Willmar tribune., 1900-03-21

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Hennepin county, that he could win by
$4,000! The spectacle of the lovely Joe
running on q platform condemning hi!
party and excoriating the president il
amusing to say the least.
Apropos Of the Heatwole ambition
the question is where does the
great steamboat captain come in
and what are his views o.
the Porto Rico bill? Is he for thu
bill, in defiance Of the people, or will
ne run on an anti-McKinley platform
Or will Captain Van have been Sc
closely confined to his steamboating BY
that time, that he will not have hearc
OF the Porto Rican question? Maybe hf
will be visiting in Wisconsin, as he was
at the time of the pro-Boer meeting and
unable to respond.
The Mckinley dippety flop on Porte
Rico, recalls his record for inconsistency
and juggling.
Take the silver question. In con
gress and on the stump he constantly
supported silver legislation, saying in
one speech:
You are setting up gold, the money o1
tEe rlch' and you are destroying silver
the money OF the poor, you are destroying
one OF our precious metals, one of oul
| own products, destroying silver and en-
hanclng the price of gold. You are de-
termlned to contract the circulating me
dium, limit the volume of money AMONG
the people, make money scarce and there
| fore DEAR
In another he said: II want the full.
est use of both metals, I want the dou.
BILE standard"
What does he do as president?
Advocates and signs law fixing go d
as the only standard, making silve,
mere token money to be redeemed in
gold, retiring the greenbacks that saved
the nations life and cost no interest, in
fact law which changes our whole
system into perpetual gold bond debt
increasing the special privileges of the
national banks into whose hands is sur.
rendered complete control of the circu.
lating medium.
What did he say as president of the
policy OF this country toward those peo
pies which might fall under our care by
our war against Spain? He said in his
message to congress April 18th, 1898:
II speak not Of forcible annexation
for that cannot be thought of; that by
our code of morals would be crimina.
aggression"
What did Mckinley do in the Philip
pines!
He listened to the corporation siren
| whispering to him to seize those islands
| that they might have the trade and he
the glory; permitted the soldiers of the
Philippine republic fighting for indie
pendence to join with US as our allies
used Aguinaldo's leadership and means
against the Spaniards, and permitted
our soldiers then to make war of ex
termination against those allies. This
he has relentlessly followed up unit
the Filipino republic is well nigh ex
terminated, when he doubles his "crim
inal aggression" by exterminating as
bandits, Filpinos caught fighting fo1
liberty and independence.
Finally, what did Mckinley say. a.
to the status of the Porto Ricans. as K
taxation, under the benign protection O,
the flag?
He said in his message to congress.
only last December:
1.-The markets of the United State!
should be opened up to her products
| Our plain duty is to abolish all custom.
tariffs between the United States anG
Porto Rico, and give her products fret
access to our markets."
What did he do?
He had free trade bill framed fol
the committee Of ways and means
Then the American tobacco and sugar
trusts took had at the administration
bat, and 10, through his war officer Roo1
| the bill was changed to a rs per cent
duty, for which Mckinley labored anc
brow beat members for votes, and later
under the stress Of public condemnation
that reduced the rate to Is per cent
sand-bagged enough Republican mem
bers of the house to squeeze the bill
through by the aid of two renegade
sugar truster Democrats from the South
The sum total stamps William Nc
Kinley as the most vacillating, insincere
and hypocritical occupant of the White
House that has ever been called to the
head Of this sovereign people.
Governor Lind on Thursday evening
last fulfilled an honored invitation tt
address the divinity students of Aus
berg seminary, Minneapolis, in response
to the injunction to talk politics, made
by President Sverdrup, making some
very pertinent illusions to the history
Of Norway and Sweden. Those coun
tries had never been invaded and con
qucred. The governor spoke of the
Boer war, and of American sym
pathy with the Beers, bu
had to confess ourselves es
topped from saying much, considering
our course toward the Filipinos. If W.
had finished the Spanish war as we be
gan, the governor said, it would have
been one of the grandest in history
Whenever our flag stood for govern
ment without the consent Of the gov
erned," it was nothing more than rag
The dangers of militarism were com
mented en-, and the fact pointed out thai
the United States is now spending more
for armament than for bread.
Governor Lind is to deliver the ami
versary address on Norwegian day, May
II, as well as on St. Patrick day.
Much of Governor Lind's time is oc
cupied in hearing and noting complaints
against Republican off1ceholders. Th,
long drawn out case of the Itasca county
commissioners is closed. The commits
sioners resigned to escape removal. IL
| tho Hennenin c0nntv reQister If deed