Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-08-21
Will Vote 40 They Shoot.

: Will Vote 40 They Shoot. So
In the soul-trying watches Of No
Mans Land, the youth Of America will
surely temper the metal Of their
minds,a return with q new idea of
the duties of citizenship. Party tags
will mean nothing to men who have
risked all for democracy. Nothing is
more. certain than that when the boys
come home they will demand clean.
up at home. Cunning politicians are
already counting on the soldier vote.
industrious flag-waving of men who
do not dare tell where they stand on
government ownership and other pro-
gressive doctrines, They think they
will attract the soldier VOTE But 1t
will take something deeper than lip
patriotism to win the veterans sup
port.
A returned Canadian soldier has
won seat in the parliament OF Brit
ish Columbia. His victory was the
result of a coalition of the returned
soldiers and the labor unionists.
Practically every discharged soldier
in Canada is lining up with labor Tor
political action. This is sign OF what
will undoubtedly happen in all coun'
tries after the war.
In Australia the veterans have
formed a Returned Soldiers and Sail.
ors' Political league, with member
ship of $1,000 in New South Wales
alone. At a recent conference this
League united with the Australian
Labor party. Last March the Aus
tralian soldiers at the front voted
overwhelmingly for the Labor party:
AS to to be expected, the two old
| parties in Australia have combined
| against the labor and soldier vote.
| The loyalty issue was raised by the
| old-style politicians in vain. AS
| George Macdonald says in the Non
partisan Leader, 1.-THE people OF Aus
tralia, and more important, the SOL
diers, have seen through this loyalty
| camoufiage and the result is that the
| returned soldiers are flocking to the
standard of the Labor party by
| thousands. The Labor party stands
| for the elimination in peace as well
as in war of that most undesirable
element of modern civilization-the
profiteer.''
Indeed, we may count on the sold.
diers voting as they shoot-for de-
/ mOcracy.
! A Little Land and a Living.
The need for conservation has turn
ed many a mans thoughts toward a
small plot of ground on the edge OF
town. The business of producing
food has taken on a new dignity, these
days, and the Importance of the
farmer is being realized as never be
fore. Perhaps the day is coming
when more of us will raise most Of
what we eat.
The natural thing would be to have
our cities surrounded by small homes
each with it's small garden; beyond
that truck farms; beyond that thu
pasture lands, and beyond that thu
forest and wilderness. Instead OF
this, our crazy system of taxation
gives us wilderness in the heart O.
the city, the workers piled one on tol
of the other in tenements, and thu
farmer usually pushed to outlying
lands where the difficulties and dis
advantages of living are. greatly in
creased.
The immediate remedy for this il
to open land to be used to produce {
men may live. To learn how to USE
such lands as are available near the
cities is long step to this end, and i
all the little lands were furnishing {
living for some one, we would bt
able to accommodate in our countr!
hundreds of millions more.