The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1919-06-27
sIssETON WEEKLY STANDARD

saw the hippopatomus at the
circus for the first time and said
there's amt no such animalw, I
say there's no such thing in adj
dition, subtraction, multiplica-
ton, division, or any other part
of the arithmetic that can help
an Individual or a nation either,
make too small income serve to
supply our needs in this timeof
II. G.. l..
That's the plight of the worlds
workers-too small income! And
because the ablest thinking
minds among the farm workers
themselves, have discovered and
set about remedying this terri
BILE wrong that the many do the
work and have little, and the few
do no work but get all the wealth
because, that the real end of
this wicked system is at last in
sight-there is a great excite
ment in our land, so great that
it has to be seen to be realized,
or believed.
Truly, the Bible says, "He that
is least among you shall be
greatest" for it was a poor mort
gagged, ruined farmer who chad
no where to lay his head" like
One other, the greatest friend to
the weak and down trodden in all
time-it was A. C. Townley who
struck the note chat was heard
round the world" like the first
shot at Lexington in the Revolu-
tionary War. Government Own
ership of Railroads, telegraphs,
telephones, elevators, mills banks
etc, etc, etc, is the only way to
end monopoly.
From it's platforms, it's pull
pits, it's press, and all other ways
the money power can keep up its
endless work of befuddling the
workers.
The grand, glad fact stands out
that the Non-partisan League
has accomplished what no other
organization on earth ever before
did-it has Joined hands with
the city workers and all work
erS. Omitted we stand. divided
we fall" is Gods truth in workers
minds, as we'll as on silver dol
lars, friends!
But to go back to the picnic.
It was to Mrs. Ingeborg Monsoon,
the mother of the writer, farm
ers' wife 20 years old, the Mother
Machree of the farmers move
ment in Grant Co., that the idea
came. She it was who wrote to
Ex-congressman Chas. %. Lind
bergh to come and speak at this
picnic. And he came and | had
the pleasure of meeting this farm
er's son, now nearly sixty years
old, or young, who for five terms,
ten years, was elected to the
House of Representatives, in
Washington from the 9Th Con.
gressional District in Minnesota
Of him, Lynn Haynes, in his
magazine The Searchlight''
published at Washington, d. C..
says in the May 1919 number:
I'm all his years of service Mr.
Lindbergh was independent and
anti-political. He was one of the
hardest working members ever in
the House, always devoting his
efforts to the people, rather than
to politics. Mr.. Lindbergh fought
the spoils system in season and
out"
Mr.. Lindbergh crossed the
Atlantic when a babe in his
mothers arms and with his par.
ents settled at Little Falls, Mimi
His father was a very well read
man, having been a member OF
the legislature of his native lanG
Sweden. The little boy commenc.
ed hunting when he was nine
years old and was expected t.
keep the family supplied with
fish and game. He did lot OF
trapping too and never any farm
work until sixteen years old
and to this fact he feels he owes
his excellent health and abilit,
to stand hard work now.
H practiced law Ia or Is year;
and after 10 years in the Hous.
was candidate for the u. S. Sen
ate but was defeated by Nose.
3. Clapp. In the election of 1911,
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