Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-04-25
determination to the assembled wisdom
at the national conventions.

determination to the assembled wisdom
at the national conventions.
Labor has practically won all de-
mands made in the Twin Cities, and all
rejoice at union successes. It is clearer
and clearer that labor will have little or
nothing except what it obtains for it.
self, and how else to get it except by
organization? It is not the builders and
masters that labor has to fortify itself
against, but the spirit that is abroad,
which has grown immensely during the
past dose Of Hanna McKinleyism, that
lebor has no more rights.that should be
respected than any other Of the
down-trodden classes and peoples The
same spirit which would crush
liberty in the Philippines and in South
Africa, would drive unionism from the
earth. It has had open exemplifcation
in Idaho. There under bayonet rule as
vicious as that which ever awed the
South, miners were required to re-.
nounce under oath membership in any
union, and secure a permit to be en-
ployed. Men were sent to the bull pen
for the mere crime of being union
miners. More than this, General Mer.
RAM made to President Mckinley the
following recommendation: Il would
suggest that law be enacted by con-
gress making such unions or kindred
societies crime; surely history fur
nishes an argument sufficiently in favor
of such a course.''
Twin City labor unions will shortly
be supplied with all the terrible facts Of
the Idaho horrors and outrages az
brought out in the congressional inves.
tigation, and therefore official. One OF
the facts shown is that the wicked
proclamation Of the governor was in
fact the product of President McKin.
ley-that the governor instead Of issu.
ing the proclamation, as he had testi.
fed, sent it in blank to the president,
who changed it and sent it back, and it
was thus issued as the president had
censored it. Another is that of the pc.
titions sent to Washington, praying for
troops to be left at Wardner, purport.
ing to be signed by some 5000 names,
were in fact bogus, and not more than
One-third of the signatures were genu-
inc, but were put on the petitions by the
wholesale signing by others Won't
labor reckon with Mckinley when the
proper time CONES?
All the machinery Of the administra.
ton has been at command to smirch
labor unions, in the Idaho investigation
and in other labor troubles. They have
been denounced as trusts, but has any
one seen hand lifted against the rea!
trusts?
And this pro- English administration
went to the subterfuge of having Hays
son cable that there are no proofs on
file at Pretoria that Macrum's mail was
censored. The world has the proofs in
the fac-similes of opened letters. Poor
Hay. It has given the whole admin.
istration the heaves.
Condemnation for Clark, but not
word against Quay. Such is goppita
Righteousness.
The wall goes out that the state Re-
publican committee is badly in need
of funds. What's the matter with
Hanna?
Young America to the fore! Fifty
messenger boys won strike in an hour
in St: Paul, and one Of their represen-
tatives is on the briny bearing resolu.
tons of sympathy from Philadelphia,
New York and Brooklyn kids to Paul
Kruger.
AS fast as those who were so preju.
diced against Mr.. Bryan in 1896 come
to know the man, and learn his real
character, they are as pleased with him
as they were formerly prejudiced. A
specimen Of this is Secretary Erying
Winslow of the Boston anti-imperial.
lists, who opposed Mr.. Bryan before,
and who now has the following to say
of him: Il want to say that consider
Mr.. Bryan one of the cleanest, sincerest,
most alert and single.hearted public
men that we have today"
There is every indication of clean.
ing out Of the St. Paul Republican ad.
ministration. The fire is specially con.
centratrated on comptroller, whose mis-
management Of the city's finances is
monumental.
The Porto Rican iniquity is consum.
mated and only one so-called Democrat
voted for it. Vale, poor Sibley. There's
not man of your former admirers in
the Northwest, to do you honor. Vale,
to the valley of Oblivion.
Congressman Fletcher voted for the
infamous rule by which it was possible
to pass the Porto Rican bill, though vot.
ing against the bill. Everybody knows
that Fletcher's party would have had
his vote for the bill, if it had been
needed.
"Pray God," said w. J. Bryan to 49,
0CO hearers at Los Angeles, "that Eng
land may not win over the Boer repub-
lies" and the throng cheered it's mighty
amen. 1t is the prayer Of the American
people. except it's trust::cursed, pro.
British administration.
Arropos, there is expectation that ex.
Secretary Davis of the interior, who lad
the manhood to resign that he might
speak for the Boer republics, will
shortly sneak in the Twin Ciies He