Mower County transcript., 1907-01-23
FARMER BEN'S
COL UMN


ident Roosevelt thinks too and with
Farmes Ben agreein' it's sure go. l
tell you there's nothin' that will more
strongly guarantee peace and insure
Uncle Sam the respect OF the world.
We want to be alwus prepared for
emergency and then the trouble won't
come and other nations won't catch us
with our shirt off. Some Of the smarty
congressman who are vOtin' to increase
their big salaries fifty per cent are pos
in for economy by cuttin' out these
new battleships but they are hypocriti-
cal pertenders that don: know what
real economy is. Any congressman
who will take $4,000 bribe from the
lumber trust for keepin' the tariff on
lumber and who gets rakeoff of $500
from every big postmaster in his dees-
trick amt got fur enough to even spell
honesty. Sham economy don't blind
folks that's up to the game. l don't
want to see Uncle Sam caught without
plenty of the best 5attleships.
Knute Nelson, our superb senator
has got correct idee about our re-
nlainin' public lands His idee is not
to sell any more that contain valuable
coal and mineral but alwus keep the
title in Uncle Sans name and lease
to responsible parties under Uncle
Sans oversight and with proper re
strictions about quantity and prices
and royalty ct cetera. If this had ben
started fifty years ago there wouldn't
hav ben the big monopolies in oil and
coal and copper there is today and the
common people wouldn't be bled by ex-
tortionate robber prices and the public
treasury would just bulge out with it's
share of all the income from the ma
teral products. As it is thus far, the
money schemers hav grabbed on to the
biggest and best there is and hold it to
monopolize industries and bleed the
people in prices. Look how they're
stealin' the public lands out in Mon.
tana and Wyoming this very day un-
der the gnise of irrigatin' schemes and
improvements and the thievin' rascals
hav the cheek to stand up and look
honest men in the face.
Some folks seem to be awful scared
over whether marriage is declinin'.
Farmer Ben amt Just because some
of the high bloods who marry for
money and position insted of for love
get tired of each other and flare up and
crowd the divorce courts it don't follow
that marriage is declinin'. was
tickled the other day at readin' about
the losin' of experienced teachers down
in New Jersey. Alarmists say that the
supply of feminine teachers is runnin'
nifty short on account of marryin' and
suggest a big increase of salary to hold
'em but the state secretary says sagely,
it is mot a matter of wages with public
school teachers but because they fall in
love when the right man comes along
and asks 'em and no salary could be
provided to hold 'em after. That's
about the idee Farmer Ben has. I
reckon there are more married couples
today than ever before and more en-.
gagged couples too. Young folks will
keep right on fallin' in love and no
school boards can circumvent or hire
'em away from marryin'. When the
right man comes along or the right
woman appears even a Austin old
bachelor amt proof agenst Cupid's
deadly work. ~. -. ".@=
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Speakin' of divorce business, my
paper says that down at DesMoines q
woman is sum for divorce because her
husband won't let her put her cold feet
on him in bed. She testifies that there
was no fire in the room and her hus.
band had gone to bed and she got in
after and put her cold feet agenst his
back and he slapped her face viciously
and swore at her and then she cried
herself at last to sleep and could never,
navar hear tO sneak tO that man: apan