Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-12-03
TUESDAY, DECEMBER BIRD, 1895.
EDITOR SATERLEE,.

EDITOR SATERLEE.
Bro. Satterlee of Atwater Re-
publican seems to be one Of these
persons who needs a dressing
down once in a while to keep him
measurably decent. Now he is
on a tear at US again. A couple
Of weeks ago he criticised us for
saying that no farm land yielded
7 per cent on capital invested.
We challenged Mr.. Satterlee to
produce one substantial and in
telligent farmer who would deny
our statement. He has not done
that. He cannot do it. But in
stead of fairly and squarely stay
ing by the question raised by
himself, and either prove his as
sertion, or if he found he could
not do that, then like a man ack-
nowledge that he could not, he
now skips off down int Kentucky,
and begins to blow about the late
election there. Bro. Satterlee is
like the dutchman's flea when
you think you have him, have
your finger on him, 10 and behold,
he is down in Kentucky. But
Bro. Satterlee shall not get us to
run after him down into Ken
tncky. Everybody that will
know, does know, that Bradley
was not elected Governor of Ken
lucky by republican votes, but
by Democratic votes cast for him
at the command of Grover Cleve-
land for the purpose of beating
Hardin, because the latter dared
to express his honest convictions
of the money question. The same
thing was true to a certain extent
in Ohio. Grover Cleveland ex-
pressed JOY at the universal sue
cess Of the Republican party
the next day when the outcome
was known. Of course the Dem
ocrats busted the tail board of
the g. o. p.> omnibus on the
down grade to "bust-vine'
not out Of their ardent love for
your company, but because
Growers patronage whip was
cracking at their heels. We do
not doubt that with Grover Clev-
lands help, the republicans can
carry things next year also.
But mark this, for every gold
bug Democrat you take in you
will find in the end that 10 silver
republicans have jumped your
truck caboose,
But no matter about this.
Just trot out some respectable
farmer that will testify that
farming lands hereabout, and
there is no better anywhere
yield 7 per cent net on the aver
age capital invested in land.
Finish this job first and then we
will talk Kentuck afterward,
Bro. Satterlee says: "Mr
Loring was a capitalist, and by
the TRIBUNE we learn that CAPT
talists are getting richer and eat
ing up the poor. But Bro. Sat
terlee has of course read the
TRIBUNE with his Republican
green goggles on, and jumped al
his preconceived conclusions al
ready in his mind. The TRIBUNE
never complained of the Lorins
. kind of capitalist, He was like thu
rest of us fools, one who had in
vested his means in property
only to have it confiscated b,
your Republican money policy
for the benefit of the money CAPT
talist. It is not the absolute poor
that the money capitalist robs
for the poor have nothing to b.
taken, but it is the man who ha!
invested in property, the middle
class, the energetic man engaged
in improving and making pro
ductive the natural resources O
the land, that are now bein,
: robbed. And Mr.. Loring is ;
CONSPICUOUS example of this class
The money capitalist is now eat
ing up our middle class, and tn
Republican party is responsible,
for it. In 1890 the party increas
q output 9f n the s s4 !
mss Inv as they claimed, 60 Kesl