Willmar tribune., 1899-10-18

| ~ Minnesota for the
N>$<saS1$ battle of 1900.
! 0A \& Mr.. Thomas has
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| p%I&ZZNn#2; tions Of the North
=>V"w west and the Pacific
coast. has met with cordial interest
everywhere. There is no time nor space
here to say more than that he is ably
carrying out the National Committees
plan originally known as the Harvey
plan, for raising campaign money
among the people themselves. It is the
dollar a month subscription plan, which
has thus far proven success.
In this work there is the same CO.
operation of all the allied forces which
fought together in '96, and which won
| the fight in Minnesota last year, as
there is every reason to expect there
will be in the great battle next year.
All the possible resources that the peo-
pie can command will be needed, as the
trusts and the ombines will pour out
their millions against the peoples cause
at the command of Hanna, as they did
in 1896.
During the present week Mr.. Thomas
is prosecuting the work in the Twin
Cities, after which he will visit the
chief cities of the state. No words can
too strongly commend his work to the
people. We bespeak for Mr.. Thomas q
cordial reception by all friends of the
cause.
The head of this work, as at present
organized, is Hon. S. B. Cook of Mis-
souri,, who is in charge of the ways and
means work, with Office at 1O44 Unity
Building, Chicago. He succeeded Mr..
Harvey, who is out in the field, still in
the work, his enemies to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
In organizing the Minnesota work
Mr.. Thomas would emphasize the fact
that cooperation with all the reform
forces is earnestly aimed at. The ma
tional committee and it's sub-commit-
tees would act with the state comittees.
and these in turn with their local or
other cooperating forces. In this way
only, dropping all partisan distinction,
but relying on the earnest support of
| the people themselves. can we hope to
| succeed in the work or to win.
"Sharp Eye on Gold," is Twin City
headline of gold paper. Yes, sharp
eye on the Wall street panic, where,
under the gold standard cornerings of
the money market, money has been as
high as FORTY PER CENT during the
past week. Who is there who does not
know that with free coinage corner
in money would be impossible?
"Stand and and deliver" is the trust
demand on almost every solitary busi-
ness in the land, in some one or more
lines. The American Anti Trust league
recently had representatives go through
New York manufacturers, as to the
effect of trusts on the commodities,
with the result that of 500 house WIS.,
tied, not one was found WHERE ANY
COMMODITY CONTROLLED BY TRUSTS HAD
BEEN REDUCED IN PRICE, but each
and every other had been increased all
the way FROM FIVE TO ONE HUNDRED
AND FIFTY PER CENT. The list, given
alphabetically, included brooms,
envelopes. enameled ware, builders
hardware, iron beds, copper wire,
chairs, furniture, -four, glass and glass
ware, iron products of all kinds, iron
wire, especially barb wire, nails, steel
goods, knit goods, photo paper, plumb.
ers supplies, rubber goods, ranges,
shoes, spools cotton, salt, stoves, tin
ware, wall paper, etc., through great
list.
Oh, yes; trusts reduce prices, in a
horn. Reduce them when necessary to
kill some concern that holds out of the
combine, but as soon as the competitor
is strangled up go the prices and out
60 the men and statesmen that can be
dispensed with, out into the cold, cold
world. Down with the trusts.
Say. The Thirteenth's home.
Let this be perfectly understood. II
President Mckinley discovers the lack
of enthusiasm running through the peo-
pie, while in the Northwest, he must
not charge it to lack of respect for the
high Office he holds, but should know
that it is divided between disgust at the
pin headed managers of the affair who
could not refrain from showing parti.
sanship in it's management, and belief
that Mckinley is dead wrong in his
Philippine policy. -
And make no mistake. It is The
reception to the Thirteenth that il
the feature of the occasion. and not thu