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

Hon. w. G. Calderwood, the Nation
Il party nominee, and only opponent
II Uncle Knute Nelson for the Sena-
.orial toga, has been making It mighty
strikers of Minneapolis. MI. Calder
be be elected to the Senate, he will |
shake up the dry bones of special priv. |
llege till they rattle.
The business men Of the smaller |
cities and villages, who, mislead by
the big city dailies, are arraying
themselves against the farmers, poll
tically, are making q serious mistake
which some OF them are beginning to
realize. Just what interest they can
have in the control Of state affairs by
Big Business, or how it can possibly
benefit them to antagonize their farm
or CUSTOMERS or prospective custom
ers is a puzzle to me.
II the League had made It's appear
ance thirty or forty years ago, we
might now have In the school fund
800 or 400 millions Of dollars, instead
of about one tenth of that sum, all
subject to be loaned out to the citizens
ON long time at a very low rate OF In
terest. This would have furnished
ample capital to develop the almost
unlimited resources Of this great state,
given us q population Of from I'VE to
ten millions and made the common
people exceedingly prosperous: For.
tunately there are some hundred or
more millions In value of land, timber
and minerals belonging to the state
that may yet be protected and saved
A fellow asked me what special
privilege meant. answered giving
one fellow a right that could not be
enioyed by all OF U.S." He wanted q
| concrete case. I told him 'The Ma
| tional Government gave to Minnesota
some millions of acres of swamp lands
to be used for the benefit OF all of thu
people. The legislature, the custod
! ian of these lands, gave one J. J. HILL
a blanket permit to take up and con
vert to his own use q section Of an!
part of these lands he might desire
without any reservation whatever
Mr.. Hills experts ranged all over tn
swamp districts and they finally locat
ed some extremely valuable ore lands
which Hill Immediately secured
These lands are now valued at NOR
than one hundred millions of dollars
Hill got this valuable property becaus
the LEGISLATURE wanted to encourag
him in the building Of railroads.. q
course, the August lawmakers had n
idea it was so very valuable.
l. One of the men running for tn
Senate who ought by all means be d.
} feated is Bob Dunn of the Mill
Laos District. Bob will probabl
swear when he reads this but I can
help it. He is by nature and train1n
) a stand patter and believer in speci'
/ privilege. He had an opportunity I
, amend the law providing for the sal
7 of the ore under the state waters an
r secure $1.00 per ton for the same. II
fixed the price at so cents per to
. | altho in the next breath he adm1tte
it was too low saying 1T ought to t
, a dollar" Such officials should speed
, lily be retired to private life.
2 Last S0dSUu, pOLdtO0o "AAo O~AA
: quoted to the farmers as low as
i cents per bushel, were retailing In tt
' Twin Cities as high as so cents p'
D peck. A. D. Wilson, Food Adm1n1str
| tor, with a laudable desire to lift: tt
!: price to the farmers and reduce tt
4 cost to the consumer called q NEE
n ing of the growers, consumers ar
wholesale and retail handlers: I'll
margin of difference between prOduc,
d and consumer was admitted to I
e about $3.50 but nobody would adm
: that he got it. Farmers were willi1
y to take IS cents per bushel and u
' load. The Safety Commission as VI
measure had the power to handle tt
crop and actually did order one Ct
o which it sold, believe at the car f
n IS cents per bushel, but big Biz,
v somebody stopped the movement rig
J. there. Evans, if elected Governor, w
J. appoint Safety Commission that W
j. handle the entire crop If necessary al
q l.that is our one reason why he is goi1
l. to get the votes of both the pota
q growers and city consumers.
q Some Statemanship.
e A few years ago, the State OF MI
J. nesota had some millions of surpl7
public money. It loaned this fund .
Massachusetts, Virginia and 9th
Il states at an average interest rate
r about three and one-han per Ger
It At the same time, thousands OF CT
It zens were paying ten per cent on she
l. time loans. Just think of it. The pc
- pies money being loaned to outside
r. at such rate while our own poop
j. we're paying three times as much J
terest. This is craftsmanship, OF tt
stand pat variety or Burnquist tyr
=, Do you want any more of 1t
n The Supreme Court by unanimo'
n vote rebuked the Governor and ga
u the lie to the paid falsifiers of tt
u kept press in it's decision in the famo
l. Martin county case, affirming the 10
!. atty of the Non:Partisan League al
it's officials. The dictum of this gre
Tribunal is law in Minnesota and an
e one who disputes. it and still CLAN
II that the League is disloyal Is n
d many degrees removed from an ana
!? chist. no matter how much he M
l. boast of his loyalty.
IS Let us see: Judge J. F. Niece
70 head of the Safety Commission
a virtue of an appointment by &C
Is Burnquist, testified down at Washir
% ton as follows and his statements we
sent broadcast throughout the wor
and no doubt, read with glee by t
q Kaiser himself: minnesota is a sect
a. ing hot bed of Sedition and disloyalt
8 The U. S. District Attorney has I
10 stomach for fight. The Courts q
m thu ~,