Mower County transcript., 1907-06-12
FARMER BEN'S
COLUMN

COLUMN
Another fool trial on bein' happy
with money alone has come to smash.
A Iowa woman who married rich
mine owner thought she could be happy
among the flowers and riches Of Mexico
but now she wakes up and finds that
lonesomeness in foreign country with
little attention paid to her by her hus-
band who is filled with his business and
Casino life makes her life lonely and
too heavy to bear. So she's decided to
get bill and look for happiness else
where. It's the same old story. Fool
folks lots of 'em think that when they
catch a rich connection they are all
made when it's the road to woe and
pang and despair more often. Weddin'
money is like weddin' a wooden stick.
There amt any response in love and
companionship and sympathy and help
fulness and congeniality and apprecia-
tion. tell you the old fashioned idee
of match maxim on the foundation of
love and personal worth beats all others
to hollow. l can't get used to. any
other.
My heart goes out to that leetle Chi
cago 11-year old boy who has ben out
every night for weeks sleepin' on his
mothers new grave. He says that
when he lay awake nights and cried for
his mother his father would try and
make him stop and so not to bother
any more he has ben g0in' out to the
grave of his dearest and he could lie
there and sleep sweet and sound. They
found him there the other night in q
peltin' chillin' rain sound asleep under
the stars without cover but smile on
his face. bet he was dreamin' of
mother and her soft hand on him same
as it used to be and he could forget all
his troubles for the time. l don't be-
lieve that grown up folks that hav had
their mothers while they was CROWN
up really and truly know what they've
got I don't believe they appreciate
one side of the loneliness of the young
sters that amt got any. And to think
there are folks that get so proud they're
ashamed of the mothers that bore 'em
and don't want 'em round in their finer
homes,
& 8 . o
Salary grabber TaWney is already
beginnln' to explain his Gettysburg
speech to the Washington papers and
he'll do lot Of it before he begins to
ketch up with it's rebel states rights no.
tions that the old vets fought years ago
and exploded. Tawney will find that
if he gets rope enuf in his smartness
he'll go over to perdition quick as the
rest of 'em. The idee that the govern
ment must hands off of meat inspection
and of control of lots of things that it
now is managin' for the people won't
go down for bunch of Tawneys as
big as a pack of government mules.
The salary grabber's notions match
wonderfully with just what the big
corporations wish. They don't want
the government to do thing but let
the states regerlate. Then they can
manipulate better. Iowa can hav one
kind Of inspection and Wisconsin an
other and so on and the result will be
as it alwus has ben that the people get
woIsted. Tawney takes direct issue
with president Roosevelt who is tryin(
to get at the weak points of state con-
troll thru the more powerful grip of
Uncle Sam.
BY the way, after salary grabber
Tawney gets let out at the next elec.
tion as he surely will what hurt will
come from it to any but Jim hisself?
What good has he been to Minnesota
and what good to the country? As
watchdog of the treasury he's got the
record Of the most extravagant and
prodigious outlay and waste of the pub
lie money that was ever known. If he
can prevent this, why don't he? If he
can't, then what good is he? can see
how he gets glory for hisself by push
in hisself ahead down at Washington
in more ways than one but tell you
Minnesota will be just as we'll looked
after in all ways after TaWney is kick
ed out as it is now. There's q big diff
fer between workin' for your c0nstitu-
ents and workin' for yourself. The
congressman that works for hissef