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Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21

his power in the convention is waninr.
will be to throw the nomination to
Judge Parker of New York, because
Parker is regarded as the least likely
to retain strength in the party if the
Bryanites determine to bolt tho
convention. In clearer words, the
opinion is expressed that Bryau's fol-
lowers, obeying his mandates. will
seek to prevent the nomination of
Richard Olney, the power of who's.
name would undeniably prevent any
great detection from the party, If
Bryan should conclude to head .
bolt
Judge Parker is little known in tn
West, while Olney 10 highly respected
by all GLASSES and is certainly feared
by those who are close to Bryan, -
Olney's elevation to the leadership OF
the party would clearly terminate Bry-
ans control OF the national Organize
tion.
"Bryan's efforts to secure fusion
Tor another campaign appear to be ~
futile as his efforts to pose as the
mightiest of all the mighty, as popu-
lists throughout this country are do
claring emphatically against further
union with the democrats.
Every Indicator n exists which shows
determination on the part of th.
popullsts to renew their earlier policy
OF keeping in the middle of the
road, although this is not due to
any work the Parker element has
been doing, but to a growing belief
that the democrats are seeking to and
are succeeding in absorbing the party.
The detection of this element from
the party will create d new conditio.
worthy Of considerable study.
'Populism has lost it's strength as .
party organization, but yet has manv
adherents who are allyiDg themselves
with the older parties because the time
for success of populistic ideas does
not yet appear to them to have ar
rived.
This element, which comprises 4
very large proportion of the party, is
independent in its vote, aud if the
democratic party's coming platform
appeals to this element it will receive
It's support; otherwise its vote will
be scattered indiscrim inately among
all parties offering candidates.
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21
Who're Do tho People Come ln7

It is announced from Washington
that J. J. Hill is in favor of Senator
Knut Nelson's publicity" amend
ment to the antitrust bill. Indeed it
is further reported that Mr.. Hill was
duly sounded by both Senator's Mel
son and Clapp before the amendment
was introduced. 1t seems, however,
that John D. Rockefeller was not
sounded and it now turns out that the
Standard Oil msgnate is bitterly op-
posed TO the amendment. Strange,
isn't it, that Nelson, Clapp and Hill
are so soon found in the same bed,
considering the ''merger" incident,
while equally strange that Hill and
Rockefeller should be arrayed on the
opposite! side of any measure, and
leaves room for the suspicion that
there Is q colored gentleman in the
woodpile somewhere. It is barely
possible that the whole thing is job
calculated to protect such men as Hill
from each other and from such men
as Rockefeller, who, it is we'll known,
has always exacted and obtained ex-
ceptionally low rates of transporta
tion. Now, while it may be all right
to protect these men from each other,
we would like to know just where the
great mass of the people come in for
any protection?-Madison Independ-
ent Press (Rep J
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21
Should be Strengthened.

A corresr ondent to the Norman
County Herald from Twin Valley has
this to say:
"The peoples party is still living
acd though It, at the present, may not
be in the very bestighting trim, it still
holds the proud position as the only
real peoples party in existence today.
l co not fail to recognize the socialist
party but only fear that the time for
socialism and the socialists is not 40
yet ripe. Let US begin to make our
organic alton stronger than it ever
was and strong enough to win a VIC
tory next time we march to the ballot
bOx.'
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21
"1HORN OF ALL NATIONS"
What a Magazine Writer Says About
the Drink Question.

"nat q NaSaZlne writer Says About
--.----ss,t the Drink Question.
'"The Thorn Of All Nations''-under
this fitting characterization a writer in
Leslie's Weekly deals with the drink
question. The drink bill of the ma
tions, he says, CONTINUES to come be.
fore us with its astounding totals, usu-
ally showing an increase all round,
while problems of excise and saloon
regulation remain as thorns in the side
of all legislative and governing bodies,
sharp and irritating and with no ap.
parent likelihood of extra ction." 1t is
IAN ominous specter at the banquet ta-
bles Of nations which will not down
either at the bidding of temperance
agitators or legislative reformers and
refuses to fade away into nothingness
before Gothenburg schemes, Maine
laws, coffee house systems and hatchet
crusaders"
Governments, he points out, are
forced to take up the struggle against
the common foe because of increasing
and indubitable evidence that their
people are suffering moral physical
and economic loss and deterioration
from it's presence in their midst. Much
real and satisfactory progress, he al
mits, has been made in temperance re-
form, and the situation is by no means
hopeless. ''The best and only wise
thing for sincere and genuine friends
Of reform to do is to be patient and
70 III ~h ~
culties and differences arise and work
resolutely on"-work, we infer, says
the Union Signal, for the extraction of
the thorn. the downing Of the specter;
that Is, we must agitate and educate
until the nations realize that govern
ment itself must first be willing to
adopt the one and only method Of ex-
tracing the thorn; that no half way
remedies of REGULATION" will bring re-
lief; that surgical operation by the
hand Of law is the only way to remove
the thing which is causing such Tester
ing sores In the body polite.
And the specter at the feast! While
Banquo's ghost often serves to point a
moral and adorn tale, it is hardly fair
to that conscience shifting apparition to
bring it before us as the representative
of the drink problem. If it is remem.
bered, however, that it was present at
Macbeth's banqueting table as a re-
minder and an accuser Of unrighteous
dealing, the illustration is not inapt
Temperance agitators, be it said, will
work resolutely on to make the thorn
more and more Irritating, the specter
more and more fearsome, until the ma
tons get out of the liquor business
themselves and abolish the traffic from
every corner of the earth.
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21
SIGNS OF A BREAKUP
A Dispatch From Omaha States Con.
vietion is Growing that Bryan.
ties Will Bolt.

The Minneapolis Tribune publ he'd
last Thursday dispatch from Omaha
from which the following are extracts:
THAT William Jennings Bryan will
not abide by the desire of the national
convention is belief which is becom-
ing prevalent among the active work.
ers in the party in this portion of the
country. During the past two weeks
your correspondent has felt the
pulse of the localities of Nebraska
in which Bryan has hitherto been
paramount in strength. From Nor,
folk and Chadron on the north, Ne.
braska City, Ltncolp, Hastings, Nc
Cook on the south, the feeling is
strong among democrats who have
hitherto been strong Bryan support
ers that his present attitude will do
more to disrupt the party organize
tion than did the attitude of those
who left the convention hall in 1895 to
form a national organization along
the principles Of q sound currency.
"Bryan's fervid utterancee, his ener.
getic appeals for the organization o1
Kansas City Platform clubs, is the
first sign of prominence that has ap.
peared CT his alleged intention tc
break from party control and aftilia.
tior if the national convention does
net abide by his will.
"W hat candidate Bryan has in min6
as being 'suitab]e' is question
which cannot. be answered with an,
certainty. When approached upor
the question Bryan merely answers
that the candidate must be one who
has faithfully adhered to the prin
ciples of the Kansas City platform
and who is known as man imbued
with such principles
THAT he will use all the power he
possesses to secure fusion with the
popu'ists for another campaign is
equally certain as his views that the
Kansas City platform must be reaf
firmed.
''The opinion generally expressed
among dem ocrats Of this state was tn al
Bryans attitude, if he discov, rs tha,
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21

composite democracy Which shall
contain the best Of the creeds and the
best of the democracies everywhere.
Then we shall see for the first time in
history that imperial democracy in
which every man shall be an emperor
and every woman an empress-that
new democracy which shall give us the
use of all the resources of nature for
all the faculties of man for the good Of
all the people.-Hery D. Lloyd.
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21

That the home owners are net willing
to give up their possessions. Call it
prejudice, folly or any other name
that suits your fancy, the fact re.
mains. Mankind has for thousands
of years recognized the right of the
individual to own property exclusive
ly. People have fought, bled and
died for this right, and such q Deep
rooted sentiment cannot be eradicated
suddenly. Any theory that leaves it
out of consideration will be FORE
doomed to failure.
Social reforms do not come by
revolutions. They must come by
evolution, the gradual sloughing off
OF the wornout skin and it's replace
ment by q new one. We have gradu-
ally approached the position of leav-
Ing In the hands of the government
the things that cannot be left in pri-
vate hands. This has been possible
because the mass of the people have
slowly been forced into realization
that such a step was necessary in
order to preserve the right of the
masses to own property. They see in
this movement the very opposite of
communism such as the socialist
party represents.
The time may come when altruisn
will be developed strongly enough to
make it possible to establish the mil
lennium dreamed of by the socialists.
But that time is far from being here
now. There may be a big rally
around the socialistic banner if the
plutocrats succeed in killing the
peoples party. But as soon as that
is accomplished there will be a retro
grade movement. The plutocrats will
then turn their guns on the socialists
and by ridicule, sarcasm, misrepre-
sentation and falsehood so deform il
in the eyes Of the public that even
those who might be willing to adopt it
if they knew what i; really meant
would be driven away from it.
What is the use of going to ex-
tremes and trying to force on the
people system that runs counter to
some tf the strongest sentiments OF
humanity? Why not try to learn to
walk before we try to establish a new
record for broad jump? The Amer
lean people have now been educated
up to the point where they are willing
to nationalize certain great monopo-
lies. Why drop that advantage aad
start on a movement where we have to
antagOnize the deep-rooted sentiment
of the entire people? Even if a man
believes in socialism as the ultimate
goal he ought to be ready to aid in
making one step in that direction in
stead of attempting to do everything
at once. Let US have evolution, not
revolution.
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21

Absolutism Versus the People.
It is crisis. A new absolutism h
rising, but against it has risen that
master Of all the absolutisms. the peo-
PIE. Against the absolutism Of govern
ment rose the democracy Of govern
ment: against the absolutism of prop
erty will rise the democracy Of proper
Il. II will be the destiny Of America to
gather I'll these othe4 aonoeIaSes htp
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21

THINK SOLUTION By GIVING UP THOSE
THINGS THAT MAY TEND TO KEEP THOUGHTS FROM
CHRIST AND &
Property thing but there great many other things
that give up besides property. think that it is per-
sona matter between and Christ each man must de-
erne for himself just what sacrifice he called upon to make
in order to follow Christ completely.
THE PROBABLE FOR CHRIST SAYING WHAT Ne Din
WAS NOT THAT THE YOUNG MAN WAS WELL WITH
HIS MONEY, BUT LOVED POSSESSIONS MORE
THAN ne LOVED CHRIST =
There Pleasures legitimate pleasures that can be given
up for the service of Christ possible that we NAV ca
our business pursuits in order devote time to practical
Christianity No believes in business more than do and
l AN A FIRM BELIEVER THAT A MAN CAN SERVE
GOD IN HIS OFFICE AS WELLsAs ELSEWHERE
90 not think it would be good thing abandon our pr
suits and follow Christ literally because conditions are different
but we should give those hng that between us and
Christ f.
By the GREGORY of Chicago
- HR|sT EITHER MEANT WHAT 3HE SAID OR HE DID NOT
MEAN IT. IF HE DID NOT MEAN IT, WAS NOT CHRIST;
<@~ IF HE DID MEAN IT, THENAMR. ROCKEFELLER, AS A
PROCESSING CHRISTIAN, is o6LGEa-Io WORDS AS
THEY STAND WITHOUT ATTEMPTING DIPLOMATIC MANlP.
OlA7oN OF THEM ONE WAY OR THE
BY the Rev THOMAS New York
M THINK THE WORDS CHRIST TO THE RICH YOUNG
b MAN MEANT LITERALLY WHAT COMMANDED THE
90 YOUNG MAN WAS MORALLY NEEDED SOME
POSITIVE ACT TO ROUSE HIM TO OPPORTUNITIES PRE-.
sENTED.
BY the Rev DEAN RICHMOND Of Brooklyn
TT HE command of blessed Lord to rich voune man
not proclamation for universal poverty against the
nuous ownership of property the possession of riches
IT DOES NOT OBIIGE EVERY MAN WHO HAS WEALTH
TO GIVE IT AWAY. GOD OFTEN BLESSES BY MATE
RIAL RICHES AND OFTEN BLESSES BY TAKING THEM
AWAY.
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21

MORE SURE HE is OF RETAINING AND INCREASING
HIS FORTUNE The of the people says B
labor one cannot acquire pace and BY LABOR ONE
BECOMES NOT RICH MAN, BUT A CRIPPLE" So it
was in ancient times and now, when the dstb
ton OF riches has been accomplished the neqbe
Even II one allow that primitive society and indus
ous man will acquire than who is Incorporate and
that is not the case in present society.
THE WORKMAN WHO PLoWs ANOTHER MANS LAND,
BUYS THE INDISPENSABLE NEcEssAREs OF At
PRICES DEMANDED OF HIM AND WHO LAsoRs WITH INsTRu
mENTs NOT HIS OWN CAN NEVER ACQUIRE WEALTH,
EVER TEMPERATE AND INDUSTRIOUS
On tho other hand the progate and idle who
the good Of the Of wealthy people who
becomes usurer factory banker merchant
OF tho Of house Of debauchea easily soqe ftue
9 we see II thousands Of cases q.
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21
Impudent and Presumptuoua.

1mpudent and PFesumptuoua.
The demand for the incorporation e
trade unions Is the last trench of thoso
who oppose organized labor. 1t Is I'm
pudent and presumptuous. No friend
Of trade unionism ever believed In it q
advocated it or called for it. 1t is d.
manded today by enemies who have
used every means at their command -
oppose trade unionism, to counteract
its influence and to destroy it.
How the labor organizations shah
manage their own affairs is not thu
business Of the corporations or the en-
ployers. This new demand for the n
corporation of labor unions is not only
unjust and unreasonable, but it is i'm
pudent and insulting to the last degree.
Clarence S. Darrow.
Poverty. :;
The people casl him rich; his lands
Stretch very far and very wide;
They call his rich, but there he stands
Ill clad and bent and hollow eyed.
The people call him rich; his gold ~
Is piled in many yellow heap,
But he is all alone and old,
And when he dies no one will weep.
They call him rich, but where he dwells
The floors are bare, the walls are bleak:
They call him rich; he buys and sells,
But no fond fingers stroke his cheek.
/ They call him rich; he does not know
The happiness Of standing where
Sweet winds across the meadows blow
And toss the verdant billows there
81. E. Kiser In Harper's.
Do You Blame Hint
Towne- There seems to be nothing
be enjoys so much as the sound of his
own voice.
- 2Browne-That's 80. and there's noth-
ing aRaoys him so much as the thougA
that e can't hear himself when ho
talks En his sleep.-Philadelphia Press.
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21
Half Done,

Half Done.
There's naught completed under the sun:
A wall that's hushed with mothers
kiss, ...z.t1.- -.
A lullaby and . moments bliss.
And the babes youth ere the songs half
sung: .. =: ..-~. = +.
There's nothing finished since life begun:
"A torn book and grimy slate,
A thirst to know; but, alas, too late,
For the boys man and the task not
done. >sss 5z=s .;sS: &
And the days pass over one by one;
A bit Of fame and dream that flies,
. 4 han1 outreached for shadowy prize,
~ tAe runners dead. though the race
A4 ~
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21
Different Views on Wealth.
tChRIST'S COMMAND TO
1.-THE RICH YOUNG Man
"Sell all that thou
hast and distribute
unto the poor, and
thou shalt have treas
ure In heaven: and
come, follow me-"
By JOHN D. R0CkEFEllER. J,

, will be recalled that when the rich young man
asked Jesus, Good Master. what shall I do to
inherit eternal life2'' Jesus said:
"Yet lackest thou one thing: Sell all that thou
hast and distribute Unto the poor, and thou shalt
have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me-"
I DO NOT THINK. WE CAN ACCEPT THE
TEACHING TO GIVE UP EVERYTHING
IN A LITERALi SENSE CONDITIONS
ARE DIFFERENT.s Nevertheless we can con-
scientiously give up. some things, and the ques-
ton for each man to- answer is, What can we give
up in our life? q
Willmar tribune., 1903-02-21
HOW BIG FORTUNES ARE MADE
The better 4 man Is
the more sure he is of
losing his wealth, and
the worse a man the
more sure he is of re-
tainin6 and increasin&
his fortune
By honest labor one
cannot acquire stone pal.
aces By labor one be.
comesnot a rich man, but
a cripple-How fortunes
are acquired-The lot of
the workman Of today
BY Count LEO T0lSTol, Novelist and SocIo,ollst

ORTUNEs are acquired always either by violence
the most common way-or by avarice or by some
huge villainy by chronic swindng, in the case
of trade. THE BETTER MAN is THE
MORE SURE rs HE OF LOSING HIS
WEALTH. AND THE WORSE A MAN THE
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-06-25
diving to Good Roads.

e, II Hartman, the capitalist,
has given 5000 toward the con-
struction of good country roads In
Orange county, New York. That's
sensible. This country is fairly
well of nowadays so far as
schools Of higher education and
libraries are concerned. As to
good roads we lag behind the
world. Europeans have followed
the fine exainple OF the Romans,
the great road and aqueduct con-
structors, In this respect we
have followed the barbarians who
made no great highways. The
lack OF road.building Is the weak
spot in our mateAg civilization.
What will the people OF the twenty
first century think Of us when
they read that in our time whole
communities we're cut of from the
rest Of the world by an embargo
Of mud? We have railroads with
no way to get TO them. The farmer
has daily mails, newspapers and
telephones to give him the prices
current and nc means by which 10
market his produce. II cannot be
expected that farmers will build
expensive highways. TO build
roads is the business OF govern
ments. II the government, na
tional, state aud local, will make
its appropriations and this fund is
supplemented by the gift Of
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-06-25
WORTH CONSIDERING.
Proposition Tor a Canning Factory
Which Has Right Sound.

New Philadelphia, Ohio,
June Is, 1918
Secretary Commercial Club,
Vinita, | r.:
Gentlemen:-Do you think that
your town would give any induce
ment toward locating, at your
place, a canning factory--one that
would employ from 175 to 200
people with capacity Of 10000
cans per day, using from ten to
fourteen hundred bushels of to.
matoea per day, besides canning
fruit, poultry and game.
II ! eau get a bonus or a stock
company, would come and start
same. | am practical canning
man, from the growing OF the to-.
matoes to the selling OF the goods.
A canning factory would be one
OF the best industries you could
locate, as II employs men and
women aud pays good wages.
Men make 81 so per day. The
tomatoes are the best paying crop
grown, raises from three to FIVE
hundred bushels per acre. Should
this interest you In any way would
be glad to hear from you.
Yours Resp. o. j. LATHAM
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NEW ROAD FINANCED
Construction Of the Wichita and
Southern Railroad To Begin

Wednesdays Republic had the
following:
1t is understood that the Wichi.
ts and Southern Railroad, which
10 to extent irGm IN Wichita to South
McAlester, |. r., a distance of
more than 200 miles, has been
financed by 81. Louis capitalists,
and that the construction Of the
line will begin within the next
sixty days.
The first survey Of the proposed
line was made more than seven
years ago. The expense Of this
first step In what traffic men now
say will be one Of the most impor.
tant local lines in the Southwest
was borne by former State Sena.
tor 0. H. Bentley, former Cover.
nor Stanley and r. R. Vermillion,
one Of the foremost attorneys Of
the state.
The route is from Wichita by
way OF Douglass, Kss., vinita, l..
T., and through the coal lands Of
the territory, connecting with the
NJ. X. g. T. at South McAlester.
The ultimate terminus Of the
road as designed by the original
promoters was Coalgate, /. T.,
where the Wichita line was to be
connected with the Katy through
line to the Cult, thereby giving
the road a grain haul to the South
and return load Of Indian terri.
tory coal, which in the last few
years has supplanted the West
Missouri and East Kansas pro.
duct ~ the country from Neodes.
ha, Kas., to the Colorado line.
The first survey wps sold, bat
the original promoters in the
main have retained their connec.
tion, aud II is reported that while
Philadelphia and st. Louis capita
lists have guaranteed funds for
the construction and survey the
directorate still remains with w.
II. Arnold and other capitalists
OF South MoAlester, o. H. Bent.
ley OF Wichita and stockholders
Of the NJ. K. d T.
A through line from Wichita to
the Gulf 10 the design and it is
understood that the Wichita and
South MoAlester branch is to be q
feeder to the Katy, which virtual
u makes il q Katy road.
The capitalization, it is report
ed; is to be 10000. .001.
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wealthy men who wish to be real
brnefaciOrs. there will NJ btgln
a'ne Of tbs only solution Of the
roads problem Mr. Carnegie,
MIR. Rocseirll+r and other wealthy
men could purh civilization iur-
tbsr forward by giving lot Of
millions ior good road building
thar 10 any ther way Kansas
City World
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leases must l,e Approved.


Department OF the Interior, Unit.
ed States Indian Inspector for
Indian Territory.
Muskogee. Ind. Ter, June II,
1908.
To whom IL May Concern:
The attention OF interested
parties is invited TO the following
instructions received from the
Honorable Secretary Of the In.
terror:
washington, D. O.,
June l6, 1903.
U. s Indian Inspector,
Muskogee, Indian Territory.
The Department has received
infor1S'ion that divers persons
are engaged 10 prospecting for oil
and sinking wells upon lands in
the Cherokee Nation to which
they have no leases duly approved
by the Department. You are
directed TO give public notice that
such procedure lie illegal and that
leases will not be approved where
the parties have prospected and
sunk wells thereon prior to the
approval OF the leases.
(signed) E A. HIrcHoooK, seoy "
Any person or corporation de.
string to prospect for oil aud sink
wells are, therefore, hereby ad
vised accordingly aad must secure
approval OF leases before com.
menciug operations.
Copies Of the regulations of the
Department and any other desired
Information can be procured by
application to this Office or to the
.. s. Indian Agent. Union Agency,
Muskogee, |. r.
]. GEo WRIGHT.
United sintbs Indian Inspector
for Indian Territory.