Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-04-07

D. Ostby, candidate for railroad and
warehouse commissioner; Miss Lily
Anderson, candidate for state treas
urer; John Baer of North Dakota,
Thomas V. Sullivan, candidate for at
torney general; Thomas Van Lear, A.
E. Bowen, candidate for congress
from the seventh district, and Mr.
Shipstead delivered addresses. Mr..
Baer included "chalk talk in his
speech.
Governor" Shipstead's address fol-
lows:
81 want to say to you organized
farmers and workers that highly ap-
preciate the honor you have conferred
upon me. The platform of principles
adopted by your conventions are prin-
ciples which have long Endorsed and
I believe will find favor with all peo-
pies opposed to privilege.
when the old Viking followers of
Gange Rolf came to France, the
French people noticed that they did
not wear brass collars with the name
of the owner stamped upon them.
They therefore asked these Vikings,
Who are your masters?' The Vik-
ings replied, We have no masters.
We are free men, That is the spirit
manifested in Minnesota politics to-
day. (Applause).
'This large attendance of women
proves that the womanhood of the
state is alive to the responsibilities of
this coming suffrage and are studying
political movements and policies as
earnestly and intelligently as the men
are.
"Woman's contentious are her chill
dren, home, health, food, clothes. Per.
sonally, think, they will take their
| new responsibility more seriously than
we men have in the past
Old Order CrumbIing
"Never in the history of the world
been so necessary for the people to
| think seriously as now. The old polit:
ical and economic systems are fast
crumbling. The world today is sui
fering from political and economic
rheumatism. In olden times people be-
lieved physical rheumatism was caus.
ed by people becoming exposed to
drafts or getting their feet wet. The
| old medical quacks would treat the
! painful symptoms of rheumatism by
| applying strong liniments AMI plas.
tiers. The scientific surgeon knows
however, that rheumatism is only a
! symptom of disease caused by a usual
| ly obscure Infection and that if he
| can locate and eliminate that focal in.
| lection the painful symptoms of rheu
matism will disappear. This, l believe
would be the reasonable method OF
dealing with the political and econom
| ic diseases of Minnesota and the rest
of the world.
1.-THE unrest that is prevalent .
throughout the world is only
symptom Of the underlying dis
ease. The focus Of infection is
the despotic control Of market
places and the despotic control
Of industries. The despotism Of
industry and the despotism of the
market places must be eliminat-
ed just as a scientific physician
would eliminate the infections Of
the human body.
"History proves that in the past the
political quacks have treated the un.
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ments of misery and plasters of bay.
onets to the backs of the body polite
This manner of treatment is so pain.
full and causes so much misery that
the body polite has at times forgotten
the original pain and thought itself
| cured. The surgery of bayonets can
never cure our political and economic
| diseases In America we have a bet
ter way. We have the privilege OF
settling our political and economic
problems thru the use of the ballot
Use Orderly Ways
I'VE are going to settle our politi
cal and economic problems in a peace
full and orderly monner. But in order
that we may settle these problems in
a sensible and Intelligent manner, the
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