St. Paul daily globe., 1894-03-12
HON. ]. STERLING MORTON

HON, ], STERLING MORTON
EUDD REEVE STa6Dy SQUARELY 8Y
THE SEcRE7dRK
WHO rs A GREAT, GOOD MAN.
The "Professional Farmer" Given
n Good Turning Over - De-
scribed as Man Who Sits
Around Saloons, Agitating
Labor Questions and Interfe--
ing With Everything.
BUXTON, March 10.-To the Readers
of the GLoBE-My Dear Readers: When
we consider that Moses was stoned by
his own people; that st. John WAS put
into boiling oil; that John the Baptist
was beheaded in prison; that St.Stephen
Was stoned to death; that st. Pau! was
beheaded: that st. Peter was dragged
On llC SlOuilo iii liio iSSa' Ss'iiS VA
that st. Philip was crucified; that ST.
James was cast down from the pinnacle
of the temple, then stoned to death;
that st. James the Apostle was Killed
by Herod with a sword; that st. Bar
tholomew was flayed alive. then cruci-
fed: that st. Matthew was martyred III
Ethiopia; that st. Andrew WAS crucliled
on cross in the shape OF a letter y;
that John Rogers was burnt at the
stake; that Abraham Lincoln was as
slssinated because of his iirmness in
hat which he thou.,ht right; when we
consider all these things, how the pureSt
,aintS and nobleSt souls have beeu
trampled upon, insuited and cruclted,
it is not strange or startling that there
should be few left low enought to
throw stones at j. Sterling Morton, our
honorable Democratic secretary of agri-
culture.
The first widespread attention paid to
him was howl asking the president to
EAST him down from The
PINNACLE OF THE TEMPLE.
The president asked, What evil hath
he done?" But they cried out the more,
saying, Let him be cast down."
They said he had used language uu-
becoming 4 gentleman. much less high
official, no less than a member OF the
presidents cabinet, to wit: THAT the
most inSidiouS and destructive foe to
farmers is the professional farmer, the
promoter of oranges and alliances, who.
for political purposes, farms the farmer;
l,,,
ing oranges an1 alliances, which gener-
ally seek to attend to some other buSi
ness than farming"
This is his sin. He warns the true,
honest, hard-wOrking tiller of the soil
against the professional farmer" who
for political purposes forms oranges and
alliances to farm the farmer" He is
high in his praise OF agriculture and its
Importance. But he fails TO compliment
the professional" Who IS farming the
farmer" For this the self-constituted
pestiferous individual kicks and objects
to being dropped out of sight and hay.
ing his occupation broken up, and asks
the president 10 cast Secretary Morton
down from the pinnacle of the temple
that the honorable secretary be be-
headed to protect the industry of
FARMING TIE FARMER"
He don't ask f0r 4 tariff to protect it,
but for official heads. This is unusually
radical. lie objects TO having his in
duStry swept away by opening the eyes
OF the true farmer SO he can't be farmed
any more. 1he "profeSSionaP' has
farmed the farmer SO long he has be-
come to regard his as vested right.
just think what fix the "profes-
sionaP' would be in if he had to get
living off of the farm instead of the
farmer. Republican newspapers are
not expected 20 shout themselves
hoarse to make an opposition adminiS-
tratun success. The farmer who
farms the farmer is expected to howl
when his unholy Industry is shown up,
bat when Democratic newspapers and
true farmers join III the cry ii is time TO
enter protest.
1t is something unheard of for par
ticular class to ask the president TO
remove a member of his cabinet for
Language unbccoming d gentleman"
the unbecOming language being sim-
pie objection to ''professionaP' farming.
1t is unbecoming gentleman to make
suggestions whereby the true farmer
may be benefited. This is an oifense
the professional" can't stand We
read Of Sublime cheek" and "monu-
mental gall" but for an organization to
petition tue president to remove the
head of department for not indorsing
''the farmer who farms the farmer"
TRANSCRIPTS EVERYTHING.
AS a farmer object to being farmed
by another fellow, and heartily indorse
every word Secretary Morton has ut
tered for my protection. Let the pro
fesSional' who wants TO farm go out and
ickle the ground with the hoe, and not
try to live by tickling somebody else
by letting his neighbor hoe while he
sits in the shade and tells him how to
do it.
The howl of the professional" ask
ing for Secretary Morton's head is a
charger. was readily applauded by an
opposition press. But 1t struck me, If
one sentence in an address could have
such an effect, that the whole thing
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