Mower County transcript., 1908-06-17
FARMER BENS
COLUMN

COLUMN
It amt hard to see how Bryan's cam
paign is financed. He gets an Income
of about $4,000 year from his bust
ness and lecturs and he trots in the rioh.
mems class. But 1 can't get it ciph'
cred out where John A. johnson is
gettln' the immense sums he's putin
into headquarters at Chicago und all
the big publicity bureau and the tre-
menduos efforts to boost him into Oils.
Certainly ne amt saved it hisself and
his personal friends amt got it. It's
looks spicious. Somebody with big
wad is behind him to furnish the spon-
dulix. So fur as l can learn the hat
amt ben passed round among the com
mon people for dollar apiece. 1t
amt everybody that can Civ thous-
and or ten thousand for another's cam
paign greasin' unless there's somethln'
in it. johnson is appointin' millionaire
lumber barons to be university regents
and is standin' in with Jim Hill and is
gettin' to be quite nabob. L wonder
where his campaign money comes
from.
IT. alwus makes me tired to tend
court and see how the browbeatln
lawyers are allowed to abuse witnesses
I never could see why if they really
wanted to get at the truth, the whole
truth, and nothin' but the truth, wit
nesses shouldn't be allowed to go
right on and tell what they know about
a case and get all the facts before the
Jury. Bnt no Stree. They are cooped
right up and held in corner and asked
all sorts of limited questions and are
shut up if they try to illuminate the
understanding of the jury. It's all the
rankest bosh. 1t alwus looks spicious.
1t looks like they was tryin' to hold
back what was goin agenst their side
no matter for justice or rights OF 9TH
ers. l wish was Judge for a month.
I'd show 'em something in fair trials.
I'd lust wind up a witness and set 'em
goin and get out ali they had IN mind
about a case and then l could get at
the determination Of Judgment.
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1t don't argue at all that the repuph-
can party has lost any of it's usefulness
Just because some of the misrepresen-
tatives elected to congress hav proved
traitor to the people and hav sold out
to the trusts and hav accumulated big
fortunes In rakeotts. The principles OF
the &. O. 2. are perfect and they've
alwus solved the nations troubles ana
they will so continue. l never knew
the time when the repubs didn't tackle
the big national sums at the right end
and solve 'em right and proper. The
only thing to do is to throw the pres
ent misrepresentatives into the dung
heap and get new ones who will 90
what the people demand. Look at the
coward)y way they treated tariff reform
the last session. They know just as
much abont the evils of protectin' the
trusts as they will five years later but
they ruther stand in with the monopol-
les than with the common people.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish of New York
says that New Y York sassiety is deadly
and Newport has ben ruined by money.
There's so many upstarts and snubbers
and social climbers tiggerin' to get
ahead that there amt any hospitality.
Everything is in sets. When you're
invited to any place you alwus know
just who you will meet and who will
take you to dinner and who will sit
next to you and what the gossip will
be about No wonder that Mrs. Fish
is disgusted L tell you there amt much
real comfort in high sassiety. You
never get right down to generous, un-
selfish, hearty hospitality without for
mality. I wouldn't trade my leetle
parties with my naybors and old COM
rades for all the sassiety doin's OF six
4OOs. When we hav a leetle gatherin'
of naybors and friends we are friendly
and informal and sociable with no
stuckupness amt got any use for
the snobs and pretenders OF high sassl-
ETY.. There amt no kindly hospitality
in the whole bunch.
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l see the new scheme of guaranteeln'
bank deposits is workin' well in Okla
homa. The other day bank failed
down there, the state officers stepped
right in and took control, the deposit
tors know they will be paid in full, the
other banks of the state will see to it
that the officers of the failed bank are