The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-11
QUOTATIONS


NEmeTs
The Grant County Herald has begun to
make personal warfare upon it's political
opponents. This is the Herald's favorite
method. 1t can say but little upon issues
and their merits Attacks upon individuals
is it's main hold. Yet strange to say there
is not in the whole county who
can so lily afford to go into a personal
war as the editor of that same Herald
The Herald in it's weak way and man.
ner' tries to inmitate the Great West in
its treatment of the opposition, but it
lacks the ability. 1t should desist.
The Pioneer Press argues that the farm
ers have but little to complain of and
proves it by showing from the labor COM
missioner's reports that the people of the
cities are vastly worse off than the farmer.
That is great logic. Monopoly has robbed
the city worse than the country; therefore
the country should be satisfied! Pioneer
logic is great logic.
But the Pioneer has done a great service
in pursuing its Investigations in this line,
service which it never intended to do.
1t made similar break when it investigat-
ed the wheat market some years ago. 1t
has shown that the people. at large
are in worse condition than we farmers
thought. Our own debts, mortgages, poor
prices, etc, so occupied our thoughts that
we believed we We're the chief, if not the
only Sufferers. 1t now transpires that The
bulk OF the people who are not farmers
in a worse fix than we. the p. p. prob
ably thought to get us to shut up, and be
contented, on the ground that misery
loves company" Don't do it. brethren.
Howl little louder. Pitch your tune
little higher. Take Elijah, Isaiah and
jeremiah for your models. What match
less calamity howlers those old fellows
were to be sure,
A few weeks ago l tried to show up the
meanness of the fellow who keeps harping
The farmers would be all right If they
would only let politics alone and attend
strictly to their farming" Since then l
have found a meaner man than he. 1t is
the fellow who says "au. that ails the
farmer is that he is living too high"
Now what is the use of my trying to
describe the meanness of this man when
Shakespeare (Bacon) was baff1ed on a
not half so mean and forced to cry out
20, for breath to utter what is like thee"
There is a true story abroad that exactly
fits this mans case. Our state lee
turer mot the present one) was
travelling in the wilds of North
ern Otter Tail county organizing Allianc-
es. when a farmer approached him looking
very detected. He wanted somebody to
tell him why it was that the Lord lets
some people live. Now said he, Il ask
ed my neighbor to join the Alliance. He
asked me, What for?' l tried to show
him the benefits which we expected to get
out OF our united action, and the fellow
said: Won't l get all these benefits just
the same if don't join? Why should 1
pay out my money to join when I'll get
just as much benefit on the outside? Now,
what l want to know is Why does the
Lord let that man live on the face of the
hn
That's too easy replied the lecturer.
We'll, if you tell me, l wish you
would, for l can't figure it out myself"
responded the farmer My dear sir re-
Joined the lecturer, don't you see that
that man is permitted to live earth
for the simple and sole reason that he
isn't worth hell ROOM And the farmer
succumbed. There can be no doubt that
the man who says the farmer is living too
high is walking the earth today for the
same reason. In these days of
ticket making every man has equal rights
to nominate his men before the convention
comes off. l have part of d ticket which
should be published now or perhaps it
never will be. Here is it, and if the state
convention should reject every one of
them it might hurt my feelings, but it
would not affect my worldly prosperity
cents worth:
Governor. Hon. S. NJ. Owen lieutenant
governor, r. ]. Hall; attorney general, J.
A. keyes; chief justice, w. W. Erwin or
John w. Willis; senator Omitted State),
Hon. 1. Donnely. The other offices being
merely clerical should be SO distributed as
to help the whole ticket. No man should
haggle over locality or nationality in the
important nominations made above. The
right men are what we want in the i'm
portant positions above named Not being
a millionaire, l shall not be able to buy
my favorte ticket through and as l don't
expect to attend the convention nor to sit
in the next legisa ture shall not be able to
unduy influence the selection of my men.
However, since my nominations
sef-evidently right 1 do not see how the
convention can fail to confirm them. How
ever, if the mountain refuses to come to
Mahomet, there is no doubt that Mahomet
will go to the mountain.
Continued next week.