Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-11-02

areas Oh LOuS OF JUNK is mus nauQleu
during those Few days; and upon this
fraudulent mail matter the average
for the entire year Is based. The tax
payers nave to Fay. The congressman
who lend themselves to this swindle
get free passes and other good things.
In express charges, freight rates, tele-
phone and telegraph tariffs the public
Is plundered every day in the year;
and the manner in which they submit
to it is one Of the 1narvels of the age.
No other people among civilized ma
tons are 90 cursed with corporation
tyranny as ourselves; and we never
seem to think that any remedy Is pos
sible. Half dozel4 corporation kings
can meet in the Office Of J. P. Morgan,
and tax the life out Of any town or
city in he United States. BY squirt
of the pen they can add hundreds OF
millions of dol4~rs to the burdens OF
the people. They enable the trust to
STAY its rivals by granting rebates, or
special rates, which make competition
impossible. They 1ebauch public morals
by their methods of gaining what they
want from government, legislatures.
judges, editors, politicians and members
of congress.
pCO,OOO,OOO LII OA0 LAY
Napoleon once rose from a study Of
interest tables with the remark: When
I consider the deadly principle which
lies hidden in these tables, marvel that
1t has not devoured the human race"
That deadly principle is precisely
what has devoured SO great part OF
the human race. That deadly princ1-
pie does devour {. portion of the human
race every year. The big fortune, by the
law of it's nature, tends to grow bigger
Each colossal accumulation represents
what one victor gained and 10000 vic
times lost. For, in a fortune OF
$10O,0O0,000 there can be no such
thing as fair reward for productive Ia
Dor. Such a fortune, or anything like 1t,
represents, as rule, the spoil OF the
successful marauder in the fields where
others had toiled. Such man is free
booter; and his hoard often cost the
losers more lives, more tears, more
broken hearts and ruined homes, than
are found in the track of actual war.
When those Standard Oil knaves robbed
the people of 100000 in one day, they
felt entitled to the admiration of the
business world. On the same day, per-
haps, hungry women stole bread for
hungry children, and went to prison for
It. J. p Morgan, Andrew Carnegie.
Charles Schwab, and other conspicuous
captains of industry, increased their I'M
wieldy fortunes by pocketing $5O0,000,-
900 which other less conspicuous persons
confided to the steel trust. No one was
punished, and at one of those libraries
which Carnegie has been establishing
all over thu land, admission was denied
to one Of the best books Of one Of the
best Russian authors, because 1t gave a
vivid description of the condition OF the
peasantry IN Russia Himself mon
strous product of governmental favOrit-
ism and protection" no book which ex-
poses anG denounces class-legislation
can be satisfactory to this man who has
in his golfers 90 many millions which
should have been left in the pockets of
those WHOSE honest Industry produced
them
With Standard OIL accumulation, a
Carnegie accumulation, and other sim
liar accumulations represented by such
men as J. P. Morgan, August Belmont
and Arthur German, what is to prevent
/ "the deadly principle of com pound inter-
est" from operating with appalling re-
suits in this country? By the law of
their nature, those monster fortunes
will grow larger and larger. As the
owners of this huge wealth have taken
more than their share. from the common
stock OF the nations wealth. SO there
must be increasing millions of men who
get less than their share.
The absolute, mathematical certainty
that the advance of certain favored
interests must lead to the permanent pow
ortu on1 c,,h;oofior ~ tho h05u ~
the unprivileged is made doubly certain
when we remember that the enormous
burdens of taxation-state, municipal
and national-rests mainly upon the
; shoulders of the unprivilaged. The mid
| die and lower classes have to pay, not
| only tn cir own taxes but those which The
privileged escape. Tho ANAL results OF
this ruinous injustice are too apparent to
; be questioned.
Cannot Go This Way Forever.
What will be the end of it? No stu
| dent believes it can go on as it is for
ever. All see danger signals ahead.
That rising tide of angry discomfort is
! pouring over the country cannot be dis
| puted The evidences of it are visible
everywhere. If H. II. Rogers, J. p Nor
gan. August Belmont and men of that
type think there Is no act of spoliation
to which the people will not submit, they
are making for themselves fools para
disc. If the Standard OIL crowd and the
Sugar Trust crowd think that the Amer
lean people are going 20 stand idly &C.
Quiescent while they gobble up all the
wealth Of the republic, they are playing
with fire. 1t will cot be permitted. AL
ready more than half of the annual in
crease Of wealth Is absorbed by less than
| dozen trusts. Already We have men SO
rich that they could buy up the entire
property contained in one of our states.
! IT 1.-The deadly principle Of compound
interest" continues to work for the
/! Standard Oil, that group of plunderers
will soon own the whole of the Utited
| States. They and their confederate
kings will have such grip upon our en-
| tire system, commercial, financial and
| political, that the government will
amount to little more than piece OF
necessary mechanism to the Standards
system. The federal administration
will take orders from some future Rog-
ere, just as boards Of directors Of dozens
| Of huge corporations now do. The very
life OF the republic demands the curling
Of these gigantic combinations, and
every aggressive step they take, from
henceforth, will hasten the day when
imperative public opinion will compel
the constituted authorities to protect the
public from ruthless spoliation of this
! kind.
This Is Complete Circus Of Our Own.
A third party has no right to exist
unless there are abuses in government
! which "the two great parties" refuse tc
reform. Unless both the two old parties
are wrong, there is no room or excuse
for third. But, If both the old parties
| ara euuallY guilty of class-Iepis lation