Willmar tribune., 1900-01-24

u, connection with local and state
work.. His other work will cover any
part Of the whole country, and NAV
especially apply to the close congres.
sional districts. -
The Beers have shown their good
sense by firing the young son of Nc.
Kinley's secretary of state, sent as ou1
consul. Dom Paul don't intend tc
catch the British Hay fever.
The city lum bermen have given lum.
Der another hitch, making $6 or more
raise within the past few months.
Wheat keeps ''hitched" the other way,
and is lower by 5 cents than at this
time u year ago.
Don't take any stock in a ruinor now
travelling about the state, to the effect
that there will be no ice palace at the
carnival in st. Paul. There will be an
ice palace, and 10 days of real old-time
carnival fun, if the weather permits.
St. Paul. is preparing to do herself
proud and make the carnival memor.
able event in her history.
The address of Ex-Governor Boutwell,
of Massachusetts, the other day. in
which he declared that Mckinley
would fail of reelection even more
ignominiously than did Van Buren,,
suggests the close resem blance of the
two administrations in points Of weak.
nesses, Inconsistencies, turmoil. lack of
confidence and sharp antagonisms OF
large classes of people. OF Van Burens
administration historian says it was
like the definition of the parenthssis.
lit may be read in a low tone of voice.
or altogether omitted without iniuring
the sense" That will certainly apply
to McKinley's, except for some of the
crimes that will live to CRY out
against It'll
And speaking of comparisons, the
military features of the Mckinley ad-
ministration will be likened to Polks
and the Mexican War. Forced into
the rig teous war with Spain, McKln.
ley's wicked and unnecessary Philip
pine war is the counterpart of the war
with Mexico which arose in the false
claim to Coahuila, in addition to the
Texas territory. Polk gave away a
25O mile strip across our whole North
ern boundary to England because
strong, while taking weak Mexico by
the throat for the Coahuilan strip on
the Rio Grande. Polk paid Mexico
SD, 900, 900, and assumed $500, 600 of
debt, or total near to the Mckinley
figure paid Spain. Folks administra-
ton was outdone by England, as Nc
Kinley's is being "hornswaggled" by
Pauncefote and Chamberlain. Finally,
Mckinley, like Polk, will not be re-
elected, though Polk was not even re-
nominated.
The naked truth about Twin City
business conditions is that the winter
finds about the same situation as fo1
several years back. The spurt of work,
in numerous lines during the year,
makes the every day laborar in better
shape, but salaried people have less to
show for their gold standard trust year
than for long time. Salaries have
not as rule increased at all, and liv.
ing is much higher, as the trusts de-
sign. Small business concerns closed a
poor year, and so do such lines as in
surance, and agencies and commission
earners. Few large business concerns,
among retailers, are believed to have
made much, and only such as had large
stocks contracted ahead of the trust
rises. These are plain, unvarnished
facts and mono know this better than
the poorly paid writer's of the G.. o. P.
press who write the contrary.
AS to property interests they are ab'
solutely fat and lifeless. The little
building done in '99 has been cheap and
skinny, the one to three-story building