New Ulm review., 1922-07-05
.KLOSSNER HEARS
BALDUS SATURDAY
NONPARTISAN LEAGUE EDITOR
FROM GLENCOE DISCUSSES
FARMER ORGANIZATION.
URGES FARMERS TO "sTIcK,
AS PRoGREssIvEs ARE
!. GAINING FAST.

Jos. i. Baldus, editor of Mcleod
County's leading newspaper, the Nc
ELeod County Republic, delivered a
speech at Klossner last Saturday night
which deserved to be heard by q larger
audience. The meeting had been
called hurriedly at the request of few
enthusiastic League farmers Of the
neighborhood without the aid Of any
newspaper or poster advertising, de-
pending entirely on the announcement
being passed from neighbor to neigh
Dor. The result was that the size of
the crowd was rather disappointing to
the speaker.
Nevertheless, Editor Baldus dis
cussed the present political situation
in a manner which proved immensely
interesting to those who had the good
fortune to be present. He began by
laying foundation for his discussion
of present issues by citing a few illumin-
ating incidents in past history.
Egyptians Jailed. Joseph.
The speaker first went back to an
cient Egypt where, according to the
record of the Good Book, Pharaoh
had dream, And none Of his wise
men could tell him the meaning Of the
dream, till some one remem bered that
Ia man, in jail at the tine, who was
known to be very wise. It seems that
the sending of wise men to jail started
very early in history. Joseph was
brought out of Jail and interpreted
Pharaoh's dream Of the seven fat kline
and the seven lean kline to mean that
there were to come seven fat and fruit
full years and then seven lean years
and the lean years would eat up the
fruits and grain Of the seven fat years.
Pharaoh was so we'll pleased with
Joseph's Interpretation that he made
him the "food administrator Of
Egypt.
The speaker then pointed out the
cause of Egypt's downfall. Pharaoh,
through his food administrator, gath
cred up all the surplus corn Of the seven
fat years and stored it in his terminal
elevators All that was well and
good. But he didn't do this for the
good of the people Of Egypt. When
the first lean year came and the people
had nothing to. ear, they came, to
Pharaoh who through his food admin
istrator refused to give them any Of
the corn that they themselves had
raised unless they gave up their gold.
This they did and all the gold Of the
country went into the hands Of Phara-
oh. The next year, he demanded the
surrender of their cattle, etc, until at
the end of the seven years.. Pharaoh
even owned most of the people of his
empire. The great nation of Egypt
with its people enslaved then went
down and all there is left of the once
richest country in the world are the
pyramids standing there as monu-
ments of a dead past. Even the fruit
tful valley of the Nile is not titled and
cultivated and utilized as it should be
and visitors in that country now will
find the natives sitting along the roads
begging aims. Such is the end OF all
nations where a few corner all the
wealth and the many are forced into
slavery.
Government Sold at Auction.
The speaker next called attention to
the great Roman empire which grew
rich and powerful till at last money
dominated to such marked degree
that the government finally was
auctioned off to the highest bidder and
was bought for $4,000. That
spelled ruin to the Roman empire,
that great world power, and now that
is only historic, standing, as a beacon
light in history showing the pits and
dangers which made that nation
crumble.
/ Despite all the warnings Of history
another country, rated as the richest
earning, in the world, endowed with