Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-05-01

people.
1--WE trust to the war department to
manage the military operations in the
field of conflict. The boys over there
are willing to trust us here, and it is
our God-given duty to act at home in
looking after the civil and economic
affairs involving the financial and ma
terial support which they must have.
The more intelligently we do that the
better our support will be, and the
sooner victory will be ours.
Answers MCGEE.
"Only a week ago ]. F. MCGEE,
member of the Minnesota safety com
mission, sought to have martial law
established in Minnesota. He would
do away with your courts and your
juries and have soldiers of the army
take their places, and under their ju-
risdlct1On establish the firing squads.
Now we are perfectly willing to trust
our soldiers with our lives and our
fortunes; they are from among u.s. and
part of US. They are ours and we
are theirs. We belong to each other
body and soul, but have we, who are
left behind to take care of the civil
affairs, fallen so low, or are we so in
competent that we must set aside the
very institutions for which we have
sent our boys abroad to fight? Ger
tainly not.
Says MCGEE is Wrong.
"Mr. MCGEE, I do not question your
patriotism. With few exceptions, we
are all patriotic; but you have missed
the spirit OF the times. We are al!
fighting for true democracy, and mar
t1al law in Minnesota would not be
democracy. The people of Minnesota
will meet the emergency with its reg
ularly constituted government.
Loyalty Is not in issue. There are
only isolated cases of disloyalty
They can be dealt with by the courts
and our military enemy not be made
to believe that there is an issue on
loyalty when, in fact, it does not ex-
LIST. TO encourage our enemy with
any thought of our disloyalty would
prolong the war. The real issue is
democracy, and Judge MCGEE has en-
phasized that by his evidence before
the United States senate committee.
Would Destroy Democracy.
There are few in our state who
divide the people, naming those in one
camp disloyal and those in the other
loyal. The loyalty Of both to the pur-
pose of winning the war is certain.
But those who have named themselves
the exclusive loyalists, they would de-
stroy democracy to win the war, while
the rest of us would win the war to
establish democracy.
First Duty 10 To Produce.
"Our first duty is to produce as
much as possible and then to make the
best use OF the product. That is where
the buyer, the seller, the transporter,
the financial and all the others come
in. Not only once, but in most cases
several times, and each time they
must have profit. It is the repeated
profits that take place in getting the
product from the worker to the con-
sumner which have boosted the cost of
living and made it impossible for ali
to have plenty. Some middlemen
render actual service, others are sim
ply parasites. They first perform a
useful service and We should see that
they get q fair profit, but the parasite
we must get rid of entirely. We must
reorganize our system of dealing with
each other.
Must Take Over Monopoly.
) ANY business which tends to be.
come monopoly, or already is a mo-
nopoly, must be taken over and OPP
Grated by the government. We cannot
allow any agency that We are forced
to continually patronize, which has the
power Of levying tribute, to be exclu-
sively controlled by q few persons.
1.-THE government must have direct
control Of those resources and agen-
cies which are In their nature limited,
and therefore unavailable to the aver.
are individual That means govorn-