St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-17

This is to be brought about only by settle
ment and development and this legislation
TO give leave of absence in winter and to
hold this pine for the public will settle and
develop this region and make the volume
Oh business to reduce and maintain low
railway rates. The state has the power to
control all railways and should exercise it,
but in so doing it should not contiscate
them, but treat them as justly as it does
any other portion of the body public. You
XIII the Northwest and you kill the rail-
ways. You kill the railways and you in
lure yourselves. Our interests for just leg
lsiatlon are mutual. When we go to the
polls to vote for man to make territorial
OF state laws we want to know beforehand
that he himself knows what laws should be
made on the subject of railways and what
his views are.
SUGGESTION.
AT present we know of no farmers Or
CARNATIONS that have any defined plan of
action. We therefore suggest one for Da-
kota Territory.
First-No established station shall ever be
removed.
Second-Every railway in Dakota shall give
sWltch room for the construction of small ele-
Vators and warehouses;
Third-The powers of the railway COM
panleS snail be defined by law, with powers to
regulate rates, but these rates shall not be re-
duced below what will give net revenue to
the railways in Dakota of less than per cent.
on their investment and not over q given rate
to be established by law
This Will make railway investments sta
Die and secure and not DESTROY the ability
Oh Dakota railways to mortgage and bond
al low rate of interest. (The Illinois
central, am told, is placing its debt at
"a j, ana 1t Will reduce their rates as fast
as circumstances will Justify, while any
other course will destroy their credit, in
crease the interest they will have to pay,
increase the rates they will have to charge
to meet that interest and retard and pre-
vent railway building and obstruct and re-
tard the development of our territory.
There is
NO DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The Union exists. Slavery is dead. Re-
construction accomplished, and the blacks
IN the Democratic South stand on an equal
lty with the whites, and the federal gov
eminent is not subordinated to the states.
Inc amendments are solid, and their legis-
iatlon undisturbed. The South votes pen
SionS to our soldiers, monuments to Grant
ana Lincoln, and decOrateS our dead. I'm
der Democrats free schools are given IN
the South to the blacks Cleveland an
points them to office. Each party counts
the black mans vote, and if the farmers
organizations conform their platform to the
above suggestions, with provision that all
legislation made by the Republicans under
the amendments shall stand, there should
be no Democratic ticket in the field in Min
nesota or Dakota, and such an organization
with such platform should and by proper
effort can secure fOur-fifths of the votes Of
the Northwest, which will dethrone the
men in congress from Minnesota and Da-
kota who have misrepresented US so long.
and the victory will bring to US this needed
relief and create and keep low railway
rates without confscating the railways or
even injuring them or their credit.
WILLIAM II. STANDIsH,