Mower County transcript., 1908-09-30
FARMER BEN'S
COLUMN

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Hearst got at Foraker hard in show.
i'm up his connection with the Standard
Oil company as its agent and now he's
down and out. There's no use of try
in to blind the people as to- what's
hatchin in the plans of the big con-
gressmen. Foraker has opposed Roose-
velt and his policies in most insultln'
and brazen way. He stirred up the
Brownsville investigation not so much
evidently for the colored mems benefit
as so discredit Roosevelt and he's ben
in on that side on lots of the props that
hav ben before congress. There amt
any doubt in Farmer Ben's mind that
there is q close workin alliance be-
tween some of the big corporations and
billionaires and boodlln politicians
and congressmen. Now it looks like
stroke of just Fate when Foraker the
kicker agenst righteous policies and
square dealin' should be come up with:
He fought the nomination of Taft
with might and main and he's stood as
an obstructionist to the tryin' to re-
form and lift upsand rectify He's a
goner now no matter what mischief he
may yet stir up.
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The public sentiment agenst the
domination of Speaker Cannon is gett.
in stronger :andsffercer all the time.
He has blocked up legislation demand
ed by the people and pressed by the
president and the whole country is on
to him. They tried last week to cam.
paign with him down in Kansas but it
didn't enthuse. He has. ben so un-
friendly to the policies and recon-
mendations of the president that his
name is a stink in the nostrils. OF
course his lickspittles ard slaves stick
up for him and try to apologize for him
but it only makes the said lickspittles
all the more contemplate. I'm glad
that the self respectin' congressman
are goin' to stand up agenst the tyran-
ny and domination of dictator Cannon
and it would be the best thing that
could happen to the country to hav
him kicked out. He's another who
has got enormously rich durin' the
lc11 of ochi
don't need the offs to liv on. Any
supporter of Cannon is traitor to his
country.
l see they was knockin' down the
prices of stocks in Wall street last
week and margins were wiped out and
specu!ators were ruined and as usual
the big fellows raked in the stuff at
low figgers. After while they'll start
another up movement and make the
innocent outsiders believe that business
is revivin' and prices are goin' to ad-
vance and 50. get em to buy agen at
good prices only to be let down agen
It's got so a small bunch of the milli-
onaires with the bank and insurance
capital and funds they can use and
control to manipulate the markets can
get, up panic just when they please:
They can hold out orders from the
manufactures and shut 'em up or they.
. can flood in. their orders and produce
good times. They can draw out money
from circulation so that finances are
stringent or they can loose their purse
strings and money is SO plenty it goes
- at two per cent. So they play football
with the peoples interests. Butsthe
man who's got money to invest wants
to keep shy of Wall street speculators.
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That bank cashier down to Huxley,
Iowa, will ehav the next ten years to
think over what Farmer Ben has ben
settill' out all these years about keep1n'
along in the good old honest way with
out tryln' to get rich in week or try
in to iiv like millionaire on $4,000
iucome. Aldrich was one of the finest
young men of the town, prominent So
cially aud the best of prospects. But
he began dabblin' in margins on the
board of trade and speculatin' and Wis
ions of a vast fortune loomed up before
him and busted his eyes to all consider
atm of honesty and Integrity and hon
or. He fetched up one day on his specs
and used the banks funds and forged
notes on patrons until he was into the
bank about $4,000 and now he is a
self confessed defaulter and is. given
ten years in the pen. it's the same old
song but there are plenty of other ga
loots and ninnies who won't heed the
warnin'. All can say is the good old
Way is the safest and Onliest.