Mower County transcript., 1907-03-20
FARMER BENps
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stores, everywhere, trying to strike ac-
quaintance with unattended females
and attempt familiarity with 'em. I'm
glad the w. G, T. U. and the police haV
made a strong combine to kill of these
lady killers so that wives, mothers, SIS
ters and girls can go from one end OF
Chicago to the other and not suffer in
suit from the bold mashers. They can,
not do this now, for the masher is ubi.
uuitous and alwus ready to tip his hat
and sail in for first talk and cheeky ad-
address,. Amt it a shame such things
are allowed to grow and develop? l
know how backward young women are
to 90 into court and make complaint
on such things and because of this very
shrinkin' from publicity the masbers
take heart and persist>in their boldnes'.
Just think of 10000 insultin' mashers
goin'forth delibertly every day and night
in one city seekin' subjects for their in-
suits. Why, rd,ruther liv in Ramsey.
I amt denyin' or concealln' that
don't like to see this Texas and Canada
land speculatin' invade Mower county
and take away the heads OF sober
minded folks. There's bound to be a
big slump and disappointment before
this thing is done. Id like to see some
thing done to show up the matchless
advantages of Minnesota and get de-
sirable immigrants into this state.
There don't seem to be any boomers
to do this and they Civ Minnesota the
go by. Why, right up IN northern Min:
nesota are cheap lands that are better
soil and better money producers than
all the lands in Texas and Canada put
together. Why don't sensible folks
look these up? One of the boys was
tellin' me- of trip he took up thru
these northern Minnesota lands and he
said the improvements showed prosper
ity and good times for those who had
settled, there. That's enuf to show
Farmer Ben that the. stuff's there.
They tell me that Texas improvements
on farms are nifty shacky. That's q
give away dead. I amt ashamed to
take any outside thru Mower county
and see our farm improvements. They
show good conditions. And / repeat,
sir, repeat that a farm in Minnesota
is worth sixteen in Texas or Canada.
surely believe there's sucker born
every mint and these don't breed
among the common folks or even the
farmers either. I see by my Lunnon
paper that schemers hav just worked
royalty and high bloods for $19,OOO,OOO
profits in a worthless Siberian gold
minin' scheme. The schemers took
several thousand acres of alleged gold
lands in Siberia and capitalized and
then got dukes and right honorables
and baronets and knights and private
secretarys to take hold and lend their
names as directors and investors and
away goes $19,OO0,O00 out Of their pock-
cts before they caught on to what had
struck 'em. It got so the big bloods
fairly fought to buy the minin' stock
and bid up IS shares to $50 to get some
and when the slump came there was
nothin' but the paper on which their
stock was printed in pretty letters and
the, wind that inflated it: Amt it
queer that folks will bite as they do on
such schemes? Folks right here hav
lots of chances to invest in all kinds OF.
fake investments and ventures and the
wise ones are the ones that stay out.
My paper says that rich chap down
east has Civ 100000 to the National
Association of Audubon societies that
protect the birds. The big money is to
90 for distributin' literature illustratin'
the value of the Eirds to farmers and
opposin' alIlegislatin' hostile to birds
and issuin' pamphlets for the informin'
of students and all such. ! like that.
1 tell you Farmer Ben knows that the
birds are our best. friends. q govern
ment perfesser reckons that Uncle
Sans family loses $500, ,O0O, 900 annually
from insect pests, almost as big as
Tawney's appropriations for 9 half ses-
sion of congress. These pests are get
tin worse and worse all the time just
because the birds are not perfected.
The prairie chickens and quail and lots
Of others are dlsappearin' and the bugs
and worms and insects that they eat
ara gettin' awful sassy and indepen-s
dent. wish somebody ur to Austin
would start up q dubon society III
might teach some Of the women folks
to haul the birds off their bonnets in
the interest Of humanity.
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