Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-07-25
MORE REORGANIZATION.
Perhaps That Is What This Country
Needs to Start Up Its Idle
industries,

In these gold standard times in the
United States when under the benign
reign of Hanna and Mckinley the
trusts have full swing and are shut
ting up industries all over the land
and throwing workingmen and en-
ployes of all kinds out of employment,
it is extremely aggravating to find
such dispatches as the following from
the City of Mexico:
''Statistics showing great gains in
Mexico trade and revenues have been
published. In Is years the gold value
of imports has risen from 1928 $50, 900
annually to $51 100000 The exports,
which are reckoned on a silver basis,
have risen from $46,725, 900 to $;4s,-
0O0, 0CO. The stamp revenues increased
from $4,774, 900 to $23.25O,O0O. The to-
tai federal revenue has risen from
1897 ,621 1000 to $50, 275 1000. The number
of pieces of postal matter has in
creased from 100000 to Ill, 452 ,Ooa.
''The federal telegraph lines IS years
ago were 1858 kilometers in extent,
and now number 70,103 kilometers.
The railway lines have increased
from total extent of sos kilometers
to 1881, and the construction of new
lines is actively progressing. The num-
Der of ships and steamers entering
federal ports has increased from 1859
to $500. The number of railroad pas
sengers annually transported has risen
from 2,075, O00to 100000. The treasury
department now meets every bill as
soon as due and the revenues are
steadily increasing.
Boston parties are looking over the
field for the introduction of shoe man
ufacturing on the American plan and
establishing tanneries.''
Mexico, as a nation. is abhorred by
all goldites for it's "free silver insar-
ity'' and wickedness 1t is. therefore,
as we have said, aggravating to find
| that the people there are not going to
the ''demnition bow-wows' by the
most rapid route. According to all the
rules of goldite philosophy the bust
ness of Mexico ought to be in a most
| deplorable condition. But instead OF
| that we find that even Boston goldite
capitalists are looking with longing
eyes at the free silver prosperity that
prevails across the Rio Grande, and
are preparing to establish business
| enterprises there! Is not this con-
fession of absolute idiocy on their
| part, with a vengeance? Are they
| going to throw their wealth into the
| free silver vortex and have it "Mexi.
canized," when the gold standard has
just been firmly fixed in the saddle
here? Why not locate their shoe fac
tories and tanneries in gold standard
Illinois? Here in Springfield, under
the ''showers of blessings" of that
standard. we have the rolling mill. the
furniture factory and other plants
suitable for tanneries and shoe fac
tories, that are closed up, and that
can be bought for song. There is la
Dor galore lying around loose that
would like to have steady employment
at low wages. Why do not these Bos-
ton moneyed men look favorably at
the Illinois field? But, as they don't
why not "Mexicanize" Illinois a lit
tie? Perhaps INSTRUMENTATION is
what we need here to starr up our
idle industries and attract capital.
Prosperity under free silver seems to
be Astounding. Give us some of that
Mexicanization. We need it badly
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