Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16

Some things the Flag stands for:
In America, for the good old constitu-
tion and for the Declaration Of Inde.
pendence, which declare for liberty for
men, OF all races, Of all climes. In the
islands of the sea, under Criminal Az.
gression," the Flag stands for the de-
struction Of human freedom, and the
subjugation Of feeble though liberty
loving people.
In America, for freedom to white and
black men alike. In the Philippines, it
stands for conquest of people whose
skins are brown and whose stature is
small.
In America the Flag stands for the
American home, with one wife and one
mother for the family. In sulu it
stands for rolygamy, with as many
wives as the Sulu chief can support on
his Mckinley salary.
The prison binder twine plant at
Saltwater is being run overtime by the
management, to meet as far as possible
the increased orders Of farmers for
twine.
Speaking of ''prosperity," how many
people in Minnesota know that Phila-
delphia, where the great ratification
meeting Of the "Advance AGENT is
soon to be held, is in the throes of q
strike by over 1000 carpenters, striving
to secure moiety of increase of wages
necessary to merely live, on account of
the prevailing high trust prices of all
that they must have to live on? Per.
haps few except those who read the
Philadelphia local papers. Such is the
case, and that nearly every large city in
the country, and numberless small ones,
have such prosperity" The press dis
patches, however, very carefully SUP.
press the reports, as rule. St. Louis
street car strike of $500 men has, how
ever, filtered through the censorship
The once great Republican party,
whose administration has stricken down
the Filipino republic and spread death
and destruction throughout the Philip
pine archipelago, only % years ago
1872-declared as follows in its national
platform:
1.-THE national government should seek
to maintain honorable peace with all ma
tions, protecting its citizens everywhere
and sympathizing with all people who
strive for greater liberty"
Nnok rrv11;1o ALa - ~. =.
sainted Lincoln still hovered over his
party, and before the advent of Hanna.
McKinleyism.
And SO Montana Republicans will
prove their prosperity" by special
Pullman train to the Philadelphia con.
vention, conducted without money and
without price. AS the said gold be,
decked specials speed through the So
cent wheat regions, they will make
votes by the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the gold
standard oligarchy. See if they don't
Kind Reader-f you and I, hoping Il
reap some of the much talked Of advan
tages in Porto Rico, remove there, tn,
following are some of the tariff duties
the Minnesota citizen Of the United
States will have to pay, after he be
comes a Porto Rican citizen of tn,
same, under the Mckinley "Plai1
Duty" taxes, both export or import
and Oh wholesale prices:
Corn, 214 cents per bushel; cornmeal
8 cents per bushel; oatmeal, 8 cents Pc
bushel; oats, III cents per bushel
whisk brooms, per dozen, ! is cents
candles, ~ mill per pound; coal, i
cents per ton; cotton cloth, 8 t.
6 mills per yard, according t.
value; shirting, mills per pard; wire
% cents per 100 pounds; nails, 9 cent
per 100 pounds; wire nails, 5 cents pc
100 pounds; steel bars, $18 per ton; boot
and shoes, 81 mills on each ST.; Indi
rubber boots and shoes, "a cents O.
each 30 cents; cotton thread,~ / 81
cents on each dozen spools worth 2
cents; clocks, 6 cents on each 81; Cal
pets, 2 6-10 cents per yard valued at s
cents. dried herring, mill per pound
writing paper, $1.36 per 100 pounds
lard, cents per 100 pounds; butter,
cents per 100 pounds; beans, 6 ~
cents per bushel; household furniture
5 rs cents each 81. harness and sac
dlery, 6 7-10 cents each 81; earthenwarf
8 ITO cents on each ST.; white chin
ware, is cents on each 81; glassware
6 7-1O cents on each 81.
How we would enjoy this new "lil
erty' under the American flag fe
which we ourselves fought, or, pc,
haps, to make Porto Rico free, and
save the Union to which we have no
attached Porto Ricol G. S. o.