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


food and money.
Their affairs are paramount public
questions.
The whole country is discussing
railroad rates, the ''private car" and
pure food.
The whole country is discussing
American meat, American insurance.
= Readers of the daily and weekly
newspapers have everything at stake
in these matters.
They are forming opinions that will
affect everything they eat, raise, sell,
have or buy, every dollar they earn
or hope to earn.
Now is the Time
To Settle Things.
Since these subjects are under dis
cussion and all manner of reforms and
legislation are being devised, this is
the time to settle things.
Thank goodness, public matters are
eventually submitted to the people.
This is still free country and the
people have sovereign power.
The corporations control the money,
food, railroads and insurance of the
| people but the people control the cor
porations, or can do so if they wish.
Intelligence and Power
Of the Rural People.
Right control can only be exercised
when knowledge exists as to what
! the public should demand of the
! trusts.
hof vii CHI ho fy1r-
| nished the people who live in the
| farms.
| They have most at stake
| they produce the meat and the
wheat.
they make the country's prosper
ity
| they supply the cash for the in
! surance companies
they are the most intelligent peo-
| pie in the nation.
| they are the most powerful peo-
| pie in the nation
It Is Not the Cities
That Should Control.
It is not the cities that should con-
troll.
The cities produce nothing, not
even intelligent citizens. The cities
| live upon the products Of the country
and prosper by the country's cash.
They run the mills that grind tho
country's wheat, the packing houses
that prepare the country's meat, the
| factories that manufacture the coun-
try's- wool and cotton and iron and
wood the railroads, the insurance
companies and the politicians.
The cities have populations given up
to money making and pleasure, who
do not own the houses they live in,
do not suppress crime or vice nor
support any adequate system of edu-
cation
people who perpetuate the lowest
order of intelligence, as shown in the
sensational newspapers they read and
| the class of men who represent them
in legislation.
The Real Seat Of Power
Is With the Country FoIks.
City people live in dirt and disease.
Go into Chicago and see the filth in
the streets, breathe the air filled with
manure dust, hear the roar Of the
| streets, observe the clouds of sitting
smoke, the terrible expressions on
| the faces of the people, the
| strenuous, helpless masses who rush
| down town to work in the morning,
out to a dyspeptic lunch at noon and
back at night to dingy boarding houses
and thence to beer gardens or vaude-
vile shows that vie with tho sport
Ing extras in sensationalism and you
| don't wonder they have gotAen into
trouble with their stock yards. If the
| stock yards are no worse than the rest
of Chicago they are bad enough.
And do you suppose these people
have any real power?
No, real power is where intelligence
and decency ,are-where people earn
honest money by honest work, where
they live clean lives, support their fam
lilies and perpetuate the race with chill
dren who are we'll educated and made
moral by precedent and universal sen.
timent-and such people live "far from
the madding crowd
Rich Men Seek
the Country.
When men get rich they seek the
country because the country is the
place to live.
And people who live in the country
are rich In health and happiness, in
freedom Of thought, in independence
Of action.
They are the intelligent people Of
the nation, able to solve great ques
tons and so they should have
the facts and figures regarding the
trusts and thus be placed in position
to form their own conclusions on cat
/ tie and fruit raising, the meat sys
TEN, the railroad rate issue, the pri
vate car, the packing houses, the flou,
mills; the insurance companies.
i = A series of articles on these sub
| jects will be published in this paper
The Best Writers Will:
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