The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-09-27

that prosperity has been restored to .
degree that is fair. reasonable and, to
me, satisfactory. I see men getting
better wages than they had before for
thirty years. / see the land values Of
1891 restored. and more than restored,
so that II the farmer cannot make his
farm pay interest on the investment he
can dispose of 1t for good price and
turn to something else. see plenty Of
money at a lower rate of interest than
1t has ever been before in Kandiyohi
county. I see industry, contentment
and progress on every hand. And for
one am not critical as to how this re-
newed prosperity was brought about.
am quite satisfied that 1t has re-
turned, apparently to stay.
$50 feel 1t my duty as a citizen to
vote to continue present conditions:
and, so far as can see, can only do
SO by voting the Republican ticket.
"Ai this talk about militarism and
imperialism cuts no ice with me. This
bogy of Imperialism is too far-fetched
to be seriously considered. And IL we
have to-day some more taxes, war
taxes. IL you like, what do we common
people care so long as we can do busi-.
ness and out Of the earnings pay the
taxes and still have a fair prosperity
margin left? ~
1--WE have got the Philippines. and
we viii keep them: and / believe the
American people will do justice to
them in any event. But I believe 1t II
poor policy to change administrations
at this critical point when we are just
in the process OF settlement Of the
question. But even IL did not ap-
prove OF everything that the admins
tration has done, / should still feel 1t
my duty to stand by 1t through such 9
crisis as this Philippine muddle. It Is
very easy to sit on an empty barrel az
the corner grocery and howl about
Emperor Mckinley and all that sort
OF thing. It is very easy for the DEM
opop spell-binders to get up on the
platform and solve the whole Philippine
question by wave of the hand and a
hurrah for Bryan. But 1t is kuite an
other thing to solve 1t in actual reality.
For my part am willing to trust that
to Mckinley and Mark Hanna, rather
than to Bryan, Boss Croker and Arkan-
saw Jones.
y,
president he would be tied hand and
foot on one side to Boss Croker, the
Tammany plutocrat and trust magnate.
and on the other to Arkansaw Jones,
the Southern aristocrat. And the trio
would walk boldly over, not only the
rights and liberties of both black and
white on this continent. but would
most likely deed the Philippines to the
amalgamated ice trust of Croker, Agu-
inaldo & Co.
What do think about John Lind?
Well, I am free to say that cannot
approve of the political methods Of
John Lind as have seen them devel-
oped during the last four years, though
I confess that I have entertained the
greatest respect for his intellectually
and apparent earnestness. In 1896
hailed with delight his advent into So
called Independent politics. But as the
real spirit of Populism was overridden
and taken control of by certain class
of Democratic politicians, and as from
time to time it became evident that
John Lind was hand in hand with
them, simply and solely, as now be-
lieve, to build up Democratic political
machine in this state, I of course lost
my faith In HIS political program, what
ever respect I may still entertain for
him personally. Let me explain:
"In 1896 the Peoples party of Mime
sofa stood, at the beginning of the
as the second party in the
state. Our party organization then
represented vast amount of brain and
Drawn and money and potent energy
hat hod o~f to-
tically contributed by individual and
united efforts of Populists all over the
state. Men who work up such a party
as the Peoples party was in 1896 form
a sort of comradeship, united and
cemented by fraternal ties. Our party
extended to every county
and election precinct in the state. and
had already given hundreds of county
offices to men within our ranks.
I'm 1894 the Peoples party had fought
In deadly combat with the Democratic
party for second place among the polit-
ical parties in the state and come out
victorious. At the beginning of the
of 1896 the odds were all in
our favor. 1t was moral certainty
that If the Peoples party were let alone
in this state during another campaign
1t would practically assume the rank
of second party for good. And this was
the case in other Western and North
western states:
s'.ro save themselves and their party
from extinction by Populism the Dem
ocratic leaders got up the scheme Of
fusion. They pretended to reform their
party to suit the Populists, brought
out Bryan, the Demo Pop, to serve as a
bait, ana secured the cooperation of
certain leading Populists In chopping
up the Peoples party into mincemeat
to be fed into the lean carcass Of the
Democratic donkey. In this state how
ever, there were serious difficulties to
overcome In getting the Populfst meat
into the belly OF the donkey, because a
large ma iority OF the Populists had
formerly been lifelong Republicans
and still retained their prejudices
against the Democratic party.
'Tn this dilemma the Democratic
leaders got up the brilliant idea of a
free silver Republican party, sort of
political mongrel, triple cross be-
tween the cattle, elephant and donkey
species, to act as a medium through
which the Populists of Republican an
tecedents might be led into the Demo-
cratic fold Charles A. Towne OF Du-
luth and John Lind of New Tim were
selected as star performers in the