Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-08-15
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
STUDYING THE TRUSTS
THOUSANDS OF NEWSPAPERS DECIDING TO
PRINT THE TRUTH REGARDING THE
GIGANTIC "SYSTEMS''
THAT CONTROL THE PEOPLES FOOD, PRODUCTS AND
PROSPERITY
THE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND RAILROADS
IN ORDER THAT THE CONTROL THE TRUSTS BY THE
POWER OF KNOW EDGE

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KNOWLEDGE
sober-minded, law-abiding, clean and
healthy country-and the city has
the best of it to date.
And the city publisher is gloating
over his millions of magazine and
newspaper circulation with which he
is building up the city stores and
banks and wholesale houses and in
surance companies through bringing
the countryman's money and trade
into the city instead of letting it re-
main to prosper the countryman's
own community.
Aided and Allotted
BY the Government
millions for postal service to dis
tribute the city publications to the
country people but not one dollar for
| one cent postage" is the policy of the
| ernment-DemOoratic or Republi-
can, it makes no difference, for the
city publisher has been getting his
little million dollar a week graft out
of the postal department under both
for years.
| Help the city all you can," is the
cry in Congress. Crush the country
man. Build up Chicago, st. Louis,
New York as jobbing and manufacture
ing and railroad and packing and
brewery and publishing centers. Don't
let single state have a wholesale
center of it's own unless it's located
| uy1o holm
late railroad rates to compel the
whole country to buy everything from
these great political centers and to
send everything there-wheat, cattle,
cotton, cash.
"Kill off the country merchant and
the country store. They interfere
with centralized control. Kill off the
country banker. He keeps some of the
peoples money at home. Kill off the
country publisher. He appeals to a
free and intelligent people and has
power we must curb. Drive all gen.
eral advertisers to use only the big
city publications and let the mail
order advertiser get all the local trade
away from the country advertiser who
supports the country newspaper.
Murray for Capitalization. The coun-
try people supply us with everything
we eat and wear and now let's make
'em supply all our cash and buy moth
ing except what's advertised in our
publications"
That's the Cry
of the City
That's the cry of the city-the hun
cry, sensual, wicked, selfish, lazy,
cruel, cursed city that takes our young
, people and converts them into dis
ciples Of mammOn, into non-religious,
. non-virtuous, non-intelligent support
ers of city systems of graft and greed
and now wants to take all our other
possessions, including our independ
ence of thought.
, And the city publisher goes about
) it shrewdly.
. He publishes what looks at the first
: glance to be honest articles, setting
forth the facts about "Frenzied
: Finance" and meat methods and rail-
!. reading and private car system and
- insurance scandals, but which are
> really inspired by motives that will
. not bear analysis. The plausibility
! of these articles is their shrewdest
+ point.
. They look exactly as if they were
t written "For the Common Good" but
3 they should all be labeled central
? ize Everything in the Cities" From
rate legislation to packing house ex-
| al Of IN r.
! tons that will compel all business to
/ be done in great cities by great trusts
D The local butcher can't kill cattle I'M
J. der government inspection, the coun-
e try store can't sell goods in competi-
9 ton with the city mail order house
e and the ordinary jobber in any state
j. center can't compete with the jobber
$ in big cities that are favored by the
y Interstate Commerce Commission and
rate legislation.
But when the country newspapers
band together and enjoy men of tai
q ent to write regarding great subjects,
. men who will give the facts and let
= the people Judge for themselves hen
- the country publisher S,rotects him
- self and his patrons This is exactly
= what thousands Of them are doing.
= They are combining to have the truth
= brought out regarding the trusts and
\ thus putting their readers in position
4 to enact legislation that will safe
l. guard the country against the attacks
of the city and the city's publishers
and politicians.
:. Thus the country publisher is as.
= sorting himself and will be able to win
+ in the struggle for his own existence
J. and that of his patrons-the country
e storekeeper, farmer, cattleraiser and
$ banker.
s The publication of the facts regard.
e ing cattle and cash, meat and wheat,
e railroads and rates, private cars and
s fruit, vegetable and beef distribution,
y Insurance and "Frenzied Finance
o will place the great country people
the producing and prospecting popula
l. ton Of the nation, in position to exer
d else intelligent control over their at
!, fairs.
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