The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-08-25
THAT TRADE.
EDITOR HERALD:

THAT TRADE.
EDITOR HERALD:
Permit me through the columns of
your paper to communicate to some OF
the farmers who sat in the G. A. X. hall
on Monday night last and listened to
Dr. Fisll-a little of the opposite view of
things assumed by the speaker. In the
first place Doc Fish whatever he is or
politics, evidently.
He announced himself in the first part
of his speech as very learned man, a
master of Sanscrit, Egyptology, ETC..
though just how these little compliments
to himself were to help the farmers or
their party did not appear upon the sur
face. The Inference was that lie is a
great luminary, shining above and over
the poor mortals around hin-he was
thus enabled to sniff the battle from
affair.", while ordinary Inortals must only
Judge by what he tells them, not by their
own common sense and intelligence, OF
the signs of the times. However, before
the learned gentleman progressed very
far it became evident to people educated
in English that his Sanscrit studies had
possibly lrtcrfered with his English. His
SMILES and other rhetorical Uses OF his
mother tongue were somewhat mixed.
His logic too-supposed generally to be
one of the first studies used by writers
and speakers, was also somewhat at
fault.
Passing oyer these discrepancies, l come
to the statements made, the sum and
substance of which, from beginning to
end were as false as it is possible for any
thing to be. He is an anarchist aud
yillifier of honest parties and men. His
figures are wild, insanely wild, and his
tactics all through simply satanic, VIZ:
to ALARM people into believing the most
absurd plots upon the part of statesmen
and capitalists, Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike. to overthrow the govern
ment ard establish monarchy. The
daily papers of both parties he affirmed
were owned and ruled by syndicate,
for the purpose of controlling news ETC.,
and even the United States mails and
telegraph system were managed to suit
and uphold this mighty scheme-that
there was standing army of two hun
dred and seventy thousand men ready
to subserye the interests of this royal
conclave. In other words everybody
but the rich and eminent are to be shot,
killed and buried out of sight, and only
these stuffed bugaboos will live and own
the country. The speaker was keen
enough to try to impress upon his audi
ence the fact that they could not know
these things. only he and the other sat
elites OF the great rotund and rubicund
Donnelly could sniff these Internal plots.
1t is to be presumed that he digs them
| out of Sanscrit and DonneIy unfolds
them from Shakespeare. Certainly no
man or woman of intelligence would be
~ ctSiullS etS ~ DSIlSNS ollC SuClI Stdtc-
ment.
The speaker referred to lifting the lid
of hell and peeping down-apd for one
can say that his assertions certainly
smack and smell of the atmosphere said,
in holy writ, to be around those who
distort the truth. To fortify himself he
read garbled statements and disconnec-
ted parts of utterances taken from the
| daily papers. which any one, not born
idiot coulo see through at once. The
whole talk from first to last was an in.
suit to the intelligence of his audien ce.
l might as well announce myself to lee
| ture, and then with bare faced impudcnce
| tell my audience they were all set of
fools, that they supposed that they
| walked upon their feet, when in TACT they
walked upon their heads, that their
eyes they believed were organs of sight,
but that had discovered the ears, to be
the real organs of sight and the nose the
organ of speech. Whom the Gods wish
to destroy they first make mad" was
an ancient aphorism which holds as good
in these modern times; become insane on
any subject and you are as much dead
man as though you were buried. 1
would like to ask this demagogic prog
nosticator, in the language of the man
who sat next to me in his audience. in
view of his assertion that there are no
anarchists only the creations and imagi-
nations of daily newspaper men: who
threw the bomb in Russell Sage's Office
the man who had his head blown off or
Russell Sage? also, was it Prick or Berk-
man who shot the lormer at Homestead:
and were the hanged anarchists of Chi.
cago myth only?
Farmers OF Minnesota, be not deceived
by the father of lies" or any of his