Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-08


the beef, flour and cotton:
All right Let me line up all the
drunkards. Supposing that you, are
getting on the water wagon, ana we
will spend our money for something
good.
March. Right left, right, left.
The Matter.
will show what Is the matter with
this country 7 will show you that the
flour that ought to be made into bread
is rotting in the elevator that the
things that your wife ought to nave
are on the shelves because you nave
not money enough to pun tnelli on a.io
take them home; and you have spent
your money in the grog shop. me
merchant has to borrow money to pay
his bills and has to carry on MS DOCKS
the man that drinks.
A man wrote me a letter the other
day in which he said he had never lost
a cent from the teetotaler. To think
business men Will stand UP lor that
cussed business,
Line Them up for Meat.
Come on. we will line them all up
| in front of a butcher shop, The butcher
knows you and says:
/ What do you want? A piece of neck
as usual
Not much! want a porterhouse
steak and a sirloin roast. and by the
| way how much do | owe you
Three dollars
There is your dough-
what does all this mean:
st means that l have been TO hear
Bill and i have cut the damned stuff
out and am on. the water wagon
All right; what do you WANT
Beef steak.
| What do you want"
Beef steak
| We strip the shelves. s4+
Hey Central. give us Morretl's &
+ Coz Send up beef, and hogs, ana
| sheep.
y They strip: them a1rdt they get con-
nection with Chicago, and they say:
| Send on the fast train a train load
| of beef for Ottumwa. Put on three en-
gines. mogul in the middle. What Is
| the matter? oh, there is a preacher
| here from Chicago named Bill Sun
day, and he has got the whole damned
bunch on the water wagon
4 Buy, Buy, Buy.
Listen, Morrell. Armour and Swift
say to their men:
BUY sheep buy cattlet buy hogs
and the farmer sees the price Of cat
tie, and sheep and hogs so UP to a
price where he can afford to. raise
them AS farmer III Missouri said:
l. we will raise. more corn and hogs
! and less hell and. dananation.
j Forward to Grocery.
+ Come on, we wifi walk down III
front of grocery store. l will show
you such a revival in business as YOU
never looked at. Come on Forward
march!
What do YOU want"
/ Flour.
1 Flour"
Flour"
We will strip the store Of -four and
telephone to Merrill's and Hutchison's
and say, Send up -four. We strll
the mill and telegraph to Crosby and
Pillsbury and Sleepy Eye and yelling
ton. KAN for -four. flour.
The flour man says:
Buy wheat! wkeatH
| The farmer sees wheat go to 81.
What is the matter? The comforts
for your wife and children lie rottins
in the elevators and the money that
Ought to buy the bread that ought tc
be in their stolnachs the whisky gang
! has.
Here 7 am John, the old drunkard
I am going home now. with q sack Of
flour over my shoulder. and the bee
steak under my arm and the roll OF
calico. I see my wife and children al
the door and I begin to sing:
! BE it ever so humble there is nc
place like home (without booze).'
The children say Papa, what yot
got?"
Flour"
What's in that packase?' q
! "Beefsteak. and a sirloin roast" The
stuff that. rich folks that ride in auto
I mobiles have, and the stuff that W.
have been feeding @the saloonkeeper:
on. You never had any. but your pa
has got a little sense. He has been t.
hear Bill, and got on the water wagon
7 And look here, wife, l have brought
some cloth for a dress for you (He1
Iold one has been patched until it looks
like a crazy quilt) Here is some
cloth to make John new pair o
pants--you have patched the seat O
his old breeches until it looks like /
map of the United States
Saw Mill.
4 Here, listen to me minute. :
friend of mine says I so along an(
say. What are you?'
Il am saw MILL,
What do you make2;'
| Boards. ,'s,.a.-, I'D,
What is your .power?3''
4 Wind, electricity, gasoline ane
/ steam
is the finished product worth NOR
than the raw material?"
Il YES"
Good! We will make laws to pro
| tect you. We want boards to built
houses and tabernacles. Good. Stan'
) up there on this pedestal. as one o
Americas greatest industries"
Paper Mills.
What are your
"a paper MILL
i What do you make paper out OFF,"
| "Old rags and straw
Can you take rags and straw an,
make white paper?"
Yes certainly
rs the paper worth more than TIL
rags and the straw-7thc finished pro
| duct worth more than the raw ma
terial?"
/ Yes
i 2Good. We will make laws for you
and put you on that pedestal. We mus
have paper on which to write notes
and mortgages. and deeds.
Gin Mill
''And what are your"
Il am a gin MILL
what do you make?'
u make gin
What is you power?'
THE vote Of the church members"
you lie"