Willmar tribune., 1900-09-19
cOmmittal COurse-Industrial De-
precision Becoming More Marked
Forbidden Topics Among Rcpub-
licanS-Still the War Tax.
Especial Correspondence

SAAS AOpCdA liz" speculate
on its policy, where they formerly ig-
nored it,
Depew is wrong. The United States
has always been a world power since
it won its independence from the
mother country. If European nations
are now paying more attention to it's
foreign policy it is because this ad-
ministration has placed it in the class
of nations who keep standing armies
and subjugate weaker people for the
sake of holding colonial possessions.
Each one wonders how it can use the
United States to further it's own
schemes.
The president is staying at the
white house very steadily of late. He
concluded that it would not be good
politics for him to attend the G. A. R.
reunion at Chicago. The old soldiers
were offended. They wanted Com
rade Mckinley to explain to them his
new policy of imperialism and mil
itarism. Bryan told them he was
willing to trust the fortunes of the
country to brave volunteer citizens
who would always be as ready for
duty in time of danger as the veter-
ans were from 1860 to 1865.
A Sarcasm Upon Fact.
"The full dinner pail'' might be an
attractive compaign slogan for the
republicans, if it were not such
sarcasm upon fact.
The industrial depression that has
been creeping upon the country for
months is becoming more marked
every day. Through Pennsylvania
and Ohio especially, there is grow
ing record of big manufacturing
plants shut down indefinitely"
Only the man dependent upon daily
wages for a living understands the
full force of that menace. 1t means
an empty dinner pail to thousands.
Then, too, even the tin of which the
dinner pail is composed costs more
than it did four years ago on account
of trust prices. Hardly an article Of
food that goes into the dinner pail
but what is affected by trust prices.
The sugar, coffee. meat. crackers,
trust prices, and instead of a full
dinner pail, many a wage worker
carries very light one. The ad-
vances in wages in some trades by
no means compensates for the ad-
vance in prices"which seems necessary
for trust prosperity.
The administration keeps pretty
fully informed of industrial condi-
tions and grave conferences are held
at the white house daily to decide
whether a business scare might not
be better campaign argument than
that of prosperity
If the administration desires it the
trusts can easily manage a general
closing down of their plants for a
month or six weeks before election.
They can declare that the mere pos
sibility of Bryan's election has par
alyzed trade. Z.
The trusts are the more willing to
do this because nearly all have large
stocks of manufactured goods un-
sold. Prices have been put SO high
that consumption has fallen off. A
few weeks idleness would serve to
unload the accumulated stocks and
it would be an economy to dispense
with the weekly pay roll while the
workmen were being starved into vot-
ing for another four years of trust
control.
There is-ard with good reason
some doubt whether the wage work
ers will not hold out against such a
plan and vote for Bryan all the more
stubbornly, believing that unless~he
is elected now their chances of re-
sisting the trusts will be still less in
the future than at present.
Keeping the People Guessing.
McKinley's letter Of acceptance still
tarries. If prosperity" and impe-
rialism are both forbidden topics and
the free silver bogy fails to scare
anybody, it is difficult to see upon
what ground the republicans can ask
the votes of the people. - 4 ~ {,
Affairs in China are causing anx-
iety. It looks bit peculiar for
week to pass without a word from
the American commander. at Peking.
The latest rumor is not encourag-
ing. It indicates that the Chinese
have gathered in force and are be-
sieging the foreign troops in Peking.
This is an extremely dangerous state
of affairs. It is said also that the
European nations have fatty in
formed the United States that they
intend to grab territory in China and
that this country is expected to be
with them. 81. "+ IT..
The stories of our troops looting
the treasures of Pelking and attack
ing the natives in the streets sound
very much like warfare in it's most
repulsiye form. The administration
seems to have no idea except to drift
along and keep the people in ignor-
ance just as it did in the Philippine
campaign. '.ss
There is 8 strong popular feeling
that il the administration has not
already been committed to q policy
Of imperialism it would have found 9
way to rescue our citizens and have
taken our troops out Of China 30
promptly that there could be no
question Of international complica-
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