Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-05-22

When in the course Of human events
TT becomes necessary for the voters to
dissolve the bonds that have bound them
to those political parties which formerly
represented the interest Of the people
with patriotic fidelity, but which in
moro recent years have been dominated
by. and subservient to the "interests'
that are destructive Of the public good,
q decent respect to the memory Of our
patriot fathers who founded and fought
for those parties requires an open and
candid statement Of the causes which
Iimpel to the separation. This nation is
founded upon and dedicated to the prin-
c1ple that governments are established
| among men to secure them in certain
God-siven rights. among which are Life.
| Liberty and the pursuit Of Happiness;
and that these governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the gov
erned. When any political party, in the
administration Of the functions of gov
eminent becomes destructive of these
ends it is the patriotic duty of the peo-
pie to abolish that party. and institute
new party which will restore the
Peoples government to the People. Par
ties long established should not be
changed for light and transient reasons
and accordingly all experience hath
shown that mankind are more disposed
| to suffer while evils are sufferable than
to right themselves by abolishing those
parties which their fathers supported
before them. But when long and un-
broken chain Of abuses and usurpations
of the government which is theirs Of
inherent right. and without which the
preservation Of Life. Liberty and Hap
ptness is impossible. it becomes the SUI
preme duty of the voters to oppose those
parties which lend themselves to such
treason. ~ .-E --s--..
The ruling party of this state is every
where recognized to be the servile lack
ley of the arrogant and domineerfng
breweries. In support of this black and
| damning indictment let the facts speak:
| Through its regularly constituted off,
GERS the Republican party named the
attorney of the biggest brewery in the
state as the chairman of the Temper
ance (?) committee in the state senate;
two years later the present governor
then the lieutenant governor of the
state appointed a temperance committee
which stood eight to one against every
measure intended to protect the Life
Liberty and Happiness of the people
against the insatiate rapacity Of the
traffic." the same committee was re-
appointed after it had made history that
shamed and chagrined everv Honest citi-
zen and appalled, every patriot; the OFF,
Ger who perpetrated this crime against
the sacred purpose of government and
flung this vile insult upon an over pa
tient people was rewarded for his fide!-
|ity to the breweries by elevation to the
highest and most potent executive Of
flee in the state by political party
which continues to render undivided
service to the liquor interests; it re-
pealed the law requiring that the youth
should be Instructed In the effect of al
cohol upon the physical system in ord. r
that the breweries might coin the health
and morals of the people into pelf and
fill their already bloated fortune; it has
denied the people the right Of self-pio-
lection against the greed of the gin
mills by refusing any extension Of the
rights to vote directly upon the ques-
ton to the voters Of either the rural or
urban districts, or to submit the ques-
ton to a vote Of the entire state; it has
ignored the most extensive, general and
insistent petitions that have ever been
presented to the legislature; it sought to
force upon the people a re-apportion-
ment bill framed with an eye single to
fastening brewery control upon the
state. ~
| The proof Of the appalling fact that
the session Of 1911 our-Judased Judas in
its unspeakable .treachery Of the inter
ests OF the people is found IN the bitter
confessions Of the self-respecting Re-
publican press of the State. Let pa-