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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28

The Peoples Party editors
have long been denounced as lot
of bowling dervishes by the old
party and aristocratic newspaper
men. But the dancing sickness
has now struck some of the
true blue republicans, and such
dismal calamity howls as they
emit when they get started, is
enough to make ones hair stand
on end.
Editor Paradis of the Midway
News thus cries out in the an
guish Of his heart:
Here we are, with hundreds of
other Republicans, weighed
down with the fatigue Of a
twenty years march in defense
of good government and true
Republicanism, and just at the
time when the plutocrat, the boo
dler and the gang politician see
fit to believer US battle, the men
whom we have but followed all
these years, such as Geo. N.
Lamphere and II. G. Day, for
sake us in the midst of the
engagement anG flee. into the
wilderness of Populism! Who is
the hero, the man who abandons
his business and forsakes his
family to seek hermitage in the
mountains on account of the
wickedness of the world, or he
faces unpopularity, endures
poverty and stands his grounds
in defense Of true principle?
Come out of the woods and
mountains, boys!Leave your Pop
ulistic caves and come back!
We need you TO redeem the
grand old party, the grandest
old party this nation ever knew!
Come back! Please come back!"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28
The Benson Monitor comes out

The Benson Monitor comes out
with childlike simplicity and
states that the silver strength in
the south would seem to indicate
that there are other forces be-
hind. the silver movement than
the silver ine-owne It's no
creditsto the perceptive powers
or memory Of Editor Mathews to
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28

Secretary Carlisle at Chicago
asserted that the free coinage OF
silver would cut in two the wages
of the laboring men (by making
money cheaper) and at the
same time it would contract the
the currency by the expulsion OF
of $500, 100000 Of gold, Can you
make an article cheaper by re-
ducing the supply? That glaring
inconsistency ought in itself be
sufficient to convince the labor
ers that the gold bug was trying
to pull the wool over their eyes.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28
GOV. CLOUGH AGAIN.

II GOV. ClOugh is the monster
that some of his own party news
papers describes him to be, then
the party these papers are up
holding has placed a man in the
highest Office in the state that is
utterly unfit for the position. If
on the other hand Gov. Clough is
fairly competent and worthy to
be the Governor of Minnesota,
then our criticism of the course
of those papers is we'll merited.
The Benson Times and our
neighbors that say, "me too" can
take either horn of the dilemma
they please.
Our object in referring to this
matter is neither to defend nor
recommend Gov. Clough as week
pressly stated in the first article,
but to show the peculiar spirit Of
this class of newspapers, whose
only stock in trade seems to be
to abuse somebody. For years
they have vented their spleen on
Populists denounoing them as
monsters unfit to exist in the
community. But this anti.
Clough TRADE shows that such
are ready to heap their venom on
anybody, even the very men they
have helped to elect to the high
est office in the state, whenever
their interest Or spite dictate
such a course: The public here
after will know what stock to
take in such newspaper villiica-
ton of public men or officials.
We believe that ANY public Of
ticer is entitled to fair treatment
from the press, not only of his
own party, but of all parties.
We know it. is humiliating for
the Republican press to have to
be called down in the name of
decency in behalf of a Republi-
can Governor, by their Populist
brethren. But it must be re-
membered that we Populist have
some sense Of justice left, and
stand ready to meet it out even
to our political opponents.
We have in the past criticized
the action OF. men and parties
that we deem wrong, and against
the public welfare, and shall not
hesitate to do SO in the future.
But we do not, and never did,
deal in personal villification, We
specify actions: and measures
that we deem wrong. Now if
Gov. Clough has been guilty of
such why don't they specify
them, that he may either refute
them or stand cond emned.
Gllittering generalities Of
abusive epithet no man can an
ssWer. No man knows better
than ours elves, for we have
abused il our little sphere, as
much as any man living Hence
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28

Republican papers are using
Secretary Carlisle's speech to the
laboring men at Chicago as a
campaign document; call it able
and sound and long extracts are
quoted in most of the republican
newspapers. And yet when IL
democrat changes to republican
they call it a 'flop.'
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28
"SILVER CRAZE" STILL
DYING"

DYING"
In view of the daily repetition
of the statement in the gold
press that ''silver sentiment is
still dying" the following state
ment of the noted Chicago
journalist, Major Handy, a
monometallist, in the gold bug
organ, the Times-Herald, is in
teresting reading. We publish
his statement somewhat at
length because of the important
particulars which he names. His
fears that the Democratic ma
tional convention may be for free
coinage by large majority, are
thus expressed:
Weeks ago pointed out in
these columns, somewhat to the
surprise of Eastern Democratic
newspapers, that the free silver
men were already pretty will
assured of a majority in the
Chicago convention. * + =
+ y The probabilities are de-
cidedly in favor of the two-thirds
being secured: That end attained,
Mr.. Cleveland might as we'll give
up hope of nominating either
himself, Carlisle, Russell, Olney,
Pattison, or any other Eastern
Democrat except Whitney. Mr..
Whitney might indeed get the
nomination by the lavish use of
money, supplementing the pres
sure of the administration on
the oficeholders and a, pledge to
knock the bung out Of his barrel
during the campaign; but even
that is doubtful in view of the
present aggressive temper of the
free silverites unless he stultifies
himself by accepting the nom.
nation on their terms.
Under the operating of the
unit rule the free silverites con-
tidently count on the following
states in the Chicago convention:
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado,
Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Missis-
sippi, Minnesota, Missouri,
Montana, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,
Utah, Virginia, Washington,
Wyoming, the territories.
These states, I repeat, they
claim with confidence, but the
list does not cover all that they
may claim with good reason.
Illinois is honeycombed with
financial heresy. = Iowa
is almost surely of the same way
of thinking. In other words,
the Democracy alike in Illinois
and Iowa is for free silver, and it
is only a question of expediency
whether it shall be so declared.
Lieutenant Governor Day and
other prominent Republicans in
this state give testimony that
Republican gold platforms are
making Populists daily. The
fact that the Eastern money
power is investing heavily in
in gold planks in Republican
state conventions this year will
not deceive thinking and observ-
ing minds into the conclusion
that the people are going over
to gold recommendation. Wall
street may corner the gold
political plank market, but that
is another thing from cornering
the convictions and votes of the
people. The gold press will have
to publish good many more
thousand paid notices to the eff
feet that the "silver sentiment
is dying'' before the army OF
voters will be hypnotized by the
gold doctors. Penny Press.
Dr rrr10~1 Avrr~x 1r
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28

laborers place, for he knows he
can depend on this machine do
ing a certain amount of work and
although the first expense may
be large, he can figure ahead and
depend on a sure margin. A
few first class men who are hon
est and trustworthy are re-
tanned to superintend these ma
cnines and the balance, the un-
reliable portion, are turned
adrift to seek other employment,
to tramp, to become coxyites
and curse the improved machin
cry, congress, the millionaire,
the laborer who is willing to earn
his wages, in other words, de-
spise everyone and everything
that disagrees with their way of
thinking. There never has yet
been a time when a thoroughly
reliable and trustworthy man,
willing to earn his wages and
work for his employers interest
could not get a good position.
This is the class of men who are
at the head Of large business en-
terprises, either as trusty EN-
ployees, or partners in the bust
ness, or if he be working in a
modest way, he will have a COM
Portable and happy home, con-
tentwith this lot, while his dis
honorable brother will idle away
his time cursing his lot.-Monte-
video Commercial.
The above is specious pluto
cratic argument for existing
wrongs to the ordinary poor man.
According to this it is all his
own fault if a man cannot get
work. The man who wrote it
knows nothing about the ordi-
nary struggles of life. 1.-The did,
he never could have written it.
Fortune probably always shone
on him, and so he concludes that
because he has had no troubles
that were insurmountable SO
neither anybody else. Because
he has happened to have a good
position, so necessarily must
everybody else have had similar
opportunities. But a man should
look beyond his own Immediate
door yard for facts before he
draws general conclusions as tc
the state of the world at large.
We will guarantee to say that
there never was a time during
the last twenty years here in
America and elsewhere when
there was not millions of men
both willing and able to earn
their wages out Of employment
or working for less than they
earned. Happy indeed would the
world be today, If every man
that is willing to earn his wages
could always have chance to dc
so. But WHAT'S the use to argue
so obvious a question, wher
thousands of skilled workingmer
of all classes are daily travelling
the highways begging bread.
CO..
| "a correspondent sends us the
above clipping and asks us tt
comment on it,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28

The Benson Times, quoted by
both the Gazette and the Argus,
facetiously asks, would it
be fair to suggest that the Doctor
had been "seen?' Perfectly
fair, gentlemen. We have been
"seen' every day, we believe,
for some forty odd years. We
never shun the light. AS long
as we walk in the light and do
the right we are always glad to
be ''seen." Any thing more yon
want to ask?
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28
A FARMER IN GEORGIACOM-
PARED WITH ONE IN
MEXICO.

mortgage upon it, upon which
each is paying 8 per cent annual
interest and has $40 of taxes to
pay. Each raises 10 bales of
cotton or 5000 pounds. Each
takes their product to their own
market, the Georgian sells his
for cents per pound and receives
$3.50, the Mexican gets $500, pays
his interest and taxes $50 and
has left 1920, while the Georgian
has left only 1910 after paying
the same charges. Each now
proceeds now to cancel their debt
but the Georgian finds that after
he has applied all the proce eds of
his crop that he still owes $3.50,
the Mexican however not only
has sufficient to liquidate the
mortgage claim but has $12O left
to expend with the merchant.
This supposition is based upon
the proposition that they have
raised outside of their cotton crop
sufficient to support their families
This is no fancy sketch, for JUS
tice Clark of North Carolina in
the Arena for this month, says
that he visited the cotton mills
of Mexico and found that they
were paying twice 4 much for
cotton as the farmers of this
country were getting. What
causes the difference in price?
There can be but one answer:
Mexico is on q silver basis and
therefore has cheaper money,
which simply means that the
people of Mexico do not have to
surrender so many of their pro-
ducts for adollar as to the people
of the United States, or to put it
the other way, that we are on a
gold basis and therefore our dol
lars have appreciated which is
the same as saying that the pro-
auctions of the soil have depreci-
ated one half.
Lest you think US unfair,
because our proposition
only took cognisance of fixed
charges and debts, let us suppose
d case where a living at double
prices are in vogue and also fixed
charges. Suppose that the same
farmers with the same mortgage
same interest and taxes. raise 20
bales of cotton without hired Ia
Dor, the Georgian would get 500
while the Mexican 81, 400; deduct
$50 dollars interest and taxes and
the result stands $40 and 1920 re-
spective]y. Now let us suppose
that it-takes $500 for supplies to
sustain the Georgians, family and
twice as much for the Mexicans'
because prices are twice as high,
the money results would be as
follows: The Georgian would
still have left 1920 while the Mex
lean pile would be reduced to
1920. Both are in debt and both
are anxious to pay out, but the
Georgian finds that he lacks $50
| while the Mexican has a nest egg
left of $420. Hence one ought
to be able to see the necessity
Of acting in way to bring about
higher prices. = The Peoples
| Waterman.
And yet the Benson Monitor
seems to think that it is only the
silver mine owners that has any
interest in the silver question.
Wonderful sagacity!
| =,
The Ransom Monitor c0mos ont
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28
SPRING HAS COME AND
WITH IT HOPE.

SPRING HAS COME AND
WITH IT HOPE.
We are now forcibly and agree
ably reminded that Minnesota
spring and summer has come.
Variety is the spice of life. Had
we eternal spring we should not
know how to appreciate it's beau
ties. Hence here in Minnesota
we enjoy our beautiful springs
and summers as nowhere else,
being so much in contrast with
the severe winter. We sometimes
complain of the severity of our
climate, and no doubt with rea-
son, butafter all, our climate here,
take it all in all, is probably equal
if not superior to that of any
other place on the continent.
Especially is this section of
Minnesota the very garden of the
state. The Minnesota Valley is a
wonderful region. Here the fer
tility of the soft isinexhaustible
Here the most substantial and
hardy trees grow with luxuri-
ance and texture of grain no.
where excelled. AS one travels
over what was Il naked prairie
a generation ago and now behold
grove after grove in endless pro-
fusion and ever increasing den
sity and grandeur as year after
year roll by, one is often forced to
ask, how will it look a hundred
years from now? And the ans
wer comes as naturally: "As a
vast park or garden of groves and
stately lanes, q region of orchards
and high culture, real diversified
farming
Of this there is no doubt. At
present the farmer has his troub-
les, but tits going to be different.
No matter,how it is going to come
about.
The time will come when he
who owns a quarter section in
Minnesota valley will be sort of
lord of the realm.
We know the difficulties of the
farmer, have closely watched them
for years, and tried some of them
ourselves. We do not underesti-
mate them at all. Yet we say the
lot of the farmer is far better than
the average city inhabitant. Look
at the thousands of store-keepers
that has been utterly ruined by
the department store monopoly.
Likewise the small manufacture
ers that have been driven out by
the big trusts, etc. And the
worst is yet to come. The only
real independent man in the land
to-day, is the farmer out of debt
On his own land, be it ever so
little.
Now couple the fact with the
other, the enjoyment of nature in
all her real and simple beauty,
and a favored region in soil aud
climate and you have the basic
elements for human progress,
human happiness, and human
greatness.
Here we are furthermore on
that wonderful borderland that
partakes equally of the vast
grandeur of the wide stretching
plain and the sombre majesty of
the mighty woods, properly and
significantly called the park re-
gion. Here nature is at her best.
Here we can find the cool and de-
licious mountain spring, the MUIR
muring brook and crystal lake,
and dell and forest, ana vale and
plain, and feather and fin in all of
their pristine purity and glory.
Let us enjoy it. Let Us get out
and get a little Minnesota ozone.
Let us forget our trou bic and sor-
row and money getting and money
lending, and politics, and arith-
metics and every thing else for q
little while and enjoy our i npara
leled MINI sofa spring summer
and natural beau ties. Health is:
wealth And there IS ore health
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28

in our lakes and forests and water
and air for the sick in mind and
bod y than in all the artificial SAM
tariums in the world.
c.. J.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28
A Big Offer.

For anyone desiring a paper
published at the Nations Capital
we have splendid arrangement
with Senator Stewards paper,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28

The Penny Press under its.
new manageme nt is proving q
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28

Wedding stationery at the TRIBUNE
Office.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28

Girl w anted-for general house
work, by w. A. Sperry.
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15
ITO BE coNTIyUED.J
HIS WIFE WAS BALKY.
When She Was Hitchcd to q Pillow She
Failed to Pull.

When She Was Hitchcd to Plow She
Failed to Pull.
A Young man with long, worn out
Prince Albert coat and pair of pur-
ple pants tucked into his boots that
we're incased in mud, walked into Gen.
trail station this morning, says the
Louisville Post, and asked:
care thar AIRY reporter here?"
eyes" answered Captain Basler
there's about four here"
"Well, I'm the Teller what bought a
wife for 81 last week, and she wouldn't
work." replied the RUDE, "and l got Ell
divorce to get. These here papers have
writ me up wrong, an want er ker-
rection."
"All right" replied the Post report
err. "I'll make you a correction. Let's
have your statement"
"Now, you write 1t down Just es
say it." replied the countryman.
His statement was as follows:
1.-THE balky wife. the wife of Johnnie
Snawder, the daughter Of A. ]. Childers
has sued for divorce. Her father
recommended her as good worker
when bought her, and when hitched
her to the pillow she failed to pull and
baked. Her father came over where
we was at and offered his mule, but !
objected, as the mule looked thin.
thought would try her little longer
but she still failed. I offered to take
the old mans wife, as she was the
best trained.
"The old woman is 81 years old. You
could not expect my wife to work as
good as woman with seventeen years
training. The old man would not trade
so I made him take his girl back. We
parted good friends and will take her
back trained in few weeks and pay
double price for her. The old mans
place on the Preston street pike "a good
and he has thirty-nine acressy
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15

IN life developed remarkable powers Of
fascination. She was educated with
great care, and no pains were spared to
make her as accomplished as she was
lovely. She had two sisters and one
brother.
when Regina, for that was my
mothers name was about sixteen, there
came to Hiltland Manor a young man
named John Rudolph. He came as a
sort OF tutor to an orphan nephew Of
Lord Hiltland's, whom he had adopted
into the family. Rudolph was just the
sort of a person to attract the fancy Of
q romantic young girl, whose only
glimpse Of life had been through the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15
A CURIOUS GROWN.
Found Many Years Ago in tho wilds O
California.


California.
| "A short time ago Prof. Van der Nall
| len Of San Francisco received from
Henry Buehler, of Jacksonville, Ore, a
most strange and interesting curiosity,
says an exchange. A letter came with
1t, stating that Mr.. Buehler believed the
object to be some sort Of crown, but
would like some positive information
on the subject. The letter went on to
say that the supposed crown was found
by the writer about thirty-five years
ago on his ranch in Tuolumne county
in California. At the time he had been
living on the ranch about three years
and 1t was wild land when he got it.
There is no record Of any one except
Indians ever living in the vicinity and
there is not the vaguest possibility that
the work was done by them. The place
where the crown was found was a most
curious one, and the circumstances
connected with it are strange and in
teresting. Mr.. Buehler states in his
letter that he was digging out a large
sage brush that was in the way Of his
pillow. At the depth of about four feet
from the surface, his shovel struck
what appeared to be a boulder about
the size of a mans head. AS the ground
about the roots was soft, he picked up
the lump and was astonished at its
lightness. close examination showed
piece of shining metal sticking out
at one side. Taking his knife, Mr..
Buehler scraped away a portion and
could hardly believe his eyes when a
perfectly formed grape leaf, made of
bright yellow metal, came to view. The
work of removing that object from its
encasement was a task that occupied
several days. The substance surround
ing it proved to be a composition OF
clay and gypsum, and incessant boil
ing and scraping with bits Of soft wood
was necessary to get it off. Great care
was necessary, as the intricate mass
was found to be very delicate. When
Mr.. Buehler at last had the object in
his hand he had not the least idea Of
what it was, but his few neighbors
agreed that it was crown Of some
kind, although nobody would attempt
to explain how it came to be buried
among the roots Of sage brush. Since
then hundreds of people have examined
1t, but so far no satisfactory explana-
ton of it's origin has been given.
Taken altogether, it is most I'M
usual object. 1t is hemispherical in
shape, about five inches in diameter
across the base, and made to appear of
interviewer leaves Of grapevine. The
leaves are most delicately and accurate
ly modelled, all the veins showing plain
ly on both sides. Little punches OF
grapes are scattered over the surface.
These are, in fact, the most curious
part of 1t. They are purple in color
and made of q substance that looks
like Bohemian glass. Each grape is
fastened in the proper place by tiny
wire and all are bound together in a
perfect bunch. An analysis OF the
metal forming the leaves shows it to
be composed of gold, silver and copper,
gold being nearly one-half of the COM
position. There must be nearly $1OO
worth of the precious metal in it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15
A Turkish Official in Armenia.

A Turkish Official In Armenia.
81 have not received a para for the
last twenty weeks and / cannot buy
even Clothes" exclaimed the official
who was told off to shadow" me day
and night in Erzeroum.
do they pay your salary regularity?
I inquired of the head of the telegraph
office at Kutek.
mo, effendi, not regularly" he re-
piled; II have not had anything now
for fully eight months. Oh, yes, have;
months salary was given to me at
Bairam."
"How do you manage to live, then?"
Poorly"
"But you must have some money to
go on with or else you could not keep
body and soul together?"
81 have little, Of course, but not
enough. Allah is good. You have now
given me some money yourself"
Eyes, but it is not for you; it is for
kilograms and belongs to the state"
"Well, my shadow will have grown
considerably less before the state be-
holds the CLEAN Of it. keep for myself
all the money PAID in by the public.
take it as installments Of my salary.
1t does not amount to very much. But
whatever it happens to be, pocket it."
These men are, of course, petty Off
Gals, but their case is not essentially
different from that of the majority Of
their betters and judges, officers, deputy
governors and wallis, etc., are to the full
as impecunious and incomparably more
greedy.-Contemporary Review.