The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-19
JOHNSON To Be
LAWYER FOR
FARMERS
NewIy-EIected Senator Says
He Is Going to Try Their
Cases in Congress.
| Copyright, 1923, by International News
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MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, July TO-
Of course Magnus Johnson couldn't
work the farm and keep house, too,
so he got married
And today, having got himself
elected United States Senator from
Minnesota, he and his wife got back
to their original program on the
farm near Kimball and breathed
freely for the first time since they
| left it for the political stump,
1t was a great day for the Sena-
tor. getting back on the job where
he knew the haying was being done
right, and mother-mother was in
| her glory.
| The brown silk dress and white
shoes mothers had to wear to all
these fine entertainments in Min
neapolis were joyfully laid aside;
the hat with it's frivolous plume
was tucked again in it's tissue pa,
! per and placed under the bed in
| the front room, and mother MIXED
the cows for the first time in four
solid weeks
Senator Johnson, who roars de-
lghtfully whenever anyone ad.
dresses him as such, looks better
in overalls and cotton shirt with
| than he does in his senatorial garb.
And he is a colorful figure as he
pitches hay, giving it an occasional
| vicious alb for emphasis as he dis
| cusses the low price of wheat and
the exorbitant taxes levied. upon
the farmer.
Good to Be Home.
"Golly, it's good to be back home
OF course, I got my duty in poll
tics, but right here's where my
heart was all the time I was cam
paigning. And right here's the
reason 1 am Senator. I'm the far
mer's lawyer-that's about it.
And I'm going to Washington
to argue their case. And I'm going
to come home with a cost OF pro-
duction price for wheat and Gov
ernment-owned elevator ware
houses, where farmers can store
their excess crops instead of flood
ing the market with them and keep
ing the price down.
I'm going to do more than that,
but that's enough to start with.
That'lI keep nae busy for while,
won't 1t, mother?''
The Senator wipes his face with
large red handkerchief and con-
tinues:
Maybe they, won't be able to say
much for my company manners
down there in Washington, but they
won't be able to say nothing against
my morals, and that's what matters.
Its the kids on the farm gets
the bad deal. They got to quit
school in order to work on the farm,
and they never get off it.
That isn't right. A farmers
daughter ought to get the same
chance at college as a lawyers or
business mans, but SO cent wheat
won't even send the boys to col
iege. Dang it!
Prohibition Faulty.
From what I can see prohibit
ton amt what it was cracked up
to be. 1t makes millionaires Grim
inals and criminals millionaires,
but I am more interested in TAX
ing milk from my cows than liquor
from them that want it.
Restricted immigration? Well,
there is lots OF fine men born
abroad, but I'm a labor man, alwa w
was, and immigrant laborers make
it hard for our own men.
"Bolshevism? A new word for
wanting something for nothing. I'm
against anybody's getting anything
they don't work for
Ford for President? | guess
maybe he's got chance I heard
fellow say the other day the
country needed a shakin' up.
II think we ought to give our war
veterans everything they want.
They didn't start the war-they Just
stopped 1t with their fine, young
bodies And we begrudge them the
right kind Of care for those. / was
the first to introduce the bonus bill
in the senate when l was a member
minnesota senate.)
Taxes Too High.
Taxes are too high and we've got
too many of them.
II don't know much about the
world court or the League Of Nations
or scrappin' the navy, but I'm
against any foreign entanglements.
"And I'm warning any of these
professional lobbyists to keep away
from me. got a fright" like the
kick of my black mule waiting for
anybody that thinks he can flatter
me into his way.
And I'm against the Supreme
Court having the right to Kill an
act OF Congress by a five to four
vote. It ought to be unanimous or
| the act should stand "