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Willmar tribune., 1900-10-20
Dunn's Speech
Dissected.
BY p. M. RlkGDAL,

Whenever the republican party of
Minnesota runs short of campaign
thunder it's newspapers and speakers
fall back on the legislative session of
1891. The confidence with which this
skeleton is paraded before a long
suffering public would be amusing
were it not so pitiful.
The latest victim of misplaced con-
fidence in it's efficacy is the present
most excellent state auditor. Being q
busy man, loaded down with official
cares, he did not have the time to
look up the record of his own party
during this noted session. Had he
found time to do SO, he would have
been able to tell some things which he
inadvertently left out of his speech q
short time ago. But he is straight
forward sort of man and believed
the stories told him by less .scrupul-
Gus members of his party. This led
him into the error of calling the legis-
lature of 1891 a fusion legislature. A
careful examination of the election re-
turns proves that in vast majority
of the districts of the state the alli-
ance and the democratic parties put
up separate Legislative tickets. When
the ballots had been counted it was
found that the Legislature was COM
posed of the members OF three parties
in the following proportions:
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-20

In other words: - eE<=s
S6 per cent of the republicans voted
for the bill;
43 per cent Of the democrats voted for
it; and only sES
36 per cent OF the alliance members
voted for it,.
Now the republicans say that those
who were responsible for this are not
to be trusted with the conduct of pub
lie affairs. We heartily agree with
them; they are not. Particularly is /
this true when, having cast twice as
great a proportio oftheir. votes in favor
Eof q vicious measure as was cast by
either OF the other parties they seek to-
throw the blame on those who cast q
majority OF their votes against it.
We are content to have the case in
the hands Iof an intelligent people.
They should decide 1t on its merits,
without passion and without prejudice.
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-20
WAR AND HUMAN PROGRESS.
= y - - \
BY DR.. P. NJ. MAGNUSSON.

incOnceiv able how person even with
nothing better than a common school
education and with no culture but that
of the backwoods should in civil life
so, far forget the elements of good
breeding as to inform with evident
selt-complacency the whole American
people of the interesting piece If news
that he swears. But such is the hell
ish influence of war that one short
campaign of few weeks suffices to
lower the standard of refinement and
ethics of a college graduate, civic re-
former and statesman to the level of
his stable b"y!' Please notice, the
oath might perhaps be excused or ex-
planned; the report Of it can not be.
It is plain evidence that he is not
ashamed of using profane language.
But. such is the tuition of war. If
the colonels are proud of their swear
ing, what will be the nature of the
conversation of the privates? Par
ents, how do you like the idea of hav-
ing your boys return to you, after a
few weeks of fighting, fou mouthed
with profanity? Do not rely on their
previous training, their education, or
even their instints Of refinement. Such
safeguards have failed before.
l said there were evidences OF
graver degeneration of the ideal OF
manhood in Col. Roosevelt's hook. 1t
is a bitter task to expose the weak
nesses Of ones fallen heroes: and
Col. Roosevelt was once my ideal
hero of municipal reform. Hence, I
shall be as brief as possible and refer
only to one we'll known passage in his
book:
''As they turned to run'' a party
that had just fred on the Americans }
II closed in and fired twice, missing
the first and killi' g the second" says
the colonel on page ]39 of "The
Rough Riders"
To be sure, there is nothing un-
soldierly in such c,nduct-more is the
pity. For SO barbarous is "civilized"
warfare that it permits the soldier to
shoot even the fleeing foe. The only
thing that is supposed to stop the
manslauyhter in war is surrender.
Military authorities will tell you that
it has to be so; that in the very nature
OF the case, flight is the very opposite
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-20

representing the people as giant and
the army as puny dwarf by his side.
The inference is that so big a giant as
the people need not fear the army. .. . II
The cartoon does not hit the point.
Militarism is a disease. It is not
necessary for the disease to cover the
whole body. The bullet that kills a
man need not be as big as the man.
A man seldom lives till the cancer
growth he is afflicted weighs twice as
much as himself.
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-20

of surrender. To which I reply:
Justly and truly Gen. Sherman said,
"War is hell and you cannot civilize
it," A normal civilized man simply
can not kill an antagonist who has
ceased to fight and begun to fee. You
may exhort him all you please and
tell him be has perfect right to slaugh-
ter the helpless fugitive. and he will
refuse to lower himself to g. man.
hunter. The medieval knight was a
rough and ready fellow 10 "quar-
rel,' and his scrup'es did not hinder
him from being ferocious in war; but
he did not forget his chiyalry so far
rs to kill defrnseiess. foe. Nay, not
even the fierce viking would have con-
descended to- such butchers work as
telling him who fees. We must 20
back to TO the head-hunters of Borneo
to find tribe whose everyday moral
ity justities such action. And still if
you are 4 soldier in a "civilized''
army, you are expected to slaughter
fleeing humanity. Truly "war is
hell.'' O. oc' .,..y =.
If, however, a warriors sense of
duty is SO strong that in spite of his
chivalrous INSTINCTS he did do his re-
quired man butcheripg, then one
would expect that such an act would
never be referred to again, except as a
hideous memory that had better be
forgot. But no. The incident is re-
ferred to with pride, it is discussed
with brother officers with as much un-
concern as if the thing shot had been
q clay pigeon; and finally, months
after, the whole story is set into cold
print without the least apology or ex-
PLANTATION, as if it were pleasant busi-
ness to L i'll one's enemies however one
finds them, fighting or fleeing sz 5@
Bitter indeed 1t: is that thus war
shall be allowed to debase aud de-
grade the etand ards of virtue and
manhood. Through slow and painful
centuries the hum an spirit has refined
away much 81 the coarseness, vul ar
ity and bestiality Of primitive man.
Human life and the human person
have been surrounded with q wall Of
protective sanctity, and the murderous
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-20

1t will be seen, at a glance, that
neither party had majority of the
votes, but, that the republicans had a
plurality. Whatever legislation was
passed, therefore, the different parties
were responsible for in proportion to
their votes s-provided, they all voted
solidly for it. But, if one party cast
a larger proportion of its vote for a
given measure than was cast for it by
the other parties, it increased its re-
sponsibility just that much.
While he was on the subject of ex-
travagance the Auditor should have
gone into the matter of the general
appropriation bill. This would have
afforded him a wide field for explora-
tions; and, being fair minded man,
he would have given the people the re-
suit of his. discoveries. Beside the
facts above, stated, as to the numerical
strength of the different parties, he
would have been able to tell of the
following items OF deficiency from the
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-20

year D61Orc:
Wolf bounty 8 100000
Reformatury. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. l233325
State Agricultural society .......... 20ONO.OO
Supreme court (salaries) ............. a, 1853 81
Printing Observation-Disclosures. 4OnO0,OO
State prison. Observation-Disclosures. 100 N,ff
MankatO normal school .............. 5OGN.O0
St. Cloud normal school 80. ......... 3,G'0O0
Capitol repairs Observation-Disclosures. 3.:WO00
H. w. ChildS (Atry Gen'ls Officej... 575 90
Insurance commissioner. 1,OAl0O
Auditors clerks. Observation-Disclosures. $500
Secretary of state lMattson)..... :. 423 so
Total. .............. ... SlGl9l921
The republican party had this much
the start of the other~two parties in re-
sponsibility for appropriation at the
outset. It increased this responsibility
considerably by helping 10 load down
the appropriation bill with unnecessary
large current appropriations. One of
the republican members in discussing
an appropriation on the floor of the
Senate in 1895 said, in reply to the
arguments of an opposition member:
''It is good politics for the Senator
from -- to help load down this bill
with large appropriations: that is what
we (the republicans) did in 1891" .
After the bill had been "loaded, as
the gentleman termed it, it was put
upon its final passage. The vote stood
as follows: IA
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-20

meut of ideals, the distortion of the
whole mental perspective, and the de-
generation Of a true manhood that in
variab]y are the results of war.
What, Then, Must We Do7
First Of all, We must ''quit our
m-apness. We must decide to do
justice to the Filipino, the, Porto Ri
can, aud the Cuban. Simple justice.
Precisely what we would do it these
peoples were as powerful as we are.
We must stop lusting after other
peoples property. We must cease
f: ::'criminal aggression" We must do
''our plain duty Let us do this; let
US follow the golden rule and obey
the Declarstion of Independence, and
we shall not be sble to find . people
on the face Of the earth to fight.
Then our army will. do, no man
slaughtering. Il will no longer be
the deadly corruption which fight
ing army must be. We c,an then be-
gin to purify curse .ves oace more
from the corruption Of var: and IN the
near future. let us hope, the time will
come when America, the country OF
peace, shall have developed and
taught the world q nober standard Of
puhlic morals than the present bar
barousa laws Of the Jungle that regu-
late our foreign policy. Then, and
not Il |. then, can we truly say that our W
nation is e
y IN the foremost ranks Of time. sss
As . postscript, let us notice q car
toon published by the "other fellow
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-20

tar1sm allow! 1t says: 10 ahead,
murder twenty Thousand of the enemy
and forty thousand of thy own kin.
Make one hundred thousand widows
and orphans, stab two nations to death,
spread all devastation that two humid
red and forty thousand trained men
can do over a continent-and then
Shall not the assassin be Stunned by
every nation on the globe?' Oh no!
Not one dares even to lift an eyebrow
in criticism. For there is not one that
would not have done the same thing.
Every nation is robber and a pirate.
Every nation is brutally selfish. Why?
We adore militarism. Militarism has
kept us as rat ons on the debased and
brutal level Of the savage and the
wolf. There can be no true advance in
international morality till we, over.
come militarism.
Before the war with Spain broke out
we were slowly recovering from this
ancient disease. Our historians be-.
came saner on the subj ect. We cele-
.brated the ami versaries 81 fewer bat.,
ties and ghters th an any Other
nation. We were the nation Of peace.
With us the uniform was not adored,
tor the simple reason that most Of us
had never seen . uni form. We really
began to forge that killing 5peo-s
pie was still q permitted and honnred
profession Our army was. looked
upon rather as q police force Than .as.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-02
The Cause of Free Silver.
GOLD, NOT LIBERTY.


Many times since the beginning OF
Great Britain's brutal and greed-in-
sp6ed war upon the two little repub-
lies the pretext that the course was
taken by the empire to protect the
%uitlanders from oppression and secur
their rights has been made, and was
again reiterated in Salisbury's reply
to the Boer appeal for peace. This
pretext, says the Illinois State Jour
nal, has been shattered time and
again, but nowhere more convincing
" than in the message of John Dill
Ion, the Irish parliamentary leader.
sent to the Marquette club of Kan
sas City, to be read at its annual ban
quet.
As stated by the Times, of Kansas
City, Mr.. Dillon cites in particular one
incontestable fact showing that, al
though England, through the lip serv-
ice of Colonial Secretary Chamber
lain. constituted herself "the cham
pion of the uitlanders'-yet, side by
side with the burghers fighting to
keep back the British invaders are
found these same uitlanders-Ger-
mans, 1rishmen, Frenchmen, Belglans
and even Englishmen.
This stubborn fact scatters to the
four winds Great Britain's pharisaic
pretext. Greed, infamous, detestable.
ssA destroying, liberty numbering
greed. is the root and inspiration of
this infamous war. 1t is the Beers
gold mines England is after, and she
Will put them into the nav of her
syndicates, no matter if the butchery
Of every one of $1,000 freemen and pa
triots that stand in her way must be
done in the accomplishment Of her
purpose.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-02
THE TRUE RING.
Bryan Puts the Money Question Fore
most Among the Issues which
divide Public Attention.

There are three important questions
which now divide public attention
The money question; the trust ques
ton; Imperialism. :.
The republican party is on the de-
fensive of all of them. Under the whip
of the f~inanciers it has taken another
step towards the gold standard, has
turned over the control of our paper
money to the national banks and has
reduced the tax on national banks,
while the people at large still labor
under the burden of war taxes.
The trusts are rioting in power, and
the republican party dares not to in
terfere with them for fear campaign
| contributions will be withheld.
The corporations have driven the re-
| publican leaders into the imperial pol
icy which repudiates every principle
set forth in the Declaration Of lndepen-
dence. and they have compelled a re-
publican house of representatives. to
separate the flag from the constitu-
tion.-W. j. Bryan, in Los Angeles Her
aid.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-02
THE DANGER.
A D~eep-LaId Conspiracy TO Fool the
People In 10 Believing the Money
Question Settled

1t should be borne in mind that the
money question is not settled, although
a law is now on the statute books es-
tablishing the single gold standard IA
placing the control of the volume or
currency in the hands of the national
banks. We are in the same condition
we were before, so far as a ina settle
ment of the question is concerned.
What has been done by the present
congress may be undoIe by a future
congress, should the people sc Wilt.
The republican managers are now
using every effort to convince the peo-
pie that the question is finally settled
in order to prevent them from making
any effort to unsettle il. should Mr..
Bryan be defeated for denomination, or
should silver be abandoned in the Kan
sas City platform, it would be good evil
| dence OF the acceptance of the single
! gold standard by the democracy and
then, indeed, no attempt to change 1t
would be made in years. Such being
the case, the gold men of both parties
have only to defeat Mr.. Bryan and to
defeat a positive silver declaration in
the national democratic platform in
order to firmly establish the single
gold standard upon the country. That
they will endeavor 10 do this is GER
tain, and republican money will DO
used freely to hat end.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-02
OPPOSITION.

1.-THE table shows a possible major
ity of only two for gold, over oppo-
sition votes, including Kyle, who has
declared his position by vote upon h
Porto Rican amendment. If the
states of Illinois and New Jersey,
which went democratic in 1892, should
happen to elect democratic legisla-
lures this fall, the small majority for
gold might be reversed. And when
the analysis is carried into the class
of senator's retiring in 1908, 1t Will
be found that Deboe, of Kentucky;
Kyle, of South Dakota; Pritchard, OF
North Carolina, and Wellington, OF
Maryland, with others in less doubt
full states, will retire, possibly to
make way for men of opposite politi-
cal faith and bound by chains of par
ty regularity, further decreasing the
strength of the gold men in that
event"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-02

We accept the wager of battle. We
are willing to enter the arena OF ma
tional politics in 1900 and go to the
country and before the people upon
the issue which the people will raise
upon this bill. The gentleman from
Iowa (Mr. Dolliver) referred to the
first battle of the standards in 1896 IN
terms of derision. He laughs best
who laughs last" and the gentleman
from Iowa had best await the decision
at the ballot box in 190o-the second
battle-which will be waged then
Congressman Charles r. Thomas, OF
| North Carolina.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-02

am glad the issue has at last been
made. 1 am glad TO know that the
republican party has made its last
running retreat: that they have taken
their true stand on the financial ques-
ton. hoisted their flag the colors OF
which cannot now be changed, and
that they must leave it to be upheld
or hauled down by the American peo-
pie in 1900. y 1 am glad that
the issue is boiled down to its last
analysis and that the question has
been made whether this government
shall adopt the single gold standard.
pure and simple, or not. l invite the
issue and willingly submit it to the
American people.-Congressman Eli
| jah B. Lewis, of Georgia.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-02

The republicans are fond of saying
that the money question is settled.
Yes, it is settled, just like the tariff
question is settled, like the foreign
policy is settled, like the army ques-
ton is settled, like the Porto Rican
question is settled, like the rule of
the trusts is settled, like Imperialism
is settled, like all the iniquities perpe-
trated by republican legislators are
settled, or to sum it all up, like the
rule of Mark Hanna is settled. The
next election will show them that
several things are still far from be
ing settled.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-02
BATTLE OF THE STANDARDS.
The Fight for an Equitable and sound
Currency by No Means Over-si&-
nincant T~abuIation.

"Money" is the title of a ''nonparti-
san" magazine, which is strictly a
gold organ, and consequently a strong
supporter of the republican party,
OF course Money" is pleased with
the gold legislation which has been
forced through by the republican ad-
ministration, but it does not believe
that the question has been settled for
all time.
Indeed, Raymond E. Dodge, writing
for Money, is not at all sure hat the
battle Of the standards has been set
tied in favor of gold for even four
years.
Apropos of this view, Mt. Dodge
says:
Republican leaders have frequent
" claimed that in the event of the
election of a free silver president and
| house of representatives, the senate
would be safe for four years to come
l am unable to discover any grounds
for their confidence, nor for the claim
that the gold men will have a major
ity in 1901; certainly not in 1903, un
less prompt action be taken to repair
the weak spots in republican lines
Optimism upon the part of the lead
ers of the party in power may b'
pardonable in debate, but not in pc
litical calculations, and it may be wei
to consider the conditions unde'
which the complexion of the senat'
may be affected by the results of tn
coming campaign.
judging by past votes upon tn
money question, and the results o
the election of 1892, the necessity TO
active work and prompt action Wi
be noted in the following table;
neutrality-suspicious. OF THE sen
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-02
A PATHETIC TRIFLE.
Dire Little Chip on the River Of Life
That FIonted Out with
the Tide.

Occasionally newspaper men are
serious. a few evenings since several
Of the craft were discussing their ex-
p~erience while serving on the police
detail, and each had recounted what
he considered the most pathetic pro-
fessional incident in his career.
All had witnessed catastrophes and
heart-breaking sights, and the sad
rending of family ties; scenes calcu-
lated to arouse the sympathetic emo
tons, even though n may, by con-
slant association, become profession
ally Indifferent, says the Washington
Star.
Here is the shortest story told:
81 have seen my share of human
suffering and heartaches," said a west
ern man, "of blood and manglsd limbs
and bodies. Some years ago ! looked
after the police and hospital for my
paper in a city thai is a railroad cen
ter and terminus, and which had sew
eral large powder mills near by that
appeared to be continually blowing
up their workmen.
81 have forgotten these pictures OF
human distress and misery; put out
of my mind, pretty much, all save this
one. 1 was in the receiving hospital
when the telephone from the city hall
rang up the steward to say that the
patrol wagon had gone down to the
railroad yard to bring up the body OF
a man who had been run over by the
cars. This was such an ordinary oc-
currence at the numerous grade cross
ings in the city that it excited no com
ment, save that the chief visiting sur
geon asked me to wait until the case
had been examined, and he would
then walk uptown with me.
at was nearly midnight. In a few
minutes the patrol wagon ratified VI
the silent street. and, as / was com
fortably seated before the fire in tn
: stewards room, I didn't rise to go a
once into the operating room, an I'm
pleasant, notwithstanding place a
, best.
81 o heard my name called an
. prepared myself for the usual dis
. tressing sight of suffering humanity
"The urgeo stood beside tn
I couch WlpiuS INC SOdi uuSe iiOhi -"
q victims face with a soft sponge.
8 "There lay the body of a little DO,
O. a bootblack, with the strap of hi
backing box still about his shoulders
II q poor little boy not over ten yeal
of age, his white features fast Sc
Ting i'll the mold of death, his fra
: frame n mass of broken bones whic
:. the hard car wheels had crushed oil
of shape. But his face was untouche
save by a few scratches, and he locke
as if he were asleep; tired and veal
N from the buffeting and kicks OF
a world which to him must have know
v no joys-only pain, hunger, sutferir
n and sorrow. A poor, homeless, paren
:, less, friendless little stranger, g.
:. alone knowing from where he hi
:, drifted, with not even so much as
., penny in his rags; to be borne alol
by the tide of life, a nameless chip
the eddies, so suddenly and so soon
find a resting place in a paupe
ed grave miles away from his home,
oe indeed, he had ever known such
i, place.
N. "As the surgeon and 1 walked
oh the quiet street that night we did L
feel like talking"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-02
In,eIIigrnt sentiment.

The republican party declares for
no principle, but simply asserts itself
as devoted to a particular metal as
the source from which money shall be
made, regardless of its insuficiency
In production to meet the increasing
wants of the world. Against such a
declaration the intelligent sentiment
of the country will yet protest in
terms that will be unmistakable.-
| Congressman Francis G, Newlands, o.
! Nevada
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-02
A vital PrincipIe,

1t (%silver) must be crucifed afresh.
Dead men tell no tales. Fear you a
resurrection? Entomb it if you will,
mount your guards, station your sol
diers. but know we that your custody
of it will be temporary and that BIZ
metallism, the vital principle it repre-
sents, will live again, and know fur
Their that for what you do now you
shall yet be brought to Judgment.
Congressman S. w. T. Lanham, OF
Texas.