The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28

best fancy pork that ever comc through
that door III come down here an slve an
exhibition Of man catin' tho huh twenty
ono. An besides. you're savin ,est two
hundred an ten dollars"
"Hosv dId you know NO was payin'
thirty.eisht;" she says. blushIn.
IL told 80 I was married." I says.
No I got twice what the shippers would
give mo for the pork. an darn near cut
her costs In two. wo Just divided the
profits OF the mlddlcman.
After ALL New Workers IL human bcin's.
even II they do think cows hhtchcs their
young from cggs II makes me sick TO SEQ
a honcheaded farmer "stove-plpIn' - hls
potaters an thlnkn' he's gittIn' even with
New York for the way the food pirates has
skinned him. lie don't know no better,
neither. All he's doln' is to pack a little
more onto the back of some decent feler
In New York that's worlkln icst as hard as
he IL TO bring up bunch OF young uns.
When ] talk about workin' people In tho
cities don't mean Just tho labor unions.
They're organized an mebbe they kin
take caro- OF 'cmsclvcs. To look nj tho
wages they pull down you'd think NO. No,
l mean tho millions, as you might say. OF
clerks an bookkecpers an small trades
men an dressmakcrs an laborers-all SORTS
OF unorganizcd people.
When this multitude that eats the food
at three times what thcy oughta pay. an
tho farmers that's diggin' away all over
the country TO grow II for half what they
ought 10 cit, comes TO understand each
other. an how they both ben hcrtcd along
lko lot o. ycarlln' calves. there's gonta
he political houscclcanin' IN this land Of
tho nobel free thatll be shocking. but
beneficial, an take II from me well bc
nearer the millennium. Nothin' Is harder
To handle than mcck-eycd calf when he
Eits idec into his head an gifts started
for sofnewhcrcs
Now. as the sayin' is up around Das-
CONS Bridge. LES plant corn" Town
folks has got notion they know what's
goin' on becus they read tho papers
They say tho farmer don't read none.
Lord. tho farmer has TO work. In
the ely they have a eight hour day. an
good deal of that. for some people. is
lunch time. The farmer works eight hours
a day, too,-an' eight at night: an at that
he kin just about pay tho taxes an give
the mortgage three meals day an IN
stock two. The stock gifts thinner on tho
slightest provocation: the mortgage never
does. .,
s Senso the Farm Bureaus got tho farmer
TO begin TO keep some track of his busi-
ness, an he's beginnin' 10 find out thar l.s
can't afford TO grow hay an grain 20 feed
cows TO produce four cent milk. which
costs the families In town fifteen or better.
also that wheat costs him s2.25 bushel
to grow can't be sold for SHE less COM
mlssionsian' pay for labor an machnery
an fertilizer an sced let alone kecpin' tho
grower an his family out of the County
House. the farmer amt been damned quite
so loud.
Now wo'ie hcarin' a hull lot about "nelp-
In the farmer" but Il looks as though The
time had como when that old familiar
soothin' syrup won't work. the farmer
has ben drove into n corner where he's
got to help himself but IL You trail along
with me think | kin show you where It's
gonta help the fcller that eats the food as
much as 1t does the feller that grows it.