The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-03-04

together once in while and swap |
ideas" l wish to sincerely thank The |
Forum for the activity and interest |
it takes in favor OF the northwestern
farmer, and the firm and sensible stand |
1t advocates against Canadian reci-
procity. Your editorial in the issue of
Feb. entitled F'assett for. Governor,
ought to be copied by every local news |
paper, with some of the political feat |
ures left out-for conscience sake don't |
try to make us swallow socialist |
and also printed slips should reach |
every voter and wake them up.
This state and its sisters are almost |
exclusively an. agricultural region. Our
inhabitants are divided into two great |
agricultural classes; the farmer who /
farms the farmer One produces the |
farms the farmsr. One produces the |
wealth of the northwest, the other |
class consumes just as much as they |
can of it, and are now trying to kill |
OFF the farmer and absorb his home |
The travelling men, lawyers, doctors, |
wheat buy ers, tramps and buns and |
all the great army of vultures who !
live by picking the carcasses of the |
farmer producer, are I'm favor Of reci- !
procity. If nature had iven them |
brains enough to be little broad |
gagged they would know that il the
farmer was helped to prosper so his |
carcass was left fat it would be much |
betters picking than a bony skeleton |
picked in the pepper of adversely. 1t |
is said the carcass OF a dead Mexican |
is the only kind a turkey buzzard won't |
eat because Mexicans eat so much |
pepper.
On behalf of the farmers of Ransom |
county I wish to thank the Fargo |
Commercial club for passing those res
olutions against the pending treaty. |
Mr.. Scott appointed committee and |
ore of them was Mr.. Lewis l men |
ton these two for illustration They !
are duplex agriculturists, but they |
have brains enough to know that y |
fat carcass Is better picking than a |
lean one, and there are brainy men |
enough in your club to pass the reso-
luton. The most of the commercial /
clubs spend their money and energies |
in big feed consisting of style |
of cooking that their wives beat daily |
at home.
The travelling men are getting so |
numerous and conceited nowadays that |
they think they. hold the destinies of |
the nation in the hollow of their |
hands, but we consumers all know that |
they are only barnacles on commerce |
and a 2-cent postage stamp could or !
der $4,000 worth of goods and do 1t |
just as we'll, and probably save 20 |
per cent in cost if the present fool |
system was not in vogue. OF course
accuse the farmer of being the cause OF |
the high cost of living.
OF course the lawyers are for reci- |
procity, but show me one that has |
brains enough to be a good farmer, |
tiller of the soil L mean, and large |
per cent of them are trying to sell |
Canadian land.
The wheat buyers have to talk right !
or they would lose their jobs. The |
tramps and buns always tear down |
and never build UP.
The heads of the institutions of |
learning and college professors want |
the products Of our farms put on the |
free list and they rush into print with |
a lot of big words telling us that the |
sociologic and economic exigencies de-
mand, etc.
Not long ago The Minneapolis Jour
nal printed a full page in praise of |
a master mind that had been engaged |
at the head of one of their state in
situations of learning. Carefully an
alyzed the whole page made only two
tangible points. The talented gentle
man is a noted professor of sociology |
and master in teaching athletic
games. When was a boy we would
use plain Saxon, and call him a dude
and say he ought to be criminally
prosecuted for trying to teach the
students to kick UP high and miss a
a mass and see how many heads they
can punch and how many arms and |
legs they can break, and make their
fathers pay from $4,000 to 100000 to
give the dear son an opportunity to |
make a big fool of himself. While |
riding on an interurban car between |
the twin cities short time ago, about |
twenty students of one of Minnesota's |
great institutions came into the car
and sat close around me. They smelled
of such a mixture of whisky, tobacco, |
foul stomachs, musk cologne and other |
essences, made out of the drippings |
of cow stables and fusil oil that /
hadg to hold handkerchief over my
nose, and have been through some
pretty sour smells during life without
handkerchief. They were all talk
ing but l could not understand them. |
Their "college slang" is not in sew
eral foreign languages, that l am
somewhat familiar with. asked the |
dude in my seat what language are
you talking, Chinese Volupuk?' HE
stared at me vacantly and said, |
whats that?" Their principal con-
versation was about their ''fiuzees."
Anxious to find out what foreign Ian
guage colleges are teaching l asked |
Lisbon high school student the |
meaning of the word. His reply was, |
HI don't you know what 'fiuzee'
means? i do" said thought ne /
did.
Have got a list of what our high /
school students call a "fuzee." The |
very latest is an old black mare "a
years old. will send The Forum
list some day
College slang has wide scope. All
those who use is are taught by their
alma matters that the cost Of living |
Is too high and the pinheaded editors
of the eastern press publish
column after column of stuff written
by some professor Of economics about 1
the high price of meat, blaming the
poor farmer for 1t all Nearby the
Great Northern hotel in Chicago is /
a restaurant where the heightened, the /
elite and the buns Of the 400" take /
their-suppose / viii use that word I
"nuzee'' to be understood by students |
after the close of the theatres.
gr1.n cost ~ a nAal is from $3.50 TO /