Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-07
and Adjutant General Lambert will see
all properly protected

ernOr LIND has recognized the ability
and public services of some we'll known
newspaper men. In the appointment Of
Swan j. Turnblad of The Swenska
Amerikanska Posten to the Reforma-
tory Board an able business man was
secured aud recognition given to the
powerful Swedish newspaper which is
now being sought for in all parts of the
country for extending this work in the
interest of the common people. Sena-
tor Pettigrew, while here recently,
made arrangements for extension of
The Posten in South Dakota. Another
able editor and business man to be
called to the Governors staff for good
government is Ed O'Brien of the Min
neapolis Irish Standard, who will suc-
coed Chief Weighmaster G. M. Reese
June Is.
Thanks to G.. o. P. Managers Merriam
and Bixby, those two Minnesota Dro-
mics of Has Beens, ex-Labor Commits
sioner Powers and ex-Examiner Kenyon
have gotten upon Uncle Sans payroll.
When these meet in the census and the
Cherokee Indian hastings how they will
slobber over each other in contempla-
ton of their mutual public worthless
ness compared with their success in
keeping engrafted upon the body polite.
They make me think of two mean,
stingy, uncharitable church elders down
East, Brothers Waite and Meacham.
On one prayer meeting occasion on their
knees they had made their usual re-
sponses to the sentiments of others, in
suppressed groans and deep signs; each
had prayed long and fervently. At the
conclusion both raised their heads,
commencing to rise, when Elder Waite,
looking at the other over his spectacles,
said with great solemnity: brother
Meacham, ali! you and I can make a
tol-ler.a-ble good prayer without and
particular assistance from the Lard!
M-mm-m-m-m-m!
To which Brother Meacham respond
ed: YEA. brother, bless the Lard!
-m-m-m-m-m-mY'
When Johnny Goodnow comes
marching home from Shanghai, watch
the fellows who abused him and said
good radiance" when he went away
run to cover. Goodnow means Hanna,
and he may run the 1900 campaign in
Minnesota, he and Bixby, managing the
Merriam census corps of Il. 0. p.
strikers.
The Republican Press Bureau informs
the dear people that the few lone
Democrats who hope to make cam
paign cry out of anti-expansion will
find themselves among the insignificant
minority" Beside which we will place
the prediction that the Administration
policy responsible for the seizure of the
Philippines and the sitting OF the spirit
of human liberty there, will be utterly
and completely repudiated in 1900.
That bureau also notes that the anti
trust law passed by the late Republican
legislature ''has attracted good deal
of attention" It does not appear to
have attracted sufficient ''attention" to
lead to any moves by the Republican
state attorney general or other Republic
can officials to enforce it.
And that bureau finds great comfort
in the recent article in the Minneapolis
Times which made some structures upon
Governor Lind, referring to the paper
as 1.-The always Democratic Times" The
Times "always Democratic" Don't
that jar you?
The hunt for a Republican "elligible"
for Governor, is simply amusing.
''Some one who can beat Lind" is the
standing pattern. Heatwole, Clapp,
Van SAINT, Evans, Morris. Eustis-yes
Eustis, Eddy, Tawney, Collins, and last
but by no means least, Ex-Governor
McGin, have one after another been
passed in review with varying degrees
of doubt and indecision. The idea that
it better be an "old soldier" has aided
Collins, but there is the warm feeling
for Van SAINT in the way, and besides,
another thing to be considered is that
the number of "old soldiers" who ap-
prove their old party's administration
are becoming beautifully less.
A very patent fact is that the "old
soldier" besides having learned good
lesson on the value Of political indie
pendence, is on the edge of open, bitter
and uncompromising revolt against the
Mckinley administration, on account of
conduct of his pension department. This
feeling is more bitter, it is stated on the
inside, than it was in the worst days of
the Cleveland administration, and the
veterans didn't do a thing to Cleveland.
When your imperialist neighbor who
defends the new colonial policy of con.
quest and imperialism, with all that
the terms involve, tells you of the emf
nent divines, like DR.. Henson of Chi
cago who recently declared that there
twas never greater falsehood palmed
off by the devil than that all govern
ments derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed" please ask him
to read the following from the writings
of Abraham Lincoln:
mo man is good enough to govern
another man without the others con-
sent. When the white man governs
himself that is self government; but
when he governs himself and also gov.
erns another man, that is more than
self government-that is depotism.
Our reliance is in the love of liberty
which God has planted within us; our
defense is in the spirit which prizes lib
erty as the heritage of all men, in all
lands, everywhere. Those who deny
freedom to others deserve it not for
themselves, and under a just God can.
not long retain it.
This extract was most crushingly
used in Chicago by Professor Laughlin,
who was invited to take dinner with
some imperiallstic friends. While the
discussion was unCler wav Professor T..