Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-02-28

bolt and Jenkin Lloyd Jones. Resolu.
lions adopted were as follows:
I'VE. $4,000 citizens assembled in
the Coliseum and with thousands more
turned away, believing that not only
the lives of our young men and our
material wealth, but our stores of
good will and international sympathy
should be treasured, and knowing that
If the United States now joins In this
world war the lives and property of
American citizens will be further en-
dangered and our opportunity for
leadership in the establishment of an
international organization for the pre-
servat1on Of world peace will be jeop.
ardized, urge that American citizens
and American vessels be warned
against entering the war zone.
believing also that war should be
undertaken only as the expressed and
deliberate choice of the people upon
whom it's burdens will chiefly fall, we
urge that the will Of the people be as.
certained by a referendum vote before |
state Of war is allowed to develop |
between this people and any other
Government"
At the 30 forums of New York City !
meetings against war were held on
0OA u0Ay 40. MdJOI " 14l4dU -. k1dlllcc
of the United States Marine Corps and
Oswald Garrison Willard, president Of
the New York Evening Post Publish
ing Company, addressed symposium
at the Rand School. Mr.. Willard
charged that in the main the move
ment for compulsory military training
had originated with the forces pro-
tected by special privilege. II have
! too much proof" he said. "of people
who give large checks to the prepar-
edness and universal service move
/ ments on the ground that this will
lead to the suppression of the coming
| social revolution, for me to have any
/ doubt that is one Of the main factors
i behind the agitation"
/ Major Hailee said the oath of en-.
| listment' the fact that the privates
| were bound to serve once they enlist
| ed, military caste and unscientific
| methods were some of the things that
| were the matter with the army. AS
1 remedies he proposed this plan:
|! 1.-The new army propose would not
| train more than six months, would
4 have no oath of enlistment, would hire
both officers and men on the same
basis and discharge them when found
unsatisfactory. It would reorganize
every year, when the ratings would be
adjusted, and every officer would have
to advance once year or drop out
And it would cost $30,O00,0O0 a year,
/ instead OF $500, 900 900"
III At a gathering of farmers in Sioux
II Falls, South Dakota, to form a Nom
N partisan League along the lines Of the
III North Dakota organization, the fol-
III lowing resolution was adopted:
III Whereas, the high prices complain
II ed of by the consumer of the products
II OF the farm are not caused by the
II price paid the farmer for his products,
/ but by the operations Of intervening
l. persons who stand between the pro-
/ Queer and consumer, and so manipu-
/ late both that the consumer pays more
i than twice what the producer re-
Il ceives for his product-(these inter-
II vening persons are the grain-elevat-
II ors, stockyards, packing-houses and
IL transportation corporations, the para
sites of society who toll not, neither
Ill do they spin," but so manage as to
u gather to themselves the product of
. the toll of others-the high price the
consumer pays for coal in South Da-
&c &c kota, that of $12 per ton for anthra.
~ cite and Sc to So for bituminous coal,
~ is no proof that the coal miner Is re-
- ceiving too much wages, but is proof
again that the intervening parties are
d. robbing both)-
~ Therefore Be 1t Resolved, That this
pr convention is in favor of the public
v. ownership Of the means of transpor.
v. tati0n and the facilities for marketing
and manufacturing the products of the
or farm SO that the consumer will pay
- less and the farmer will receive more
n. for what he produces, and thus com.
A. pei the parasites of society to go ia
work.
3 The extent to which women of the
IN suffrage States voted for reelection OF
s. President Wilson is shown in figures
#. compiled by Mrs. Frances c. Axtell, q
n former Progressive party member OF
If. the Washington legislature. Mrs. AK
he tell says in part:
at In six Of the twelve woman suffrage
"a States, the women were casting their
to first vote for president. -Four of these
" States more than doubled their votes
Of 1912. In the other two, Kansas and
Nevada, the vote was nearly doubled
IN In all these States there are more
he men than women, Nevada having us
rk men to every 100 women. So doubling
at the vote means that the women voted