Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-05-17

also Ohio, in big meeting at Toledo.
1t is believed that Minnesota German
Americans to man will oppose the Re-
publican policy of foreign conquest and
entangling foreign alliances.
The Republican Press Bureau has
been transferred to Red Wing, though
its letters continue to bear the st. Paul
date line. The last wrestles with the
prosperity" problem, as applied to the
banks, proving the prosperity of the in
terror OF the state by the fact that the
country banks increased individual de-
posts some 100000 between February
and April, and now hold $4,000, 900 of
such deposits! Learned student of
finance, how long since increased de-
poslts were proof of prosperity, either
OF the banks or Of the owners of the
money? That's what our country banks,
all banks in fact, are complaining of,
that the money is piled up there and
they cannot find profitable loans for it.
Not loaning it they cannot pay interest
on deposits, and business being un-
profitable merchants and others cannot
AFFORD to borrow money to extend their
lines. Circulation of money is what
makes business good and times prosper
Gus, not the locking Of it up in banks.
National Committeeman johnson: 81
have yet to see the man who helped to
make the Chicago platform or who
voted for w. J. Bryan who has a
thought of regret for either act"
A friend has furnished the bureau a
copy of one Of the campaign issues of
the Republican state central committee,
in which they sounded the alarm of the
''attack" on the grain department. It
is most amusing composition bearing
the signatures of Chairman Steele and
Secretary Rasmussen. ''Stand by the
state grain inspection as you have done
before, is one of the appeals. ut is
all Demo-Pop trick to deceive the
young and cheat the Ignorant" says
Chairman Steele. Finally the address
promises that if there is anything wrong
the Republican party will investigate
and make it right, for William H. Eus-
tbs has so Expressed himself on several
occasions" Well, the Republicans did
investigate and they didn't do a thing
to Clausen. But that ''address." We
are going to have it embalmed.
The continued charges that the re-
form members of the legislature are
responsible for the defeat of the anti-fee
bills, are scarcely worth attention. The
facts are that those members were 80
uncompromising in their determination
to follow the governors recommends
tons that they went farther than the
Republicans even, in the latter's move
against the oil inspector only, when the
latter refused to include the Republican
supreme court clerk. For when the
Republicans in the senate agreed to
make the oil inspector bill take effect in
two years, protecting the present Dem
ocratic incumbent during his term, the
reform senators caucused and said no.
and voted to make the bill take effect
at once.
There is only need to repeat that there
is but one responsibility for the failure
to accomplish this reform. ana that was
the Republican determination to save
the clerk of supreme court so that Office
and its extravagant fees would be left
for future aid to a Republican machine.
1t being all they saved from last years
wreck, the Republicans cling to it like
barnacle to one Of Dewey's ships.
The Minneapolis Flambeau club
which squirts fame ON Republican &C.
casions blew out the eye of a Mime
apolis lady. They didn't mind little
thing like that, but the lady has OBJ
tanned a Judgment of $4,000 damages.
What pity if this hamboyant Repub-
lican adjunct was obliged to quit the
fane-squirting and eye-destroying bus
inessl
The price of silver has now passed the
average price of wheat in the country
markets, though lately standing neck
and neck. It is good time to remark
that a very few ''doubting Thomases, ~
like the bimetallic editor of the Mid
way News, still fear that legislation
cannot change the bullion value of the
silver dollar. If 50, please consider
this: Suppose that on Wednesday last
when silver was CATS cents per ounce,
which would make the dollar for that
day 50. Is cents, Bryan was president
and law was passed and signed making
silver coinage law on equal terms with
gold. You could then have taken 41211&
grains of silver to the mint and have it
coined into dollar that was legal ten
der for all debts public and private,
without cost to you. Would you then
part with that dollar for so, 60, 80 or
80 cents? Legislation has then changed
the value of the bullion has it not? You
would not part with any silver bullion
that you had, nor anyone else, for less
than $1.29 per ounce, because you could
have it made $1.2Y in coined dollars at
the mint without cost to you.
The bullion value has never fallen,
never can, and never will fall below the
coinage value, under free and unlimited
coinage.
Closing the minis to silver caused its
n oor~o