Mower County transcript., 1907-09-18
FARMER BEN'S
COL UMN

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perimentin' widely with rations ar
agreed that lots of folks eat too mncl
meat and would be better of with less
It's ben also tried out in the British
army with the same conclusion. [ AIM
forgot how the Wiry rice eatin' Jap'
licked the meas eatin' Russians. It's
mistake and science will prove it tt
think that dots of meat makes more
muscle and Drawn. It's just the oppo
site below certain point. I calkerlat'
that leetle meat in cold weather ain
so bad to take and moderate allow
ance all thru the year may be near rlgh
bat the way lots of folks pile in mea
into their stomicks three times da..
would make cannibal blush. Vege
table diet is the stuff. Just come down
and see Farmer Ben's menu for dinner,
cabbage, onions, squash, corn, potatoes,
carrots, and pumpkin pie to round OFT
with. That's what makes folks hold
out and not get a lot of chronic troubles.
It's easy enuf to try vegetarian in part
anyhow and where folks are shavin
four rations of meat day, cut down
to one or two. ".@,s~
> The Canucks who held up their hands
in holy horror at SanFrancisco a while
ago for stirrin' up the Japs are now
havin' the same kind of a dose their.
selves and are treatin' with the same
methods. The way they're treatin' the
Japs and Chinee out in Vancouver is
a caution and shows that the Canucks
hav the same idee of justice for their
own workln' men that the Yankees
hav. It amt human natur to allow
your own country to be over run with
lot of Asiatics who compete with
labor and who are so uppish that they
want to get on the front row the first
day. We can treat 'em fair and teach
'em in separate schools and perfect 'em
from KILN and all that without givin'
'em the idee they're the whole cheese
l notis that if Y Yankee wants to go to
Japan the laws forbid Yankee ownin'
bit of real estate over there or en-
gagin' in certain kinds of business but
when the Japs come over here they
want the earth. I'd just like to see
some of the conceit knocked out of these
swellhead Japs and between Canada
and Uncle Sam there's a chance Of
lettin' 'em know where they're at.
My paper says that a greater proper
ton of French people own their own
homes than any other people on this
earth. There are upward of 100000
separate freeholds in France and it is
said that Frenchman will part with
anything rather than land Laboring
men are just as anxious to hav patch
of ground of their own and the govern
ment encourages 'em in it. Like this.
tell you man that's carpetbagger
amt got any real interest in place.
He can pack up and 60 to Dakota to-
morrow if he wants and nothin' can
hold him. He don't care cont how
high taxes are or how other fellows
grind their noses on the stone, he's as
free as bird and as careless as one.
But you tie man up by ownin' his
own house or farm and he's goin' to
figger for the general good. He's in
favor of economy in public matters
and in havln' right officials and in
kickin' out carpetbaggers from runnin'
things they've got no investment in.
l believe cross my heart, the more folks
own their own homes the stronger the
country.
Well, they won be quotin' Tom Edi-
son, the electric wizard, so much in
futur. It's been nothin' for several
years but harpin' on Edison's remark
able habits of workin' and eatin' and
sleepin' until folks might think any
body conld get along without much
sleep and didn't need to stop for his
meals when he had particularly tryin
task on hand. It amt SO, nevertheless,
and Edison has found it out to his sor.
row. He's now sufferin' from nervous
breakdown and is tryin' to recuperate
in a quiet country place where nobody
can see him. It's alwus this way.
Mother Natur is bound to get even in
the long run. It looks like we could
wear out and rip and tear the human
constitution and take no care or
thought of usselves but the time is
comm my boys, when the crash crashes
and away we go. There's nothin like
regular sleep and plenty Of it and regu-
lar eatin' and plenty of it. I'd ruther
90 to bed at nine O'clock every night in
the year and hav a nine hour pull at it
than to cut off part.of my days. And
I'd rnther get nv legs under the dinner