Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-11-10
OBSERVATIONS.
(By the Cornfield Philosopher)
Election Aftermath

Election Aftermath
We have met the enemy and we
have been temporarily overborne by
the power of money supplemented by
political prejudice and ignorance of |
the real issues on the part of many
voters.
But we are neither discouraged nor
disheartened. The educational work,
regardless of nationality or religion
and under the most adverse circum-
stances that has drawn 2-3rds of the
farmers of the state together into
one compact voting force, if persist
emily continued will yet do it's per-
feet work.
The more than 100000 men and wo-
men voters who have cOnsecrated
their lives to the freeing of Mime
sofa from the clutches of great,
greedy, grasping, domineering big bu-
siness interests will grid on their ar
NOR and renew the struggle with
greater determination and more hero
| ic courage.
Our cause cannot lose out in the
end for omnipotent justice is behind
| it.
In the great struggle for human
| freedom involving the welfare and
| happiness of the colored race that
| took place over fifty years in this
country, learned preachers from their
pulpits cOntended that a white man
had God given right to own a negro
a human being, on account of the
color of his skin.
We all know today that they were
wrong.
When Abraham Lincoln of blessed
memory began his great contest
for the presidency more than three
fourths of the ministers of the Cos
pei were against him. It is recorded
that of the twnty-one preachers in his
home city of Springfield only three
gave him any support. The other
nineteen lined up with the imps of
darkness.
That was plain issue. But was
it any palmer than the issue we made
in the campaign just closed?' Just
think of it! Volstead voted for bill
in congress that took nearly eight
billions of dollars out of the produc-
tive industries of this nation, all the
product of labor, and poured them
into the already overlooking Golfers
of the great railroad magnates.
The effect of this measure, experts
!, IN
day to the cost of living OF the aver
age family, all for the benefit of con-
scienceless prOfteers.
Why did not the sentinels on the
watch towers of Zion raise their vol
ces as one man against this infam-
GUS measure? Ask them. They will
probably tell you that they read in
some great daily paper (owned or
subsidized by the Plunderbund) that
one Townley who started this farmers
movement is Socialist, that all So.
cialists are atheists, free lovers and
anarchists bent upon the destruction
of the government. That Townley
proposes not only to confscate all
the farms, destroy religion, but to for
ce free love upon the nation and com
mercialize our women. That DR.
Shipstead the candidate for Governor
was hand picked by Townley and thai
Rev. o. ]. Kvale, candidate for Con
gress had signed an agreement to vott
only for such bills as Townley nigh
propose. In addition to this Volsteat
was pictured as~holding position
that controlled the whole booze bust
ness, that unless he was reelected,
saloon might be established at ever,
crossroad in the state.
If there is a woman voter in tn
9TH district who was not approache
with some argument of this kind,
was probably because she was acc
dentally overlooked.
BY such tactics as these the grea
overshadowing, Shiny monsters c
greed succeeded in diverting the a.
tention Of a sufficient number of W
ters to win the day for the time b.
ing. But falling prices of farm pr
ducts, increasing freight rates, an
the further soaring of the high COT
of living are object lessons that tn
most ignorant and prejudiced classe
cannot entirely ignore. The wome
voters through their club organic,
lions will carry on their education:
campaign, the old stand patters VIII
can neither learn nor forget will /
gathered to their fathers and th
younger generation alive to their ow
best interests and the future welfa1
of their children cannot steel the
hearts to the truth. We have but ,
be patient and preserving and the +
ture is ours. l have the faith to b
lieve that the same kind Providen,