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Show Local Doctor Makes a Reply I T E. W. Clayton Editor The Standard: E W. Clayton, Clay-ton, farmer, in Tuesday's Standard 'trlea mighty hard to make a show of himself. He attacks H M. Monson I with malignant spite devoid entirely ;of argument. I have no brief for Mr Bfonson for 1 never beard of him uutil I saw his loiter In The Standard which was replete with common sense and temperately written, and 1 do not now seek to (I. r. ml Mr. Monson, for his affairs af-fairs are none of my business, but I Clayton's letter shall not go out Into 1 In or I (I iin.in-v. . 1 , (I, for e cry lino of . it was a naked falsehood. Listen to this that Clayton says: The whole country todaj appears to be anxious to take a fall out ol the food producer, commonl) called the farmer, who is chaiu-e.l with b. inr; the only 'profiteer In the country." Also he BB President Wijson has most generou I Ipaid the farmers of tho Lnited States 'tor their zealous work during the w;:r and be has got all h- wants anil now they may go to Halifax, and the farmers farm-ers should return the compliment when he comes up for president in 1920. That Buits me ill 1 Kin for I'm a Re-'publican, Re-'publican, but whj abuse h" prea dent 1 for giving the farmer 52 26 per bushel for bis wle ai when he used to sell it for Go cents' Th.n Clayton pitnuly nsks: "Does Mr. Monson know that dining the prof Steering campaign, the wealthly owners lu the United states have been the ones who have received the lion's 1 share of the extra prices paid for life E ni essities." Excuse me. Mr. Monson, while 1 answer the gentleman for you, not but you could do it better than I aan but selfishly I desire to do it my Bell No, Mr. Monson doesn't know 'anything of the sort nor do you cither, !Mr Clayton, because it isn't true. The farmers have been for the past two or three years the biggest profiteers ever known in the history of the United SLttes. Catch on to the latter part of this communication and see who the profiteers profit-eers are. Clayton wonders why Mr. Monson doesn't go to the mines wjiere he can early 520 a day. Permit me to say, Mr. Clayton, that it is none of your business wh) Mr. Monson doesn'l go into the mines any more lhan it Is his business why you do not go inlo the mines and get $2U a day rather lhan be a beggarly slave on a farm at ?l or less, a day. according to Clay-1 ion. Clayton wonders why Mr. Monson, If he wishes to be patriotic, doesn t 0 onto a farm and raise, squashes, pump-i kius, hams, eggs. hogs, grain, steers, etc. And right there I agree exactly with Mr Clayton. Indeed I wonder, why Monson isn't on a farm raising squash at 12 cents a pound and an a r3 will raise thousands; and hams at 60 cents a pound, eggs at SO cents a dozen, doz-en, hogs at S2J a hundred, horses ?20O a head. O, the recital is tiresome and I quit thai Pari of the subject. Foolish! mun. Mr. Monson, for not going onto a (arm instead of into a mine at 2Q i day. I And here is Clayton's lat wail "And there is the weevil''' Yes, vei ily sir. there is the weevil and its exactions, ex-actions, of the farmer are mure de-BtrUCtlVC de-BtrUCtlVC and cruel than were the depredations dep-redations of the Huns when they devastated de-vastated Belgium, nnd the short-sight ed farmers' bureau thai sowed the Holds with poison to exterminate thi song birds that subsisted during the spring and early summer on the wee-vll, wee-vll, contributed to the welfare of the weevil colony. And the weevil laughed. A LOCAL DOCTOR. A FARMER'S SUN, AND PROUD OF IT. |