Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-10-19
OFFICE IN TRIBUNE BUILDING.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1897.
CURRENT COMMENT.
SOMETHING has
THE TRAMP
NUISANCE. w w w

SOMETHING has
n,uaAMcE to be done to
abate the tramp evil.
The pestilence is becoming unbearable
For five months in the year every
town on a railroad is the prey OF a lot
of thugs, scalawags and idlers that no
kind of ordinary police service can
handle. The state must make some
adequate provision to put the tramp
fraternity to work to earn their living.
Let the state buy a quarry: fence it in
and put overseers with blacksnakes
to keep these lazy louis at exercising
their muscles until they learn to work
once more. We are almost inclined
to think that a special session of the
legislature should be called to pro-
vide some such means to take care of
next years crop of tramps.
WE publish else
where an article from
one of our cxchang-
es on the new elevated electric railroad
now in course OF construction between
Chicago and New York. This new
system of transportation will revolu-
tionize our whole railway problem.
The discoveries in electricity of Nj
cola Tesla shows graphically how the
mind of man, bordering over the for
ces OF nature, is able to upset existing
conditions of Industrial forces. The
elevated electric railway will before
many years squeeze the water out of
steam railway stock in a manner that
no Legislation could pretend to do. It
is said that thousand dollars per
mile will build and equip a road of
that kind. At first the new system
will only carry passengers and certain
kind of freight. But in course of time
new and improved inventions and APP
planes will undoubtedly extend it's
utility. We are just beginning to
know something Of the wonderful re-
sources of the world we live in.
HAS THE PHlLoso- IT is now reported
PIERS STONE that chemist has
BEEN FOUND found process by
which he can turn silver into gold.
This is of course improbable but it is
not, scientifically speaking, impos-
sible. Gold so far has acted like an
element, but it may be a compound.
Water was for ages supposed to be
an element but modern chemistry re-
solved it into a compound of two gas
es. With the late discoveries of new
powers and conditions of the worlds
forces some way may be devised to
break up the elements into some more
universal element or elements. Let
the gold bugs beware lest the scientist
Dissolve their idol into thin air.
II II
rue M. o,o,. NOT even politics
IN %, rios is safe from the des-
pissed Philosopher.
Wall street and Treadneedle street
tremble just now because of the single
tax crank, Henry George. Henry
George has secured five or six nomi-
nations for mayor of Greater New
York and as consequence Tammany
and Boss Plat tremble in their boots.
Of course it isn't likely that George
will be elected, but he has at least the
satisfaction of giving the great poll
ticians in New York the worst scare
they have had for many a year. This
again shows the power of intellect, of
one intellect, to upset the world even
in the sphere of politics. Bryan is
another example of what one mind can
do to stir up politics in republic.
Talk as his opponents may, Bryan is
a power in this nation, one man fac
tor in politics such as this nation has
not had for many years.
: SIS
NOTHING Is Set SUPERFICIAL
TIED 'n<TH's minds are always
"on-o talking about certain
things and dogmas as settled and SET
tied for good. But.in reality nothing
is settled for good. Life and progress
are synonymous with change, and the
whole universe il living and changing
all the time: Last fall the money