Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-07
P0|aieQ| Philosophy by lin. cIiekdts:
THE SKURMISH LINE,

z* THE sKURMISH LINE.
"Jimminny," sed my friend Theop.
ph1lius to me the other day as we waz
setting arownd the stoav smoaking
owr reggeler eavening pipe, 'don't yu
think it il abowt time fer us to moov
owt on the skurmish line agen? We
hev bin tawking populism fer so long
thet now the name army hez kawt up
with us. Populism il a. kind of linn
mitted soshalism, and now feal like
going fer the hull thing. What do yu
say?"
"Well, "sez I, II amt so surten thet
the mane army hez kwite kawt up with
us, tho the tawk il thet way. But if it
hez I beleev it IL the kustom in war
fer the skurmlshers to fall into line
and fight with the army until the bat
tie IL won. Then the skurmishers kin
60 ahed and Iced to moar advansd
grownd.
:"'Soshalizm is as old ez the furst
ideer of government. Sosyety il
fownded upon it. But it hez not KUN
awl at wons by emmy meens. Gradew-
ely ez the peepel hev fownd sum indi-
videwel power git too strong fer them
thay hev delegated thet power to the
government. The power OF punish
ing a fellowmaa fer ipjewrys inaikted
by him on ennyboddy waz fownd to be
dainJerus to be left with the individew-
ell bekaws he waz lyabel in an angry
moment 10 meat owt punishment with
owt proper evidens of the gilt of the
party punnishd. So the power of guv-
ernment hez gradewelly bin widend
while its power to infripj on the rites
OF the peepel hez bin narrowd. Now
we ar faising new daimler to the in
dividewel-the power of organ1zd kap-
pital, kreated by the introdukshun
of mashheenery. Thet IL the nekst
thing to be solvd. It IL what we pops
hev bin titing for dewring the last ten
yeers. konsider thet it wood be
phoolish fer us to Civ up thet growrd
now thet the peepel hev kom to the
konklewshun thet sumthing must be
dun rite away. The plootokrats aint
going to let them do it If thay kin help
1t. Thay will phool the peepel with
laws thet pretend to do q hull lot but
don't do thing. We hev sin ,thet in
the last kongress. What IL headed
now IL ewnited effort to get. dun what
thespeepel think owt TO be dun and kin
30 duIs ii no a.,wt ahat thszns.<
jorritty Of the peepel today beleev thet
the government awt to own the rale-
rodes and kole mines and emmy other
crate industrys thet in pryvait hands
thretten the hbberty and happiness OF
the individewel. Woodent thet be q
step forward thet wood be wurth talk
Jog?
II am getting along in years, Theo,
and don't ekspekt to liv till the millen-
yum kums along, but I wood like to
hev hand in helping it along sum.
Fer thet reesen prefur to stay on the
battlefield whar l hev bin skurmish-
ing so long and fite the battel owt.
When thet IL dun and the kaws OF the
peepel hez bin advansd thet mutch
shall be purfektly willing to git owt
on the skurmish line agen to help Iced
Ing on to moar advsnsd Rrownd. If
the skurmish line gifts too far from the
name army it IL lyabel to be wiped owt
without drawing the attenshun OF the
reggeler army and thus sakrifize itself
without doing emmy good fer the kaws.
"Thar will be plenty of work to do
after this IL dun. Hewmanitty is not
purfekt, and tharfoar no pnrfekt laws
kin be maid. But hewmanitty il i'm
proving and laws ar Citing better.
WoDs in while when new kondishuns
ar kreated it talks hewmanitty sum