Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1918 — Too Many City Men Are Like That. [ARTICLE]

Too Many City Men Are Like That.

The town man told the farmer man: “Your duty’s plain—raise all you can. To beat the far-flung German foe you needs must plant and reap and sow. Bend to your task with zeal and haste. Don’t let an acre go to waste. To win the European fight just, spade all day and hoe all night!” “Quite so!” the honest farmer said. “At half-past three I leave my bed. The horrid sound of war’s alarm has made me tackle this old farm and raise the dickens without stops, besides my ordinary crops. And I’ll be true unto my trust and raise a bumper crop or bust. But here I pause in my hard task to bow my head and humbly ask: ‘What have you gents, with all your prate, done for us farmers up to date?* ” The town man threw his hands on high, then pulled them down to loudly cry: “Ungrateful argiculturist, by cold rains soaked and hot winds kissed, do you not know that we are through when we have told you what to do?” Chicago News.