Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05
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10 he1P toward that blessed cOnSum.
nation the president filings away few
millions to some foreign Jews, and the
committee on naval affairs wants to
spend $23, 600, 900 extra on some useless
battleshipa In the discussion on this
proposal Jerry Simpson surpassed him.
self. He has often done we'll, but never
go we'll az this time. Mr., Money, an ar
dent advocate Of the measure paid him
very high compliment in open session,
and others paid the still higher compli-
ment Of devoting MUCH of their speeches
to him and putting in good deal of
abuse. In the midst of frequent inter:
ruptions he showed that batt]eships arc
but all experiment at present, with the
experience. so far. against them; that
from the deductions Of science as we'll
as from experience it is proved that we
shall soon have ordnance capable of
piercing the heaviest armor that a ship
can carry and float; that the proposed
battleships would draw 26 feet and could
enter but few of our harbors; that the
example Of England is the very one we
should avoid because our conditions are
radically different, and that Judging by
all past experience the vessels would be
obsolete because of new Inventions by
the time they could be completed.
When the usual threat was made that
ii we didn 't'spend more money on the
navy Great Britain would attack us, he
replied with as much truth as wit that
Great Britain was under bonds to keep
the peace, as she depended on the rest
of the world to feed her, and if she
should throw her shells into New York
she would probably destroy more prop
erty belonging to British than Ameri.
can subjects, for her capitalists under
the present policy are rapidly getting
hold Of the property in this country, and
by the late act of Cleveland and Car
isle, Belmont & Co. shave an option
on the United States treasury till the
LIST of October: -
Now, while l intend to lose no fair
opportunity to express my private opin-
ion that this nation has about as much
use for big offensive navy as a Quaker
preacher has for pocket pistol, l must
say that we are under obligations to the
other fellows for the frankness with
which they declared their policy. They
stated in the plainest English that they
intend to enter on great colonial pol
icy, beginning with Hawaii, and expend
many hundreds of millions on the navy,
and that as soon as they get the power
they will proceed to make US ri CHI by in
creasing taxation. 1t is encouraging to
y,,0xx, ft,ofx shall houo o1oor
in 1896,
Soon after the debate closed, met
Representative Bryan in the document
room, and he was all aglow with pleas
urable excitement 'Have you read the
news? Have you read the full details of
the debate in the German parliament"
he asked. Read tread it carefully,
and then compare it with Sterling
Morton article in The North American
Review for last month. Take notice how
he ridicules the idea that other countries
will ever consent to bimetallism, and
how confidently he predicts many things
which are already falsified, for Germany
has acknowledged the facts we claimed.
Our cause is gaining daily, but it will
take one more turn of the screw to make
the American people act. Prices Of farm
produce must take another tumble, there
must be more panic and bankruptcy and
falling wages, and debts must be harder
to pay before the voters will rise in pro.
test
This reminds me that Tom Reed has
out his pet dog in two by his recent per-
formances. He went just far enough for
silver to lose the confidence of the east,
and then turned square around and in
suited the west, and after ridiculing the
bond propositions Of the administration
he voted for the most absurd and indie
feasible bond bill Of the whole lot. Now
take notice Of this little sum in arith.
metic With all his prestige as past
speaker. speaker to be and leader of the
minority, he only got 81 Republicans
to go with him in this vote, while 63
voted the other way Brer Reeds goose
ia cooked. He will not get delegate
west of Ohio, and east Of that he will
have to divide the vote in convention
with Mckinley, Harrison, ct al 1t was
worth a dollar to see the smile on the
faces of Messrs.: Bland, Bryan, Simpson
and others just after this vote was TAX
en-, and it has since been evident that
the Maine statesman is not feeling WELL
Apropos to the German parliament's
tics has just sent in some information
rather staggering to those gentlemen
who have been telling us that we were
soon to be flooded with foreign gold
The plain blunt conclusion of it is ev.
cry European nation is boarding gold to
an extent unprecedented in its history
and that they all want more. Thus in
three years Belgium has increased her
national bank hoard by $1l, 200, 900,
the Netherlands by S., 900, 900, Spain
by $1,000, 900, Italy by $40, 900, 600,
France by $142, 900. 900, Austria-Hun-
gary by $4s, 600. 900, Germany by $780,
900, 900 and England by $50, 900, 600,
while Russia has ordered that all her
revenues be, paid in gold and no gold
paid out, and Japan, which made the
attempt q few years ago and failed, is
now determined to settle: her finances
after this war on a gold basis. No Won
der the representatives of agriculture
and labor in the German parliament de-
clared SO emphatioally that the choice
lay between bimetallism and ruin, and
that il there WAS not relief there might
he revolution. = j. H. BROWNING.
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 llurin0 the last 10 Years the work