Mower County transcript., 1907-12-18
FARMER: BEN'S
COLUMN

for buildin' material insted of usln' the
superior home product. They're tigger-
in on putin ON an addition to the
normal school buildin' and materially
the Mankato folks want to hav Man.
kato stone used 1t is we'll known that
there amt any better buildin' stone
round than the Mankato product.
But the dem board of control has got a
notion of sendin' out of the state for
Bedford stone to do the job with and
hav got up specifications for the same.
Talk about lunkheads and chumps
you can find them in drOves on our lists
of public officials. It's the same rotten
deal that the new capitol commission
put up on the state of Minnesota years
ago when they sent way down to
Georgia for lot of dirty marble veneer
to fix up the new state house with.
Here we had in St. Cloud and other
Minnesota quarries granite as lastin'
and fine as any on earth and it would
hav ben the biggest advert to the state
forever to point with pride to home
stone in the capitol. But the idiotic
commission played traitor to the state
O O O
Well, the political game of 1908 has
opened by fixin' the date for nominal
in our next president at Chicago on
June Is. The &. O. 2. will from now
on hav rush of candydates ready tor
the honor and willin' like Barkis to
hav it come their way. One thing the
people want mainly and that is that
there shall be no letup on prosecutin'
to the end the work that Roosevelt has
so splendidly started. It's goin' to
clean up lots of the causes of our ma
tional troubles to fight it out leetle
further along Roosevelt's lines. One
thing | never liked about these national
conventions is that the representation
amt based on actual repub votes at the
last election. If this righteous plan
was only carried out the southern states
that never elect could not come into
convention and hav such undue
power and vote. | say let the states
that do the electin' hav the main right
and big pull to do the nominatin'.
Then they will be sure to pick the win
ner they wish TO support at the polls.
Now that Roosevelt is surely out of the
game times will be lively for the next
six months. 1t amt goin' TO be easy
to elect a candydate set up by the
moneyed powers but a peoples man
will be invincible.
Id just like to get that Chicago
authoress, club woman, sassiety leader
and general philanthropist, Mrs. Lydia
Coonley Ward, up this way to repeat
the lecture she gave the other day to
the young women of the Chicago high
school. Among the sage counsel she
Civ 'em was to be lovn', not to wear
rats, to dress neatly, not to glggle, not
to be selfish, to be cheerful, not to Mar
celle their hair, and to get married
that's their duty. Now l reckon if any
gal was to liv up to these rules and reg
uations she'd be just peach. Just
think of cuttin' out gigglin' and selfish
livin' and rats. Just think of gals al
wus wearin' bright and shiny faces and
dressin' in the charm of simplicity
Just think of what a beautiful thing
aim in life is to prepare to get married
by learnin' practical things like cookin
and sewin' and domestic science and
love. 1 tell you it would make a new
generation of gals that would knock
the spots off their ancestry. If there's
any thing that disgusts me it is gal
that is artificial insted of material.
1t looks like the big brewers was get
tin scared. Every leetle while some
big brewer comes out in print with d
big spasm of reform to trim down the
evils of the saloon and correct their
worst featurs. l see big st. Louis
brewer who was at the brewers cOnven'
ton in New York the other day exhort.
ed 'em to abolish the low saloon and
all similar dives and tolerate no branch
of the liquor business that is violatin
the law. 1t looks like there was some
thin hurtin' when the brewers their
selves are gettin' anxious to reform the
cursed evils Of Tho saloon. / tell you
if the saloons would alwus obey strict
ly to the ordinances and laws, never
sell to minors, never sell to men thai
we're half full, never keep open illegally
keep down all screens, keep out al
cards and gamblin', keep out all women
but insted just liv up to the spirit aLo
letter of the laws and requirements il
would hav made little more feelin
for their bein' kicked out of business
but as it has ben generally, all decent
folks hav got it in for 'em. It's 6
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