why, Farmer Ben is sample
of what good results came from such
runnin' things. The scholars knew
what to expect and they got 1t. 1t
amt so nowadays. We amt got such a
respectful generation Of young ones
CROWN up. They're altogether too lip
py to their parents and teachers. When
these youngsters get into school they
show their home trainin' quick and the
teacher that tries to make 'em mind is
liable to stir up hornets nest. [ tell
you laWless and unruly boys and girls
grow up and make unruly men and
women full Of all kinds of trouble and
danger to the body polite and liable to
fetch up behind the bars. When my
ooJo c1lO gins w DIS t!G uOluS Cuoy dill
had to mind even at the end of strap
and they never got anything but good
out OF it. That's why they're such
models.
o O. O
l reckon that our gal Sarah can move
in just as high sassiety up in Austin as
much as she wants. All she's got to do
is to pay the price But l calkerlate
that it costs more than the trick comes
to when you set out to keep in the
social swim. You hav to take lots of
time and lots of dressin' and lots of
grindin' entertainin' and lots of
fattery and gall and you never are
satisfied when it is all over. I never
see so much jealousy and disappoint-
ment as there is in the social sets. If