Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-08-15

POWER OF
Thousands of newspapers are de-
Gliding to print the truth about the
trusts.
They have concluded to give their
readers the power of knowledge.
Without knowledge people are help
less.
1t is the basis Of our self-govern-
ment.
When We know what to do we can
do it. It is a free country. The peo-
pie control everything.
All Power is in the
Hands of the People.
No political party has power except
through the people.
No political party can act without
popular support.
1t may do so, but that is suicide
at the next election it loses it's
power.
Political parties have but to hear
the verdict of the people to realize the
peoples power.
COMPUTATIONS of capital are equally
helpless
they must yield to the people or
be crushed.
In these matters Of meat, railroads
and insurance the power of reform is
in the hands of the public.
The people have but to decide what
they want done and it will be done.
The Power Of the Press
Belongs to the People.
Publicity is the cure for the
trusts" the President has said,
because when the press gives the
facts to the public the public will ex-
ercise it's mighty power.
The press belongs to the public.
The people who read the news
papers and magazines control them.
Let the people cease to read any Civ.
en- publication and no matter how much
money it's publisher has and how
much advertisers spend in it, it's pow.
er is gone.
The people are represented by the
press. They delegate their power tc
it's columns when they undertake tc
lave it solve public questions, for il
just as much or more than when the
public power is delegated to mem
| Der of the legislature or of Congress
To secure the representation Of the
public is the aim of every ambitious
publisher. He is representative Of thu
public just to the extent he has sub
scribers, just to the extent people
read his publication.
Getting Subscribers is
Almost Like Getting Votes
It's about the same as getting votes
A subscription is practically votI
for the policy Of the publication.
furnishes the cash with which to pub
lish. 1t furnishes the moral supper
that lies in the fact that people reat
any given publication.
So the struggle is for circulation.
The great giants in publishing ar
the city PRESS. Millions in money back
the enterprises Of the city publisher
He reaches out into the whole coun
try for subscribers.
He makes his publication so inter
esting that Everyone wants to read II
He gets public support two ways
first he gets subscribers from district
where previously the people hav
supported the local press solely. The!
he gets support from the city advertis
ers who want the country trade-th
mail order houses, the whole long lis
of advertisers who are sapping til
country's cash and paying the cit
publisher to help them do it.
He wakes wealthy and hires tn
best writer's in the country and de
cides to make his publications so ii
teresting that everybody will have t
read them. He stirs up public que'
tions-goes after the meat trust, tn
insurance trust, the railroads. all tn
vast enterprises which handle th
peoples money and products and di
tribute and augment the peoples pro-
perity, or vice versa, whichever wa
you want to look at it.
The City Versus
The Country
It's the same old story-creatin
central control, bringing the people
money into the cities to be handle
by the men who publish the mag
zines and daily newspapers and VIII
aim to abolish the country store an
the country publisher by making
impossible for them to compete jus
as the other trusts have central1Ze
other things, such as insurance an
cattle-killing and management Of raj
roads.
It's the city versus the country
the non-producer versus the produce
the middle man versus the end man
the fellows who take control Of con
modities and cash between the pr
Queer and the consumer and addin
nothing to either commod1tie
or cash amass vast fortune
! for themselves. Last year til
/ country's products were over twelv
billion dollars in value but the farmer
, and the other working people got onl
two billion dollars of this money. VIII
got the rest?
It's the corrupt, immoral, sens
tional, lawless, dirty and disease
city versus the incorruptible, mora
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