Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-06-09
AN OLD TIMER coGITATEs
Horace Baker kSnews Acquaintance
Old Settler OF Clinton Town
WEATHERFoRp. Tens. April Fl.

! WATERFORD, Texas, April %.
]. EDITOR CENSOR: Whereas, | was
one OF the pioneers of Vernon county,
lS67-l8S0, | would herewith request YOU
to place an item in your issue mean
tine requesting q correspondent, mas
much as | want some one among your
patrons of my class to compare the
status quo of now-a-day, relative to
"reminiscences and sacred matters that
none of you now-a-day editors appear
to comprehend. In the days Of 1867
1880, was one of the patrons of the
CENSOR, under benificient editorship of
my dear old comrade Henry Casson,
and would also mention another COM
rade, General Jerry NJ. Rusk.
The main subjuet of which need a
correspondent for in your county is a
nice little farm to farm the soil of God 8
earth. Inasmuch as | demonstrated
such farm in those days and all of the
men, women, boys and girls of those
| days we're also intensely interested in
demonstrating. But since then the
powers that have taken this sacred
matter in hand have undertaken to make
| farmin' a business matter to farm the
| farmers" Therefore, { b e genuine
/ farmer, (who is in nowise q business
I ,
erything you now-a-day book farmers
have to do, concerning subject you
are not eligible to comprehend, to-wit.
To undertake to make nice little farm
business matter. Please allow me to
quote cur dear old friend, Senator Car
mack, of Tennessee: "A great eo&li-
tion, achieving the harmonious coll
fiuence of incompatible elements,
welding the pewter handle to the
wooden spoon, grating the dead
b0ugh TO the living tree. making It
bloom and bend with golden fruit. "
making playmates of the lamb and
the leopard, and boon companions of
the spider and the fly. "sfisf,f
Again, what is old Vernon county
doing relative to the war IN Europe
Are there any blue-eyed, lme and Gott)
Germans left, who sympathize with
the "Father-iand, or has Mr. Wilson'S
policy taken possession of the now-a-
day smart set of Wisconsin,? Are the
boys of Wisconsin as ready now to''fall
in instanter, and organize regiments
and waltz TO the front, like the Wis
consin boys of 1861? General Sherman
said relative to Wisconsin soldiers:
I'VE estimated a Wisconsin regiment
equal to a brigade. That sentence
should be photographed on memory al
bum on the soul of every Wisconsin
boy because it viii not be many years
more until Uncle Sam viii be forced to
| fight for his existence.
1t is a matter of course" with any
man, who chooses to look the future in
the face, as Admiral Peary says. to-wit:
I'VE must control all of North Ameri-
ca, north of us, or it will eventually
control u.s. And by the same scien-
tific horoscope, see Texas today, grad
ually ecoming Mexicanized with
swarms of Greasers coming into Texas,
together with the Japanese and all the
scum of Asia, India and the Islands Of
/ the Pacific ocean, now just beginning
to swarm along on our western coast,
the entire southwestern u S. a. will
il few years be of the ssss4vam plex-
ion as our prototypes. on the same par
allel of latitude, on the Eastern Henri
| sphere, HORACE BAKER.