Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-08-02
spotless '76-spun, well-medicated linen
Of the weave Constitution"

Talk about calamity howlers! just
hearken to the lingo daily press wall
because Minnesota has "bank exam.
liner who examines" General Pope
should take into consideration the feel
ings of the men who are the power be-
hind the press and otherwise behind
prosperity" which smiles 80 complar
Gently above the closed and curtained
doors of looted banks. General Pope
should move more deliberately; in
other words, should wait until few
favored depositors assist the managers
in making away with the strong G) box
before letting the public into the ''pri.
vate" affairs of these gentlemen, and
allowing said public to draw unto itself
the small fraction of it's deposits still
''touchable." The bank examiner is a
puzzle to ''these gentlemen" He goes
right ahead with his work and pauses
not to assure the astute newspaper man
that he Twill explain" things. 1t must
be that he intends to allow his actions
to explain themselves before the just
tribunal of public judgment.
The next national conve ntion of the
reformed Democracy will be glorious
ratification of the one held in Chicago
three years agO-a sort of anniversary
| celebration of the greatest day in the
history of the party. day when old
leaders and bosses were dethroned and
| the people themselves, the rank and file
OF the party, asserted their rights. It
was not so much the triumph of silver
that made that convention memorable;
it was rather the triumph of the people
over the elements which had dictated
platforms and dominated conventions
in the past. Silver happened to be the
question uppermost in the popular
mind. Next year the money problem
may again be the chief point of con-
| tention and it may not. Trusts,
expansion or the un-American tenden-
cies of the present Republican admins
tration-any one or all of these may
take its place. But whatever the issue,
whether it is silver or not, the politi-
clans of the Republican persuasion may
rest assured that it will involve ques-
lions in which the people are most
deeply interested and upon which they
| will be prepared to take as determined
and aggressive stand as they did for
! silver in 1896. Furthermore. the issue
! will be made up, not be clique of in
dlviduals, but by the great masses of
the party, earnest in their convictions
and loyal to the fundamental principles
of true Democracy.
The Minneapolis Journal recently
remarked that the continual increase in
the price of lumber was causing some
uneasiness." We met one one of the
largest lumbermen of the Flour City
the other morning and asked him how
business Was. Booming, simply BOOM
ing was the reply, and the million
aire dealer in pine gleefully rubbed the
palms Of a man who seemed to be en-
joying the situation immensely. And
we'll he might. At a meeting of lum-
bermen held only few minutes before
it had been decided that Sept. 1 must
mark an additional boost in the price
of 81, and as the combine has already
succeeded in bringing about an arbi-
trary advance of So, the lumberman in
question had every reason to feel q
trif1e elated. Add to this s. raj Sc,
brought about solely by combination,
the So provided for by the tariff and
we have an artificial arbitrary boost of
IS, or more than it actually costs to
buy the logs and manufacture them
into the finished lumber. In other
words, the people simply make the
lumbermen present of all the stock
they have on hand, and as a result of
their folly go without houses and build
ings themselves.
The Republican editors who are fill
ing their papers week after week with
groundless abuse of Governor Lind.
would do we'll to take heed of the hu-
initiating experience of Senator Miller.
The senator, before making his charges
of dishonesty, undoubtedly reasoned, as
do all Ithers who take so easily to SLAM
| der, that high public officials, as rule,
| find neither the time nor the inclina.
ton to take notice of newspaper criti-
cism, that the chief executive of state
could hardly afford to enter into con-
d
country newspaper, and that charges
of corruption could therefore be
made with little danger of
having their character questioned
or their author held to strict account
ing for the falsity of his assertions. But
for once the editorial-senator was mis-
taken in his man. John Lind has be-
hind him record for honesty in private
and public life, capable of withstanding
| the closest investigation, and it is not
in the character Of the man to have
that record besmirched at will by every
narrow minded politician who thinks
he sees in abuse and utilization chance
for partisan advantage. Some men
there are who hold their public acts as
sacred as their private deeds, and to the
people of the state it will be source Of
great satisfaction to know that their
present chief executive is one of thecr1.
J. Adam Bede has declared himself
in the Sixth district. Bede is a very
able man and in some respects perfectly
competent to hold down seat in con-
gress, but sore disappointment is j.
store for his ambitions. In the end ne
will find how doubly ungrateful are
those with whom he SO recently cast his
political lot. The Republicans have
been willing to use him. just as they
were willing to use the gold Democrats
throughout the Union in order to &C.
complish the election of Mckinley, but