Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-10-06

YIN, L. vi uC FlCLO1y
won by the Nonpartisan league and
labor in the Montana primaries has
produced two opinions from old party
politicians that are worth noting.
Senator Myers, who has been the
champion of special privilege in Dem
ocratic ranks, finds no consolation in
the fact that the common people have
saved his party in Montana and are
likely to save the state in the fall
from further corrupt rule of the cop
per trust.
He lays big business defeat to the
primary, or to use his own words, "the
rotten direct primary system" and
will bolt his party to support the Re-
publican machine.
! On the other hand, Congressman
John NJ. Evans, who was defeated by
Bruce Watson, farmer candidate, takes
the opposite position.
| "Instead of feeling out of humor
with the men who have defeated me-"
says Evans, II am in thorough SYM
pathy with their aims and aspirations,
and if l were in the. same circum-
stances as they are would be one Of
them
NEEDED BY CIVILIZATION
After mentioning the gouging the
farmer receives when he takes prod
uce to market, and the profiteering
prices which the farmer has to pay,
Congressman Evans says:
"This sort of thing has been going
on until the people all through the
Northwest are informed. l do not say
that Cultivation is in danger of break
ing down, but it will come very nearly
doing it unless remedy is found
"The Nonpartisan league is voicing
a protest that has to be voiced if civil
lization is to survive. The League is
the outcropping of spirit that some
how and sometime will get relief or
there will be serious times ahead for
this nation
Congressman Evans statement is
about the only definite, fair-minded rec
ognition of the real issues before the
people that has appeared so far in the
national campaign from either Of the
old party camps.
Perhaps that is why the Tacoma
| Wash.) Ledger is about the only
standpat paper to give it publicity.
Thunders of silence from the front
porch, the special train and the pross
on the problems of the people; bales of
argument and publicity on false issues
of no special mportance-such has
been the outstanding characteristic of
the campaign so far
IALABAMA's COAL INVESTIGATION
| Alabama home of Oscar Underwood
and the Birmingham steel mills, has
just walked up to the seriousness of
her long strike of 10000 coal miners,
who rebelled against feudal conditions
of wages, hours and housing. Cover
nor Kilby appointed Ex-Governor Hen
deIson, State Coal Commissioners May
field and President Denny of the Uni
versity Of Alabama to report basis
for industrial peace.
The report of this commission calls
for the enactment of law which
would declare the absolute authority
OF the~state to regulate prices of coal,
diversion of shipments, wages, hours
of labor, conditions of work and re.
strictions of output in the interest of
the public. A licensing system would
permit the private owners to operate
the mines under this supervision.
However, the miners remain on
strike. They see no prospect that the
| &C tn no b1y+
to regulate their wages, hours and con.
ditions would be made up of men sym.
pathetic with the modern standards
of living and of Improvement of con-
dltion for labor.
LAND BANK PLANS
Senator Capper, Senator Owen, ex-
Senator Hollis and other men inter.
ested in the farm loan act have in.
dorsed the proposed national union of
farm loan associations. The plan is
to have the cooperative borrowers
formed into compact organization to
deal with proposed amendments to
the farm loan act in the coming ses.
sion of congress and thereafter, and
| AL 6SAASAe "a w Icn0 IAC AOdu Ill uctClOp-
ing the farm loan system to the ad.
vantage of the farmer and the public
The investment mortgage bankers,
headed by ex-senator Weeks who is
likely to be in Hardings cabinet, are
trying to knock out the law by limita.
ton of the interest rate on the bonds
sold to produce funds for farm loans
PERSHlNG VISITS HARDING
General Pershing, who led the last
| American invasion of Mexico, was Civ.
en- an effusive welcome to the Harding
front porch at Marion some weeks ago
Pershing's father-in1aw is Senator
Warren of Wyoming, one of the inner
cabal of the G. o. P. senators. These
two facts might lead one to guess as
to who will be the next secretary OF
| war.
AS Pershing is understood to be con
WINGED that General March, the chief
OF staff, has had honors and influence
enough under Mr.. Baker, it is quite
possible that the, new regime will see
= complete con housecleaning, in the de
! partment =. So i
Il Pershing gets the job Genera,