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


who were seeking new fields Of conquest
A score of gold-hunting Nabobs pro-
voked the strife; and now the Russian
peasan. must yield up his body, throw
the weeds of widowhood around his wife,
wiring the cry of orphanage from the lips
of his child, and feed the buzzards with
his rotting flesh, in order that unscrup-
ulous marauders may get their clutches
upon more gold.
In Germany, see how the war-lord
struts and swaggers and misgoverns.
See him clap men, women and children
into filthy dungeons for the high crime
of speaking disrespectfully of their i'm
perial master. See how the soldier rides
on the back of his producer. See how the
the wheels of splendid, extravagant,
insolent militarlsm. See the millions
wasted yearly on the personal vanities
of the emperor. See how the smart
young officers cut down with their
swords the private soldier, or the private
citizen, and escape punishment See
how this proud emperor sends to penal
servitude for seven gears a poor devil
of private soldier who had expressed
the wish that the swift train which bore
might have been slowed up, so that his
majesty's loyal subject could have got
ten 4 glimpse Of the royal face.
See how Italy is narrowed by the tax
gatherer, who squeezes out every posi-
BILE penny from the common people in
order that there shall be maintained an
idle aristocracy, and an exaggerated
militarism. In that unhappy land, so
v.}o h1xr NV, Ao1
been so fragrant that half of the people
never have enough to eat.
See Great Britain, with its lands
monopolized by a few hundred aristo-
Gratis, it's legislation controlled by prop
erty interests, and it's hordes of home
less poor crying for bread along the
streets of the richest cities in the world.
Consider these legions Of the homeless.
Look into those tenements, packed, like
sardines in box, with hungry men,
morals inseparable from such condi-
under the ragged shirt of the workman
who stops In the street to pick up rem
nants Ct food which are foul enough to
turn the stomach of a well-kept dog.
Think of the multitudes who sprawl
prowl through the slums-not by tens,
but by thousands; not in one city. but
in all cities. Millions of human beings,
God-created men and women, fashioned
out of the same clay as ourselves, in all
essential respects the same sort of folks
we are; yet they suffer. they starve.
within sight Of the synagogue, within
earshot of the preacher, who is holding
fo ho
of the Creed of Christine Christ who
never owned home, and never carried
a purse, and who under some IT our stat
utes might have Jared hard as vagrant.
The Blackness Of the Land Department
How Is it in our own land? God never
made a grander home for His children
than that which the cavalier in Vtr-
ginia. the Dutchman in New York. and
the Puritan in Massachusetts,, sought as
a refuge from the systems of the old
world. In natural advantages this earth
holds no region superior to ours. Once
it belonged to the people. With his gun,
the common man won it, mile by mile,
from the Indian, the Frenchman, the
Saxon and the spaniard. What the COM
mon man did not win with his gun. he
sea, the land which is ours became ours
because the common man was ready to
pay for it with his tax-money or his
blood.
What has become of it? With be-
wildering rapidity it has been taken
from the common people and given to
the corporations. 1t belonged to the
government, to all the people. It was
meant to supply homes to individual
citizens, and there was enough of it to
last for many generations. To the ex-
tent OF about tW0 hundred million
acres, it has been given to rallroad cor
porations; and now when a common
man wants a home in all that vast do
main he must 60 to the railroad corpora
lions to get 1t.
A blacker chapter than that which
records how both the old political par
ties united to despoil the common people
of their land. is not to be found in the
annals of class legislation.
Once Jefferson and Hamilton Agreed.
Once upon time we had q financial
system of our own. Placed In the con-
stitution as part OF our fundamental law.
it seemed to be firmly fixed. For q
hundred years this money system was
in operation among us. Therefore. 1t
seemed to be "irrevocably fixed" Very
wise men created this system of national
finance. 1t was the one subject upon
which Thomas Jefferson and Alexander
Hamilton agreed. Those two were, per-
hape, the greatest statesmen this coun-
try ever produced. So preeminent were
they shove al others that they divided
the people into two distinct schools at