The Old Farmer Meddling In Town Affairs Aii old farmer stood out by his pas ture lot, looking down into the valley where two or three miles away was located the county seat town. And the old man was talking about pub lic affairs. "I came here before the town did,” he said. “And a good lot of the farr crs came as soon as I did. We had to go a good ways to trade. There was maybe a mill or two on that stream, where we could go with a grist to mill, but it. was a good ways in every direction to anything. “Well sir, these towns started up because there were a lot of us fellers to sell things to. Just trading places, with two or three stores that kept codfish and calico on the same shelf. None of them store keepers knew sure where the real town was going to bo, but they all hoped they would strike it. Anyway, they had no inter est here except to sell things to farmers, and make money. We was all fast to the land, and expect to stay, no matter where the towns squatted. “I watched that town growr up. At first it was the store men, and then a blacksmith, and then another store and a shoemaker, and a stock buyer and some more stores. All of them wanted to sell things to us, or make some profit out of our stock and grain None of them built goqd houses at first. They didn’t seem to be sure they would stay. Mostly they lived over their stores. The other towns up and down the valley was just tlie same. “So they kept on growing as the farms got better, and there was more money for us to spend. The railroad came to handle our stuff, and the store men found sure they had the towm anchored in the right place, and they built houses. We helped build the first school house there. And we paid most of the taxes that built the first court house. And a lot more people came in to help each other wait on the farmers when they come in to trade. “Purty soon they commenced to call it a city. And purty soon a few farmers moved to town to live. They had made a good deal of money by hard work, and they had young folks coming on who were ready to take up the farming. That made more ne houses, and more people down there for the rest of us to feed. But they were all just a lot of farm folks af ter all, and a lot of people making their living out of farm folks. The sidewalks and the county jail, and the new high school building couldn’t change that. "I remember when they commenc ed to talk about a new court, house. Wanted to spend $80,000 for a new building. A ston man came out to see me about it one day. 1!ragged about my hogs awhile and then talked court house, ile said the old court house wasn't a credit to the county any more. 1 knew he meant it wasn't stylish enough for the town, but I had to own up that it was a pretty cheap looking old shack. "What lie wanted was for some of us farmers to circulate a petition asking for a court ltoues election. He said it took a petition with about so many signers before the commis sioners could call the election, and they thought it would be better to have some farmers carry the petition. Made it look a lettle better, ho said, and easier to get names. "Well, the upshot of it was I helped get them signers, and we took hold and furnished the votes for the court house bonds, and in the end we furnished most of the tax money. The town people were purty proud of the court house, but I hear talk now of another election for an addition to it. Guess they will soon be around for more signers. Did you ever notice how kind and gentle the town fellers are when they want farm votes for some improvement? "I raised considerable of a family here on this hill. First, we had some boys, and then some girls, and more boys, Took a good deal of groceries and clothes and things for a big fam ily, but we got along. Used to be a saloon in town when the town was new, and 1 used to go in quite often. Seemed like things was purty lone some out here in this country, and there always was a social crowd in the saloon. 1 never was one that took very much likker, but sometimes mother would cry about it when 1 come home. Guess it was about the only thing that come between us in them days. But 1 kept on being sociable occasionally till my oldest boy got to blacking bis shoes and wearing a stand-up collar. “One night some fellers brought that boy home. They said he was sick, but 1 knew he was drunk. It nearly broke me up. 1 seen that night what the damned stuff meant to mother, and what an example 1 had been setting for the boys. So I swore off right that night, up there under the eaves in that boy’s room, and 1 stayed swore off. All right to say you can drink a little and not get hurt, but it hurts you clean into your soul when likker reaches down into your family. “See that cemetery over on the slope by town? 1 got to wipe my glasses now to see it. Well, that boy is buried over there now. Followed him down this hill four years ago and along the main street over to the church.and out to the grave yard. He is buried there—in town, and I've got a space over there for the rest of us. Bought it a long time ago, and mother has fixed it up nice. She goes there a good deal and she cries a good deal over the grave stone of a little girl we put along side of the boy the next year. Seems now like we have more inter est In the to^n than we used to have. Seems like more of it belongs to us than it did a few years ago. We tala- more interest in the church affairs now, and in the town school. Perhaps we will go over there some time and build us a house in town. The boys are about running the farm now and maybe running it beti< r than I ever did. "I guess there ain’t many things go ing on in that town that I ain’t in terested in, and sometimes I think I want to have more say about it than I have now. I can vote for new court houses, and I got a piece of land down there close that helps pay the town school taxes, and I help pay the wages of two preachers down there, and I guess I am about as good a customer as any of themtown folks at the stores. “Yes, I guess I have a right to vote on what goes on down there, when it hits my pocket.and when it hits my family.” And the old farmer wiped his glass es again, so that he could see the road toward town, and up the main street, and out along the way past the church and to the cemetery on the hillside beyond. And he thought about the chance that was coming to him to vote directly on questions where he had no vote now,—an en largement of the privileges of every farmer and neighbor. And he thought of the old neriod of “personal liber ty” that was now partly bvried in the silent Hly ever there on the hill slope, ' left him standing there, wiping his glasses. BOYS WANTED. “Wanted some bright boys, full of cheer, To stand at my counter as drinkers of beer. To fill up the ranks, without further delay, Of the army of drunkards passing away. A hundred thousand a year will just supply, The loss to our trade from the drunkards who die. Send those who can toil, or have wealth to bestow, For profits are small on old drinkers you know. Let them come from the shop, the school or home. We’ll welcome them all, whoever may come. Let mothers surrender their sons to our cause, And'fathers keep voting for good license laws; For if you will vote to keep running the mill, You must furnish grist, of the wheels will stand still.—W. C. T. U. FOR JUSTICE. j Paradoxical or otherwise, the rec ords for willful and designed liars ■ has stood unchallenged from the days of Ananias and Sopphria to the day I when the whiskey men declared the citizens of Kansas drink more beer , and whiskey than the citizens of I Nebraska. If that were true the | brewers and distillers would not fight j prohibition, but would encourage It. It is the big dollar they are after i regardless of how they get It. They sacrifice principle for inline-j diate results. The whiskey men: tell you that prohibition does not prohibit. Is there a law on the stat-; ute books that strictly prohibits? Not one. Thou shalt not murder. The! murderer knows to kill and be con victed means life imprisonment, or a hurl from the scaffold straight into hell; yet there are murderers. Thou shalt not steal horses, yet the people of Falls City know Hull horses have been stolen. Thou shalt not loot, rob or embezzle a bank; yet there are six ty-two bankers in the federal prison at Leavenworth. The whiskey men tell you if the saloons were taken out of the county, there would be more whiskey drank than there is now. "Jesus would we p and wipe his eyes. To see those sinners tell their lit s.” The whiskey men forget that it requires a majority to vote the county dry and the saloons out, yet they, the minority, threaten to violate the law; run a blind tiger and boot legging all the same. They are like the little hoy that stood at tin1 head of a stairway saying to Ids mother, “If you don’t give me sugar, 1 will fall down stairs.” The whiskey men say if you don't give us saloons we will hoard the ship of intemperance and sail across the black created waves of damnation. County option means that every voter In the county shall have a right to vote for or against the sa loons, or any other interest that he is responsible for. It is the voter’s civic right, it is ids legal right, it is his inherent right, not only that but it is ids duty to protect the most val uable property in the city built by the county, the court house. Quar antine your cities for two months against the farmers and as the darky said, “where is you?” You would run limp and lame, knock-kneed and pigeon-toed to greet the farmers, us the prodical son, yet you deny him the right of ballot, that you your selves exercise. Hasn't It dawned upon your adamantine intellect that you are living on the hard earning of the farmer, if it hasn't I will quietly hint that you are. It is my humble opinion, if Dahlman is elected e.ovei nor lie will share the same fate that is no\y confronting the mayor of Topeka. Tho mayor of Topeka is trying to bring shame, disgrace and dishonors to the great.state of Kansas and it dignified eapitol. Kansas has hud prohibition for twenty-nine years, I In law against illicit traffic of intoxicat ing liquors are as well enforced as any other law. The people unanimo.s ly denounce the mayor’s interviews as the dirtiest, most villianous slat) dors ever perpetrated on the people of Kansas. The saloons are the des poilers and desecraters of the nations honors, purity and virtue. In 1!P>4 fifteen thousand British isli physicians petitioned to have ten* perance taught in school. In 1 !•<>;* a notable syllabus on temperance was issued officially for use in public ele mentary schools In England and in Wales. I)r. Williams is authority for saving tlie expenditures for whiskey in England for the year l'.iOS were over 120 million dollars less than *i,e year 1800. Dr. Holltscher collat ing the results of inquiries reports the use of intoxicants have fallen off, 57.2 in Germany, Austria and Swit zerland. Why should the people of J Nebraska object to submitting tin same question to all voters. It is! self evident and the results will ! furnish the evidence. If the citizens' of Nebraska, through indifference, or the love boodle, or a desire for booze should he so unfortunate ns to elect Dahlman for their chief execu tive, they will have to nullify the claim to the highest standard of in tellect and literature! in the sister hood of states. I will repeat what I)r. Gunn said years ago,"Whiskey not only invades the family amt social circles but it spreads woe and sorrow all around. It cuts youth down in its vigor; man hood in its strength and age in its weakness. It bereaves the father's heart, extinguishes natural affections, bllthes conjugal love and brings mourning age down in sorrow to the grave." .1. It. Smith. « * * * BE FAIR. There is an unwritten law, or shall we say an understanding between Richardson county and Pawnee coun ty to change places for senators. This year it is by all fairness Paw nee county's time to furnish the candidate for state senator. 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