Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13
"0O sLOP YOUR HOGS"

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had out there. "-st. Paul Daily News.
"ao STOP YOUR HOGS"
After the people of North Dakota
mad twice voted to build a terminal
elevator to be owned by the state, and
the legislature had refused to appro-
pirate the money, the farmers got to-
gether and went to the capital of the
state to argue the thing out with their
representatives.
There were many meetings and a
long debate
The details are not here essential.
What the farmers got out of the con-
ference 1s said to have been this ad-
vice:
HOGS"
They went home, and no doubt they
stopped their hogs, but they also did
some other things
Ihey decided, for instance, that the |
time had arrived when it was up to
them to do more than Just slOp hogs.
a man can't live on hogs alone, any
more than any farmer wants to live
with hogs alone, and so the North
dakota farmers decided that they
would do this:
THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO
SLOP THEIR FOUR-LEGGED HOGS.
But THEY WOULD ALSO QUIT
HOGS.
That's what raised the dickens" in
North Dakota.
When the farmers decided to quit
stopping the political hogs these hogs
nad TO go and root for themselves
and the roofing was poor, for the far
something like this:
NO ROOFING ON THIS FARM.
Well, that fixed it. The farmers of
North Dakota had made up their
minds to stick together and for once
see what could be done with a polit-
1cal machine operated by the farmers
: instead Of those who farmed the far
+ mers.
They picked q farmer for Governor.
: by the way an educated farmer, a man
! who has been graduated from the Uni
vers1ty OF Minnesota, and is not too
: top-heavy to live on, and operate a
farm
They elected their man. They also
I elected many others.
They will start with the new bunch
: on or about the first of January, 1917.
: The result will be watched with in
] terest.
What has happened in North d.
kota is Of the utmost interest just
now in Minnesota.
) The Minnesota farmer has manv
+ grievances that he thinks should he
needed by the political powers that
! be.
The Non-Partisan movement, that
did so much in North Dakota, is look
! ing with longing eyes upon the fair
4 face of our charming Miss Minnesota,
I and wants to annex her.
r The wooing is on-the winning
1 is probable.
The Minnesota farmer has been
! stopping political hogs for, 10, these
4 many years.
/: But the Minnesota prairies are fer
! tile and the Minnesota farmer has
8 had no trouble in raising feed enough
i for both the pen-hog and the political
hog, and he can do it still. But the
chances are that he may take it into
his noodle to refuse.
y You never can tell what may hap
J pen when the average man begins to
1 DO a little thinking on his own hook.
OF course, we admit that there is not
n much of that kind Of thinking done
y yet, but the thought-germ is in the air
i and in spite of the sanitary measures
v of big Business" that germ may get
into the system of the people. And if
: it does we are due to see an epidemic
s that will shake even a Rockefeller
, Foundation.
It Yes, but there is no danger of that,
s says the man who manages the polit
r ical end of big Business"
l. Don't be too sure of that
n Some day the people will see the
folly of system that makes a mil
n lion paupers in order to create doz-
- en- millionaires.
Some day the people are going to
n see how foolish they look to an out
- slider when they let one man collect
hundred million in over charges, on
: the necessaries of life, and then ap-
plaud him when he builds college or
throws the masses" bone in the
shape of library.
Did the capitalists create capital?
No, but the laboring man who worked
for the capitalist did.
Capital is the result of the work Of
God, plus the labor of man, and in
tended by God and man to be used in
the promotion of humanity's comfort
and happiness.
The Capitalist is the result of the
greed Of the individual plus the labor
of the poor and the needy. He has
created system which makes him
appear legitimate, contributing fac
tor in the social order-but it is only
a matter Of appearance
tt$
This feeling that there are a whole
lot of things that belong to the peo-
pie, which individuals now hold the
title to, is in the air. It is a feeling
that is growing and you never can tell
in just what shape it is going to
''break loose.
1t broke loose, to some extent, in
North Dakota, in the Non-Partisan
League. 1t has, from time to time,
broken loose in the election of social
lists to Office in different parts of the
country.
The name Under which II hroalke ont