Willmar tribune., 1900-11-02

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Oil syndicate, the company that is
rapidly absorbing line after line of
industry and crushing competition, the
company that has in the last year
squeezed out of the American people
profits amounting to almost the
entire capital of the company, the
soulless corporations at whose behest
the miners union of Idaho was
crushed by the military power of the
United States; the company that has
had the free use of millions of dollars
of the United States funds. There
we find Andrew Carnegie, the iron
king, the inveterate foe of labor
unions, the man who feeced Uncle
Sam out of immense sums for worth
less armor plate. These men, and
their brethren in the faith are solidly
arrayed on the side of the republican
party. These men in themselves
would not make formidable party if
the citizens could tear themselves
loose from party prejudices and vote
for their own interests. When you
come to vote ask yourself if your
interests are the same as those of
Morgan. Rockefeller, Carnegie and
others who have in few short years
amassed wealth that represents the
unrequieted toll of millions of workers.
Those men look out for their interests.
They are republicans because during
the last forty years that has been the
strongest party. They are bound by
no scruple of conscience. They have
by liberal use of money obtained
control of the party machinery. Now
why not look out for your own inter-
ests for once, and cease to be newer
of wood and drawer of water for the
corporations? You owe it as q duty
to yourself, your children and your
country to try to free the government
from the clutches of those men. But
there is deeper reason why you
should for this once disregard past
party ties and vote against the ad-
The richness of our
country is such that for long period
yet many of the people may be fairly
prosperous. in spite of corporation
extortious. But no country can
afford to depart from the path of
justice. There is an immutable law
in this world that "Whatsoever
man soweth that shall he also reap,"
and this applies to nations as we'll as
to individuals. The nation that
undertakes to govern another by
brute force will come toworship force,
display and legalized murder,
it will lose it's finest sense of justice
and duty; it will cease to guard jeal-
ously it's precious heritage of selfgov-
ernment, and finally fall prey to the
army that it has used to conquer
other people.
"The mills of the gods grind slowly
But they grind exceeding fne.''
Only on the foundation of justice to
all, inside and outside OF it's bounda-
ries can nation be firmly builded.
We are in danger of rearing our gov
ernmental structure on the quicksands
OF force and injustice, which will sure
ly open and swallow anything built
thereon. If you believe in justice, if
you desire to head the command of
the Great Master, "Whatsoever you
would that others do unto you do even
SO to them," if you wish to see this
nation guard and respect liberty in
every land-then vote against "crim-
inal aggression" and it's avowed
advocates, William Mckinley
If you believe in the Declaration OF
Independence; if you think that liberty
is q God-given right of every human
being; ifyou believe that government
derive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed;;" if you believe
that Washington and his brave sold
iers were right in fighting for that
principle; if you feel that the hun
dreds Of thousands of men who sacri-
feed their lives that this nation and
liberty might live, we're right-then
Vote for Bryan.
If you believe in industrial liberty;
it you think that every man is en-
titled to enjoy the products of his Ia
Dor; II you think that combinations
that restrict production and raise
prices so as to hinder the toiling mas
ses from buying anything but the bar
est necessities of life; If you believe
that few men ought not to have the
power to dictate how much shall be
produced of any article and what the
price shall be; if you are opposed to
industrial slavery in every form, then
Vote for Bryan.
If you are opposed to brutal and
unnecessary wars; if you are opposed