Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-02-24
CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION KILLED
Other Legislative Topics Dis.
cussed In Progressive
Light.
&c. J. Buell., for Willmar Tribune.)


carry, it required a two-thirds vote.
All the Bill proposed was that the
question of such Convention be sub
mitted to the people for their vote;
but to some of the present House
vote of the people is very dangerous
thing. One would have thought that
our most sacred liberties were about
to be swallowed up in a food of anar-
chy and destruction if the people
should be permitted to vote upon
changing our constitution.
CARMICHAEL WAVES FLAG
Representative Robert Carmichael
towering over the heads of his fellow
members, held a copy of the Constitu-
ton high above his head and shouted:
Every year we strew flowers on the
graves Of those famous men whose
intelligence and assiduity gave us
this sacred document. Now they pro
pose to rip it to pieces merely to sat-
isfy the whims of certain men.
II thank God that it is as firm and
worthy as the year it was drawn and
that I am here tonight to oppose a
movement to destroy the work of our
forefathers.
"They claim it is antiquated. So
are the Ten Commandments, but still
we observe them"
with the possibility of being drawn
to the European war staring us in the
face, it is now proposed that we ex-
pend 100000 to revise a constitu-
tion," said Representative H. H. Har-
rison.
Representative Chas. A. Gilman,
the oldest member of the Legislature,
in a Quavering voice, defended what
he termed "The child of unusual
minds"
Again the country has been saved;
again the ark of the covenant has been
rescued from the unholy hands of the
despoilers, and we are saved from the
probable ENHANCEMENT of the Euro
pean war.
The holy of holes will not just yet
be polluted by the profance touch of
the popular vote, and the glad &C
claim of ages yet unborn will sing the
praises of the three undaunted her.
oes, who wholly unmindful of person.
al safety, rushed to the rescue and
saved the commonwealth from i'm
pending disaster.
NO GUNNER FOR MINNESOTA
If the House Labor Committee has
it's way, there will be little chance for
Minnesota to be disgraced. as Colo
RADIO, West Virginia, Michigan and
some other States have been by the
importation of armed thugs to shoot
] down helpless laborers, women and
children.
The House Labor Committee voted
unanimously to recommend for pas
sage the Dunleavy Bill which prohib
it's any corporation or other employer
from bringing into the State any
"Gun Men,. Why shouldn't they be
prohibited?
It was these outside armed thugs II
the employ of the Rockefeller mining
interests in Colorado that were re
sponsible for the wholesale slaughter
of innocent women and children al
Ludlow.
The disgraceful scenes of Northern
Michigan and West Virginia were dut
to the same cause.
Why should any one be permitted
to hire and equip private army?
If the Sheriff and his deputies arr
not equal to the task of keeping or
der and protecting life and property
it is then the duty Of the Governor Il
call out the State Militia; and if these
forces are not enough, the Presiden
can be called on and all the forces o
the army can be had to put down dis
order and secure peace.
This is enough and no one shoult
ask for more. And if any employer
do ask for more, that is the best reas
on in the world why they should no
have it.
One law for all men has always
been our motto, and so it should re
main.
FOR THE LAND SPECTATORS
Senator Nord's Bill to repeal tn
law limiting the amount of land tina
any one purchaser can buy from thu
State doesn't look good to me. It ha!
the appearance, at least of being {
move to let the big spectators in OF
the ground floor and allow them tt
buy up as much of the State lands AZ
they choose and hold for the rise tina
is sure to come with the increase il
settlement.
On the other hand, isn't that about
what every purchaser of State land is
after now? Aren't most of them more
interested in the rise in value, thar
in getting land on which to make q
home?
! And can we blame the purchasers
for this? Don't we offer a premium
to the Spectator who holds his land
idle waiting for rise, and don't we
fine the home maker good and plenty
for every improvement he Makes
for every acre he clears, for every rod
of fence he builds, for every stump
he grubs, for every furrow he turns
for every stroke of hammer and saw
with which he strives to build his