Mower County transcript., 1906-04-11
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and delusive hopes that they're goin' to .
better themselves buyin' cheap land
Lots are maxim the mistake Of their
lives in thinkin' that bigger farms
mark progress and prosperity. Id ike
to see the ,speriment tried Of smaller
farms right in Mower county, better
titled and with less hired help and less
weeds and more produce double to the
acre, and more independe Farmers
work altogether too much land lots Of
'em and while they handle more money
they ;hav' less surplus than If they'd
cut out lots of expense and net more
real final profits. But 1 hate anyway
to see my old naybors leavin' after.
nayborin' with 'em thro thick and thin
for all these years. We've got the inn
provenents here now, the schools and
railroads and markets and roads and.
everything civilized and Farmer Ben
wellNknows what these things cost all
these years and [ can't see why folks
that 60 to new country amt got to
pay the same price for all these things
that we did rite here: Land values
here. come from many years of grubbin'
and ]. reckon that after the boom prices
hav slumpea in Canada and Missouri
land values will be down to what they
was here in the seventies. ''-".'>,.
O o O 81,
Pm glad that the state convention
will recommend for United States sena-
tor; So long as we've not got election
of senators by direct vote Of the people
he:convention endorsement will come
kind of representative that way. !
hate the old time. Doodle campaign in
the legislator when lumber millionatres
and millers from Minneapolis would
unloosen their bank accounts and bribe
whole big bunch of grafters with
wads of money that would make 9
common fellow. stagger. Lots Of
grafters got elected to the legislatur
for no other purpose than to get bought
up and 90 home to build fine farm
barns and houses which their naybors
knew never could be earned off of their
FARMS. l spose that some of those
Minneapolis money bags will try this
time to beat farmer Knute Nelson
from bein' re- elected but if the people
let such outrageous prostitution of the
peoples interests happen then they're
fit subjects for the insane asylum.
Knute Nelson has made us a dandy
senator. He's not styled up with starch
and broadcloth but he's got more brains
in one square inch of his cerebral con.
volutions than sixteen money bags hav
that hav stole the government and peo:
pie blind.
There amt much right moves in con
:gress made for the last ten years that
'Knute amt had hand in. He's alwus
lookin' out for something that will be
of advantage to the masses. See what
he did for gettin' national banks ,ir
smaller towns, see what friend he's
been Of Alaska and. the Filipines ane
Porto Rico and Cubaj see how he Great
ed the new department of commercs
and labor In the interest OF holdin
down the trusts and big corporations
so that the common people will ge
b their righteous dues. Why, whel
Knute gets UP! to talk in the senate 81
listen for the rest know he's no wind
bag talkin' buncome and indulgin j
highfalutin'. I tell you when Presl
dent Roosevelt came out and stood TO
railroad rate regulation by Uncle San
= he just picked up the trail that Knnut' q J 4
Nelson had blazed thro5 the forest q
legislative confusion and lnactlvit!
years and years ago and Teddy has n
stickier friend than Knute in his battI'
agenst all Doodle and money and brib
cry and corruption Of the big railroad
that hav played favors to come to town
and.in dustries and monopolies and bull
EN- up and has played dirt and meannnlets q 81
N and injustice and low down extortiol
to others and ruined en- I'd like Il
n n see old Mower county send q delega
tion to the Duluth convention tina
would go shoutin' for Senator Knut'
Nelson for re. election. ~!
a n M o o 9 y
B i see BY the papers that the agricul
d tural the Iowa expert ays.that lots o
a q 81 the corn down in that state will no
grow good and he warns everybody Y
81 test seed carefully. It's one Of Il,
most in,por ortant things to do. I've go
Ssss 81 mine tryin' al right. learned lonl
.ss1 ~ ago that good lookin' corn may be yer.