The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-10


credit to internal mprOv s"-AdUerttser, Pson
eer, Times and paid Press generally.
That there Is not single instance on record, where
dollar of taxation has been levied or paid on loans
State credit to Observation-Disclosures address Q
the Siafy Senators and Representatives. acO cOtedt 0'
| the Loan Bill.
sB- There is not single instance record of de-
fault the payment of the interest principal of any
loan of State credit made by any State :" ka-Aduer
tiser, AprH3d
Each Company entitled to 12O sections of land
advance of construction."-LOdn Press and Loan
Speakers generally.
of road shall have been constructed nearly equal in
tual cost to the whole amount of bonds issued" "a
AdCertiser.
"Ten miles of Railroad must be built for every humid
red thousand dollars issued."-AdUertiser.
The moral effect of the passage of the Loan Bll has
been worth millions Of dollars to the State already
Adcertiser.
The above falsehoods, quoted from the en-
emies of the State, are the standing terts Of
the Railroad Press and their hired advocates
throughout the Territory When you have
read them, you have the substance-the es-
sence-of every article written and every
speech made, by these INSCRIPTIONS hire
lings and yet, in the whole collection there
is not one particle of truth-or the SEM
blance of truth
In them is to be found the lie general and
the lie particular! The lie direct and the
lie circumstantiai! The lie equivocal and the
lie emphatic! Every phase in which lie
can be uttered.
One word in reply to them !
terest on loans of State credit to Railroad
Comp anies-on default of the companies; the
former having already lost MILLIONS by such
loans, and the Paid Loan Press and loan I'D.
vocates h,low ii!
New York, for years past, has annually
tared her people to pay both principal and in
terest on loans of State credit-the compa-
MES having dcfaulted, and the Paid Press and
hired ADVOCATES of the foe million swindle
know The tact
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office, more than year ago, decided that
under the Iowa grart-the same precisely as
ours-that the Companies were entitled to
no lands until 20 miles of their roads had been
constructed and then only to such lands as
were to be had opposite the 20 miles CON-
D eted and the Paid Press and advocates of
tile loan kmew that months ago, even while they
were asserting that they were entitled to 100
sections nov!
The Loan Bill authorizes the companies to
draw the whole Five Millions of Dolars,
without requiring or securing the completion
of single mile OF railroad and the Senators
and Representatives who voted for it, inten-
ded it to be so, because the "Forty Thieues"
of Wisconsin and their Minnesota friends
were not satisfied to have it otherwise !
Yet in the face of all this-with this
damning knowledge or worse ignorance, they
continue daily and hourly to utter-aye, to
vomit forth these mcnstrous, unblushing and
wholesale lies-we say li:s-no other word
will properly characterize their infamy!
Fellow citizens of Minnesota, this is the
manner in which these men attempt to Sc
cure your votes for this Infamous swinde -
Will you be thus imposed upon, or will you
set the seal Of your indignation upon their
conduct by the rejection Of this Five Mil
lion Loan