Mower County transcript., 1906-01-17
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN

anew suit and he's goin' to put up
stunnin' appeal to the lawmakers to re-
bate the tax that Uncle Sam has put on
him for the benefit of the honest dairy
man. It's like this. Mr.. Oleo wants to
melt up lot of soap grease and tallow
and cotton seed oil and Scion knows
what else, and color it to initiate genuine
cow butter and then sly it off on al un-
suspectin' public as the real thing. So
when you go into hotel or restaurant
you eat the stuff thinkin' all the time
that you are patronizin' the COW when
you amt. Now the stick comes in tax
in bogus stuff that is colored like but
ter at high rate and taxin' the bogus
stuff that is uncolored and sells for
what it is at practically nothin'. Now
amt this fair and honest and righteous?
The farmers hav worked up BUTTER as
an industry all by itself and they ought
to be protected from bogus imitators.
If the tallow hashers want to work up
a market for their own stuff and sell it
for what it is and on its merits and not
sneak OIL the rights and domain and
color of the dairymen [ say they've
perfect right But MIR. Oleo, down at
Washington, D. c. with millions of
money jinglin' in his pocket, is tryin'
to knock off the tax on oleo colored to
deceive folks. If he wins, its a knock
er for every cow owner.
Well, we've pretty near reached the
limit and unless somethin' is done
nifty quick and powerful we might as
we'll quit tryin' to hav courts and laws
and any try at justice and equality.
When flank Rogers, vice president of
the Standard Oil monopoly, was before
the judicial examiner the other day in
defiant and calm tones and with an air
of entire contempt for the proceedings
brought by the sovereign state of Mis-
souri, against his corporation for break
in the laws he sneeringly said to the
court commissioner: "It's quite imma
terial to me what the supreme court of
the state Of Missouri desires me to say"
and so forth. That is to say, he prac-
tically puts hisself and corporation
above courts and Investigations and he
sticks his thumb to his nose at all the
people when they want their just rights.
;,,t b,o f1;ft
in into? What good is laws if corpor-
atons is above 'em and beyond EN-?
The Standard Oil system has got its oc'
topus tenacles on the throat Of the
country and it looks like congress was
afeered to tackle 'em and as if their
money could buy off any opposition
they tackled. I'd like to- know who is
first, the people or the corporations
that are suckin' their life blood.
Our gal Sarah says that young folks
don't dislike old folks just because
they're old but because they get fogYish
and tedious and out Of line with things
of today and all that She says some
of the favorites of the young people
are old folks that keep the heart young
and keep in touch with the modern
ideas and interests and don't forget
how children and young folks feel
She says that up to Sunday school one
of the men in the whole outfit they like
best ls past sixty and just everybody
likes to hav him talk to 'em and they
accept what he tells 'em while they run
away from lots of the other old chaps
that bore 'em. l calkerlate that it amt
just gray hair and slower step that
scares out the boys and girls. I reckon
that old folks can get their affection
and confidence and ears just the same
as others if they strike right. I've ac-
tually seen seventy.year olds that enter
into the life and play and plans and
doin's and interests and feelin's and
sports of the youngsters with as much
zest as tho they were in their teens and
they don't miss grippin' 'em, and the
young folks always like to hav 'em
round and be under their protection
and counsel. It's the way of the world
and you can't help it. But an old bore
amt got no show with the young folks.
They keep on the other side Of the
fence from 'em. u
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.alwus hate to see one dog steal an
o. other dogs bone and then ark over it
johnson, the dem governor of this
state, made speech the other night up
before one of the conventions and he
ballooned big palaver about the rail.
road rates bein'' higher in Minnesota
than in Iowa and his little pin head
clackers patted him on the back and
are tellin' what an awful speech it was
and what big mares nest he had nm.