The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15

ANOTHER FRAUD.
Ex-Congressman Boen, in the Fergus
Falls Globe, says:
1.-The National Farmers Humbug, other
wise known as the Farmers National Con-
gress. has been in session in st. Paul
during the week and adjourned"
Very true, Brother Boen. 1t is one
of the schemes gotten up by Plutocracy
to keep the people in bondage. The
newspapers declare the farmers are
prosperous. and then get together a lot
of elevator owners, bankers and agents
of the rings and trusts, to declare in the
name of the farmers, that they are
happy And then the purchased news
papers quote the purchased farmers CD
and the fool people swallow it all.
We are glad to note that the ST. Paul
Globe exposes the composition of that
Farmers National Congress- 1t says:
"Probaby no greater tribute to the gov
ernors rare selections could be paid than
that which his enemy. the Minneapolis
Journal, did last night. unconsciously per
haps. by publishing the list OF the Mime
apols delegates.
1t starts out with that eminent agr-
cuturist. +. H. Peavey. who tell
exactly how many cars Will be needed
to move the crop of 1897. and how long
1t will take. He may not, as a visual
object lesson. know a silo from a spring.
tooth harrow. but when it comes to the
commercial end of farming he has it lit
orally at his fingers tips or, more strictly
speaking, the tips of his typewriter's fin
gers.
c. L. Smith is the next on the list. c.
l.. is of those agricultural editors
who are proverbial for their familiarity
with the theory Of farming. although lilacs
and buckwheat are all the same to their
optics.
A. b. Robbins lives farther from the
city hall than either of the other two
and is believed to know standing wheat
from oats. He is an elevator operator by
profession.
A. Is. Cults is a railway passenger agent
a good fellow personally, and a good judge
of acreage. from a car window. Mr. Cults
says that If you count the lateral 'front.'
age of wheat field and it runs 400 900
stalks to every five telegraph poles and
the grain is well filled out, you can count
on the field yielding fifteen bushels to the
acre.
S. P. Jones really is farmer. That is
he is a reporter on the Pioneer Press, but
he is accredited to Minneapolis. Jones has
"reminiscences of once having lived on a
farm near Rochester. He is not sure
whether it a dairy farm or fruit
orchard but he remembers that 1t was
customary to rise at a. M, in winter
and cut wood for the cows.
A. w. Latham is hardly farmer but
is entitled to a seat because he has the
appointment. Besides he really is hor-
ticulturist and knows the vegetable from
animal life. generally speaking.
II. F. Brown, who also possesses a pref
ty piece of paper with the state seal on
is farmer. He owns farm called Brown
dale. Every year he goes out there to
help the auctioneer sell his fat cattle. The
rest of the time Mr.. Brown spends keep
Ing eye on the Republican political pot.
When it was intimated that William
Henry Eustis might be appointed of
the delegates, the suggestion was received
with ridicule. 1t not supposed that
Gov. Clough would be so magnanim GUS
to one of his most persistent opponents
In the last state convention. But the gov
ernOr has obliterated any personal ami
mostly that the gallant Eustis might have
engendered. and has recognized Mr.. Eus-
it's deep interest in matters agricultural
Why! Mr.. Eustis owns two buildings in
Minneapolis. and he called one the Corn
Exchange and the other the Flour Ex-
change. Is he not truly agricuturist?
I. c. Seeley has been dealing in town and
city lots long that he might not know
corner forty If he met it the open
prairie. but he has been a diligent reader
Of ads pertaining to suburban acres, and
will be an active member of the coming
congress.
W. c. Edgar the proprietor of the North
western Miller is another of the dele
gates. Mr.. Edgar has ticker in his Of
fce and knows just where wheat is every
Instant of the day. but the Minneapolis
club is the nearest he has been to a
farm. except the railroad, and ne US
ually travels in palatial sleepers at that.
Mcdonald iS
manufacturer. who WILL no doubt feel
out of place among so many representa-
tives of the purely productive vocations.
George B. Frankforter is not a sausage
maker. his name might seem to indi-
cate, but is professor of chemistry at
the state university. He once had a four
teenth cousin who lived a farm, no W.
ever.
Roman Alexander is a contractor and a
builder. and incidentally an alderman, and
4 Knight Templar He was not indict ed
however.
Horace B. Hudson. another of the dele.
gates. is a Journal reporter, who puts in
his evenings writing booklets for the board
of trade called Facts about Minneapo-
lis" although they are not always.
Frank Grygla, another of these simon
pure Minneapolis agriculturists, is a Great
Northern colonization agent, while Rev
George r. Merrill is specialist in the
garnering of that harvest which the good
book says has been going on a long time
and is not quite through yet.
E. l.. Danforth secretary Of the Com.
mercial club. and the king-pin Of a sum
mer resort motel. is another of the dele
gates.
Still another is w. S. Pardee, who de.
pizned number of the picturesque cas-
kellated school houses they have in the
lister city. and yet another is Robert G.
Evans, the silver-tongued spell binder from