Willmar tribune., 1903-08-08

| Is just as p1alnly MS Quty 10 90 every
thing in his power to get courts that
will give just rulings.
The Duluth News Tribune of last
Tuesday contained q long article
about q trap set for the innocent legis-
lators of Minnesota by the lumber
msenates of Minneapolis. The fol-
lowing are the particulars regarding
the trap:
There's to be u banquet at Minnea-
polis next Thursday night. The peo-
pie invited are members OF the leglsla-
ture. The hosts are the lumber mag.
mates OF Minneapolis The feast will
be of many courses; there will be edi-
bles such as Lucullus never dreamed
Of, and, at last, succession of wines
ending with champagne, q tipple thas
would have thrown AnacreOn, him.
self, into voluptuous convulsions, If
champagne had existed in the time of
that matchless poet and Judge OF wine
and love. Ever and anon the dreamy
rhythm of music will COO soft asttery
lnlo the ears of the guests Following
orchestral symphonies will guide raw
rich as molten gold. Other diversions
cloyed with good things.
For what?
But you must not imagine that all
naught. Some>h hing for nothing is not
hn ~ nd nd
on the heels CT this tickling of the
palate and the ear will come the de-
mand for settlement. It's not tor ad-
miration of the legislators profound
law-giving genius, or Of their social
charms, that the sawdust syndic ate
wines and dimes them 1T an expense of
thousands.
The members of the legislature will
be pressed to sign petition which
asks President Roosevelt to overrule
the interior department and to extend
the sale of the Chippewa piue over q
period of ten years. In other words,
the Legislators are to be asked to lend
their aid to the throttling of the spirit
of the Morris bill; to substitute the in
teress of big lumber companies in
Minneapolis for that Of the people OF
northern Minnesota; to perpetuate the
system of robbing The Chippewa lodi.
ans that has existed for twenty years;
and to give new lease of life to the
scandalous method of procedure which
has shamed the United States aud the
state Of Minnesota during all that
time. The legislator who signs that
petition will pay we'll for his supper,
will be not?
OF course the lumber barons do not
acknowledge that it Is for their own
interests they are working. Oh, no!
Their tender hearts are bleeding for
the poor Indians, whose property will
be thus suddenly thrown on the mar
ket and consequently causing fall in
prices that will leave very little for
the poor wards of the nation. If there
is anything more than another that
causes the lumber baron to be seized
with q violent paroxysm of woe it is
to see the Indians robbed by the un.
feeling white man. The suspicious
editor of the News Tribune, however,
intimates that the lumber barOns have
been in the habit OF cutting the pine
on those lands under the "dead and
down" timber act. When q lumber
baron gets after timber on government
or Indian lands he leaves his specta.
cles at home, and Consequently all
timber looks alike to him It is all
"dead and down" at least when he
gets through.
Another reason discovered by this
8 anne suspicious editor is that if the
lumber barons were forced to cut the
timber on the reservation in the re-
quirel time there would be enough
lumber thrown on the market to force
the price down to point where people
who are not millionaires could afford
to buy it. AT present the production
is strictly limited, so that the lumber
barons can fix prices to suit them
selves. They don't care to cut up and
dispose of a large quantity of timber
if they can make the same profits on a
smaller quantity.
Perhaps after all the lumber barons
are more interested in their own well
fare than in that of the Indians. Per-
haps the land commissioner and the
secretary of the interior can be trusted
to look after the interests of the Indi-
ans fully as we'll as Walker, Smith,
Shevlin & Co. could do it.
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The GOOdhue COu ntv News has dia