Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-10-26
AT THE RINK.
All the Trouble with the Far
1ner is that He Doesn't Know
When to Sell His
Wheat.

When to Sell His
Wheat.
encr at the Eustis meeting last Friday
night. The rink was packed with
people from Willmar and surround
ing country.
Mr.. Eustis is an able speaker and
an astute pleader, possessing consider
able histrionic accomplishments. Yet
it was painfully evident that his audi
ence was listening in a critical atti-
tude and he could at no time, notwith-
standing his fowery rhetoric, CON-
mand it's hearty applause.
The first bad break he made was
when he referred to Mr.. Lind as simp-
ly on a little excursion from the re-
publican fold, and the grand old party
had his stall standing empty with a
good feed of oats in the manger, and
a halter ready for him and that Mr..
Lind would soon be back again to
take his oats and occupy his stall.
The illustration was too realistic,
and too coarse for Willmar audi
ence. The effect was painful on the
audience, the vast majority of which
regard Mr.. Lind as something more
than a political adventurcr whose
political opinions can be made and
unmade by feed of oats at the man
ger of any political party.
But the worst break he made was
when he attempted to diagnose the
trouble of the farmer He said the
trouble with the farmer was that he
didn't know, hadn't brain enough to
know when to sell his wheat. He re-
iterated that statement again and
again half dozen times, and any far
mer in the audience will no doubt re-
member this assertion to his dying
day.
Now this statement Of Eustis reveals
the whole mental makeup of the man.
1t shows that he is utterly ignorant Of
the condition and circumstances of the
ordinary farmer; that he lives in an
atmosphere of wealth and atfluence so
far above the common lot Of strug-
CLING humanity that he is COM
pletely insensible to the real difficulty
under which the farmer is laboring,
and that from him the farmer when he
is compelled by necessity to dispose
of his crop at less than it cost to raise
can expect simply to be told
to go home and develop brain
enough to know when to sell his wheat.
This statement Of Mr.. Eustis COM
pletely proves what has been sus pected,
that he is a sO-called "silk stocking
aristocrat.' Mr. Eustis is no doubt
honest in his views. He is a product
Of his circumstances and surround
ings. The farmers Of Kandiyo obi coun-
ty now know his sentiment towards
their class, and If they want that kind
of man for governor let them never
again complain of so cent wheat.
1t is painful to contemplate that a
candidate for governor of this agri-
cultural state should be 80 densely ig-
norant Of the condition Of the farmer
and the wheat market. It is a sOlem q
warning to the farmers and commo q
people that they should see that a man
for whom they cast their ballot for
high and responsible Office should he
a man from among them, d man who
knows their condition thoroughly and
a man who FROM experience can SYM
pa5hize with their troubles. What
pleasure an,l satisfaction can a farmer
take in the progress Of science and
the acquisition .,y this country Of the
PHILIPPINE Islands when he has to sell
his wheat for less than it cost to raise
it and his children aud family suffer
for the necess aries of life? Did Eus-
tbs ever think Of that? No! such dis
agreeable reflections evidently never
entered his lofty and polished mind.
And how can the business men of
Willmar who must do business en- the
surplus earnings Of the farmer pro-
pose to urge such a man of this stamp
of mind for the Office of governor OF
this state? We leave this question for
them to seriously ponder over.
Nay, turn them TO simple, humble
john Lind and contemplate for a mo-
; ment the serious earnest speech on this
subject he delivered the day before.
Can there be- any doubt in any reason
able, patriotic, honest mans mind
who Of these two rival candidates to
vote for? Grant that John Lind is a
Swede, is d political orphan, is bound
to no party bosses, is simply plain
citizen Lind and simply running on
his own personal character and merit,
and grant, if you like, that democrats
will vote for him, that populists will
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