Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-10-30
oBSERVA ATOMS
(By a Cornfield Philosopher.)

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(By a Corntield Philosopher.)
X.-NoTEs ON CAMPAIGN.
On next Tuesday, Nov. 9Th, very
solemn duty will devolve upon every
voter in Minnesota and he will be call
ed upon to either indorse or condemn
the present State Administration, in
Guiding the Safety Commission.
In order to aid>the reader to reach
proper answer, I will ask a series
of questions that suggest themselves
to my mind.
believe Minnesota is the only state
in the union that is blessed 60 with q
safety commission have dictatorial
powers. The act originated with
standpatters, was engineered by them
through the senate, passed by the
house in the closing days of the ses-
sion with very little consideration.
OF the five members of the committee
named by the governor, Ames of St..
Paul was we'll known enemy of
organized labor, MCGEE of Minnea-
polls discarded politician, Weiss OF
Duluth, editor of paper published
under the shadow of the Steel Trust
and opposed to a tonnage tax, March
of Litchtield big banker, John Lind
former governor, the only real repre-
sentative citizen. The others being
more or less connected with special
interests. Not one single farmer or
working man was appointed. It is re-
ported that when this fact was called
to the attention of the Governor, he
replied, 81 didn't know there were any
such classes" Well, let him find on
Nov. 5th that there are, and that they
demand a share in the government.
Will the Reelection of Burnquist be
an Endorsement of the acts of this
Commission? Did this commission
really aid President Wilson in the
prosecution of the war, or did it hamp-
er the administration?
Was Burnquist justified in keeping
MCGEE on the commission after his
testimony down at Washington? If
McGee's statements were true he GER
tainly was, but drastic steps to stamp
out this sedition and disloyalty should
have followed. Every Non-partisan
Lacquer is a traitor" MCGEE is re-
ported to have said. Every voter who
honestly believe that should vote and
work with all his might for the Cover
nor If l believed it would certainly
do so.
Who will the men who took part in
the numerous exhibitions of the mob
spirit that President Wilson character
lied "as the betrayer of Democracy
support?
When the Supreme Court affirmed
that the League was loyal and freed
it's officials, did the kept press apollo
gize to Lindbergh and his followers?
l didn't notice it, did you?
Did the big dailies tell about the
League-hating legislative candidate
out in North Dakota who confessed
to Federal Judge Amidon, and took
his medicine" that he wrote to a
soldier in France disloyal letter and
signed the name of a League candi-
date, expecting the letter would come
back home and knock out the League
You never saw it? l wonder why?
There is some consolation in the
fact that there is a limit to the men,
dacity of the paid liars of the kept
press. For instance, none of them
dare assert that the Steel Trust, the
meat packers, the millionaire lumber
barOns or the food hogs are support
ing the Farmer-Labor ticket; and
neither do they claim that either the
organized farmers or the organized
workingmen are in favor of Burnquist.
If any Of the farmer-hating candi-
dates for the legislature in the Sew.
enth Congressional District squeeze
through, he will feel mighty lonesome
The essence of slavery IS the as
sumed right or privilege of one man
to live off of the toll of another. Well
who are fellows who are trying to
make slaves of the farmers and work
ing men going to vote for?
mo Republic can long endure" said
the great Daniel Webster, where the
tendency is for the wealth to accumu-
late in the hands of the few" To arrest
this tendency here in Minnesota, vote
for Evans for Governor and Tom Davis
Attorney General and the farmers
Legislative ticket. I conceive that to
he ,fy>i1 10 1prfV otNv,
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Abraham Lincoln complained that
only one of the eight preachers in
Springfield CHS home) supported him
and yet he was opposing the most
gigantic wrong of the ages. 1t may be
therefore that some ministers in Min
nesota will vote for Burnquist.
Congressman Volstead is appealing
through all the papers in the Seventh
District ''for square DEAL" wonder
if he gave the people a square deal
when he voted to pay the railway
magnates 8 per cent interest on rail-
roiad stock including inflated value, and
thereby added a Transportation tax
of at least $25 annually on every farm
er in the District?
Senator Cummins of Iowa said in his
great speech on the subject in the
Senate that this stock represented lit
tie or no value and yet Volstead voted
to guarantee 8 per cent interest upon
the face value of the whole volume
about six billions-and thereby added
an interest charge to the transporta-
ton costs of about $50 millions. Is
not this mighty good reason why
farmers should vote for Lobeck?