Willmar tribune., 1899-07-19

| INTO q war OF foreign conquest rush to
enlist. Heretofore Uncle Sam has en-
listed several men week when rush
ing the business, but that was before
the local ''fre-eaters" got themselves
aroused. Probably the discrimination
against the Northwest in wiping Fort
Smelling from the list of official stations
| will not help the business here. Be-
sides. if the stories of Trust prosperity
are half true men are so we'll employed
and making so much money that they
will hesitate to enlist in so unpopular
war as this is. But we shall see.
advance and give the countersign,"
sang out the American sentinel. The
poor. barefoot Filipino crept forward
with bowed head and muttered: "All
men are born free and equal"
| But as this declaration was not the
proper password, and because it con-
veyed meaning decidedly revolution
ary and antagonistic to revised Ameri-
canism, the sentinel, after preliminary
discharge, cut the twenty-sixth notch
on the stock of his rifle.
Not only the Filipino stumbled on the
countersign, but the reading of the
Declaration of Independence was
numerously dispensed with this Fourth.
1t couldn't gibe with imperialism.
w. j. Bryan, in his recent sermon in
the New York Journal: What is the
attitude of the Christian toward the
trust? (The money trust.) Can he be a
monometalist: Can he run a corner in
loaves and fishes without breaking the
Golden rule? Will the Standard Oil
and the Water of Life mix?''
During the week wheat has crept
back to about as low a point as it has
been for several months, the average
price at interior Minnesota points being
under 50 cents. Silver is close to the
same figure, low wheat going along
with low silver. the same as par silver
would give us dollar wheat and better,
And speaking of gold trust prosperity
it seems that the Winona Savings bank
celebrates it by reducing interest on
deposits to per cent, provided they
stand for six months. This is an indi-
cation of the condition of banking busi-
ness where it is conducted without
special benefits such as the national
banks receive. In fact, if there is a
line OF business not receiving special
favors in some manner, due directly or
indirectly to Legislation or administra-
ton, that is profitable Or more profit
able than it has been. will some gold
standard advocates please point it out?
The Savings Bank Of st. Paul, having
basked in the same kind Of prosperity, has
been closed by Examiner Pope. It ap-
pears that the bank has not earned a
penny's profit for d long time, although
it. bravely forced dividends to keep up
appearances. Examiner Pope, having
exercised his utmost leniency for some
months, finally refused to let the de-
positors and the public he further
jeopardizel. With resources of over
1000. 900 the bank had on hand at
closing only $33, ,697 in cash and some
$780, otherwise available, with which
to pay over $1,000.000 deposits. The
banks money is largely in mortgages
and real estate whose values have been
squeezed to death under the gold
standard. Examiner Pope, painful as
his duty may be, unf1inchingly dis
charges it in protecting the people.
Congressman Morris, as crowning
act Of his second and last term, will see
the town Of Cass Lake destroyed, the
people w,ho have settled there in good
faith under the Nelson law driven into
beggary, perhaps, and settlement of a
vast region of the state retarded, all
that the dignity of one Of McKinley's
departments shall be preserved. Yes,
Cass Lake must go. Cass Lake delen-
dun est!
A specimen of the efficiency and abil-
| ity of the departments of the Lind ad-
ministration is the successful encamp.
ment of the State National Guard under
Adjutant General George G. Lambert.
Says the Globes Lake City correspon-
dent:
Congratulations are being extended
| to Adjutant General Lambert, of St.
Paul, on every hand for the efficient
manner in which he is performing the
duties called for by his commission. No
former officer holding this rank has
ever performed the duties as we'll and
as economically as has the present in
cumbent. He is winning the admira-
tion Of all the members of the national
guard for the manner in which he looks
after the interests and comforts of the
men.
And the Minneapolis Times says:
"Adjutant General Lamber is excit-
| ing universal admiration, not to say
surprise, by the manner in which he is
conducting the affairs of the national
guard encampment this year. At no
time during the course of the encamp-
ments of years gone by has an adju-
tant general shown such a deep personal
interest in the affairs of the various
commands as the present incumbent Of
that Office. He has made it a practice
to be upon the grounds as much as pos
sible and to extend his personal SUPER
vision over all work and improvements
that are under way"
Free coinage is dead, about as aboli-
ton was dead when the great interests
| behind the institution of slavery want.
ed to believe it dead. The country
wants emancipation from the money
power, which is the only way to knock
off the shackles put on them by the
trusts and combines. AS Lincoln said:
This country cannot exists half slave
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