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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
Watson. the Same as Ever.

Colonel Tom Watson was asked yes
terday about the rumor that he did not
want to make the race for congress
again. He smiled at the thought
II did not want to make it the last
time, " said he, ''but under the present
circumstances cau't we'll see bow the
race could he run otherwise than be-.
tween Mr.. Black and myself That was
the fight before. and Mr.. Black resign
ed that we might try it over. l hardly
see how could put another man mp to
run in my place. The election, as | un-
derstand it, is to occur the first week in
April, or within 80 days after March 4,
when MIR. Blacks resignation takes ef-
feet ~
Is MIR. Watson hopeful: He is the
same as ver-Atlanta Constitution.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
kOlb and His Associates.

may describe Captain Kolb as
saw him in his Birmingham Office. He
is tall, we'll formed man, with dis
tinct traces of education refinement and
good breeding. He talked quietly and
without excitement. He neither looked
nor acted like demagogue. He was
courteous in manner, said nothing that
was abusive or even urkind of Gov
ernor Oates and conducted himself like
a respectable, we'll bred southern gen.
tlelnan. If he be the constituencies con-
spirator whom his enemies denounce,
his benevolent, smiling face is an ar
tistic mask for the deviltry which is al
legged to be going on behind it. The
main burden of his talk was the imper.
alive necessity for the enactment of hon.
est election laws and some constitution
al means for determining whether gov
ernor OF Alabama has been legally or
illegally elected. As for Captain Kolb's
associates in his movement against the
machine Democracy, they are not dis
reputable political adventures, as his
opponents assert.-Cor. New York Trib-
uu0
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
American Statesmanshiu.

. AS proof of tho slipshod manner in
which bills are passed in congress. it
was discovered a few days since that
Chairman Richardson of the printing
committee had Slipped in provision
giving senators and congressman the
tranking privilege No one seems to
know how it was done; but, like the de.
monetization of silver, it is in the bill
Unless repealed it will plumber the gov
ernment of a large. amount Of postal
revenue, The worst feature is that the
law gives each senator and member
$40 for his postage and now lets him
send his letters free. Great country this
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
TIE: SSEES.AW GAME:
BANKERS coRNEReD UNCLE SAM FOR
49,. THEIR PRIVATE PROFIT.

Goid They shoveled In at MONDAY They
stealthily Wheeled Away ut Mi ht-Au
Gain. With No Chance to Lose-Patrtot~
ism Of New York Bankers.
The study of the bond issue, with
the bargain between the high contract
ing parties as a-guide, only makes it
the more plain that the poor, battered
government is having very hard time
of it in the midst of it's surrounding flock
of interested financial practitioners
The whole situation would almost
justify plain spoken Oh yer in say
ing that from the start every move has
been in the direction of forcing the gov
eminent into corner for private profit.
There certainly has been no deal Of
recent years which promises SO much
clear and sure profit as do these three
bond issues, from which the government
derives not one penny for permanent
profit, as it might from loan for in
ternal improvements, or for a navy, or
for any one of dozen USES
Instead the government has simply
refilled a vault which these same finan-
ciers have been visiting very frequently
of late and from which they have car
ried away the millions they are now so
busily carrying back. 1t is now sim
pie matter Of record, and it is very
easy to make up schedule showing
just how the figures must stand on the
books of the syndicate
There is the date far off when every
thing was going on in normal fashion,
when the banks were busy with custom.
ers and had not started on the whole
sale milking Of the treasury Then the
game began, aud without having sim
gle legal use for gold dollar over q
paper Or silver one the banks piled up
1929, 900, 900 of specie, mostly in gold
coin. They saw that precious gold re-
serve go past the hundred million mark
in April, 1893. Then it vacillated back
and forth until by the end of the year
everything was ripe for a profitable
bond deal.
1t came. There was a scramble, ap.
parently a very reluctant one, and for
the nominal use of $50, 900, 900 in gold
for ten years-really for the hollow
privilege Of holding that amount Of coip
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
out 35o, 900, go in legal tender paper
On hand, and the loan and deposit &C.
G0tliitsWera l1nrnnal. at S26Q; O1f} N0} ord

out $40, 900, Goo in legal tender paper
on hand, and. the loan and deposit &C.
oountswere normal at 1869; 900, 900 and
$375, 1000, 600 respectively.
: The government vaults were bursting
with $2l8, 900, 900 of gold. The bank
ers saw what was coming and looked
out for themselves. They held Oh to the
coin deposited until the specie column
had climbed to $]29, 900, 900, with the
poor government turning paper into
gold until a meager $65, 900, 900 remain
ed. Now was the time for a turn about.
The bankers were bond buyers, and
down went the legally useless heap of
gold, up went the government normal
possession, and the date in March, 1894,
was reached. The banks more than held
their own. The government reserve
sunk lower than ever:
Then another whirl: of the wheel of
fortune. and the banks had in twin
king over $40, 900, 900 less, and the gov
eminent had once more that reassuring
500, 600, 600 and better:
What goes up must come down, says
tho old saw. 1t applies to government
holdings. and the bank messengers stood
IN line to catch the rich drippings from
the government crib, and today the sit
uation of a year ago or more is repeat
ed, with the banks Of the city holding
twice the amount of specie that the
government has in net gold
There are explanations without num-
Der to justify every stop in this grand
drama OF giving nothing for something,
OF adding millions to the permanent
debt OF the country, simply for permit
ting few gold coins with strings at
tached to rest awhile in the subtreas-
ury vaults and figure a few times OH
the monthly statements of the secretary
OF the treasury.
While the figures presented take in
only the New York city banks, they are
really playing but minor part in the
grabbing performance. There are plen-
ty OF private vault owners Of private
bankers here and abroad who are lead
ers IN this queer exhibition of modern
financial methods, and the growth of
the gold reserve in the great govern
mental banks of Europe tells in some
measure where the gold is drifting, and
while the precious yellow coin is there,
snug and sound, the United States gov
ernment is going on paying interest
rates to merry band of bankers and
financiers for the use Of much of this
very gold.
1t certainly begins to look as though
tho men of money had discovered tho
oftsought secret of perpetual motion
and are applying it in their dealings
with the United States treasury New
York World.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
Will Not Trust the People.

Senator PETER has introduced prop.
osition submitting to the people at a
special election the various financial
questions agitating the country. 1t may
be depended Oh as al assured fact that
neither congress nor the president would
consent to leave anything to the people,
that pays the dictators at Washington
such profits as they realize from manip-
ulating the finances. Chicago Express.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
What the Third Party Il.

The predomihance Of the few against
the many is becoming more and more
apparent. The tribunals Of the law are
practically failures, Ever since the war
the people have been, trying to work ont
a release from The domination of the old
parties, which have proved themselves
failures, Neither Of them have given
the relief to. the people which they prom
Used. The present. third party, composed
of farmers. professio nal men. wrkmell
and small Saplt lIIstl. 81 sbut . continua,-
tionn sc tha oskinRlInan 1.Ich
:tnl, Is7 u
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
Railway Wrecks.

About one.quarter of all tho railroads
in the United States, reckoning by mile
age, are now in the hands of receivers.
And during the last 10 years the work
of clearing away wrecks has involved
the sale under foreclosure Of 593 rail.
roads, representing 60. 926 miles of road
and s., 528, 1876, 900 of stocks and bonds.
The record reflects much of folly and of
criminality in railroad management
New York World -: = -
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
MICHIGAN PODulists.

The Peoples Party Of Michigan, in
state convention, assembled at Green
Vile, have nominated candidates for
supreme court justice and regents of the
university who are to be voted upon at
the spring election. R. B. Taylor of Bay
City was nominated for justice of the
supreme court, and George H. Smith of
Benzie and V. J. Bowers of Macomb
were named for university regents. The
Populists are the first i'll the field in
Michigan.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
The Republic.

Call ye men free when man may say to man.
"Naught shalt thou do that favors not my
plan:''
When man may say to man. Thou shalt not
live
Except upon such terms as may g,ve:'
When he may reap the fruits Of others to,,
And hold dominion Ger the common soil
And through the argument of liberty
Transform mems freedom into tyranny:
When man, to satisfy his worldly greed
May prostitute the nations vital need
And paralyze the Industries Of life,
Unmindful Of resultant dearth and strife,
Unnindful of the hungered and oppressed
And holding it unlawful to protest?
Is this. then, liberty and are men free
Then despotism such as this may ber
Cali We men free when, in a fertile land
Whose soil could we'll supply the worlds t,e
mand,
Whose fields and granaries are stored with food
In wasteful, overlooking plenltude.
They starve and famish for the want OF breadl
Yea, call for food in all the fearful dread
That marks the terrors OF o tamined race
Where farms and earth are but a wlthered
space?
Is this, then. liberty when men may cry
For food within their very reach and diei
Is this, then, liberty when men are robbed
OF that envivifying force that throbbed
Within the art'ries Of the nations life
When comfort and prosperity were rlfep
Are such men free who starve aud dare not
live
When earth has boundless stores and life to
give9
Call ye men free whose country's wealth must
To meet the dictates Of q foreign foe,
That, though in bloody conflict long subdued.
Still holds it's conquerors in servltuLe,
And through its subtle power DER the land
Enforces whatsoever it may demand2
Call ye men free who with their vast domain
Might well defy the world and all its gain
And force obedience through their strength
and worth
From ev'ry land and nation Of the earth'
Yea, call ye such men free who fall and groan
Beneath the bondage Of an alien throne:
Who, taxed against their will, must ever strive
That idle holders of their bonds may thrtver
Yea, call ye such men free when they must toll
To purchase liberty from 'freedom's soile"
Clifford Howard In Twsntasth CentuS5
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
They Want 1t All.

II the national bankers of this coun-
try would put fence around just what
section of the United States they will
be content with, othex people might
then be permitted to go on with bust
uess Boston Labor Leader.
DANGER, LOOK QUIT
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
1t Looks q Little Suspicious.

The failure of the administration to
make better bargain has the effect Of
arousing q suspicion that some one has
been permitted to enter on the ground
floor to the exclusion of others who
should have been given an equal oppor-
tunity. Wilmington News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05

PIE ana the nnauc1al ana commercial nhuer'
pendence Of this country. They seek to &C.
complish their fell purpose before the blow
can be averted by an awakened public through
the ballot. Their plans have been long ma
til red and their line CT action is fully chosen.
They address themselves to the one subject.
the money question, in all Of it's breadth and
magnitude. This brings the country face to
face with perilous issue, which calls for inn
mediate and united action on the part Of the
people. Every behest of patriotism requires
that we shall 1T once meet the issue and accept
the challenge 80 defantly offered.
To falter now is to invite disastrous failure
We earnestly urge the Populists throughout
the country to concentrate their entire force
and energy upon the tremendous contention
presented and thus meet the enemy upon his
chosen line OF battle. Invite the aid and CO.
operation of all persons who favor the i'm
mediate free coinage Of silver at the ratio Of
l6 to l, the issue of all paper money by the
general government without the Intervention
of banks of issue and who are opposed to the
issue of interest bearing government bonds in
time of peace-in a word, to extend the hand
Of fellowship to all who agree with you upon
the money question, which Is certainly the
mightiest and most fundamental controversy
evolved during the present century.
Cost Of the Gold Standard.
To maintain the gold standard per-
manently all forms of currency except
gold must be contracted and bank cred
its restricted and the price level in this
country forced enough below the price
level ct other countries to turn gold this
way AS prices go down, of course
wages, salaries and everything else that
enters into the cost Of production must
ftl So, m
tempt anything else is but temporizing.
That this is not an easy road to travel
is manifest enough, but it is the price
of the gold standard, and if that stand
ard is to be permanently maintained
the price must be paid sooner or later,
and the longer it is put off the more it
will cost in the end.
1t makes no difference in maintain
ing the gold standard whether the gold
comes from or passes through the treas
ury Of the United States, or whether it
goes directly from banks or other boards.
1t is purely question of the outflow of
gold, and it takes just as auckland
the effect in the end is precisely the
same-whether it is derived from one
source or from another as long as it
reduces the stock of gold in this coun-
try. The gold standard can be main
tanned only by keeping gold here, and
gold can be kept here only by lowering
prices till the tendency Of gold is to-
ward US instead of away from US. The
flow of gold is in the end question of
price level and nothing else A. ].
Warner in New York Sun.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05


cused Of severe economy-the total cost
of the national government was. not
quite 10000, 600 BUSHES Of wheat per
year. For the fiscal year 1865, during
most of which the government was ex-
pending $4,000. 900 per day, the total
cost was not quite 700, 900, 900 bushels
OF wheat Last year it was more than
800, 600, 900 bushels, and what it will
be for this fiscal year God alone knows,
for OH the day write this the export
price of wheat in New York is So cents,
and the market is noted as dull" 1t
cannot fall below 900, 900, 900 bushels
in any event, or go per cent more than
in the most expensive year of the civil
wal:
Ii the Republicans come into power
in 1897, as it never enters their head
to doubt that they will, they will. OF
course, carry out their promises. for it
must be said to their credit that they
have never failed to keep their word
when it was for the expenditure Of
money. They will pass a general pen
sion act with the minimum rate consid'
erably above the present. They will an
mex Hawaii, which will neeessitate dou-
bling or trebllng our navy. They will
build the great canals which they have
PROMISED, especially the -Nioaragua Ca
aal. as it will only cost. they say, $751;
800, 90. They will subsidizA sufaoien,
shipping to do all our ocean carrying
aud expend money on other jobs they
have promised. By 1900 the expense OF
government will be at least $3.50. 000,.
900 per year, and :itmay be, much more.
And what will then be the price Of
wheat il the gold basis is maintained?
All we know at present Is that 40 years
ago 1t took but one-t third of ths; hest
crop ID I'm q ~ q yslfinupen md 25sysara
ago but hal 6tle i,osl q :. - s j I =
wheat md sokl RI 81
We may = hit
Arizona republican., 1895-08-13
PHGNIx. AUGUST 13. 1895.
WILL IT BE DANIEL?

There have been intimations that the Influence of President Cleveland would be thrown to Secretary of War Lamont ior the nomination next year. The sug. gestion is given a color of possibility by a recent editorial in the New York Times in which Lamont is praised to the sky. The TImes' article is, in part, as follows:
 There have been secretaries of WAT, under other presidents than MT. Cleve- land, who have administered the duties of the office faithfully, capably and satisfactorily, some of them with the advantage of military knowledge and experience, but it has been admitted sy army officers who have observed the management of the office by many sec. setaries that no occupant of the office in recent years has administered the af- fairs of the war office with equal execu- tive ability to that displayed by Secre- tary Lamont.
 It has come to be accepted as fact in Washington that the secretary of war is the head of his office, not in name only, as some of his predecessors, who were not adaptable to executive business, undou btably were, but by virtue of the knowledge of the needs of the department acquired by study, con- versation with army officers, personal observation and inquiry, and by judici- ous supervision of much work that had come to be left to the care of bureau chiefs, men who have by years of
Arizona republican., 1895-08-13

ONE OF THE great reforms in the next Republican platform which will be kept before the public is the restriction of immigration so as to exclude cast-out criminals and hopeless paupers. Every immigrant allowed to land on these shores should have in him the guaran- tee and the making of 8 good citizen. The immigrant ought not to be allowed to become citizen until sufficient time has elapsed to allow him to make an in- telligent understanding of American
Arizona republican., 1895-08-13

routine come to be mere followers in ruts.
 It would be funny indeed if Daniel should become Growers political heir, stepping into his masters shoes and be- coming the leader of his party. How eyer if he should be nominated and elected to the presidency, his elevation would be no more remarkable than was that of Mir. Cleveland. The latter had done nothing to entitle him to the presidency when, by combination of circumstances, he became the hope of the Democratic party. His selection as the candidate of the Democracy for governor of New York was an accident of politics. The Republican squabble that gave him majority of S2,0O0 in that campaign was another accident, but that majority made him the Demo- cratic candidate.
 Mr. Lamont was absolutely unknown until he became private secretary to the president during Cleveland's first ad- ministration. He was made much fun of, but there can be no doubt that he was great success in his responsible position and that he WAS invaluable to his chief. Indeed, what Cleveland would have done without him is prob. lem of no little interest. Passing out of office, he made success in the busi- ness world in New York and at the same time showed that he was a master politician. It is true that he has made an efficient secretary of war; and, on the whole, he has shown far greater ability than Cleveland had up to the time of his election to the presidency. It might not be extravagant to say that he has shown greater ability than Cleveland ever has manifested. There fore, if he should become the presi- dents political heir, while it would be strange and almost ridiculous, it would not be half as strange as was the re- markable elevation of Grover Cleveland from obscurity in Buffalo to the dag zling presidential pinnacle.
Arizona republican., 1895-08-13

A FRENCH physician recently made the startling announcement that he had discovered the microbe of old age. Of course, the next step, which may be more perplexlng, is to discover the anti. dote for the microbe, and then man will have the secret of eternal youth, and by observing sufficient precautions against accident and the incurable dis eases still left on the list, he may, like honest old John Mero's candle, last for ever. This microbe is found in the blood of the aged, and when injected in to the arteries of the young it produces all the phenomena of age. There is no doubt that Dr. Brisson then has got the genuine microbe, and he swears also that he has found the serum which will exterminate the germs of the disease. Methuselah was but chicken to what the coming man may be.
Arizona republican., 1895-08-13

THE RESULTS of the contest over the silver question in the Democratic party up to the present time shows the free silver element to be slightly in the lead In the reliably Democratic states they have captured Missouri and Mississippi as against Maryland for the "sound money" wing of the party and "stand- of'' in Kentucky. In the Republican states of Illinois and Iowa it is "hoss and hoss."
Arizona republican., 1895-08-13
BIGGER THAN THE LAW.

Prescott JournakMiner: The board of control has adopted a set of blanks for the use of probate judges in the ex- animation and commitment of insane persons, which somewhat changes the old order of things. The mem bers of the board may know their business and may know the law in regard to the care and custody of the insane, but we seri- ously doubt if they will be able to main- tain their position in regard to it. One of the rules adopted and which, in a circular letter they say must be strictly complied with, reads as follows:
 'No patient, male or female, Will hereafter be admitted to the insane asy lum for the territoryof Arizona, ex- cept the blanks prepared have been carefully filled out and sent to the su- perintendent, and an order. of admis- sion received from him. There must accompany each patient at least one clean change of clothing throughout, and no patient will be received unless accompanied by such change of cloth ing"
 The law creating the board of control, gives it authority to formulate rules con- cerning the government of the insane asylum, but no where in it, so tar as we have observed, has it delegated the power of legislation to this board, and no place in the law is there any pro- vision that before going crazy a man or woman must provide a suitable ward robe for the occasion.
 The blanks prepared by the board contain numerous provisions not found in the law also, and so far as Yavapal county is concerned, the same blanks will be used by the probate judge as were formerly used, although the cir cular letter from the board ot control says that thereafter no patients will be received until the application has been duly made, all the forms properly filled out, the rules fully complied with and an answer received from the superin- tendent that the patient IS entitled to be admitted.'
 or course, if the board of control at tempts to carry out these regulations, which are pronounced by attorneys not in compliance with law, there will be 8 friction before long between them and county officials.