Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-10-23

(By a Cornfleld Philosopher.)

vIfI-NoTEs ON CAMPAIGN. |
To the Editor:
Read every line of these comments
and then be q missionary and 60 over
and read them to your neighbor II he
is a farmer, or working man. The
other fellow ought not to be interest.
ed.
The real and paramount issue of
this. campaign is the right of the
to peaceably assemble and dis |
cuss public questions and matters that |
pertain to their welfare. This great
right solemnly guaranteed both by
the state and National Constitutions, |
and never before questioned, has been
boldly challenged and denied in many
parts of the state by the followers OF
Gov. BurnQuist but by nobody else.
II you want to vindicate this right,
vote for David Evans for Governor and
that big brainy fearless lawyer, Tom
Davis for Attorney General.
Eternal Vigilance" said George
Washington, lis the price of Liberty.
The right to peaceably assemble and
freely dicuss public questions is the
very keystone in the arch that sus-
tains the temple Of liberty. With that
great right destroyed or even impair
ed, every other right Of the citizens
is endangered.
The Seventh District will do it.
| self a great honor If it sends Hon. E.
! E. Lobeck to Congress in place of the
re-actionary Volstead. There Is no
better, no purer man, no one more
| competent to represent the common
people of this great District than the
Alexandria statesman. He had the
great honor of being one of a very
few in the last legislature whom the
lobbyist never approached, fact !
edge. BY all means send LObeck to
Congress and keep Volstead the ser
want of Big Business at home.
The Government tells us officially
(See the Report of the Committee on
Industrial Relations) and other au
thorities agree, that per cent-twC
out of 1O0-own or control more thar
, two-thirds of the wealth of the coun
try. A little more than three decades
ago, big Biz had gobbled up only q
I percent. Now they have at least 67
Query: If this tendency is not arrest
ed soon, how long will it take them t
get it all?
, The net profits of the Steel Trus
, (Which gets over 60 percent of it
: raw material from Minnesota), IL
' 1917 was over 230 millions. That il
: a goodly sum to lay by for rain.
I day" in single year. 1t is create
: than that of all of the more than 100
3 900 farmers of this state put together
! The writer recently spent nearly
) year at the State Capitol at his owl
expense digging into public matters
+ From time to time he will tell in thes
}, columns what he found out in tn
course of the investigation. He ca;
: only say here that there is might
y work TOR the Non-Partisan- League t
J. de- in order to give the state clear
efficient and economical government
= When that is accomplished the take
t on the farm and ordinary property ca
J. be cut right in two, in the middle.
s Hercules, in cleaning the Augea
s stables had a mighty big job, but b
Q would have a bigger one if he unde
|, took to clean up Minnesota of ever
It species Of graft, and would probabl
!; throw it up in disgust.
q The Burnquist gang are trying
| IN 60 1eHr iv9cr
u of the dangers of Socialism. They ga
r the whole League program is sociali
Il tic. Well, so it Is. It is just as 81
l. cialistic but no more so than our hig1
e ways, our common schools, and tn
o Postoffice: The ownership and oper'
IS ton of the railroads by Uncle Sal
t. would be. simply an extension OF tn
n postal Department. Do you want thi
e greatest business enterprise in tn
q world extended or do you want 1t r.
4, stricted or abolished?
y Capital and Labor produce a
d wealth. More capital and more labc
1t are employed III production, almos
If twice as much, as In distribution, bl
e the farmer only gets 35c Of the col
" sumers' dollars and the distributors
NJ that is the rniddlemenA IS pc
n cent. In justice this would be rever
n ed.
10 The best, If not the only remed
Al for this condition of affairs ds tn
h government ownership and operatio
r. at cost of the means OF transportatio
n and the terminal facilities. If 20
% are satisfied with a IS cent dollar 20
~ should vote for Burnquist and Ne
q son and the whole caboodle OF STAN
10 pat congressman.
% 90 you know that state ore-by til
~ million tons is being sold at Csc pt
II ton while ore from privately owne
~ mines brings $500 or more per tor
- And do you know that the big luI
" Der kings who are supporting Bur
- quist to a man are buying cedar pos
. on the stump by the million from tt
~ state at from one cent to one and
% half cents for each. II you like dea
:, of this kind, you should be sure to vo
= for Burnquist and his crowd.
70 Who are the Big Business fellow
whom the League are trying to u
al horse here in Minnesota off farmer
le and city workers. They are first, tt
g. big capitalistic owners of the ire
n mines; second the big lumber kings
rs third, the Grain exchange; fourth Il
te big millers; fifth The Minnesota ar
ty st, Paul Street Railway Compan
:e sixth, the land spectators and waite
Is power monopolists . and everyone
is these interests so far as know-a
n supporting ~Burnquist.
is $50