The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-10
leo TO THE POLLS
THURSDAY,
18th OF APRIL,
VOTE AGAINST
100000 @
LOAN 4!
VOTE AGAINST THE FIVE MILLION
LOAN!
rhe C..tr.l Committee. to the Friends
VOTE AGAINST THE FIVE MILLION
LOAN!
The Central Committee, to the Friends
of Minnesota,

LOAN!
The Central Committee, to the Friends
of Minnesota,
SEND GREETING =
That the work of organization goes forward
with the most promising results, notwithstand-
ing the legislative trick of the enemies of the
State in forcing a vote ON the Five Million
Loan, as early as the 18th of April. in the hope
of preventing an organized opposition and the
dis eminatiOn of information among the people
| of remote districts!
Already the most cheering reports come up
| from all parts of The Territory!
The farmers and industrial classes generally
are becoming aroused to the Importance of the
issue!
Wherever information has been distributed
the people have been awakened to a sense of
| the dangers. which threaen to engulf them and
| the State in the like general ruin!
But, the enemies of the State are active-un-
scrupulous They have staked everything
upon this issue! With them it is victory or
disgrace, and they are leaving no means un-
tried to deceive and mislead the people!
They are flooding the whole country with
| dOcuments-got up in the Railroad offices. and
| distributed by their hired emissaries! Their
documents and speeches TEEN with misrepre-
sentatiOn and unit uths and it is of the utmost
| importance to the Territory and it's tax-paying
citizens, that their falsehoods should be ex-
posed and rebuked and the more especially
! does this become necessary when, to part OF
them, no less than Sirty Senators and Repre-
sentatives, either throug ignorance or design.
have subscribed to their approval! These men
| say, in their reputation address % There IS
not a single instance ON record, ,vhere a dollar
| of taxation has been IeUied or paid" by any
| State on its loan of State credit to Railroads.
And the Loan Press have iterated and re-
iterated the following:
| That no State has ever lost q dollar by
the loan of her credit to internal improue-
ments.'
These Statements are wholly untrue ! and a
large proportion of those who make them know
them to be SO!
The State of .New York has been taxed for
wears to pay the interest, and where it has be-
come due, the principal ON her loans of State
credit to Railroads, in at least four instances
Missouri, within the past four months, 10y
the default of her Railroad companies, has been
obliged, in order to save the State from dis
honor, to issue Special State interest bonds
to pay the interest on her loans OF credit to
the defaulting companies!
Speaking of New York, the Tribune says
"Other States haze had similar luck ~
The loan press and loan advocates assert
also, that the loan bill provides flour fold Sc
cuitSes" to the State.
What are they? They have no 'net profits
They have no ''landsv ~ They have no ''rOads
on which to secure mortgage bonds to the a.
mount of one dollar. Then, where fellow citi
zens, are their securities? All men must ad
init that they have none to give
But there are other objections not less in
surmOuntable The old managers Ofthe MI
,yaukee e. La Cross r.. r." the men whose
{ conduct has made that road, and their owl
names Justly notorious-whO have, by theil
connection, destroyed it's credit, who are
charged with having robbed it of millions OF
, dollars, and have loaned to the ".Minnes0t6
e. Pacific r. r. Co." Itco Hundred THOUSAND
, Dollars of its bonds, which never found thei
way into the treasury of that Company. Arr
NOW DIRECTORS in a part Of the MnnesOt,
Roads, if not in the control OF all of them, eX
> cept one and are to be recipients of a idrg
norton of the Five Million Loan
we charge the fact, that, to get into thes
Companies and into the control of the lant
grant, these men and their associates and pu
, pills resorted to bribery and corruption at tn
extra session of the Territorial Legislature
We charge the fact, that Minnesota Direc
tors, in the ".Minnesota & Pacific r. r. Co.,
were bribed by these men to resign. and tina
they were Immediately elected by the remain
ing Directors to fill the vacancies!
facts was ready to be produced before the Leg
islative Committee of Investigation at the lat
= sessiOn-that members of that committee knew
f the fact that witnesses were present to prov
them, and that the friends of the Five Million
loan. to prevent it's introduction, smothere'
, the investigation
, Then fellow citizens, we appeal to you.
g men, who will resort to what in many of tn
States is high crime. are safe guardians Q
! .ho ,,,l,I;o faith credit and honor Of Mime
sofa!
These charges have not been hastily or in
! considerably made! An imperative sense G
DUTY alone has impelled them. We woul,
t gladly have remained silent, but when tn
public veal demanded it. as good citizens W
{ could hesitate no longer!
We admit there are many good men connect
ed with these Companies, and to them we say
purge your companies of the bad ones, and tn
I capitalists of the world will no longer shu
i YOU. and a loan of State credit will be unne
cessary!
: These are the evils we seek to avoid-th
dangers we wish to escape and in the Nam
: of Minnesota, we call upon our fellow citizen
everywhere, to unite with us to that righteOu
end.
Who is there, that proposes to make Mime
q sofa the home of himself and his children, tina
g will remain idle in a crisis like the present
| WHdL ClGlZcu duu pdt ioS VIII nSoi'oeO W uC' w
a day or two to the State-to preserve its Cit
f zens from taxation-its name and credit fror
. dishonor? Then 60 to work-see your neigh
bors and your frends-inspire them with
sense of the danger which threaten them an
the State-expose the falsehoods with wbic
the country is inundated, and see that they fai
not to go to the election!
Remember there is no time to lose. Go t
'e work! A little work, we'll directed and th
friends of the State-the opponents of th
: State debt and consequent taxation-wil
e achieve victory creditabe alike to them an
t the State!
See that the election is properly held-th
Il returns made by Judges to the Registers c
n Deeds of their respective counties, and b.
n them to the Governor.
Fellow citizens We expect you tc aid Us
The result is in your hands. If you do tn
I duty of faithful citizens, from this till the clos
q of the polls ON the 18TH the result will b
= certain-the friends of Minnesota will trump
= and proper reproof be given to those VIII
would recklessly involve US in debt funtol
i millions.
e Your Fellow Citizens,
D. A. RoBERTsoN
Y JOHN O'GORMAN,
n WILLIS A. GORMAN,
v JAMES SMITH, JR.,
: L. A. BABCOCK,
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