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

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eisy-dn' I don't care II they're ma
tive born or just naturalIzed cIiiren1
from up sta,s-Is that they think the
world spds at spuyisn puyvil erik. Late
" they've bs'n bet UP soms over havin'
'smsslvss made into . State. bu, if they
DO tho hsss thing they want to cit IL .
good navy. becus Il their lines Of com.
snunication ever si,s cut BY some asricul-
tprai bloc tpsyll all starve to death. About
al 20 Kin raise In New York 10 he'll n
priccs. But thcys two sides to every
pitcher. Out beyond IIoboken theys over
. hundred million peopic-ali the way to
TIilamook. where thcy's nine foot O rain
fail an tho cows has all got web feet
thst's knockin' New York an sverythin'
beionsin' TO H.
come down 10 New York every now
m then but most o tho time for a good
many years ben up TO pascom's Bridge
wrastiIn' bunch o. grade Holstein's an
folcrin' Syracuse plow an wonderin'
how long It'd takc tho city folks an the
country folks 10 md out they was both
bein' made monkeys Of. an TO quit as
trustin' an backcappin' an snarlin' al
eac. other.
Bccus a lot OF food manipulators trims
him down to tho bone. the farmer thinks
the folks In New York Is oil his mortal
enemies: nm when the New Yorker VINO
works for q iIvin' looks over his fccd Dill
hc agrees with those self denying. politi-
clans that tho farmers is gang OF bandits
thars tryin' TO starve. the helpless babies
OF New York. an that they all oush'a
DO hang. s.s .4
This thing about the farmer gtttin' rich
has surc ben spread around a plenty. SIT
Il everywhere. Tho other night went up
TO a boardIn' house IN the Bronx to supper
With my cousin. Hiram Pepper. Iio left
Bascom's Bridge seventeen years ago como
next january to make his fortune In New
York. as so many folks don't He's
elcrhin' in n paint store in Third avenue
There was O corn-fed wilder there.
Boardin houses always seems to mo to be
populated with widders Of men that's
worked 'emselves to death. Sometimes
when I listen to em I think after all
long oyerstrain on the ear drum might
cause death. An this wilder says. "Oh
my. the farmers is all coiniu' money now.
They got automobiles an telephones an
,ncv no 10 the movin' pitchers every SADLY
night"
Eyes, mom." I says: they run automo-
biies SOS to keep the New York oil barons
from goin' to the poor house an becomin'
a public charge. an they go an sct in the
moyin' pitchers In the winter time TO keep
warm an save burnin' coal at sixteen fifty
4 ton mn haiti It yerself seven miles But
they never ddst go TO the movies unlest
the hens has laid eggs enough through tho
week to pay fer the tickets.
AN besides" says. "senst the farmers
has begun takin' their families to the
movin' pitchers instid Of settin around the
kitchen stove an worryin'. that less Of EN-
has had to take their wives to tn insane
asylum. The farm women that used to
look like pitchers Of Before Takin'' IS
actially. eittin sense enough to be foolish
onct IN a while. but none of 'em is foolish
enough to think they're gittin' rich"
"why." she says. nufiin' up her fur but
purring' the way widdsrs does. "be YOU a
farmer by any chanct"
II think l be, mom," says, though
you probly wouldn't suspect it frum my
looks" .
"fIow vurry interestln'," she murmurs
eThen sposc you pcrduce all these dee
licious things deah Mis- Potter gives us to
eat"
Most all of em," says. "An pork like
that you're playin' with netted Jest cents
q pound to most Of the farmers-an' that
was gross net Why that's prime stuff.
growed on milk an red dog middlin's,
clover pasture n brook water an dressed
about hunderd n ten. / kin see Mis-
Potter's some pervider, but whad'ye s'pose
she paid fer that pork?"
Mis- Potter spoke up from the end OF
the table II give 20 cents fer that roast"
she says, kind Of sputcny "My butcher
told me it was fancy quality, an L ben
distribution"