The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-08-24

charge. This Congress realized the
serious difficulties brought onto the
American farmer by the defiation pro-
October, 1920, and set itself to do what
it could to relieve the situation, and
want to say to you right now that
much more needs to be done There
is too great a spread between the
price paid to the farmer and that
paid by the consumer. When that has
been adjusted we will be in a fair way
toward "normalcy," and l am conf
dent that we will find solution.
VIII Weather Crisis
Fellow Americans, I do not despair
of the future. So long as can re-
member we have had false prohpets
who have gone over the country
preaching false doctrines and seek
ing to array man against his fellow
man. You and 1 can remember when
certain public men were clamoring
that our money was too dear, ana
urging that the government issue
Greenbacks in unlimited qua tiles.
Now they tell us that money is too
cheap, that it will not buy anything.
Had we taken their advice back in the
eighties we would soon have found
ourselves with deprecated currency
brink of bankruptcy. Russia. Germany
and Austria have learned to their sor-
row what that means. Thank God that
the good sense of the American pecrle
has always, come to our res ;ue IN such
times and I know that we will wealth
er the crisis through which We are
now passing. We have never allowed
passing whims and false doctrines to
sweep us off our feet and I hope with
all my heart that we never will.
in the spring Of 1918 when the mighty
German armies broke through the
Allied lines and our hearts were heSvy
within us. One day when the news
- r. ay~fSx ,.1l.s rIxy TO-
couraging and it seemed that ro.hjng
could keep the enemy from capturing
Paris and the channel ports 1 went
home at night wondering what the
morrow had in store. That night l
could not sleep so 1 went out fer a
walk. Unconsciously my steps turned
toward the capitol, the beautiful dc me
Of which was brilliantly lighter; As
1 stood and gazed at the WendeIful
and mighty structure I was filled with
edifice is emblematical of The strength
and endurance of our great Republic
We will triumph for it cannot be the
will of God that we shall los, in the
death struggle in which we are en-
gaed.'
That fall I came home TO take part
in one of the Liberty Loan drives and
one day 1 was invited out to the farm
home of boyhood friend to spend the
night. 1 arrived late in the afternoon
and my old friend, his wife and their
children came out into the yard to bid
me welcome. l was ushere- INTO the
living room while supper was being
prepared and as 1 sat there 1 was
filled with a spirit that l cannot de-
SCRIBE On the small center table lay
the old family Bible while on the walls.
hung pictures of relatives. some OF
whom had passed to the great be-
yond After a while supper wes an
nounced and VIE all sat down to
bountiful meal such as we only find
in the American farm home. After
Grace had been offered we began to
eat and talk, and as I looked upon
that wholesome and contented family
l said to myself, "the future Of the Re
public rests. not in Washington, but in
millions of homes like this that are
scattered over the length and breadth
of the land, and so long as the Amer
lean home is kept sweet and pure
so long will the Republic continue on
it's forward march, holding aloft to
the rest Of the world the beacon light
of hope, charity and brotherly love.