Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-04-18
keep A FIRM STAND
The Peoples Party Has Not vet Fallen
Before It's Enemles.-kesp Up
tho Fight for Reform.

0"s WI N0SVT"s
The Peoples party yet survives the
cunning Vaccinations and 'cyclonic
forces OF the alleged friend, ard open
enemy. The peoples party is now up.
on the solid ground of a vast and pub
licly recognized public necessity
We have but to continue our work in
a wise, firm, unyielding manner-quit-
ting forever the shifting sands of d.
plomacy for the firm found alton of un-
changing truths, to win a battle which
shall bless the people, honor the ma
ton and gladden. the world of hui
manity.>
The Omaha platform should be &C.
cepted as the last-the only nation al
platform, until its declarations are
woven into laws, and the laws thereby
created honestly and fearlessly exc
cuted. It will not do to manufacture
q new platform every month, or at
every convention that is held.
Socialism, in it's pure estate, as de.
fined by our best authorities, is "a
the DRY or system of social reform
which contemplates a complete recon-
struction of society. with q more just
and equitable distribution of property
and labor" In its commonly re-
ceived aud accepted Specification, it
means division of property among
the masses according to their seeming
or declared needs.
The laboring man, who with his
little family has even little home, all
his own, will not vote with a political
organization which has for its de-
clared policy division and redistri-
button of that home, for the benefit of
the homeless. The absolute owner
ship of home, by a family, is Or
dinarily of such significance and pro-
found Importance to them, that naught
but the imperative mandates of law
would move them to yield up the dear
est and sweetest of all places on this
earth "Home.''
But, considering Socialism" from
the higher standard of the meaning of
the word, that is, "a system of social
reform, based on a more just and
equitable distribution of property and
labor" we have the very highest re-
form that it is possible for human
kind to attain in this life. Pure $50
cialism' is the very highest rung in
the ladder of humaa possibilities in
the line of the Fatherhood of God and
the universal Brotherhood of Man.
The present condition of the people
is very far below the top rung of such
a very long ladder. In very truth,
the masses of the people through the
teachings and influences of the COM
mercialism of the past century, are
very close to the bottom rung of the
very long high ladder of possible hu-
man attachments, in the line of the
Fatherhood Of God and the Brother.
hood of Man. What reason has any
intelligent person to expect, or even
hope, that q majority of the voters
will, within the next few years, by the
aid of any possible kind of teachings
and instructions, step at one step from
the present bottom rung of this ladder,
to the very top? II such q tremend-
ously long step cannot, and will not
be taken, and with no reasonable hope
that such very long and seemingly
impossible, long step, will be taken
by majority of the voting popula-
ton in the next score OF years, even in
this age of steam and electricity,
would it not be- wiser for socialists to
seek out and adopt as q primary or
intermediary rung in the ladder, one
that can be attained in the very near
future, by reasonable uniting of
forces al the ballot.box, and thereby
win advantages in the upward move
ment that will make the attainment of
socialism in it's pure sense, not alone
more easy but more speedy?
The enemies of the people will d.
vide the people politically into as
many contending organizations as
possible, and will hire the shrewdest,
the most cunning, the most brainy
brilliant takers and writer's that cash
can obtain land money counts with
many and will move them into the
very heart of the people who are
wronged by present conditions, and
then inaame them with cunning and
brilliant speech to stand fast by any
Utopian propositions for the sole pur-
pose of keeping the people divided at
the ballot box. For all reform ele-
ments to unite at the ballot box and
on platform that is reasonable and
hopeful, does not hinder any one of
them from daily proclaiming his radi-
cal views, and winning all the con-
verts to his faith that is possible.
But united effort at the ballot box,
on a platform of declarations that are
so reasonable that multitudes would