The 'Skin Rangers' Take on the Centennial

Regarding the 'Skin Rangers,' perhaps you will be pleased to a condensed account of the doings of the 'Buckskin Rangers' at their hall on the hill. While lawyers were pouring forth pathetic strains on the heroism, hardships, trials, and virtues of our Pilgrim fathers and mothers, 'Buckskin Hall' was enthusiastic over the following: 'This being the Centennial year, every true American feels as if he wouldn't know too much about his country. The Mayflower wasn't any big, overgrown ship, and most of the fathers had to sleep with their legs bent up or not sleep at all. After well away from England, the women found they had forgotten their looking glasses, and a terrible furor was created. Then, after a week or more, the Pilgrims concluded to put up with things as they found them. They put in corn, cultivated some horse-radish, got a few pumpkins to growing, and when the first year closed all was lovely. Little did they dream that two hundred years after these words were spoken, ten thousand Americans would unite in one grand yell of 'you were just right, old boys!' Now comrades, after all this fuss and feathers and a lapse of two hundred years, these Centennial people ask us to fall in line and trail our tails in the dust to the city and help splurge over these matters? Not we, not we, hip, hip, hurrah for the Buckskins.'