Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-07-09

Turk over southeastern Europe is
credited by Mr.. Kelly with having
produced this stage of agricultural
development. He explains that the
Turkish government, continually bank.
rupt, long ago taxed and comman-
deered the estates and fortunes Of the
great landlords out of existence and
that Indifference on the part Of the
authorities then led to- democratic
development by the peasants them
selves.
LESSON FOR AMERICA ~
Because of this condition where
nearly every peasant has his little
property and where there are no land
barons or Overseers there is no senti-
ment in the Balkans for further ex-
Fermentation, Mr.. Kelly says.
The Pennsylvania congressman,
who has long been champion of COM
munity development and cooperative
enterprise In the United States, re-
turned from Europe more than ever
convinced that advances along this
line are fundamental to eradicating
unrest at home.
NEW PACKER BILL.
The bills for regulating and break
ing up the monopoly in the packing
industry, introduced In senate and
house this week by Senator Kenyon
of Iowa and Representative Anderson
of Minnesota, have the backing Of
Commissioner Colver of the federal
trade commission, who urges their
Endorsement by food producers every
where. Perhaps he sees no hope of
thorough remedies in the present re-
dictionary congress. The Kenyon and
Anderson bills are identical, but we're
introduced as separate bills in either
house.
The principal points in the Kenyon
bill, as pointed out by William Kent
Of the United States tariff commits
sion, are as follows:
1. A provision which prevents the
extension Of packer control over re-
lated industries, effectually meeting
the menace of packer domination over
food products other than meat.
2. A clause providing that violation
of the bill, when enacted, shall place
the offending business in the hands of
receiver who would conduct the bust.
ness in the interests and for the pro-
lection of the public. "This,' says Mr.
Kent, lis new application of the idea
of receivership. Heretofore the
thought has been that receivership
is solely for the protection of the
owners and creditors of business"
3. The provision calling on the
railroads to provide refrigerator and
special equipment, -cars and prohibit
ing the packers, all of whom must
be licensed, from using such cars not
provided by the railroads after six
months from the passage of the act.
The Kenyon bill calls for the ap-
pointment of commissioner of food
stuffs, holding Office for term of five
years, to enforce the proposed law.
The bill carries an appropriation of
100000.
CIVIL WAR MAN CAUGHT.
Interesting evidence of the way the
department Of justice is working in
running down "Bolshevik" suspects,
and an Indication of how the $4,000
900 just voted by congress for this
work will be spent is seen in the ex-
periences of Robert Henkle of this
city, Civil war veteran rs years
Of age, who was caught in the drag
net for no apparent reason except that
he is Socialist. Mr.. Henkle tells
his own story in the following let
ter:
Il am a Socialist, but not mem.
Der of the local here. fell into
the dragnet of the department Of JUS
tice on the 18th (June) and was held
incommunicado for eight days, being
released Sunday night, the 22nd.
sThere were three others besidel
me, including one woman, incarcer
ated at precinct No. i. Since being
released the rumor has reached me
that there are about 200 being de-
tanned in various precinct stations in
the city.
1.-THE writer of this is a veteran Of
the Civil war, having had the honor
| of serving in the Union cause from
! the beginning to the close Of hostili
ties in 1865.
Nor is this all. He had ancestors
in every war this country's been en-
gagged In, including the War for In
dependence, the War of 1912 and the
War with Mexico.
"He is of southern birth, as all his
forebears are, being born in Tennes
see, Wednesday, January s. 1s43, O.
Maryland and Virginia stock-bu
which makes him no better than i
he'd been born in lowly manger.
"This was the first time in NOR,
than three-quarters of a century tina
key was ever turned on him; ant
he's got the first time to ever appear
as witness in court of law. In thes,
perilous times no one knoweth wha
the next hour may bring forth.
Il can't say with the ignorant
Thank God my parents don't know
of this" They do. But above al
they know he's not guilty of any vic
lation of man-made law or the law o
God or his being, ..-. ~
(Signed) "a. Veteran,
ROBERT HENKLE. =
CAS- this has socially ruined me wit
some Of. my friends / stick prett,
close to the house, IL Fourth stree,
S. E., Washington, D. c. $3.50
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