Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1920 — BOTH IN GRIP OF TYRANNY [ARTICLE]

BOTH IN GRIP OF TYRANNY

Parallel In Case of the Farmer and the Unfortunate Lover of the Cornet. O. E. Bradfut of Xenia, the farmer delegate at the industrial conference, said at an Xenia tea: “A farmer was talking to me the other day about the way the .middleman tyrannizes over the farmer, and he wound up with a story. “He said the farmer’s position reminded him of a cop. This cop saw a fairly well-dressed customer playing a cornet on his beat, and after the man had played three or four tunes he walked up the front steps of a handsome house. z “ ‘No, ye don’t, friend,’ says the cop. •Play yer cornet as much as ye’ve a mind to, but I’ll have no beggin’ or solicitin’ on this beat.’ ‘“Quite right, officer,’ says the cornetist. ‘Glad to hear you’re so strict. I guess you don’t mind my entering my own house, though. You see, wife objects to my practicing indoors.’”