The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-30
1923 Stearns Co. Fair
Best Agricultural Exhibit
IEver--Satisfactory Crowd

eneQ auSplclOuSiy dC Oauk CenCfe
Tuesday with the best agricultural ex-
hibit for many years. The live stock
department did not have quite as
many head as last year but the quail
ity is there, particularly in the dairy
breeds of cattle. NEvery animal ex-
hibited at the Stearns county fair
must be pure bred animal and tub
erculin tested
The attendance on Tuesday was
satisfactory. Many people were no
doubt attracted to hear the address
of Senator-Elect Magnus Johnson.
In his introduction of Mr.. Johnson
Dr.. j. A. Dubois stated that the
agriculturists were up against it and
it was quite proper for Minnesota to
send an honest-to-goodness dirt farm
er to the Senate.
The Senator was greeted with a
burst of applause when he arose to
deliver his Address. Mr.. Johnson
spoke for a full hour and half and
held his audience unusually WELL He
stated that he was proud to speak to
the people of Stearns county. He
said he had been talking for ten
weeks nearly every day. In every
county visited he found men who have
the courage of their convictions and
that the number of progressives in
every section of the state was in
creasing rapidly. p.
Mr.. Johnson said he was familiar
with public speaking as he had been
following it for 16 years during his
life as public official.
The gentleman is nothing if not
dramatic; he is fair student of hui
man nature and at this point in his
address he pulled his stunt of begging
the pardon of his audience while he
removed his coat, vest, and collar.
While he was disrobing some one
hollered "louder" and Magnus in
formed the interrupter that he would
get into "high" later when he was
sure he could be heard. He has a
powerful voice wonderfully adopted
1Of OuCQOOf speaking
Mr.. Johnson paid his respects to
the press of the state, severely CRITICS
ing the newspapers of the Twin Cit
les. He alleged that they claimed he
did not have the ability to make an
acceptable representative in the
United States Senate; in fact that he
was not fit to take his place in a
body which had been served by Dan
iel Webster and others. Mr.. John
son has confidence in his own ability
and insisted that after he reached
Washington Henry Cabot Lodge and
other high moguls of the Senate
would be able to hear and understand
his English.
During the course of his remarks
Mr.. Johnson paid his respects to the
Herald and it's editor, admitting that
this paper had treated him fairly dur
ing the campaign, although we were
opposed to him.
Mr.. Johnson reviewed his life, tel
ling how he came to America from
Sweden when lad of 16, spending
some years in the lumber camps Of
Wisconsin before he became a farm
err, down in Meeker county 80 years
ago.
Senator Johnson has long been an
advocate cooperation by farmers
he was one of the organizers of Equi-
ty Live Stock Exchange in St. Paul
and also one of the leaders in the
organization of the Farmers Equity
Exchange; he reviewed the success the
farmers of his county had made Of
the creamery, the handling of grain
and live stock and said that many 9th.
err states had followed the plans in.
augurated by the leaders in Mime.
sofa co-operAlive movements.
Mr.. Johnson stated that he under
stood that large Centralizer had
recently established a plant in Sank
Centre. He said that there was a
law on the statute books of Mime
sofa preventing Centralizers from Civ
ing one man higher price for but
terfat than his neighbor, or a higher
test for cream. He admonished his
hearers to watch the new company
closely. There would be no danger
of any Centralizer getting the upper
hand Of the farmers if they would
stand loyalty back of their own CO.
operative creamery.
Mr.. Johnson plead for closer
goodfellowship between the business
man and farmer; he pointed out how
their interests were identical. He
told the farmers present that it was
just as much their duty to stand back
of the business men of their commun-
ity as it was for the business men to
protect them.
Evidently Senator Johnson is not
of the opinion that farmer Of Mime
sofa is going to the dogs in financial
way as he made the statement that
the agriculturists of Minnesota were
in a land of milk and honey compared
with those in the grain raising dis