Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-05-21
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The question Of paying the old Minnesots
State railroad bonds has long ago ceased to bt
/ a party question. Nearly every leading Re.
publican, asswell as nearly every leading Dem.
! oorat in the State, is q pronounced opponent
of reputation. II is only when one get,
down to the small fry Of both parties, to the
local demagogues, to the -paltry creatures
without q soul to feel the deep damnat:on ol
aState's dishonor, that one finds this sort Of
moral nncleanness. It's SO we'll understood
here in Minnesota that, as rule, every repu-
table person is against reputation, that3we
do not take note IF individuals, unlessithey
happen to be exceptions to the rule.--From
the Pioneer Press, May IA. sf :. .=3e5 .tss5,.
The Pioneer Press bears similar re-
lation to the honest people Of Minnesota
that it's editor bore, during the war Of the
rebellion, to the brave soldiers who
fought to sustain the Union. @ It has
been repeatedly stated: in several Of the
leading newspapers Of Minnesota that
the editor. Of the Pioneer Press, who EN-:
igrated from New Brunswick to the
United States previous to the war, would
not become anaturalized citizen until af.
ter the close of the contest, fearing that
if he became naturalized he would be
drafted into the. military service of the
government Although this statement
has been published repeatedly in st. Paul
and in various papers III other parts of
the State, we cannot learn that the editor
of the Pioneer. Press or any Of his friends
have ever denied the charge. On every
battle field of the rebellion Southern soil
was soaked with the blood of brave for
eigners, who. were everywhere found
among the foremost in the most destruct-
i've and desperate, battles, and who bore
starvation in Southern prisons with all
the heroic fortitude that human nature
was capable Of Meantime our high
moralist Of the Pioneer Press had sought
and found safety behind the petticoats of
Her Majesty, the Queen of England.
But he evidently was greatly mortified to
see the foreigners rushing to the front
during the terrible conflict, leaving him
standing alone, an isolated monument of
shame; for if they had dremained at home
like himself, he might have obscured his
individuality in the common mass until
the danger was past, and thus have rem
dered his inherent dread of military SER
vice less conspicuous. He has been
down on foreigners ever since. An edi-
torial item in the Pioneer Press of Nov.
81, 1878, contained the following:
."This is one of the hardships of universe!
suffrage that majority of new corners, moste
ly foreigners who know nothing about the
merits of the State railroad bond question,
should have power to consign Minnesota TO
the disgraceful position she now occupies
among the progressive States of the American
Union.'
The hardships Of universal suffrage!
Foreigners who know nothing having
the power to vote! What pity that the
people will not consent to turn over the
management of the State to "immacu-
late Joe," of the Pioneer Press, and thus
avoid the hardships Of universal suffrage.
Joe has hated universal suffrage and
loved royalty ever since he took refuge
from rebel bullets behind the royal skirts
of his beloved Queen. But aside from
his illustrious war record, the newspaper
over which he presides has as unsavory
a reputation of being the mouth-piece of
every corrupt ring that sees fit to pay for
the influence of its columns as any pa
per published in the United States. Of
course we have no documentary evidence
with which to establish the truth of these
reports, but it is believed throughout the
State that the Pioneer Press IS the plant
tool of any corporation OR individual
that will pay somewhat exhorbitant
price for its influence. This belief has
wholly destroyed the political influence
of that paper. 1t is we'll known that no
man or measure persistently approved by
the Pioneer Press can gain favorable
position in public sentiment in this State.
The actions of the Republican State con-
ventions of Minnesota show that the
members of these conventions regard the
opposition of the Pioneer Press as a val
liable recommendation of candidates
honesty and integrity, although that
sheet represents their own political par
ty. Before the corrupt reputation of that
paper became matter Of general COM
ment in this State, there seemed to be a
reasonable prospect of some kind of an
adjustment being made of the old State,
railroad bonds, but the honest. people Of
Minnesota do not believe that the Pho
'neer Press and certain notoriously cor
rupt papers in the East would persistent
ly slander and belle the people of this
State from year to year without receiv-
ing pay for their dirty work. ,We5pre-
dict that there will be no adjustment on
any basis whatever before the bond hold
ers cease to defame the people of Mime
sofa through the columns Of a corrupt.
andsubsidized press. :'' ~. sl'<E ..>>@
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