Willmar tribune., 1900-10-24
to fight it. First, by trying to dehorn
it by getting competition from foreign

to fight it. First, by trying to dehorn
it by getting competition from foreign
countries. Free trade in their lines
will bring them to time. If we can't
get free trade we will have to kill the
bull. We will make laws that will
stop the trusts. That, am afraid,
will be hard to do, because it may
come in conflict with the United States
laws. But something must be done.
and Bryan has promised to help, and
that is the main reason why we this
year will vote for Bryan. If he can
not, or will not, stand to his promises,
time will show it. The doctor has not
judgment enough to decide that today.
When the doctor says that John
Lind is an able and earnest man, he
only states what almost every repub-
lican believes, and what we all know.
But when the doctor criticises John
Lind 8 actions, it seems to me the doc
tor is out of the way. His repetition
of last years politics was unneces-
sary, because everybody knows it,
and we all can judge for ourselves.
The doctors illustration of the mince-
meat-fed donkey is very funny. I did
not know anything about that at all,
but as the doctor says so, I suppose
it must be true. I suppose he has
been chopped up, fed to the donkey
and digested, as understand he talks
from experience. Bat if he had said
that the cross of animals he mentions
had brought forth strong and stout
demo.pop mule to kick and kill ths
trust monster, we would have cried,s.
"Hurrah for the doctor! he's all
right!''
Now, the last and, in the doctors
eyes, not the least charge against the
Lind administration, namely, The
blunder, if we can call it that, of the
manager of the Saltwater twine
factory, is simply a result of trust
manipulation. They could not get the
state factory to combine with them, so
they started the rumor that twine
would go up to 20 and 25 celts q
pound before harvest. The manager,
anxious to secure sisal enough so he
could meet the demand for twine,
bought a lot of sisal and paid so much
for it that he could not sell the twine
for the price that the private COM
panies sold their twine at near hcr-
vest. That was where the trouble.
came in. Well, all the farmers were
exposed to the same scheme. Nine out
of ten farmers believed the story that
twine would be very high, and secured
their twine nearly six months before
they could use it, consequently they
paid from one-fourth to one-third
more than they could have purchased
it for at harvest time.
For my part I did not for a moment
believe in their generosity, because
thought they would not be so anxious
to get the twine sold in the winter if
they thought they could make a
fortune by keeping it few months.
Instead of paying IA or Is cents, as
most farmers did, I paid only II cents.
Thus we see plain enough the result of
the trust operations. They are rob-
bing the farmers and trying to bring
the state twine factory into disrepute.
And it looks as though they are try
ing to rob our earnest governor OF
the honor that is his due. Anybody
who likes to be robbed, and thinks he
cannot keep up his dignity unless he
kisses the hands Of trust protectors,
may do SOL will not.
Well, think I must stop. People
will ge1 tired. I am, yours truly,
II. ANDR. LOBNTTz.
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