Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-11-12

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the great organ z cannot afford ia
ignore facts, eYenat the risk Of.
playing calamity bowler. It
quotes the comme rcial reports:
1T is q time of waiting. z Trade
has halted decid eddy at the close.
Of October" commerce is not
up to what was. expected so days.
ago. : The demand is al
most entirely for staple goods,
but with q decided falling off in
volume How strange that
trade should halt at this time of
the year, when trade is always in
creasing in volume, when the
crop is just garnered, and when
the cold season is coming ON?
"The revival was not built upon
the solid basis of protection to
American industry. and hence,
was temporary and evanescent
in character. How so? Wasn't
the revival built upon the great
Republican landslide last fall?
Haven't we been told that thou.
sand times by the Tribune and
all Republican papers? Aha!
you are at last forced to admit
that your dose of confidence
didn't revive business! No, alas!
business revival has fallen into
the sere and yellow leaf, moth
withstanding your great Repub-
lican victory! And why is the
demand for goods falling off?
Why Observation-Disclosures buy cloth
ing in the winter? The Tribune
seems to think that it is because
we havea Democratic President!
What loyal republicans these
farmers are to go naked and
freeze to show their dislike to
Grover? Because Wilson and
German dared to take off 5 per
cent of a Is per cent tariff
on the imported goods
they buy? Because they
dared to offer them cheaper
goods! Our farmers are no
cheap Johnnies, are they? They
know what they want! They will
rather go naked and freeze,
than buy cheap goods, if they
have to buy it under a democra-
tic administration! They will
brave the wintry blasts of 1885,
90, and wait and suffer in patience
still another winter or two, til a
high tariff republican congress
and President get around to pass
a high tariff bill so as to give a
bonus to the home manufacturer,
and pay higher prices for their
clothing! Hence the demand for
goods is falling OFF!
Of course it never occurred to
the Tribune editor that the falling
off in demand for goods might be
due to the fact that the farmers
have no money to buy goods for.
But how could the editor of a
great metropolitan newspaper be
expected to imagine such a thing
He is of course the boon com pan.
ion of farmer**J: J.. Hill, W. D.
Washburn, G. A. Pillsbury and
such like, and he has probably
found that they have always plen.
ty of cash to buy things with. A
profound study of the above class
of farmers is evidently the basis
of his philosophy of the farming
class. And evidently also the
basis of his political and tariff
philosophy. When one consid.
ers this fact, the ideas Of the
great Minneapolis Tribune is not
so far offafter all, as they would
at first sight appear toan ordin
airy mortal out in a country vii.
lage.
| The most discouraging feature
Of his philosophers that the bus
mess boom has fallen into the sere
and yellow leaf" and that Mime
apolis Tribune has turned zeal
amity bowler" However, the
situation is relieved somewhat
by contemplating the self sacri
fcing spirit Of the republican
| farmer hv refusing to clothe