Mower County transcript., 1907-12-11
FARMER. BEN'S
COLUMN

One of the best treats we hav every
winter is the black walnuts and butter
nuts we get from the trees we planted
years ago down on the old farm. We
never fail to get plenty and then some.
[ see one of the speakers up to the
ate horticultural says that chestnut,
pecan and hickory nut trees will soon
become hardy enuf in Minnesota to be
raised successfully. If that is true
then anybody is chump and fool to
be putin out the wormy scraggly box
elders and other such when they can
just as easy raise nuts. I know al
about walnuts and butternuts. That's
dead easy and I'm goin' to try the other
nuts. Up on the marsh in Moscow the
boys say there are hickories so they
will acclimate here sure. Just think
of what neglecters of comfort we've
ben all these years. We've just raised
grain and let the trees go. 1 bet my
apple and plum orchard and my wal
nut and butternut trees will bring MT
more comfort and such every year than
any other product except my onion and
kraut patch.
tell you Uncle Sam has got the
right hold at last on the public lands
that hav mineral and timber on 'em
The new scheme plans to lease these
lands to companies that will work 'em
at fair royalty and not hav monop-
oily of control of the product or the
supply. Then if the companies don't
tote fair to the public or break their
lease they can be ousted. The same
control is planned over all the rest OF
the public lands. Lands are to be leas
ed for pastur and not sold and where
there is timber on public lands this is
to be measured and the timber dispos-
ed of at market price and the govern
ment get out of it all that is properly
comm. Won't this make the grabbers
and rascally poachers squeal? They
can't steal themselves rich in a week
and be in position to take the people
who want but the necessities of life
by the throat and cut their wind
Uncle Sam ought never to sell another
acre of land without reservin' the own
ership of all coal, mineral, metal, oil,
gas, and any other material product
W lich the said land may possess or be
occupied by half way down to China
territory.
Well, Congress has started up agen
and we'll hav the same farce goin' that
has ben for years. Insted of bein' a
deliberatin' body the house of reps is
nothin' but puppet show and speaker
Cannon just pulls the strings as he
Wishes If he says that any bills inter.
duced ain't to go, they can't go and ii
he takes notion to set down on any
body there amt no redress and 400 OF
the men we send down there to repre-
sent US and deliberate for us and carry
out our wishes just allow themselves to
be made puppets and wooden men OF
and their brains amt to come to use
My paper says that lots of the repub
are kickin' on the side
agenst the dastardly outrage but they
amt got the sand to get up and COM
bine the majority and take control and
stand for their rights and discuss the
interests of the public and of their con-
stits on broad general principles of JUS
tice and public good. The people de-
mand tariff revision and lots of other
needed laws but Tawney and the rest
of the bunch stick 10 Canuon's bossism
[ can't see for the life of me why
there should be such fuss stirred up
over gettin' part of our warships round
on our western coast. Accordin' to
my map Uncle Sam has got a big cuast
line reachin' from Canada to Mexico
all down the Pacific ocean with lots Of
cities and interests to perfect. I didn't
hear that Germany and England
thought it was menacin' 'em to hav a
big fleet on our Atlantic coast all the
time and l can't see wherein Japan and
China can scratch up apprehensions of
war and threats and troubles just be-.
cause we're goin' to hav war fleet up
and down the coast of California. I
tell you it's just the proper caper to get
a good big lot of our big ships round to
our west. It's no more of threat
than to keep good bull dog or watch
dog at your back gate as well as your
front gate. Folks that hav business
with us and come kindly hav no fear
comm from the dogs but marauders
and thieves and intruders and malic-
ious folks must look out for the conse-
quences if they're on mischief bent.
If 1anan has No OWL movoo IN oho,ll