Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-04-23

to pay your annual salary of
x5O, 600. z@. .z. H. /
Taxes have Increased as ex-
pressed in dollars and have
doubled aud quadrupleds us
measured in the property, the
people surrendered with which to
pay it since 1873. We have con-
stant'v pointed the people to the
ever-increasing exchangeable
value of the creditors dollar,
and to the reason why it was in
creasing, but the Influence of
these creditors have dominated
your administration and you ill.,
sist ON such Il currency as they
have established az Il sound
currency. 1t means the confisca-
ton Of the property OF the people
hy the sale of property under
mortgages, judgements and ex-
ecutions. 1t means that fixed
incomes will wipe out theinterest
Of stockholders in our railways
and corporations.
''If it is an injustice to restore
prices so that people can ex-
change their property for a SUI
ficient number Of dollars to pay
their debts and bring happieness
and prosperity to our land
again, it was a greater injustice
to destroy the value Of property
and enhance the value of money
by the demonetizat ton of silver
and the establishment Of a single
gold standard. So that when
you coll the attention of the
farmer and wage Garner to the
fact that,l'ising prices will make
him pay more for what he buys,
you should at the same time call
his attention to the fact that it
would enable him to pay his
debts, free himself from bondage
in which he has been unjustIy
placed and again make him the
owner of a home and a free and
independent citizen.
eve might say further to him
that rising prices cause money to
seek Investment, and would thus
open the channels of commerce
and trade and give employment
to millions now idle. It IS not
more money that we want to
borrow, but to pay off what we
already owe. The more we
borrow the more we must pay
and the annual interest ON all
our public and private debts is
more now than the annual
profits of business and produc-
ton. Where will it end?
''Our forefathers fled from Eu-
rope and established a govern
ment here that they mi CHIT lie
free from the class legislation OF
those nations where the MASSES
are hewers OF wood and drawers
OF water for the rich and few who
control the law-making power
countries that we justly term
p}utocrats; and yet it is now be.
ing seriously insisted upon that
we must adopt and continue the
most pernicious class legislation
that the monarchies of Europe
have fastened upon their helpless
people, BY adopting their policy
we have increased the demand
for gold and it's exchangable
valne, and all money based there.
on, with all other property. We
have aided them in the adoption
of single metal for primary
money, that they can control a nd
corncr-and they have cornered
and forced You to go to them
to get it at their own price, ia
sustain the credit OF this great
and resourceful nation. We sub.
nit that this policy should be
abandoned and our mints again
thrown open to silver, as they
are now to gold, and our stock
OF primary money increased
thereby.
"The gentlemen who visited
You and who petitioned you
represent only one class OF our
people,; we respectfully submit
that it was the intention of the
founders OF this government that
it was safer that Ill the people
should do the thinking for it.
than any one class should do it
! for them. Selfish interests pre-
dominate to promote selfish in.
terest when one class does the
thinking for all. Broad views tc
| justly promote the common wei
fare can best he secured by 8
census of the views of all the
people.
1--WE agree with you that it il
time for the people to reason to
gether and to that. end W.
respectfully ask that you make
it possible for them to get printed
copies of the act Of 1892 OF
which our forefatlle based oul
financial system and all subse
quent acts, together with the act
of 1878 that reversed the former
policy and acts subsequent there
! to, az well as statistical and
other information of any: otfciaI
nature at Washington bearing
thereon. We but express youl
own opinion as president of the