Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
MORE QUESTIONS.

MORE QUESTIONS.
The Willmar Argus attempts
to answer the questions propoun-
ded by the TRIBUNE two weeks
ago. TO give tia more extended
circulation we reproduce the re-
plyin full, asfollnws:
"Dr. johnson in the Tribune asks
the editor of the Argus a few questions
that are as silly and as nonsensical as
| the rest of his harangues.
/ If the Republican party is and
has been in favor Of bi-metalism, how
does it happen that we are on the gold
standard now?
2 If that party believes in bi-met-
alism, why did a majority Of their
representatives vote to sell bonds in
order to procure gold to ''meet the
Deficiency of the treasury when there
was an abundance of silver seignorage
in the minis which could have been
used to pay current bills of the gov
ernment.-Willmar Tribune.
Now Johnson, you are very crooked
to ask why we are on the gold STAN
dard, and that if the Republican party
is in power why does such exist. Here
is what the Republican party said.
Don't you remember, when you said
Amen to it:
''The Republican party put forth it's
| platform at the national convention
at Minneapolis in June, 1892. and said
"The Republican party demands the
the use OF both gold and silver as
stand lard money, with such restrictions
and under such provisions, to be deter
mined by legislation, as will secure
the maintenance of the parity of value
OF the two metals, so that the purchas-
ing and debt paying power OF the
dollar, whether of silver, gold or
papers, shall be at all times equal. -
The convention further declared that
the interests of the country ''demand
that every dollar, paper coin, issued
by the Government shall be as good
as every other.'
That is pretty near straight English
and from headquarters too.
Now as to your second question.
You know that the dilemma brought
about by the Demo-pop combination
electing Cleveland and his free trade
theories has brought this country into
the verge of ruin and any measure
presented for immediate relief has
advocates. The coming of the seignor-
age now in the TREASURY will be done
shortly and is not a party question
and ten year old boy ought not to
state it, even should he be very foolish
to think it. So there is no argument
to your second question. You just
went off half shot, that's all. Now as
to your last question.
5. Has a party, which declares that
it will not relieve the people of it's
country from universal distress until
the very enemies Of those people, the
plutocracy Of England, which is pro-
fitting by existing conditions, will agree
to assist them to do SO, any vestige of
right to the suffrages of an American
patriot, be he young or old?
No, they have not, and there are
only two parties, the moss-backed
Democrats, who are just crawling in
the last hole on earth where mortal
eyes will never see them again, and
the wild visionary Pops who are how
ling free trade, free trade for the
benefit of England against the Ameri-
can farmer and laborer. It is that
party upon those principles that
i should not receive the suffrages OF
the Amerscan people. It is that party
with its principles for England that
Cshould not be recognized. Look at
the condition Of aft airs in this coun-
try with no market for surepbus
flour, surplus pork, surplus cattle.
Shut out by repeating the reciprocity
treaty and adopting the beautiful ideas
of England. How can you, in the
face of all truth, ask even the stuff
RACES of English subjects in this coun-
/ u y w SuPpOIO# SuCA = q uOCUilu0. 3l6t
alone free American subjects. Why,
of course not. The party that advo-
Gates such doctrines as declared by
that party should and will be releg.
ated to the past and be piled up by
/ the Wayside and streWn as wrecks
with the great trans-c ontinenta]
route platform for which the bicy-
Gle and gas engine will take the place,
as you say now, and the two per cent
money and the isms and isms that are
petrided By this time. Should sucha
party live and IN. the face 81
the American people it will go up this
4 fall and be laid il the & Sweet bye and
]. Bye.
begin with d, ohnson IS
lnotsre ponsible for the questions
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