Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-12-03


up the volume Of cu1 repcy fo1
the steadily increasing business
needs incidental to growth of the
country. Relying on the gooo
faith of the grand old party lead
ers people based their business
and Investments on this asserted
policy Of money. supply, $54, 900,
600 of legaltender treasury notes
annually, there would be some
thing available to pay money OBJ
legations with. Hence they went
into productive enterprises and
contracted debts. But in less
than two years John Sherman
announced, and the most of the
Republican leaders said, Amen
that this supply should be cut
off. In 1898 this annual money
supply was actually stopped, and
an overwhelming majority of the
Republican party voted to stop
it. The National banks called in
their circulation. and Wall street
exported our gold to Europe.
Hence our present money ia
mine. Hence the present bust.
ness depression, and as the Min.
neapolis Tribune says " impos.
sibility of realizing upon good as.
SETS Hence the universal ruin
of investors in property. We
denounce this perfdy of the Re.
publican party towards the en-:
ergetic confiding middle class of
the American people, as the
blacklist crime in modern his.
tory. We defy you Bro. Satter.
lee or any other republican to
deny the facts as above stated,
or offer any excuse or extenna-
ton. It is stated that the Re-
publican leaders helped to work
this ruin of the country to for
ever kill the Democratic party.
If this is so the crime is all the
more black. Then they slaught.
cred their friends to beat their
competitors for office.
tits true that many Republi-
cans don't know yet what ails the
country. Ordinary peopleare good
deal like a flock of sheep, when
some bell wether jumps, even if
it be into the ocean. they all
jump after. But we notice that
lots of ducked Republican sheep
are now swimming for the shore
on their own hook. Some of us
have already got on shore and
more are coming. The Demo
Gratis, distracted and dunn bfound
ed by treachery inside of their
own camp> have jumped out OF
their own frying pan and into the
Republican fire. But after they
have got their toes scorched to
the quick there, they will make
another jump.
You must not Judge the mass
of the people by your own wond
erful genius, Bro. Satterlee. you
seem to be able olive on este
THO and ETHEREAL admiration and
sentiment for G. K. Davis and G..
N. and N. p. consolidation
schemes. You seem to be of q
Swedenborgian cast of mind
dwelling in regions far above or
binary mortals. Eathry condi
tons Of want and poverty seem
to scarcely effect your being
We almost envy your angelic
conditions. But we humbly ask
you to cast at least asympatheti<
look at us people in this neither
sphere of existence. Wepeople
down here suffer from the rigorS
Of severe climate. If grub is
scanty our stomach bothers us
If we are in debt and cannot pay
it, we feel sort of melancholy ane
out of humor. When gray hail
and faltering steps overtake:
us on the journey Of life and w
have no home or place to rest ou1
weary limbs we are apt to fee
dissatis fed with our lot in life
We know now by what you sa,
that it is all foolishness to be tina
way, but it is hereditary with us
and we seriously doubt that w
shall ever overcome these earth
ly conditions. So don't judg
US to harshly Bro. Satter]ee. w
have been led to believe that thi