Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-01-25

ptlt t q & and "a fair dividend upon the
money invested III horses and IN a. \.
chinery and the value of the land It
would require at least IS cents BUSH
81 for the wheat produced in fair y
crop to cover the cost. Yet these farm
ers continue to produce millions upon .
millions OF bushels of wheat every
year at prices ranging from 80 to so
cents &c The 1 fact that they do. raise
wheat from stearn necessity, even
though they are obliged to accept half
pay for same, would then logically be
taken by the Inquirer as proof that
their demand for dollar wheat is un-
fair and unjust Then the Inquirer
mig hit go farther and pick out few
exceptionally fertile farms and be-
cause double the amount of wheat
could be raised on them by the same
amount Of labor, use them as a basis
for proving that so cent wheat did
pay. The theory that products are
prima facie evidence that the producer
has received full pay for their pro-
duction is SO absurd that it seems a
pity to expend space to disprove it. 49,
Then, again, to argue from the local
standpoint Of silver producer, the
demand for the coinage of silver is
slmpl y demand for the restoration
OF the coinage which was provided for
IN the laws of the land for decade af-
ter decade until repealed in the inter-
est OF concentrated wealth. The de-
mand was destroyed by law and the
destruction of the prosperity of the
silver mines followed as a natural Sc
quence. In his demands for the en-
actment Of laws which will restore to
him the lost privileges; he is entitled
to as much consideration as the citi-
zens engaged in other lines of pro-
duction. To say he is dishonest in
doing SO is libel, and he cannot be
blamed if he resents the weekly i'm
putations of jobbery and dishonesty
hurled at him by the minions of pluto
cratic power, whether these attacks
emenate from ignorance or scurrillity.
Then there is the phase of the silver
question which was supported by the
$500, 900 people who voted for Bry an
in 1896, and by those who voted for
Mckinley believing that he was still
blmetallist, being deceived by that in
ternational bimetallism subterfuge.
The great number of these people are
not silver miners, nor have they the
remotest interest in the mining of sill
YER, but they oppose the destruction
OF silver as a money metal on the
ground that the adoption of the sim
gle gold standard means the contrac-
ton OF the final redemption money,
sapping the very life blood Of the ma
tiop, the handing over Of the Finances
of the country to the prince of trusts,
the trust and bulwark Of all trusts
the international money power. Were
it not for the vast relation which the
silver question bears in this great
struggle between the people and ire
mendous corrupting influences of the
enemies of popular government, it
would pale into insigni6canee and
merely become a small local issue
which could never hope to command
the attention of the country, and the
editor OF such great newspaper as
the Philadelphia Inquirer displays /.
lamentable ignorance or studied at
tempt at ignoring existing conditions
in publishing such narrow and mis-
leading comment as the editorial
above referred to.--Aspen( Colorado)
Tribune.