Mower County transcript., 1906-04-04
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Ireckons it be a long time before
those fool bills interduced in Ohio and
Iowa legislaturs to kill off incurables
will become laws, That might do for
Iujuns and cannibals but not for civil
lied folks. I'd like to know who would
be Judge OF what was ihcurable and
what not 1t looks like lots of folks
that want incurable might be taken
off by mistake. 1t looks like when
some brute wanted to get rid of his re-.
lations all he would hav to do would be
to get some unscrupulus and unprin-
cipled and ignorant quack to pronounce
'em incurable and away they go and the
law would protect the murderers. It.
looks like things that was incurable
last year are durable this year with the
better doctors we hav. You can't
come any such nonsense on old Farm
,er Ben. Things would be in pretty
pass if life Was considered so lightly
that it could be taken at the will of
doctors. The Lord knows that they
kill off enuf patients now already with
out havin' their limit extended by law.
I don't want to be in their clutches if
when I get old and feeble they had a
right to say to me: Your time has
come and I'll fix you right and rid the
world of you. Id rather take Natur's
time than the doctors limit. :
wonder if the farmers of Minneso--
ia are goin' to be fool chumps on this
prison twine business. For years we've
ben occupyin' our criminals with run
nin' twine machines and the state has
made up trainloads of twine for the
farmers and hav alwus undersold the
cordage trust and saved the farmers
millions over what they used to hav to
pay to the trust. q ain Y forget Whist
we paid few years ago double what
we get it for from the prison. Now the
trust has set hen and is goin' to hatch
trouble for the prison plant and knock
it out if they can, and here's the
scheme. They're goin' to make flax
twine and sell it in Minnesota for q
low price until the prison plant is put
up the spout, expecting the farmers to
buy Of them because the price is low
Now you mark my word for it, after
the state quits maxim twine prices will
double back agen just as sure as they
used to. Now I'd like to know if the
farmers are goin' to be such monstrous
chumps and fools and ninnies to their
own true interests as to buy twine of
the trust in preference to the state just
because they can for the time save a
few cents on seasons supply and so
discourage and clean out the state
plant and then hav it socked on double
price for the remainder of their exis'
tence. Why, before I'd do such fool
and suicidin' act I'd go. round behind
the barn and kick myself for a. fort.
night.
l tell you our state school of agricul'
ture is after my own heart. They dc
more real benefit to the state of Mime
sofa than all the Latin and Greek col
leges boiled together. Up to the farm
er's college the other day they gradual
ed over a hundred farmers boys ant
girls and there want no funny bust
ness about it either The girls didn'
come on the platform dudded up il
expensive satins and silks that the!
couldn't afford and which cost thei
fathers ruination prices to some fame!
clothescutter but they every one wor'
neat gowns every stitch of which + hat
ben done by the wearer's own hand ant
they do say that they looked neat ant
stylish and pretty and attractive ant
up-tosdate. When the graduatin' girl
came on for their part Of the graduatin
show they demonstrated to the audi
ence how to make shlrtwaist just q
they demonstrated in the kitchen how
to. make good bread and in their rooml i,
now tO Mdho SnluSo 4OOh HAOoSJ -@EssA4N @s'.44>
decorated. The boys demonstrated
how to, make the cows at home 81,
more milk and how to raise potatoes
and how to kill the smut and rust OF
grain and how to pick corn seed ant
how to put the right crop on the righ'
part of the farm. It was q perfect rev
81 elation to lots who saw 'em do theS
things but III be jiggered if il didni'
h count with Farmer Ben thousan.
3 times more than q demonstration i
geometry or q translation in Thucydidea
81 q q
This matter Of practical eddicatiol
is up to the schools Of today. There
no use in denyin' that there's lot
chucked into the noddles Of our boy