Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-10-22

country to a large extent, the
products and the. labor of other.
countries. This policy was not
approved BY foreign nations, but.
the republic lean party did not give
up it's high tariff inciples, orits
prot ctive notions, because the
maint enance of such princip pies
did not happen to please Great
Britain or 4: any other foreign
power. :. \ . ..., Z. j. H.,
IF this country was able to
create wealth, bring about pros
perity, ncrease and thrive under
the protective principle alone,
how does it happen that it has
become dependent upon every
other nation under the sun with
reference to the adoption of it's
monetary system? We need no
help from abroad. We are en-
tirely competent to do this work
ourselves. What we do need,
however, is little more of that
lofty patriotism-that splendid
Americanism which believes in
the unification of American re.
publics and the exercise Of that
reciprocal principle which more
largely binds these republics in a
common union, and which found
such true expression in that
greatest of American statesmen,
James G.. Blaine. We need only
his sublime courage and conf
dence in the ability of this repub-
lie to stand independent Of all
foreign powers to win our cause
in the end
Now this is the right kind of
talk. What do we live for?
What country is this? A mere
province of Great Britain?'
These are questions that we pop
ulists have been asking for some
time back. And what do the g.
O. p. bosses answer? The very
men that for 80 years back have
been priding themselves with
the fact that they,have shut out
the English pauper labor by
means of their unpenetrable tar
if wall, that have every two years
been telling the people that this
country could paddle it's own
canoe, do it's own business and
defy the world? Oh! how the
mighty have fallen PROSTATE to
English gold! Now they are
down on their bellies eating dust
iu Obedience to the Jews of Lon
don, and trying to have the peo-
pie of this country believe that
we cannot exist, or do business,
unless we adopt the British
money SYSTEM! We would adj
vice this gold-bug-dear-lord and
by the grace. of god-queen of
England ape-aristocracy to read
the Declaration Of Independence,
but we are afraid that their minds
and hearts are scared, and cal
loused by Mammonz SO as to be
incapable on any patriotic i'm.
pulse.
But aside from all talk about
patriotism which is evidently ex.
tinguished among the gold-bug
old party politicians, the propo-
sition as a simple business mat.
ter, that this county should reg.
u]ate it's money system to suit
the world, rather than this ma.
ton is absurd. All that is neces.
sary is to state the proposition
and it's absurdity is apparent,
and indisputable. Our foreign
trade is only four per cent of the
whole volume Of business, SO per
cent being done at home. Now
where is the reason, common
sense, or simple honesty in adopt.
ing amoneysystem just to accom-.
modate the 4 per cent Of foreign
business, and -comode, dis.
rupt, Or entirely destroy the sc
per cent of home trade? tits
too simple to- argue: It is like
trying to demonstrate a 'self-evi.
dent axiom. And the man, or
men, that are to-day trying tc
force such conglomorated absur:
dities as the single gold standard
involves, on this Nation, are in
our opinion not honest in what
they preach. If they. are, then
they possessless entail capacity
than Kaffirs 81 Hottentots. LII
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