Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06

Idollar .n srsry shinag 81 5neir
power to- prevent It'd coming
which conn ction Farm, Stock and
Home has an article showing how cat.
tie. for Instance, in both price and
quantity, consid ering population, have
gone down. & If this IS not BY the rea.
son Of the purchasing power Of meney,
what's it, due tor: 4 ~ ..:. u
..Sonnd n oney'' fears an avalanche Of
COLA yet denies the quantitative theory
OF money. Undressing the quantity
OF money does not make other things
higher priced as measured in money,
then where comes in the fear Of the.
gold standardites? .@5< 81 ,5. Il p:
But of prices not trust controlled,
what? All farm products tending
lower and lower, except in favored To-.
calities. Cattle. hogs. grain Labor
and salaried positions, except trust,
controlled and specially favored, and
except what labor can accomplish by,
organization and never ending watch
tulness. Wheat, our great staple, now
| ruling at the so cent notch again, as,
last year at this time, in the sections of
the state where it is the great product.
The reason why the Mckinley pur-
chase of bonds will not help anybody
but the spectators, is because only they
and the banks have government bonds to
self. 1fothers have them they keep
them and live on the meagre interest,
| because there is no line of business in
which they can invest the money at
profit, because they are not in the trust
and combine deals, and can't get in.
McKinley's treasurer is paving 112
and III for bonds that were sold for
par, and the $25, 000, 900 to be bought
will amount to $.8.000.000. Here is
So, 600, 900 out, and besides that nearly
81, 600, 900 has been paid in interest on
the same bonds since issued.
The Mckinley 6nanciering is in some
respects worse than Cleveland's, though
both are on the same principle of bene-
lifting the spectators on the country's
bone and sinew. Cleveland sold the
$6S. 000,O to his syndicate at 1O4 If
Mckinley should now buy back some
of these, and he will when Wall street
makes the demand, he will, in the
light of his recent purchase, have to
pay over 1870 for them.
Instead of the whole iniquitous bond
business, give US money issued by the
government, with postal savings banks
for the convenience, safety and pcotec-.
ton of the people.
Sworn afidavits appear that one Col
onel Metcalf, in the Mckinley army of
conquest in the Philippines, shot an I'M
armed and supplicating Filipino pris-
oner. But that does not disturb the
slumbers of the. occupant of the White
House. The murders of prisoners on
their knees are fit companion pieces for
the burning of villages, looting Of
churches and assault of defenseless
women. They usually attend armies
of conquest, like the Hessians, hire
lings Of the Revolutionary War.
Congressman are vending their way
! to Washington, and before another
week rolls round Hanna's annual mes
sage will be before a palpitating world.
Hon. A. w. Thomas of Chicago, so
pleasantly representing the Democratic
national committee here recently, has
been assigned to the same work for
New England, with headquarters at
Boston, and writes most hopefully of
! the situation there.
Our best advices from Kentucky are
that Goebel will be the next governor,
and that the attempt to overawe voters
by Republican bayonets, as was done in
Louisville, will not be successful. That
the legislature will re-elect Blackburn
is without question.
Times are so brisk that an army of
men are after the places that Census
Su perintendent Merriam will dispense
for the G. O. P. There are 20 to 30 ap-
plicants for every place there is.
John r. Mclean may have accom-
plished more in the defeat of the Cox
gang. in Hamilton county, than his
election as governor without winning
Hamilton would gain. Several G. o.
P. concerns IN and about Cincinnati are
out of business, such as Watcher a
Skinnem, advisers; Robb & Steele, cam.
paigners, and Holden & Gutte,n,
inanciers. IT'S very we'll.
Senator Knute Nelson thinks he fixed
matters up in fine shape in Hennepin.
Our advices are that Knute deceives
himself. There's boom on for Ele.
vator KING Peavy.
And, further of Hennepin politics. it
is stated as fact that William Hennery
Eustis, who also ran, will demand a
vindication and run again. His ex.
PLANTATION of why he was beaten before
is said to be pathetic.
! Meanwhile how dare the bosses dis.
regard the Hanna orders to get to work
for United States Attorney Evans2
Insurance Commissioner O'Shaughn.
essey, in his handling of the Insurance
Union, has dealt an antitrust blow that
will be appreciated everywhere. This,
with the cooperation of Attorney
General Douglass, is really the first
effective blow dealt the trust in this
state. Do it some more. :. es -. :.
| The state dairy department finds in
| its axnorianca that tho uroataat 11ao Of