The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-07-16
nittea Of forty-eight the day D..
Views Of One watchfui Farmer


Farmer .ho sat in the eni seat Of
tae lasr row OF the delegation.
Stranger. said the farmer, "it
1 should put q piece of paper mark
ed 'individualist' in one pocket and
put a piece OF paper marked social
ist in the other and 60 right on II
between them. would he the sans
fellow | am now
But what vii. you do heva99''
TIE farmer looked very serious
He said:
These fellows here in the Labor
party. they haven't any farmers
They can't do as much some ways as
we can. That is why we must put
some money in for them if the work
needs it,
It was a remark rot entirely com
pounded of theory ard of radica
dream;aess. That farmer seemed
TO be as wide awake as Tenayson..s
north country farmer who 50 loved
10 listen to his horses Roofs because
=" Property. Property Property,
That's what hear them say" But
what stretch of theory a-5i VIA. d.
gree Of drsaminess IN AIRY poet or Il
any political soothsayee could ev-i
havs imagined knotry -knuckle,i
South Dakota Farmer coming all the
way TO Chicago to SIT in an anteroolA
of d conyentioa OF political work
lngmer's representatives and say
that being 4 man with some proper
u it w@s for him to put some of the
proceeds of it into the general labo'
cause?
In the Main Convention Hall
Having looked az this farmer with
awe. one left him following his
course between socialism and indiy-
tduaiism and went upstairs to the
main convention hall There is :!
big, curved sounding board on the
stage. Behind it. and above II. thers
is a picture. In the picture there
are two laborious men confidently
shaking hands. TIE words on th4
picture are: Getty and Farm Work
ers.
Through the hall. amid the as
sembIing delegates. there are stand
ards. They bear the printed name;
cf the states of the union But now
away around at the extreme left
there is a new standard bearing :
name freshly hand done on pencil
it says: .Nonpartisan League . The
farmers from South Dakota have en-
tered the hall They are sitting like
delegates.
"Lt would be more appropriate.
said spectator. 'sif that bunch o.
farmers from that Nonpartisa1
league delegation under that stand
ard would get up and walk all tht
way around and sit at the extrem.
right.
The spectator was in error. Hs
was a real theorist He was thinking
of farmers as persons who in theil
millions must all think alike because
they all have farms.
Farmers and City Workers
These farmers in this hall had
read the last platform of the com.
nittee of forty-eight and they had
read the proposed form of the labor
party One of their leaders was
then asked what they thought of the
labor party platform.
I'VE stand for it, he replied s'Tr
has one or two spots not as strons
az they could be. But We stand
for it, Here we are.
He seemed to be very toieran
man He did not seem to intend {,
insist that the labor party shoult
make its platform more drastic i,
order to suit his farmers.
Perhaps his farmers may recoi
from something later To date the.
seem quite at home with the idea
of their proletarian friends Whe,
John Fitzpatrick defended Russ,;
and Russia's proletarian effor
against internal and external enc
mics. the hall was filled with ap
plause. but the most commentator
activity visible was the instant re
sponse of the standard market
'sNonpartisan league which ros
and bobbed ad swayed from side t
side and turned and did long sor
of jig-saw salute to the Russian rs
| public.
The Farmer-Labor Party
| A leader of the labor party ha
said-and he had said it over an
over again-that there was Just or
title for any third party movemen
| which was to include the labor PAL
ty. That title was Labor party.
Yesterday he said. "We will go a
Ia