Morris tribune., 1910-11-11
Copyright 1910 By c. Il. RIErHy


| Blessing US from day to day,
And the boon of independence
Has, we take it. come to stay:
And whereas, Indulgent Nature
Lavishes upon US still
Bounty in excess of what the
Weather and the bugs can kill;
And whereas, The old republic
Couldn't be improved upon,
Notwithstanding everybody
Gets to run it off and on
Therefore. I, as delegated
Now and for short time hence
President. decree that turkey
Shall go up to 20 cents.
That's about all there is to it
Once the country raised it's own, and
the White house proclamation was
not greeted with a groan. Father
simply grabbed the hatchet, mother
| got the water hot, father read the
| proclamation to the turkeys in the
lot, all the young and female turkeys
promptly tainted from the shock, and
after due farewells the gobbIer laid
his head upon the block.
No one telephoned the butcher, ask
ing what the turkey cost. No one in
his deep resentment wished the Pill
grims had been lost. No one, while
| the feast proceeded. knew the tor
ment of the rack figuring upon his
napkin what the day had set him
back.
Everybody was provided, as the
founders pre-supposed. No one can
be very thankful, if the truth should
be disclosed. paying what we pay for
| turkey, and, for all of Heaven S
gifts, feeling that the day was found
ed for the Armours and the Swifts.
November gets it's name from the
Latin noven (nine), and was originally
the ninth month of the year. This
brought Thanksgiving around two
months earlier than we have it now,
and it became very unpopular. The
insurgents, who constituted a ma
jority in the agricultural districts,
were bitterly opposed to it. They
made two contentious First, that
young turkeys were not old enough to
market; second, that crops had not
progressed to the point where it was
possible to make out whether there
was anything to be thankful for or
not. In 713 B. C. the storm broke.
The insurgents carried Gaul, Britannia
and II other doubtful states, and the
Forum Immediately assembled and
made November the eleventh month
of the year.
The festive colt will sniff the air
and don his heavy underhair, and the
frenzied candidate will jump and hop
around upon the stump. He'll
point with pride and view with fear,
and suck and blow the atmosphere, and
then. together with his cult. await
with prayer the result.
Does reason haply hold its sway. |
or is it madness for day will tell the
people what to think and put the
country on the blink? One cannot
tell, but must abide the count that
sees him justified in courage, conf
dence or doubt, according as it may
turn out.
One thing alone is sure, it seems,
and that is this: No one esteems
patriot in politics. We only trust
him while he sticks to war, with all
its thrill and throb. The moment
that he wants job somewhat conspi-
cuous for pay, by Jove we don't know
what to say. ~--- - - -. ,s---E s.r,
But whether we do i'll or we'll, cleo
tion day alone can tell, or whether
love for US and fear did any good, will
then appear. We have to judge men
as we may, and where the candidates
all say about the same thing in the
end, one scarcely knows who is a
friend
At any rate, the snow will fly, and
the wild duck spin across the sky with
both eyes focused on the ground, and
his tail-piece going round and round.
The eager hunter will deploy and
supplement the live decoy, and the
pneumococcus, while he toots, will
perforate his rubber boots. @
A little shooting now and then is
reIished by lot of men. They like
to gallivant about and let the farmers
run them out. It does them good to
feel, by jing, that Morgan don't own
everything, and if he came in conse-
quence. and also tried to climb the
fence. together with his dog and gun,
he. too. would also get the run.
November will be unusual this year
for tho yoocoo tbot tharn will he no