Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-21
dangerous to the spirit Of republican

| institutions?
! NO class of citizehs should be al.
lowed to use governmental function
for private profit and reap the enor-
nous gains which the bankers now de-
| rive from that source. But this view
OF the subject is almost trivial COM
| pared to the tremendous power which
! the national banks have in expanding
ard contracting the currency, thus
holding the markets of the republic at
their mercy and having the power at
| any time to tlnsettle values from sea
| to sea.
A Perilou3 Situation.
This country today is in the utmost
! peril from the money question. In
vain do the democrats waive it; it can
not be waived. The Cleveland ruling,
| by which coin was held to mean gold;
| and by which paper notes were used to
| get bonds from the government, is still
i'll force, and the endless chain only
| needs another Cleveland at the wind
| lass. And when we see standing
! around Judge Parker the same old
| Cleveland crowd-Olney, German, Bel
| mont. Carlisle, Lamont-the gravity of
the situation deepens as we study the
faces of that notable collection Of pa
triots. The discoveries of new meth:
DDS Of treating gold ores, the opening
| IF vast deposits of the precious metal
in so many different parts of the world
illustrated and vindicated the peoples
,arty's contention on the subject Of
the currency rather than discredited it.
But Leg to call your attention to
the fact that no man can tell when
these veins will be exhausted, and
when this vast increase in our cur
rency will be discontinued. And
warn you now that when that day ar
rives, cont1 action, and the frightful re-
suits which have always flowed from
contraction. will be upon you. The
moment the volume Of currency ceases
TO increase, as population and COM
merce increase. then relative contrac-
ton 5 at once in action; and the in
creased need for money not be-
ing followed by greater supply Of
money, there will be a crash which
will make this republic shake from one
end of it to the other.
A Storm Coming.
And in the storm that sweeps over
the land. as it surely will do, there
will again be heard the cry of the
suffering man, the suffering woman
and the suffering child. Why is Judge
Parker so assured that the sold stand
ard is irrevocable? Nothing in human
law and custom is irrevocable-espe-
cially if it is wrong. Neither the sane
tons of the constitution of the United
States, the statute law OF the land. nor
the unbroken national practice of
century were sufficient to make the
double standard Of gold and silver ir-
revocable. Why. then, should the
single gold standard. which violates
the constitution, mocks the statute law
and rebels against the precedents of q
hundred years be considered irreyOca-
bic?
1t seems to me that financial sys-
tenn which is based upon violation
Of fundamental law which all officials
are sworn to obey rests upon founda-
ton which lacks a good deal of being
as stable as the rocks.
A. Jeffersonian.
II | know myself l am Jefferson
ian. heart and SOUL II l know my
@arty, it is Jeffersonian. through and
through. We have the same faith that
he had in the principles of human
brotherhood and the same horror o.
any system which robs labor of it's just
reward, which builds up aristocrac1
by means of special privilege and
which by class legislation brings back
with new faces the old foes of the hu-
mar race.
Manhood Above Money.
To restore the liberties of the people
the rule of the people, the equality of
I'll men before the law is our purpose.
We believe that manhood should count
Tor more than money; that character
should outweigh the dollar Whether
he work with Drawn or brain. it is the
worker who should be monarch of the
world
Not wealth, not birth, not Office, but
the wOrker-he who has noble ideals:
he who wants to achieve: he who has
message and mission, and looks
upon the earth as room to work in
and the blessed sun the light to work
by-hc who. clinging to those convic-
tons which become a part of his life.
would rather die than make cowardly
submission to what he felt to be
wrong.
Feels Optimistic.
For myself, DO not believe that the
present tyranny of the corporation.
the monopoly and the autocracy Of
wealth can endure forever. Some day,
some day the American people will rise
in their resistless majesty and drive
the usurpers from the places they have
seized. Some day popular sovereignty
will come again and put it's foes to
rout as it did in the time of Jefferson.
as it did in the time of Jackson.
1t may be that this effort of mine to
rally and arouse the real democrats,
the real believers in popular govern
ment. may come to naught-but no
matter what befalls. will accept this
call, which seems to be to be the call
to duty. AS fearless John Adams said
in the brave days of old, "Sink or
swim, live or die. survive or perish.
give my hand and my heart to this
cause"
Mr.. Tsbbles Notified.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Watson's
speech, Mr.. Jay w. Forrest, of the AL
bany county democracy, made the
speech notifying the Hon. Thomas H.
Tibbles of Nebraska of his nomination
for the vice presidency on the same