Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-05-10

made by Richard P. Bland, S. B.
! Cooper, Rice A. Pierce, Samuel Max
we'll, E. r. Ridgely Charles S. Hart
man, Charles F. Cochran and Harvey B.
! Ferguson, the same House Committees
minority. It will be to strike out all of
the gold bill after the enacting clause
and declare:
"The unit of account or value in the
United States shall be A DOLLAR OF
412% GRAINS STANDARD SILVER
OR % $40 GRAINS STANDARD
GOLD.
"The holders of silver bullion not too
base for the operations of the mint shall
have the right to deposit the same at
any mint of the United States for coin
age into standard. silver dollars ON
THE SAME TERMS AND CONDI-
T1ONS AS GOLD BULLION is NOW
COINED FOR PRIVATE HOLDERS.
land SILVER DOLLARS HERE
TOFORE COINED AND HERE
AFTER TO BE COINED UNDER
THE PROVISIONS HEREOF SHALL
BE LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL
DEBTS AND DUES, PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE"
And there you have the money ques-
ton part Of the campaign of 1900,
stripped of the Is to bugaboo, and SO
simple and unequivocal that he who
runs may read and understand. Who
will doubt what the result will be with
the American people?
Stimulated by the great Indignation
throughout the state over the defeat of
the gross earnings bill, ever since the
legislature adjourned there has been
great interest to know the inside oper-
ations of the railroads which brought
about that result. AS a stroke of news
paper enterprise one Of the state dailies
is said to have used detective to good
advantage, but that the publication of
his discoveries was prevented from the
fact that the paper editorially took the
railroad side on the bill. Whether the
real truth will ever be known or not re-
mains to be seen. But the
general gossip is that five
members of the senate judiciary
committee received $780, 900 each, and an
equal number Of ''prominent" senators
on the floor the same amount each,
while five ''cheaper ducks on the COM
ittee received $4,000 each. making
$25, 1000 more, and an equal sum in
'driblets'' was used among ''scattering
senators" This would make the aggre-
gate outlay in the senate $3.50, 900.
This is said to have been furnished by
three companies, and the disbursing
agent is said to have been a we'll known
banker in the western part of the state,
who has figured for years as the lobby
manager of one Of the largest railroads.
But it is said that not one dollar of the
doodle was even distributed in St. Paul,
but was placed at points designated
where it would reach the proper parties
without danger.
But whatever the sum or by whom
dispensed it was cheap investment.
and any sum short of a half million
would have been. And still in the long
run it may prove an utter loss, as this
question is only postponed. and in the
present temper of the people the lift of
the gross earnings tax may be much
more than the one per cent the people
asked this time. In short the roads
may have played the game too fine.
Alger says that lone of the islands
we hold in trust, the others are ours"
That is to say Hanna's.
And rotund General Merritt, we'll
groomed and lately married, slobbered
at the Alger dinner, though he did say
he was born Democrat and couldn't
get over it.
Wonder how many who talk 50 glibly
about the recently passed anti trust law
have ever read that trust destroyer.
Now that it is in the hands of every
reader of the local paper, take it up and
read it, and then pass your own judy
ment as to whether or not it will do any
good. See if it has not been so sweep
lngly drawn that enforcement would
stop even the smallest of the wheels of
trade, and hence that it cannot by any
possible means be enforced, and hence
is all and entirely buncombe. That's
the way it strikes the ordinary layman,
and hence has probably arisen the COM
mon appellation of it's author, Congress
man Tawney. as Tricky Tawney," that
he invented the scheme simply to throw
dirt in the eyes of the people. All this
talk of uprooting the trust by such
means is simply tommyrot. The trust
, and the com bine exist from the necessity
of lifting prices under the gold stand
ard. The trouble is deeper seated than
all that. To root it out is to strike at
the foundations, the uprooting of the
trust of trusts, the money trust. With
$500, 100000 of trusts organized in the
month of April, and more than Sc. 00O,-
100000 within twelvemonth, it is a
question whether mischief will not be
done beyond the possibility of remedy
| which the national elections of 1900
should give US.
For the 6. o. p. escutcheon let us have
bull beef (spoiled) rampant, the white
wash brush famboyant, the can opener
pendent, and Algerism strident On a
background of Filipino blood red can be
dashed other tokens like Spanish yellow
for the gold standard and toryism.
/! For Minnesota put the Republican