Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-11-29
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the privilege ofssW y hard s
The brewers believe ii keeping The
temp erance question out. OF politics,
=l The only kind Of business that
fears popular government is rotten
Six states will have direct vote
on candidates for president. Taft
will not get one of them.
James Peterson, one Of the first
Minneapolis progressives, is said ia
be ready to file against Knute Nelson
under the Keefe law.
The misery and deviltry resulting
from booze will come, whether the
liquid is dished out BY an "independ-
ent" or brewery owned saloon. Close
them all.
A contemporary says til. agitation
for a special session is simply an eff
fort to put Governor Eberhardt in q
hole. How can he be in worse hole
than he is? z 3..
The trouble with many. progress
sives is that they don't want the
country saved unless their party
does it and they get the Offices.
The general who would surrender
his position without striking blow
because he feared he had traitors in
his camp would be put down as a
poltroon, and probably be court mar
tailed as a traitor himself.
The call for Lindbergh for COVER
nor is increasing in volume every
day. He belongs in the Senate with
Clapp, but if he needs a term as gov
ernor to put him in touch with all the
parts Of the State, let it come.
The question whether there will
be any politics" or not at the North
ern Minnesota Development meeting
at st. Cloud next week seems to wor-
ny a lot of. newspapers. It is a safe
bet that there will be more men who
are Tin politics" at that meeting than
men who are not.
Isn't it queer state Of affairs that
the very men who are responsible
for the present legislature will not
trust the members thereof to do the
right thing, nor give them the oppor-
tunity to redeem themselves. ''Let
well enough alone" is the real reason
Of such men.
Dan Aberle, the whiskey seller, is
now on Gov. Eberhardt's staff. Whe1
he was on the Democratic State
Committee, he was pointed to by 10:
cal Republicans as evidence Of tn,
Democratic party being the whiske,
party. What does his present posi-.
ton signify
In the village Of Tyler the presi
dent sold 1897 worth Of wood ant
coal to the village and one Of tn,
trustees a bill Of goods for SILL il
the run Of their business. Som,
spiteful persons made objection t,
the payment Of the claims, and aftel
the courts declared the accounts for.
feited, the Tyler Journal fills it's frs
page with an article signed by abou
100 citizens denouncing such spite.
work. Is
"Silence gives consent" and tn,
progressive who by his silence con
sents to the present unholy alliance
between the national government ant
the booze interests, will find that il
due time he will be forced to issu,
his emancipation proclamation" a.
war measure, for the booze inter
ests furnish the supplies, the re-
cruits and the rallying points for tn
war against better government.
Don't tax the corporations be
cause the people will have to pay it,
shout the 'let-well- enough alone
editors. We would like to inquire
who pays the taxes nowf AS lonl
as you tax all other lines Of business
why should the railroads escape
We do not believe in levying fine!
on enterprising citizens who max
improvements nor in taxing the PEG
pie indirectly thru tariffs on neces
saries Of life or by taxing industry
but we would insist that as long al
you tax smaller business men both Of
what they have and what they dom
have, the big concerns should not b
exceptions. If we are to have ia,
reform, let all, big and small, shar
in its benefits,
Henry Lewis Of New York Cit.
has issued circular declaring tina
business men" demand that polit