Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-14
F|'|(|R.'QII|llI. ARD.
,s THE WORD. FOR The REFORM
y. FORCES, STATE: AND NATION.

3 No Steps MISUNDERSTANDING National
s Rsports-AIore death" for the Finan .
cial Question - Enth usiastic Bi-Metal-
E E tsts-Republioan, Revolt From the Gold
v Standard - Trusts and Imperialism
: Companion Issues to Silver = State and
Twin City Toptcs-N1innesota's Endorse.
mont Of Henderson, and Five lorna ID oes
in Iowa!-The Story Of eve are seven."
Tho Old Settlers and Forty Years of
5, Republican Rulo-G. o. p. Gubernator-
Z ial Candidates in Hard Lines-Memorial
+ Day Observances and Their Lessons.
Political Notes and Comments of tho
Week.
. Reform Press Bureau
: ST. PAUL. June 5, 1899.
, During the past week the financial
question has died some more. Besides
renewed pledges by the Democracy's
: national committee the bimetallic Or
CARNATIONS of the four states of Ohio,
Indiana. Kentucky and Illinois have
met at Louisville, not member or an
organization lost, and their declarations
/ more reassuring than ever. Kansas
{ has Republican revolt, Ex-Governor
: Eskridge bringing out his paper, the
Emporia Republican, against the gold
standard, as the parent of trusts, the
paralyzer of industry, as commercial
cannibalism, as serfdom for the masses,
as the headwind against transportation
lines, as the undermining rat of Repub-
ican institutions. Governor Erskine's
revolt is the sensation of the day. He
has been prominent in the Republican
party since Lincoln's time. And the
church. as we1l, is aroused. The synod
of the Reformed church in session in
Ohio denounced the gold. standard and
consequent evils as sapping to the life
of the nation, destroying moral as we'll
as material progress.
Oh, yes; free coinage is dead!
Municipal ownership of utilities is
also marching on. The city of Glasgow
earned net, in 1898, from such control,
1914, 500, after paying all expenses, and
giving the people the, cheapest. street
railways, gas, water, parks, gardens
and concert halls-all of which the city
conducts-in the world. The Twin
Cities could do the same, but what
would poor Colonel Lowry do without
his $50, 100000 property which is taxed
as $1.5OO,0O0.
TIL United States Nv Amerikee-
I hev grown kind O. used t. that name,
En- I've bin jest ez proud ez Teller
could be
Nv old Uncle Sam" en- of this countree
En- tn Red, White and Blue Nv tn Flag
NV tn Free.
But can't figger out jest how Manillee,
On tn other side Nv the world frum me,
En- lynn off shore from old Ashiee,
Kin be part Nv tn States Nv Amerikee.
Henry Slade Golf, in Farm, Stock and
Home.
AS fast as the truth is revealed by
publication of suppressed official reports
the underpinning is knocked out of the
administration course toward the Fill
pinos. Dewey cabled Aguinaldo to
"Come as soon as possible" and he
came and joined forces against the
Spanish When Spain was crushed,
Aguinaldo formally requested the
United States forces to assume protec-
ton of the Philippines for at least long
enough to enable the inhabitants estab-
lish government of their own" acqui-
escing in which, such remained the at
titude of our forces, land and sea, until
Aguinaldo learned of the purpose of
Washington to seize the country by
purchase, and govern it by arms.
When the situation. from the just
supicions of the Filipinos became
strained, Aguinaldo proposed the estab-
ishment of a neutral zone until the is
declined by Otis. The latter's official
report shows that our men fired the first
shot, one of MacArthur's outposts firing
on and killing Filipino.
This much creeping out from the press
censorships, probably when the whole
truth is known the whole Western
world will not afford the like of the
outrages we as a nation have commit
ted in the name of liberty" What a
day Of reckoning will that be when the
responsibility is fixed for what it has
cost of beloved dead, who have carried
out the orders of superiors without
questionings, and what it will cost in
blood and treasure before the wretched
end is reached!
Are those who are so glib about call
ing people ''copperheads' aware of the
distinguished and patriotic men who
: comprise the Anti Imperialist League
of America. Take their officers: Hon.
! George s. Boutwell, is president, and the
! vice presidents are: Grover Cleveland,
George F. Edmunds, John Sherman,
Henry Copman Potter, H. S. Pingree,
] Samuel Gompers, John g.. Carlisle,
Andrew Carnegie, Charles Francis Ad-
ans, Carl Schurz, Beverly johnson,
Samuel Bowles of the Springfield Re-
publican, Edward Atkinson, James G..
! Carter, John G. Bullitt, Patrick A. Col
! Inns, Herbert Myrick, Theodore L. Guy
Ter. The League treasurer is Francis a.
Osborne, the secretary Erving Winslow
and the executive committee, besides
the officers, .Winslow w arren, William
Endicott, Jr., James j.. Meyers, Albert
4 S. Parsons, David Green Haskins, Jr.,
and J. P: Munroe. Pretty good '.cop-
d perhead" associates, these, and quite a
prominent list for. the scaffold when
Hangman Eustis commences on his job.
h Twin City Memorial Day observance
/, had few special features, though more
q than5the usual deep interest. Here and
there few breaks were noted, where
n a,1ch nj snoalora r1tfny.inp sentiments 1T