Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-21
ONE WAY TO ACCOUNT FOR
INCREASED COST OF LIVING

, completed all the river and harbor
improvements at present contem-
plated; or, if used in drainage,
irrigation, reforesting. roadbuild-
ng. inland-waterwa Us. or any one
or several of the plans which would
rebound to the credit of the nation
and the prosperity of the people,
would have accomplished so much
that one might have thought the
millennium at hand.
This feverish preparation for war
is worldwide which is a strong proof
that it is the cause of the world
wide increase in living costs. Ours
are not the only statesmen" in
the world.
The yearly expenditure of seven
Of the European governments for
war insural &c Tor assurance) is suf-
cient to teach every child under
fourteen years of age in those coun-
tries, trade, and give every man
over sixty-tive pension. Lei
English governmental officials wro
are struggling with the problems #
the unemploy ed, and old-age pen
sions, think of these things.
J. J. Hiss advice to build one
battleship less each year and estab-
lish one hundred agricultural COL
leges, if acted on, would send more
men back to the soil and give US
once more the abundance of food
which Old Mother Earth has so
beautifully provided in the past,
and can easily provide again. Few
err human beings would delve in
darkness to find the black metal Of
brutal war, and more could live
and labor in the light Of Gods sun
shine, with the honest sweat spark
ling on their foreheads, in place
+ of the grimy damp Of death-fore-
boding war.
Sir Edward Grav said, in the
House Of Commons, some time ago,
that all thinking men recognize
| the fact that the enormous expend-
itures on ornaments, is "a satire
on modern civilization. Let
those who have been placed in the
seats of the mighty in this country
where civilization has farthest ad,
vanced in governmental affairs
take warning. The giant is arous.
ing from his lethargy; his awaken.
ing breathing is already portentous
of tumult and turmoil of turnouts
and turnovers. This democracy tt
live, must be "a government Of the
people, by the people, and for the
people, The people are fast com
ing to see that it has a God-giver
mission to promulgate peace, no.
to foster war.
No further analysis is needed
but what could not logicia1
prove with a few of these figures
if he should Consider in addition
the number of men who are segre
gated from all useful employment
many of them lured from the farm
by highly colored Autographs, ant
temrting tales Of foreign travel
Thousands Of these sturdy worker
fed and clothed from the publ
treasury, but adding nothing to it
} OF the enormous waste of pteciuu
} fuel, while the poor jewellers 0
urban centers are shivering for lac
O. God-given but man-monopolize
, carbon! And again, if the traine
? machinists and uhskilled sailor
? were being utilized to build labor
| saving machinery instead of labo
destroyers; and it the trained en-
1 gineers and line officers were usin
Il the ir nation-given education in car
: structing roads, bridges and canals
, or "HarneSsing all the rivers abOv
o the cataract's b. ink" and thus "u'
Harvesting man"--then inoeed W
d Nigh talk of brotherhood" {
: nearer a realty, and not theoriz
S so much about brotherhood Of tt
Y dim and distant future Our DUN
e Animals.