Logan Republican | 1908-06-03 | Page 7 | An Oration Spoiled

An Oration Spoiled. "You have a mortgage on your farm, have you not?" asked the politician. poli-tician. "Yes," answered Farmer Corntos-sel, Corntos-sel, "but" "And it has been there for jours?" "Ever since I kin remember; but " -Behold how you are downtrodden. See how tho earnings of your honest toll aro filched from you by tho usurer's us-urer's hand. A lifetime of honest, manly struggle, and your reward is tho shackles of debt " "Hold on, stranger. I hato to Interrupt Inter-rupt jou, but you've got It figured out all wrong, i'vo had tho money to pay off tho mortgngo three or four times over, but tho way things was scllln', It was a better Investment to put It Into more land."