The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-02-04
uEuvEr FOR THE PEOPLE.

We had the honor of introducing the
other day the following resolution in the
State Senate:
Resolved. That The committee on judiciary
are hereby instructed to report bill to pro
state have been actually snabse to pay their
tares through damage from grasshoppers, or
hailstorns or failure Of crops, or high rates OF
transportation, or low prices Of their prodnc-
tions. or any ether cause whatever, that al an
! terest, Jfnes and penalties oe rem'tted, ana
reasonable time gived wherein to pay the pf1n-
cipaf sum of such taxes.
| The resolution was voted down by y
vote of II ayes and % nays.
It seems to us that in this time Of CREST
pecuniary distress the State should BE-
satisfied if it receives the principal Sun
of its taxes, without enforcing fines and
penalties. But there are some gentlemen
who seem 70 think that the great end Of
governmsnt is the collectiop of taxes
and that poor man who csst pay is
little better than = criminal. We hsye
known men in our own county who had
, to mortgage their homesteds to pay their
taxes: and in the frontier counties we
hear of others who have had to sell
their last COW for the same purpose
. We have always been taught
. that the great end of government was the
happiness of the people; net an overflow
ing public treasury, wrung from the sui
erings of the people, to be loaned to bank
! ers at four per cent. per annum, OF to b
souandered in reckless and wasteful leg
s islation.
Minnesota is passing through her dark
est epoch at this time. Taxes should b.
e reduced to the minimum, and the collec
n ton made as easy to the people as pos
G sible.
: We have hard times, small crops. lov
o prices, high taxes, and general distress
e The counties of LeSueur, Nicollst, Ren
o Vile, sibley, Mcleod, Wright, Sherburnt
s. Benton, Stearns, Mile Lac, &C.. contai
= billions Of grasshopp:r eggs, waiting 70
the return offspring to hatch out; Their
lis every probability that they wi
n n when Matched, not only sweep these coun
,. ties clean as threshing floor. but ove'
"a flow into the surrounding counties, an
is reduce the wheat crop Of Minnesota on'
!; half. One can only shudder when he cor
a templates the condition in which this wi
s. leave the State.
IN And now comes the S Paul Pioneei
=, Of the 3lst of January. and claims tina
despite the vast sums wrung from tn
&c people last year under 1.-THE iron.clad ia
&c law" the State Treasury is now banl
. rupt. 1t says:
es twill be seen then that at the very be
rs there is but about 90, 900 Nth Dh.eh to me
q. the demands xpon the Treasury. The apr
priation OF s2V, 900 for frontier relief cannot
We paid until the Legislature provides the meal
bc to get the money, and this cannot b done ust
out borrowing The amount appropriated I
frontier relief, II it is to do any good, should
ly forwarded at once.
We presume the finance committees Of Il
L. Senate and House are aware OF this conditit
is of the Treasury, and are prepared with inca
-. ures 70 meet the emergency; but II they Z
y not the above suggestions may Be worthy
he their attention. One OF two things = certain
he either the railroad companies mus pay y
amounts due from them at once. (Which tn
In cannot do) or the State must go into tAe Sark
We AID borro,s MONEY to meet tie 9esssnds a {
Tssossry.
!. Welabored and struggled last whit
ar to prevent the wasteful and reckless =
~ preparations rushed through the Legisl
"A ture by the Republican majority, AID '
nd were denounced for talking too much.
10 The Pioneer says:
~ The Legislature Of aAt winter anticipated
:. probable receipts Of the Treasury and ma
us reneross appropriations, fully covering the
q: oeipss, thus reducing the different funds
= low balance.
=. And now we have the results Of thu
10 generous appropriations: an impov
=. ished people. and bankrupt State Ire
urv. Let the State borrow. It is bet
e! for the State to borrow at seven per &c
= per annum than for The people to borr
~. At one, two or three per cent. per mon
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