Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-09-01
OBSERVATIONS
(By A Corntield Philosopher

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this series of articles to contribute
his mite toward the election of Hon.
Henrik Shtpstead, Governor, George
H. Mallon, Lieutenant-Govern and
Tom Sullivan, Attorney All
these candidates will run as Indenen-
dents-that is, free from "partv hos
ses."
VINO are the party bosses ANYWAY?
Well, the fellow who has the final
say as to what party shall do is the
boy who puts up the money to run
the campaign.
For fully fifty years, with rare OK
ceptions, the bulk of the cash neded
to finance the campaigns conducted
by both of the old parties has been
provided by certain special interests
whose principal headquarters are in
Wall Street. New York City.
These contributions have been
made largely as an investment; that
is with the implied understanding
that the contributors were to get what
legislation they desired and seldom
nave they been disappointed.
| Inc Wall Street crowd commenced
tnelr depredations away back in the
DAYS OF Abraham Lincoln when the
great civil War, or as it is now Off
cially called, 1.-THE War Between The
states, was raging. In order to get
tnelr financial support to carry on the
struggle they forced the government
to make gold and silver the only
moneys acceptable for "duties on i'm
ports and interest on the public
debt" This Exception clause" in the
law creating the "greenbacks" in
stantly caused an imperative demand
TOR gold and soon more than doubled
its value. It is interesting to read
in this connection the speeches that
were delivered in Congress in those
days by such old and sterling patriots
as Thad Stevens Of Pennsylvania
Silver was afterwards demonetized
so that gold alone was the only stan
dard of value
| 1t was in these days that the elder
J. Pierpont Morgan got his start.
The government records show that he
bought some thousands of old con-
demned and useless muskets from
Uncle Sam for $3.50 each and sold
them to an unsuspecting Union gen
eral in Missouri who was badly in
need of arms for something like $17.OO
apiece. Quite a speculation.
The one Republican president who
didn't always obey orders was Ben
jamin Harrison and he got defeated
by Grover Cleveland when running
for second term.
Do you know that Wall Street owns
and controls a string Of great daily
newspapers stretching clear across
the country?
The ''unforgivable offense" CON-
mitted by A. C. Townley when he
started the Non-Partisan League of
farmers was his failure to consult
Wall Street beforehand and entering
into an implied agreement to betray
the movement when it became dan
gerous. Is that the reason the kept
press is so bitter?
The business of a country is COM
pletely dominated by whoever con-
trolls the transportation facilities and
the monty or medium of exchange
Just keep this fact in mind during
the campaign.
The lucky fellows who hold their
jobs and control these agencies of
| business are often one and the same
The above statement largely ex-
plains why mere fraction of the
people-less than two out of every hun
dred-oWn or control more than two
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/ No business of any nature can be
transacted between individuals with
out using transportation in some form
or money or its equivalent. There
fore the fellow who can lay tribute
on business transactions has the
whole world at his mercy.
The primary necessity or demand
of the farmer is the cheap and, expe-
ditious transportation of his products
to the best markets-that is, the great
centers of consumption. He has un-
thinkingly let Wall Street get be-
tween him and his market by getting
control Of his chief means of trans
portation-the railroads.
The farmer has a double interest in
transportation for he pays the
freight" not only upon what he sells
but also on what he buys
The final solution of this matter of
transportation is the government
ownership and operation of the rail-
roads under the Plumb Plan or some
other. When the whole transporta-
ton business is conducted just as the
postoftice is run, on the basis of equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none,' then the farmer, being the
owner of the raw material will have a
decided advantage over the big pack
ers, a fact which men like Armour
and Swift fully realize.
A fellow asked me the other day
what the organized farmers were
"driving at anyway" l told him
that we were endeavoring to prevent
the further accumulation of the
wealth of the nation in the hands of
the few and that one of the methods
we had adopted was the election of
men to public office who would so leg
islate, so interpret, and so administer
the laws of the state and of the ma
ton that every man who tills the soil
for living or who labors for his
daily bread should have a ''square
DEAL" That is why we are going to
elect Shipstead governor and Tom
Sullivan attorney-general.
Blackheads. blotches and pimples
are generally caused by the improper
action of the bowels. HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea regulates the
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