"Pie in the Sky"

Three hundred members of the Otter Tail County Farmers' Holiday Association last week clumped into the county courthouse in Fergus Falls, Minn, to stop the foreclosure sale of a farm owned by one Abraham Matson. Leading the crowd marched a public-spirited Unitarian clergyman, Rev. John Flint, 50, outraged that the auction was to take place even though Farmer Matson was home sick. When County Coroner Curtis, substituting as auctioneer for recently deceased County Sheriff O. J. Tweten, put the customary question, "Is there any objection to conducting this sale?" 300 barnyard voices bellowed "Yes!" Coroner Curtis promptly granted a 30-day stay of sale, stepped down from the block as the crowd cheered. Then up stepped Preacher Flint and cried to the farmers: "Most preachers teach us we shall eat pie by and by in the sky but here's a preacher who thinks we should have the pie now!"/-

/-From an I. W. W. song written about 1905 and sung to the music of an old Salvation Army hymn: Long-eared preachers come out every night, And try to tell you what's wrong and what's right. When asked about something to cat, They will answer with voices so sweet: (Chorus) You will cat bye and bye In that glorious land above, the sky. ('Way up high.) Work and pray, live on hay. You'll get pie in the sky when you die. (It's a lie.)

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