Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-11-02
To.Hon. Samuel W. Williams. Chairman
Com m ttaa an N0tifica ton

Committee on NOtlncatlOn.
When two great political parties have,
in turn, governed a country, and have
between them, brought about unsatis-
factory conditions, it is but natural that
a third party should arise. Citizens who
have looked in vain to 1.-The two great
parties" for remedial legislation lose
confidence in both after awhile and
adopt one of two courses; they either
submit to the evils of bad government,
or protest by organizing third party.
To the student of history, there is
nothing more saddening than the ten
dency of the people to submit. AS
rule, political education never reaches
the masses. State-craft, like priest
craft, jealousy guards its secrets. There
is always the inner sanctuary which the
people are taught to believe would be
profaned by the touch o. their unholy
feet.
Again, in organized government there
Is a mysterious reverence for authority.
Whatever is, is right" to the unthink-
ing multitude; and the votaries of pow
err never cease to deepen that impression.
Thus, partly from ignorance and partly
from reverence for established author
ity. the people. in every age, have shown
more inclination to submit to bad gov.
eminent than to resist it. The crimes
which have been committed under forms
of law by ruling classes against subject
masses almost stagger belief. They have
been so deliberately cruel, so relentless
ly selfish, so shamefully unjust, that the
blood of the student boils within him as
he reads the record. What was the pur-
pose of the law-maker in forming such
heartless legislation? The motive was
to render permanent the rule of the few,
the privilege of the few, the power and
the wealth of the few. Always and
everywhere the result of this sort of leg
islation has been the same-it defeated
itself; and the aristocracy fell with the
state which it misgoverned. Those who
rule by corruption, being corrupt them
selves, sap the very foundation of social
and political order; and when there is
nothing in the masses of the people but
tame submission to tyranny, there is no
robust strength left to meet the enemy,
within or without.
The Rule Of the Few
A handful Of Engllshmen are able to
hold Egypt down, and plumber its people
in the interest Of the Rothschilds, and
cadent and helpless khedive. Why?
Because the life had been taken out of
those poor creatures by centuries of mis-
rule. The common man, in Egypt. has
been dirt under the feet of masters so
long that he has come to believe that he
is dirt, and nothing more. See how
the 2OO.O0O,OO0 of Hindoos are held down
by 100000 British! See how they SUBJ
nit to be so closely shorn by English
plunderers that at the least breath of
famine they perish by millions. How
was that horrible situation made posi-
BILE? Centuries of misrule did it. Soul
less aristocracy. thinking of it's own in
terests only, killed the spirit of the peo-
pie by atrocious laws. When the evil
hour came and India needed robust
manhood to defend the empire, o robust
manhood was there. The rulers were eff
Terminate, weakened by their own
wealth. their own self-indulgence, their
own monopoly of power. privilege and
opportunity. The subject classes, on the
other hand. had submitted so long, had
been slaves so long, that the instinct Of
patriotism was lacking; and to the new
yoke of the British the patient OK submit
ted. To be an OK and wear yoke had
become second nature to the wretched,
lower class Hindoo.
But, those things happened long ago;
they happened to people of another race;
in modern times and among the white
races such disagreement would be i'm
possible. Self-complacent ignorance of
the present day takes that kind of COM
fort to itself. and blandly congratulates
itself upon the fact that legislative .sys-
TENS of robbery are things of the past
Editorial writer's, whose papers are
owned and salaries paid by the pets of
class-legislation lose no opportunity of
patting the self-complacent sage on the
back, and of strengthening his belief
that all is we'll with the republic. Class
legislation did. cLce upon time. lead
great nations to ruin-but. that was long
ago. Glass legislation is the same old
tree/ but the fruit not the same. Thus
sayeth the subsidized editor; and, the
self-complacent sage who knoWs that
all is well with our republic, purrs with
satisfaction, and thinks highly of the
editor.
Yet, if one really wishes to know the
truth, and will but look around him, he
will observe symptoms which have al
ways characterized the diseased nation
when afflicted by class-legislation.
These Are the Real Oppressors.
Did the people of Russia demand war
with Japan? Were they consulted? Did
they have any grievance against the Jap
enese? No. The ear did not want the
war; the people did not want It. Who
Their forced Russia into that bottom1ess
cit Of blood and suHarfng1 The corrupt