Mower County transcript., 1913-05-28
FARMER BEN'S
COLUMN

This baby raisin' business is muchly
changed since we raised our gal Sarah
and the boys. Then we used to con.
s'der that we knew what was clean and
healthy and if we wanted to civ 'em
drink OF cows milk we did so, and so
with their clothes. When they needed
clean clothes we put 'em on and that
was all there was to it. But nowadays
there's nothin' fit or suitable until it's
sterlllzed. You've got to sterilize the
oaoy's bottle and his clothes and his
food and his chair he sits in and his
gocart and his bed and the nurse and
everything. The Lords food amt good
enuf for babies these days and so
they've got to be fed and dressed and
sterlllZed by the clock schedule and a
mint before time won't do. But
can't see that this way of raisin' young
sters beats in any way the old fashion
ed way of generation ago. We still
reckon that our gal Sarah was babied
pretty near right.
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| MY paper says that a case that was
started twenty years ago in Marion
county. Miss, to determine title to
some property has just reached the U.
5. supreme court and that it will take
two or three years to dispose of the
case there. It's the same old story of
delayed lawn that is the curse of our
courts. It's the game in which the rich
corporation or individual alwus wins
out in. The men who have big money
hire lawyers and draw out legal hair
splittin' until the poor man is discour-
aged and cleaned out The difficulties
and dlscouragements which beset the
path of the ordinary man or woman
who courts the courts in the hope of
getttn' relief or justice are so great
that any old settlement is a better
financial prop than to fight for your
rights. The fool delays that judges
allow for every little trifle make ex-
pense that lots of folks can't afford and
sos our courts get to be conrts. Of abso-
lutte injustice insted of what they're
Dragged up to be. I'd like to see court.
in all done in the interest of swift
Justice.
They've commenced to agitate the
gettin' together of the differin' factions
OF the repub party. Anybody knows
that if they all combined they would
still be the big victorious party. I'm
inclined to 6gger that it's too soon yet
to get to do much in this line. Lots of
EN- haven't got dose enuf yet. One
thing that can be given out and decid-
ed at once is to cut out forever more
the rotten method of basin delegation
on population insted of repub votes.
The old way of gettin' a lot of OILS
holders from the south who never carry
any states for the repub ticket and
mass them in convention so as to de-
feat the clear wish and will of the
states that Civ the repub majorities in
elections must be teetotally abolished.
On the basis Of the combined repub
vote at last election the north would
get fair say in nominatin' winners
and Bill Barnes and his dirty crew
would be extingulshed. No use of
calm up bygones now but hundred
million people know just where the
outrageous frauds we're perpetrated in
the last national convention.
l sec that the G. A. r. comrades in
Minneapolis are strivin' to hav Mem.
orial Day pass off without havin' it
made a conspicuous day of sports and
hilarity. 1t beats all how many folks
there are who pay no more attention
to a soldiers grave than they would to
q dead horse. The day is solemn one
to the comrades sure enuf. It's day
of remembrance and respect for the
dead. It's like q funeral day. It's q
nifty poor day for sports and carryin'
on. It looks like lack Of respect mark
ed every one who INDUCED in games on
such day. Insted, Young America |
should be filled with such q feeliIl' of |
gratitude and appreciation for the old
soldiers that they would make the day
quiet and they would turn out and at
tend all the public G. A. R. exercises
of the day. Then there would be some
good influence on the risin' generation.
You can't blame the veterans some-
times feelin' leetle disappointed when
they see the irreverence and disrespect
and jollification and merry maxim on
Memorial Day.
read that piece about Bryan not
servin' wine or other liquor recently at
\ party for foreign ambassadors and I
just throw up my hat for him. 1t was
) nifty brave thing to do. Not many
hnt wonld hov viol1o1 III oorr, n)no o,,<