Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-24

out and am on the water wagon"
Cali right; what do you want?"
'Beef steak"
What do you want7s
Beef steak"
We strip the shelves.
Hey, Central! give me the slaughter
house. Send up beef, and hogs, and
sheep"
Send on the fast train load Of beef
for Marshalltown. Put on three en-
gines, a mogul in the middle. What
is the matter? Oh, there is is a preach
er here from Chicago named Bill Sun
day, and he has got the whole damned
bunch on the water wagon"
| Buy, Buy, Buy.
Listen! Armour and Swift say to
their men:
BUY sheep! buy cattle! buy hogs!"
and the farmer sees the price of cat
tie, and sheep and hogs go up to a price
where he can afford to raise them. las
a farmer in Missouri said:
I'VE will raise more corn and hogs
and less hell and damnation."
Forward to Grocery.
| Come on! we will walk down in
front of a grocery store. will show
you such a revival in business as you
never looked at. Come on! Forward,
march!
What do you want?" i
"Flour"
'Flour."
Flour"
| We will strip the store Of flour and
telephone and say, Send up flour"
We strip the mill and telegraph to
Crosby & Pillsbury and Sleepy Eye and
Wellington, Kas, for flour, flour!
The flour man says:
BUY wheat! wheat!"
The farmer sees wheat go to So.
! What is the matter? The comforts
for your wife and children lie rotting
in the elevators and the money that
ought to buy the bread that ought to
be in their stomachs the whisky gang
| has.
"Men," Not "Jobs."
You let us take this money and turn
it into other business and the cry will
be:
Give US men," 1t won't be:
GIVE us jobs.,'
Here / am, John, the old drunkard.
1 am going home now with sack of
flour over my shoulder, and the beef
steak under my arm and the roll of
calico. l see my wife and children at
the door and begin to sing:
''Re It ever SO humble there is no
place like home" (without booze.)
The children say, Papa, what you
got?"
Flour"
whats in that package?"
"Beefsteak and sirloin roast" The
stuff that rich folks that ride in auto
mobiles have and the stuff that we have
been feeding the saloon keepers on.
You never had any, but your pa has
| got little sense. He has been up to
hear Bill, and got on the water wagon.
And look there, wife, / have brought
some cloth for a dress for YOU" CHER
old one has been patched until it looks
like a crazy quilt.) Here is some
cloth to make John a new pair of pants
you have patched the seat of his old
breeches until it looks like map of
the United States
Saw Mill.
Here listen to me minute. "A friend
of mine says go along and say. What
are you?"
i am saw mill"
What do you make?"
Boards"
What is your power7'
Wind. electricity, gasoline and
steam"
"Is the finished product worth more
than the raw material?"
| Yes
"Goodl. We will make laws to pro-
tect you. We want boards to build
houses and tabernacles. Good. Stand
up there on this pedestal as one of
Americas greatest industries"
Flour Mill.
| What kind of mill are you?
| 'tF1our mill"
What do you make?"
| Flour and NEAL
What do you make 1t out OFT"
Corn and wheat?"
| yes"
Cali right. we will make law for
you. We have to have bread. We
must have something to eat. Canada,
keep your wheat from Saskatchewan
and the Alberta country out. We want
Minnesota to have chance, and Nor
gan county. We will make laws to
protect you and this will be your pedes-
tall
Paper Mills.
what are your
"a paper mill"
What do you make paper out OFF,"
"Old rags and straw
"can you take rags and straw and
make white naper?"
yes, certainly"
Us the paper worth more than the
rags and the straw-the finished prod
uct worth more than the raw ma
terial?"
YES"
Good. We will make laws for you
and put YOU on that Dedestal We roust