Mower County transcript., 1908-05-20
FARMER BEN'S e:
COL UMN

SOAOAvxAN
1t seems pity that a mans foresight
amt as good as his hind sight in this de-
lusion of gettin' rich by speculatin'.
A Brooklyn, N. Y /. man last week kill
ed hisselt~after he had lost his fortune
of $4,000 in Wall street speculation.
All he could write his wife was that a
man who is poor and old and hopeless
should not burden womans life. But
VINO made him poor and hopeless? 1t
looks to Farmer Ben like Sl15,OOO
would make snug sum to. keep the
wolf from the door aud if taken care of
would yield big livin' for any reason
able couple. B.t you can't beat it in
to the heads of lots of folks to let we'll
enuf alone and be satisfied with a LID.
eral allowance. They are bound to
risk in fool speculation and of course
they are sure to lose There is no
chance of their winnin' agenst the Wall
street sharpers. l never bit but once
on stocks and that was not big buCenuf.
My paper says that Mrs. New \ ork
Gould's father recently died in the in
sane asylum driven to luny by worry
in over the freaks of his girls one of
whom married a Chinaman and the
other Gould He was 20 years old
and was practically neglected by his
children so it was stated. He never
could get used to the notoriety and pub
licity OF his girls freaks and !extrava-
gance and foolishness and it preyed on
him until life was too great a burdens
It looks like parents ought to be given
a leetle consideration in such all impor-
tant concerns and it looks like childTen
after they get married to rich bugs
ought neverto get above carin' for their
parents. But the way of the world is
to e. back on your own in the whlrl
and glitter of high life. Just what a
well brought up American gal could
see to tie up to for life in heathen
Chinee beats Farmer Ben's comprehen-
sion and just why Gould should set
up so awful high also beats me.
# see there's big talk all over about
boostin' your town. It's a good thing
along right lines hut lots of times the
boosters are the very chaps that amt
helpin' really and truly to home.
There's carloads Of outside truck comes
into every town that oughtto be bought
right at home. These fellers that are
alUus howlin' about home trade and
then send off for all their stuff are no
good to any town. | was up to Austin
the other day and they was tellln' me
about the move on up there for boostin',
hayin' meetins and wearin' buttons
and all such. l guess it's all right as
fur as it goes but the real boosters hav
got to put ir work and not simply wind
Why don't they get up boosters meet
ings of home talent and hav Nate Ban
field and Gus Schleider and Johr
Maurek and other Austin hustlers tel
the folks where they're at and why
and where they ought to be at and how
to get to that at. It would be hum
rler reckon.
A good deal of the legislation which
president Roosevelt has not only recon
mended but importunated congress t
pass this session will be engrafted int
the dem platforms this campaign ant
the dems will stand out as champion
of what the good for nothin' congress
men hav persistent]y and assininely re
fused to make into laws. Amt it bi,
farce for Tawney and the rest Of tn
bunch to stand out so bullheaded agens
the insistent demands of the peopl
and so let the dems get their best am
munition for the comm political battl
from the inactivity of the repubs il
power? President Roosevelt sees thl
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