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Show FARMERS GET AUTOS. They are roasting the farmer because he is able to have an auto, and in many cases does have one. Now, what reason is their why a farmer who brings intelligence and industry to bear on his business and by economy and herd work manages to get a little ahead should not have the privilege of riding in an auto? What is there to satirize about this? We see hundreds of cheap little town fellows who haven't enough brains to wet the roots of their hair sporting it around in big cars costing several thousand dollars of somebody's money and why shouldn't the farmer, who really contributes something to the world, '-' w i . , , We envy them nothing of their good fortune or their enjoyment of it, for they have earned it. They say that the farmers of Kansas have $12,-000,000 $12,-000,000 invested in autos. All right; we're glad of it. It takes that much to buy a single battleship, and certainly it's better business to have that money go into autos, which thousands of worthy people can enjoy, than to have it criminally wasted on engines of war which can j benefit no one. |