Willmar tribune., 1900-05-30
articles upon current politics would
not cover some Of the points he raises.
"What the doctor SAYS about the

w Aab tne QOctOr says ABOUT the
defeat of Mr.. Ringdal is astounding.
l.most sincerely hope it is not true,
but of course cannot prove that it is
not. I admit that Mr.. Ringdal's vote
surprised me, but never suspected it
was the resultsof treachery or COR
rupt bargain The moment he was
defeated I knew he would likely receive
the appointment of railroad commits
sioner. don't doubt it was so be-
lieved by all interested people. The
fact that he was appointed affords no
proof or presumption that it was ar
ranged beforehand. decline to be ieve
it on such evidence as the doctor gives,
and don't accuse the doctor of UTTER
ing anything but the truth, either.
However, if it is true hope it will he
made bare and public. I abominate
deals of that kind, even as 1 do the
devil.
81 hardly understand the doctor in
the following sentence: Eddy will be
elected, and if vote at all shall vote
directly for him, and not by proxy, as
I did two years ago.
~ know one can vote Indirectly for
another, but don't see how he could
vote by proxy. There is sort of
proxy in our way of voting for presi-
dent and United States senator's, but
not in that of representative. BY vot-
ing for third candidate we may cast
half vote for the first one, and
that is precisely what am warning
my mid-road friends against.
II want to see solid vote by solid
opposition cast against the party in
power, including Mr.. Eddy. I shall
not vote for him either directly, indi-
rectly or by proxy.
"The last thing I wish to notice of
the 1octor's remarks is that which re-
lates to Imperialism. The doctor is
hardly fair in the argument he makes
to show that the Republicans are less
imperialistic than we who profess to
be against it.
"No one regrets more than I the
fact of race prejudice which exists in
the South. 1t is deep seated and al
most, if notquite, ineradicable. Thirty
odd years Of negro freedom seems not
to have abated it a jot. I don't doubt
that Senator Jones has it just like the
rest of them. I don't suppose that Sen.
ator Hanna has much of that race
feeling which so dominates the white
people of the South. The situation,
from my standpoint, is deplorable to
the extreme. All this is an unanswer-
able argument against our engender-
ing corresponding state of things on
the other side of the world. We have
the negroes and we haYe the white
men, and we have the race feeling in
our own country, and no statesman,
no philosopher, no theologian, has
yet been able to show us how to dea]
with it or how to eradicate it. Is il
not criminal, is it not hellish, to be
engaged as nation in war that
must produce the same state of things
in the Philippine Islands? It is HARD
to hold ones temper when one thinks
about it. Now, doctor, don't confound
race prejudice with Imperialism. They
are two separate and distinct things
Jones is an anti-1mperialist and so an
l, and no doubt you are, and you only
confuse people by that kind of logic
"The experience we have had in this
country with inferior races ought tc
convince anybody outside of the insane
asylum that we should have no govern.
mental authority over or responsible.
ity for the inferior races beyond our
harbors. Don't forget that we were
once a magnificent republic. We are
now an inferior empire. And the oppo.
sition to such state of things is frit-
tering away it's time and strength over
names-just names. T. C. H."