Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07

Tho Outlook Discouraging to the British
Party in Africa, England and America,
and Especially to the British Party in
Minnesota Solid Liberty" Senti-
ment IL Against the G. o. P.-van SAINT
and His ''Waterloo'-"He That Is Not
For Me Is Against Me"-McKinley and
British aggression" One and the Same
Thing-State Note and Comment of tho
Week.
Reform Press Bureau,
St. Paul, Jan. 20, 1900.
At the moment Of writing this Spion
Kop is q good point Of observation from
which to view the situation political in
Minnesota, affording as it does oppor-
tunity for looking into the Boer en-
trenchments on the heights beyond, or
down towards the Tugela whence the
British have come on their arduous
journey into Republican Ladysmithl
according as the view is pro-Boer or
pro- British! The Spion Kop of state
and national politics!
It is surprising how rapidly develop.
ments are placing those of all parties
who favor liberty and sef-government
regardless Of what part of the world the
case is in, or with what nations. or peo-
pies on the one side, and the Tories and
friends of Imperialism on the other; and
how Democrats, Populists and independ.
ents are to a man with the one, while the
small numbers in the other are almost to
a man Of the G. O. p. persuasion!
The Twin City Pro- Boer meetings
have disclosed this. tits true that when
the St. Paul meeting was held in which
several thousand people participated,
Republicans were present, some, like
ex-Attorney General Moses E. Clapp,
taking prominent part. But as it has
been more and more clear to what ex'
tent the Mckinley administration is tied
up with England, gradually prominent
Republicans, as if having received the
cue SO to do from Hanna or his under.
ings, have withdrawn from all anti.
English movements. Thus the promo
ters Of the Minneapolis Boer meetings,
who especially aimed to keep partisan
politics out, extending earnest in
vitations to prominent Repubi.
cans to take an active part, found
it impossible to secure active Repub.
icans for speakers, even after it was
known that Ex-Governor Altgeld would
be unable to be present. Ex-Candidate
Eustis formally declined the invitation
to speak, while would-be candidate Van
SAINT found it convenient to be out of
the state. So with Bob Evans, and not
only Republicans generally declined or
lodged, but the Republican press sought
every means for discouraging the
meetings.
How have the mighty fallen, when
Republican speakers refuse invitations
to meetings whose sole purpose is to
commend struggle for liberty, or pos
sibly to condemn those who would stihe
it, and destroy two republics? When,
in these degenerate days, a Re-
publican administration of America
is itself conducting war against lib
erty, also in distant lands, and has itself
destroyed a republic?
And gazing from that same Spion Kop
may it not be regarded as deeply signii-
cant that "Waterloo" is the name of the
town to which Van SAINT is said to have
lo
Boer invitation? Is the ''iberty" ques-
ton to be that on which Captain Van
SAINT shall meet his "Waterloo?'' We
shall soon see.
Referring to the recent report of the
state bureau as to wages, we find that the
bureau gathered no details for a COM
parison as to increase or decrease, ex.
cept upon two industries, lumber and
iron ore production, finding in those
cases that there had been an increase OF
8 or 10 per cent. Of course this is prac.
tically nothing, compar ed with the boost
Of living, and as to profits Of the lumber
men and mine barons, considering the
arbitrary boosts they have given lu-n.
Der and ore. The wage scale, on the
average for all Minnesota is distressing
~ low. Sixty-tive per cent Of male en-
ployes in the whole state receive under
*12 per week, and the average pay Of
the largest number Of women is between
f6 and ~ week. In all Minneapolis
and St. Paul but seven women were
found receiving over 500 a week, while
in the same cities 1856 females are paid
less than 50 per week!
And, speaking of business and 'spros
perity," besides the closing of the flou1
mills, the largest farm machinery con.
Germ at Minneapolis is closed by strike
for more wages, the men showing in
their statement that they were promised
more if Mckinley was elected, and that
instead they have taken reductions
every little while since 1896. Here arr
some men that will not be marching in
the G. O. P. "peroot" this year.
Hanna is making ready for next year..
campaign, and at Cleveland is fitting ur
secret rooms, where, in an immense
building. he can receive the leg pullers
and dispense the campaign millions UNI
disturbed. 4~~~> -.
Other signs of Hanna eruptions art
that mud volcanoes are commencing te
sprout in California;! =
The Tri-State Grain Growers associa
ton chose Hon. E. w. Randall for it,
pre- ident, the association, as well as tn,
Minnesota Agricultural society, know
ing good thing. s,+'
No stronger approval Of %Inspecto,