The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-01-23

gathered in Des Moines, to pass blue
sky laws, no voice in Madison coun-
ty is heard eagerly demanding their
, passage" says Arthur Goshorn in a
communication in the Winterset
Madisonian. In fact, if any bone
head in the present assembly attempts
to write on the statutes a law that
will prevent Madison county people
+ from disposing of their money as they
see fit, We propose TO Wilsonlanly
gibbet him, or burn him in efflgy.
( 1T took us years TO gain the dis
tinction of being the country in which
J. Rufus Wallingford operated, and
it's our right if we choose, to play up
to anything that is the worthy success
sor of Bohemian oats, of portable pan
tries. of Carbonate mining stock, OF
underground trolley, OF ariel railroads
that carelessly cross Middle rivers
two hundred feet deep, and quarter
mile wide canon, and without curve
or crook amble on.
IF Madison county in days long
gone chose to Fay some suave gent
from Ohio hundred thousand bucks
to show us how to sell each other
seed oats-Bohemian oats-at $40 a
bushel, and contract. to take all that
was raised at the same price, it was
our own business. Anyhow it worked
for awhile.
J If some of our folks who had their
houses gaily lightning rodded, did for
get to notice in the contract that
every rod tip cost $50, it was our for
get, and we paid for 1t, though 1T did
look like waste OF money to spend
$3.50 for some sharp pieces of copper.
7 If we choose to entertain for months
that scholarly gentleman, Mr.. Charles
Albright, who, with two or three more
delightful Texans who could not purr
an r, introduced into our midst that
valuable but neglected and misunder-
stood household necessity, the much
abused portable pantry, that was our
business, too. OF course Mr.. Albright
and his affable companions who al
ways had something in the back
room, wandered off one day with $780,
600 of our money, but they left us a
few very serviceable kitchen helps,
and more blue sky than one county
could possibly float. There's more
than one of us who yet laughs him
self to sleep at himself, when he
thinks of Mr.. Albright and his soft
spoken southern friends, who had
difficulty with their RS, but no diff
Guilty whatever in selling a county
right for $500, two for $500.
in the course OF years, due entire
ly to our trusting natures, Madison
county has acquired some valuable
lots in Galveston, or they will be val
liable when the shallow body of water
that separates the city from the main
land dries up so the lots can be used.
We will have some more lots when
the Willamette river changes its
course In Portland, so that city addi'
ton can be exposed-it's now in the
river bed. We own several mountain
sides that need a little work to show
mineral
IF Charley Miller gets his blue sky
law passed what will We do in Feb
Tuary? What will become of our Tay'
lors, Watermans, Morduants, Parks
and Cherrys, the Rock Island and the
Burlington have fed us in that month
Here comes the Macksburg road and
il is now time that something Is doing
Would Miller rob us of our innocent
diversion of annually granting to some
railroad the exclusive right to all the
streets and alleys in the town, OF
listening to the wall OF the Rock Is
land officials who say they are toe
poor to even build a depot?
Pass blue sky laws for the rest OF
the state. but exclude Madison. Blue
sky is our specially and diversion
and February, when the tint deepens
nto an almost blue-black, approaches