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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13
The Human Who DoesNot Work
Is Not a Member of. Society
ntiieN
KELLER, the
Famous
Blind
Scholar
n HERE would be no
need of I eloquent .
B appeals in behalf Of

the various and nrae you could the dark
which the blind and listen to the stiffness which tho
deaf hear. Z
NESS, NO SHARPER ANGUISH THAN DEAFNESS. 7 know
these limitations you know them yet have not
known the suffering which these are meant to alleviate
Those who visit them trembe lest they become blind
deaf and be untitled for mes duties
Ny difficulties vastly increased because cannot sea
hear How they be redoubd has seen and
heard for and has been engaged pursuits that
require all the faculties and then suffers unutterab oss
studying economics this year, and have learned that it
the condition Of social life that PEOPLE SHALL WORK FOR
ONE ANOTHER, AND IT is THE INTEREST OF SOCIETY
TO ENABLE EVERY MEMBER TO WORK
HUMAN BEING WHO DOES NOT WORK IS NOT MEMBER
OF SOCIETY AND CAN HAVE NO STANDING IN IT,
community then with enlightened self interest when It
builds and equps institution whose influence shall
like the tree of @ whose leaves healing of the
nations Such institution world the blind the
deat the sick and the lame able do their part work.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13

must also bring the government nearer
to the people and more dependent upon
them, through the initiative aad REFER
endum. When this is done we shall be
in position to restrict monopoly by
effective legislation and get executives
that will use the laws. If we must
have q more despotic form OF govern
ment to manage affairs, it should be q
despotism exercised by the great macs
OF the people, and not by q favored
few.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13
Housing London's Poor ~.

The housing of the working classes
appears, as far as London is concerned,
to be the housing Of the prosperous
working classes. That the hand to
mouth poor are not accommodated in
the councils dwellings may be gather
ed from the fact that last years rent
roll from the councils dwellings
amounted to f6O, 500 and that only f12O
was lost. At the present moment 3d.
600 people live in the houses belonging
to the ratepayers of London, but none
Of these can be classed as the very
poor, for all are in regular work or are
in such occupations that real poverty
is unknown to them.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13
Girls VIII Oreanize.

Young women employed in the pack
ing plants of Kansas City are planning
to organize union.
Not fewer than 1000 young women
are on the pay rolls Of the plants, and
among them are many who believe
that in unionism they will find sympa-
thy and strength. The leaders in the
movement are determined to show their
brothers in toll that they. too. are ca
pable Of successfully conducting a la
Dor organization.
1T Is time for US to do something,"
said maiden who is employed in one
of the plants. II notice that whenever
the men want anything they get it,
When we make request our foreman
merely smiles and tells us to be good
When we organize his smile will not be
SO patronfzing. Wen show him! Look
at Mayme there" pointing to her COM
panion. "She's been in the label de-
partment three years. Has her wages
been raised? Ask the boss, and he'll
say nit. Look at me. sort meat. am
still sorter, and my pay envelope does
not weigh any more now than it did
when my name first went on the pay
roll. But we are going to take our
time. My motto is One for all, all for
one,' you know, and when all the girls
are in line We'll amount to something"
The girls it is planned to organize
work in the label, meat sorting and oleo
departments. When steadily employed
they work ten hours day, and their
wages range from 81 to $15 a week.
Most of them work by the piece sys-
TEN.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13
The Street Car Men.

The report of President w. D. Ma
hon Of the Amalgamated Association
of Street Railway Employees Of Amer
lea to the delegates at the opening Of
the biennial convention in Pittsburg
contained some interesting data. While
it showed that the organization had
more than doubled in membership
since the last convention and that in
creases in wages had been secured dur
ing that time BY ninety-four local d.
visions, It showed that the number Of
SrikeA had fallen on 50 per cent. .
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13
where SOCIALISTS FAIL
Chairman Parker Gives Some Raasons
Why Socialism Is Not What tho
People Want Now,

TOOPS0 want NOW.
While I admire the socialist party
for its courage and strength of princi-
pie, its army of courageous and noble
workers, and its magnificent organiza-
tion, do not believe it takes the place
OF the Peoples party, nor will it ever
do so unless it modifies it's position on
some points and strengthens it on
others. 1 do not believe the people
are ready for commune, however
sound the principle may be; and feel
that we should try to do something
for the people now on earth as we'll as
those who are to come in the far distant
future. And, again, the Socialist
party is silent on the money question.
l do not think any sincere student of
conditions will deny that the money
monopoly is the king bee of them all,
and while the money of the country is
controlled by a few, they will also
control the utilities and the machinery
under any system which may prevail.
I have in the past entertained hope
that Populists and Socialists could
unite upon q progressive program,
using the initiative and referendum
as the open door through which we,
could progress to absolute socialism,
If experience and time should demon
strste its wisdom. But this the So
cialists do not wish to do, hence I see
no way clear except for the Peoples
party to stand by the old lines and
compromise with nothing. The Dem
ocratic party is sure to fall into the
hands of the conservaties-is there
now, in fact, as even the sanity Jones
is advocating the nomination of Ar
thur German, the prince of goldbugs,
for the presidency. There will also be
trouble in the Republican camp, and
we really have more to fear from q re-
publican theft of our principles in 1903
than from our ancient enemy. The
labor movement will be q powerful
factor, and their hearts are right, and
q great independent labor vote will
undoubtedly be cast. If We expect to
profit by any or all of these fortunate
conditions we should reform our lines
In every hamlet and 60 on with the
work of education. Success must come
from the precinct-from the school
district. Your national committee can
do nothing unless you begin the work
in your own community. Every pop
ulist should at all times proclaim the
doctrines of the party and distribute
literature. Our press must be sus-
tanned. We must have An extensive
press, and every populist should be an
active solicitor for every good reform
paper.-Extract from letter of J. A.
Parker, chairman National Committee
of Mid-road Populists, to Missouri
| World
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13
Ethical Deductions
From Emerson

Suppose man is so unhappy as to
be born a saint, with keen perceptions,
but with the conscience and love of an
angel, and he Is to get his living in the
world; he finds himself excluded from
all lucrative works; he has no farm,
and he cannot get one, for to earn mon
ey enough to buy one requires sort Of
concentration toward money, which is
the selling himself for a number Of
years, and to him the present hour Is
as sacred and 1nviolable as any future
hour. OF course while another man
has not land, my title to mine, your
title to yours, is at once vitiated. In
extricable seem to be the twinings and
tendrils of this evil, and we all involve
ourselves in it the deeper by forming
connections, by wives and children, by
benefits and debts.
The mind does not create what it
perceives any more than the eye Gre
ates the rose.
Temperament puts all divinity to
rout. l know the mental procliv1ty Of
physicians. I hear the chuckle Of the
phrenologists. Theoretic kdnapers and
slave drivers, they esteem each man
the victim Of another, who winds him
round his finger by knowing the law of
his being, and. by such cheap sign
boards as the color Of his beard or the
slope of his occiput, reads the inventory
Of his fortunes and character. The
grossest ignorance does not disgust
like this impudent knowingness.
Action is with the scholar subordi-
nate, but it is essential. Without it he
is not yet man. Without it thought
can never ripen into truth.
Let US affront and reprimand the
smooth mediocrity and squalid content
ment of the times and hurl in the face
Of custom 4ld trade and Office the fact
which is the upshot of all history, that
there is great responsible thinker and
actor moving wherever moves man;
that a true man belongs to no other
time or place, but is the center of
things. Where he is there is nature.
He measures you and all men and all
events. .+,.... .".{
4 learn Immediately from any speak
er how much he has already lived
through the poverty or the splendor Of
his speech. .s... B. :ss 81 zs.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13
A Career.

A Career.
Brother Bill was feller 80 slzeered Of
mistakes
That he didn't do nothin' at all.
He criticised others fur maxim small
breaks,
But he didn't do nothfn' at all.
He'd stand by the hour with his hand on
his heart
An talk about taxes, religion or art,
An we all said that Bill was uncommonly
smart,
But he didn't do nothin' at all.
Us boys went ahead. an we worked with
- will,
. But he didn't do nothin' at all,
An some of 'em turned up their noses at
:, Bill '-51 >-~
Cause he didn't do nothin' at all.
But Bill Is the pride of the family today:
They put him In congress, we'll out Of the
~ -. way, ,s.E $:@l%z- ..>5 =s..,
An he's takin' life easy an drawin' his
u ! N. e Doesn't Do noth,a. at !. all .s.5. .= I.
5.S 81 S.. s -Washington Star.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13

D
his employer, for his very existence,
is liable to 60 against the grain of the
man who feels that he and his fellow
laborers are at least the equal of cap
ital In the production of goods and
wealth.
The man who is dependent upon
another for his very existence is =
slave, no matter how the law classifies
him. The purse proud employer wants
70 bring the employe down to the con-
dion Of . slave. Hence the bitter
attack upon labor organizations which
teach the laborer that he is partner
In the production Of wea th and there
fore entitled not only to fair share
in the products of his labor, but also
should have some. voice in the man
agement of that labor.
The writer of the above quotations
believes in democracy OF opportunity
for those few who are so gifted by ma
ture that they can rise above their fel-
lowmen and become leaders or slave
drivers. For the mass, who have no
such qualifications, there shall be a
more despotic form of government to
keep them from mutiny''
This is not democracy, it is an
elective monarcy, where those at the
head choose their successors from the
brightest men in the ranks below them
and keep, the masses in abject slavery.
A true democracy gives an equal
chance to all as far as their abilities
go, and puis curb on the brilliant
and unscrupulous men who are likely
to use their greater power to take from
those less gifted their fair share of
the wealth created by their labor. The
man who Is bright enough to make
some new invention that is helpful to
mankind, or start some new enterprise
that gives employment to many men
is entitled to some reward for his
ability. But he is not entitled to use
that power to reduce his fellowmen to
q condition where they are dependent
upon him for their very existence
The labor organization is the only
thing that stands between the laborer
and such condition. If that organi-
zation is crushed the laborer ia crushed
under it's debris.
The capitalists cannot crush the
labor organizations unless they can
get a more despotic form of govern
ment, with subservient judges to issue
i functions, and subservient executive
officers to enforce the iajunctions by
force of arms. Then they will either
crush organized labor, or be them
selves crushed by q frantic uprising
of the laborers. The latter would
most likely be the case. The rapid
growth of socialism in labor circles
shows that the capitalists are not
alone in the idea of using the govern
ment to settle the struggle between
capital and labor.
But the great middle class, which
belongs neither to the capitalists nor
to the labor organization, has some
interest in this matter. It behooves
this class to forget past party differ
ences and get together on common
ground that shall protect them from
extremes on either side and give
justice to both capital and labor
as we'll as consumer. To get this we
must get out of the hands Of private
monopoly the greatest factors in
|monopoly-the means of transporta-
tion and the medium Of exchange. We
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13
Answer to Challenge.

NuS~ou ~ VUOSuOU&Os
AS the challenge is made publicly
through the press, shall make my
answer in the same way.
Having been accused of spreading
misconceptions concerning socialism
through the press, I think the parties
''misrepresented" ought to have a
chance to set themselves right by the
same means. I have therefore OBJ
tanned from the publishers of The Tri-
bune permission to have the joint
debate take place in the columns OF
said paper. In the first place, the ex-
perience of Rev. Thompson here showed
that even his name was not enough to
draw a crowd, and I am not vain
enough to think that my name would
be potent enough to attract enough OF
an audience to set my "misrepresen-
tations" right. Secondly, Rev. Thomp'
son is so much my superior as a
speaker that it would net be doing
justice to populism for me to pit my
self against him as q speaker. When
it comes to writing the tricks of oratory
lose much of their power. Each de-
batter gets chance to coolly examine
the arguments of the other, look up
references and arrange his line OF
attack or defense in an orderly man
ner. 1t is therefore more fair method
of bringing out the arguments of each
side, free from the personal influence
of an able and polished orator like my
opponent. Seeing that "lack sound
ness, precision and thoroughness in
my knowledge of socialism" it is only
fair that I get little time to examine
the arguments advanced.
fIhave ''misrepresented" socialism
it is only because have been utterly
unable to get at what it really means.
Whenever have attacked any certain
claim or argument I have been told
that that is not true socialism. I
therefore request, as q requisite
for entering into this discussion, that
I be furnished with q copy of the plat
form of the socialist party represented
By Rev. Thompson. I never wilfully
misrepresented the position of an op-
ponent, and my past will show that I
have never been such partisan as to
be afraid to change party when be-
came convinced that some other party
vas nearer to what considered right.
St,rS.S -. ~ I-~n mnk1~ ,rk0 !
& the socialist party wants to do, and
4 how it proposes to do it. As soon as
this is done shall be ready to enter
I into the debate on the terms suggested
above. The debate will be conducted
B "a the Saturday edition ofThe Tribune,
which goes to, every part Of the state,
1 md will reach all that have read my
ssmisrepresentat. o as. = =s
z.'' Sa AZ. q. FoRsBERG.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13

4 l learn Immediately from any speak
er how much he has already lived
through the poverty or the splendor Of
his speech. ..ss..s. ;5s !*.sss ~ s-,s
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13
CHALLENGE FOR DEBATE
SooisIists Of WllImar Desire q Debate
with Aug. o. Forsbesg on their
Political Differences.

WHLMAR, MINI. June 5, 1903
whereas, The question of socialism
as one of great and increasing interest
and Importance, one on which every
citizen should be correctly informed
30 as to be able to decide intelligently
what stand to take on the question, and
Whereas, The Wi1lmar Tribune, in
Its recent issues, has shown that it's
associate editor, at least, lacks sound
ness, precision and thoroughuess in
his knowledge of socialism, and thus
by his writings spreads misconceptions
among the uninformed in regard to
this important question, and
Whereas, 1t would be of benefit to
friends and opponents OF socialism
alike, and especially for supporters OF
populism, to hear q fair and square
discussion by able exponents of the
respective claims of socialism and
populism to the support of the people;
Therefore, The socialists of Willmar
hereby formally aud officially chal-
lepge Mr.. Aug. o. Forsberg, ass sociate
editor of The Willmar Tribune, to
meet Rev. Carl D. Thomps on, of Lin
coin, Neb in joint debate at the
Bonde hall, Willmar, on Thursday
evening, July 2, 1908, to uphold before
public audience the statements made
and position taken in his reply to Rev.
Thompsou's letter in The Tribune Sat
urday, May 80, 1903, by taking the
negative on the proposition that "The
economic interests of the working and
producing classes of America, agri-
cultural and industrial, now demand
that they unite in endorsement of
socialism and in support OF the social
ist party as the only logical and ra-
tional principle and program for their
future struggle against the combined
powers of capitalism and only effective
method for the attainment of their full
social and industrial rights" and fur
ther, if this challenge is not accepted,
demand ia hereby made for public
explanation through the press why
such acceptance was not made.
Notices Of this challenge are to be
sent to Mr.. Forsberg, Rev. Thompson,
the State Headquarters of the Socialist
Party and the press of Kandiyohf
county. Respectfully submitted.
By order of Local Willmar Social
ist Party of America.
ALB N. G1LBERTsoN, Sec'y.
EMANUEL CHRISTENSEN, Organizer.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1903-07-20
Cosas del dla
LA EMIGRACION

Hunts, de los Hollanders de los Lind
says.
Ell huracan de los Barbosas de los
Rossys, de los Egozcues y de los Fajar-
dos, de los MauIeones de las turbas.
Els ell huracan de las soberbias, de
los odios, de las avaricias. del pillaje
del robo, de la astucia de la maldad.
Y ante ese temporal deshecho, nues-
ira patria ha tenido que hundirse y
arruiharse.
No le cabfa mas.
7 este cicl6n no pasa.
Sobre nuestras cabezas aletean sin
cesar los buietres carniceros expiando
sus vfctimas.
Tienen los ojos enrojecidos sus
plumas apestosas con la hediondez de Ia
carrof1a.
Y con tai cicl6n y tales fieras no
queda otro recnrso que huir.
Els decir, huir los que tengan mie-
do, los que no estan dispuestos luchar
por su patria, defendiendola palmo 4
palmo.
Pero, no cabe duda que la situaci6n
es terrible y que Sc agrava cada d1a.
Sc necesita un descaro inconcebible
para asegurar como aseguran Mr.. Hunt
Mr.. Lindsay que somos felices.
Els ell colmo del cinismo.
Y mas cfnicos que ellos son los
puertorriquefIos que Sc prestan decla-
rar esta mentira.
Ali teneis Ia prosperidad.
Contemplate.
Contemplad & esos infelices, paisa-
nos vuestros, que abandonan su hogar,
ell pals donde nacieron, para vivir en- un
pals extra6o, en- tierra lejana, dejando
aquf su fe, sus amores sus esperanzas.
Preguntadles 81 ellos son prosperos.
Preguntadles que 81 por estar ellos
bien aqui, abandonan su patria.
No somos partidariOs de la emigra
ci6n, como tampoco 10 somos del sui
cidio.
Pero 81 ell suicidio sc impone GUAM
do la raz6n falta, Spor que no Sc ha de
imponer ell exodo cuando la f6 falta &
un pueblo. =?
IPobre pals. -.
GINEsfLLO.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1903-07-20
No vamos q comentarla.
Nj en- pro nj en- contra.


Toda emigration es un NAL, porque
le resta fuerzas ffsicas, morales inte-
lectuales su pals; es IN bien, cuando ell
exodo sc impone: es decir, cuando ell
instinto de sequridad personal empuja
la colectiva. Entonces ell bien, 81 no re-
sulta para la patria, resulta para los ciu-
dadanOs. FL que materialmente no pue-
de vivir en- un lugar, tiene que mar
charse otro.
Esto es l6gico natural.
Ahora blen, como va hemoS dicho
antes, no pensamos discutir sobre este
punto.
Lo que ST, antoj6senos hacer una
pregunta:
sQu6 causa ha engendrado esta emf
graci6n?
SSera la dicha. -?
No 10 creo.
La prosperidad!
Tampoco.
"a que obedece, pues, -?
acknowledgements Ia miseria.
Y para los que dudan, ahf esta Ia
prueba.
Si ell pals estuviera pr6spero. no Sc
emigrarfa.
Porque nadie, menos anosotros,
lie es grato abandonar su pals.
Los que 10 aDandOnan, 10 hacen Ia
fuerza, impelidos por Ia necesidad, por
la miseria, por ell hambre.
7 no Sc puede asegurar que una eau
sa mayor, del orden ffsico, empuje esta
idea.
Cuando Sc inici6 la del Hawaii, pu-
diera decirse que ell estado en- que la
isla habfa dejsdo ell 1ltimo cicl6n, la ex-
cusase.
Hoy no hay tai cicl6n.
Hace cuatro amos que no sopla Ell
viento.
Pero en- cambio vientos de ruina, de
inmoralidad Y de descr6dito, soplan sin
cesar.
Y soplan llevandose hasta arran-
cando de raiz, no va nuestros bienes y
fortunas, sino nuestra vergtienza y nues-
tro prestigio.
Este huracan es terrible.
Es ell huracan de los Aliens de los
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1903-07-20
GIN ESfLLO.

aquel pals, cuya resolution compete ex-
clusivamente al Gar.
RENIDo CoMBATE
Dicen de Viene que ell ej6rcito de
Bulgaria ha tendido una emboscada &
un n6cleo de tropas turcas, librandose
un refIido combate en- ell que triunf6
aquel.
AG1rACIoN EN- LOS BALkANEs
Obs6rvase indescriptible agitaci6n
en- los Estados balkanicos, los cuales in
fuidos por Austria y Russia, prop6nese
luchar contra ell Imperio turco.
Ell REY DE PORTUGAL
Ha sido descubierto en- Portugal un
terrible complot del ejercito para asesi-
mar al rey. Muchos oficiales han sido
redusidos 'prision. Ell descubrimiento
del complot Sc atribuye revelation de
uno de los oficiales, pues pr6xima la fe-
cha para ell regicidio, dlcho Official Sc
acobard6 denunciando la conspiraci6n.
Lo MisMo QUE EN- SERvIA
Affrmase que ell complot de los Off
ciales del ej6rcito en- Lisboa, iba lie
varse Was de hecho en- Ia misma forma
que perpetrars.n ell suyo los oficiales de
Servia. Idearon aquellos ofciales asal-
tar ell palacio media noche y dar muer-
to la guardia y los soberanos. Este
suceso ha causado en- Portugal honda
sensation.
SALIDA
Ell escuadr6n americana ha salido
de Inglaterra. Cumpliendo 6rdenes su-
periores cruzara el Atlantico para probar
la velocidad del acorazado <Kearsarge.
Ell PAPA
Ultimos despachos de Roma infor-
man que ell Papa sc halla !igeramente
meiorado.
CANDIDATES
Para sucesores de Leon XIII sc in
1ican al Cardenal Gibbons q Monse- |
nor Ferrari, arzobispo de Milan.