Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-19
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a Traitor To MINNESOTA. II.
We desire to call the attention OF the
people OF Minnesota. and especially that
OF the voters Of the First congressio
district. to the reasonable course Of the
Hon. Thomas Wilson. It is not. we adj
nit, an easy thing for the attorney Of q
railroad corporation to bring into har-
mony his duty toward the people Of q
great agricultural community whose re-
preventative he has become. And yet,
the majority of those who attempt this
difficult double role succeed at least Ia
assembling, when they deliberately sac
riflce the interests of their own. Mr.. Will
son has not thought it necessary to do
this. He was under no compulsion. He
was placed in no ldilemma. OF his own
motion he pressed forward to become the
auxiliary of president anxious to strike
a blow at every interest: Of the North
west, in behalf of the great Chicago rail
road corporations. And the people Of
Mr.. Wilson's district will. we think, have
their reckoning with HIM in November.
Here is what the New York Sun. the per-
sistent advocate of these corporations,
says of Mr.. Wilson's relation to the pres.
ident's message on Canadian retaliation,
and the fact is not capable of denial:
1t appears that Mr.. Wilson of Mime
sofa had hand IN the message sent bv
the president to the house and senate tbs
afternoon. Within three minutes after
the clerk had finished reading the mes.
sage, Mr.. Wilson rose and presented
type written copy of bill covering the
exact points in the message upon which
the president demands legislation, The
bill had been prepared some days, and 1t
Is said that Mr.. Wilson had several con-
situations with the president. knew the
message was coming, and had prepared
bill to meet it. Mr.. Wilson has been for
some years solicitor for one of the North
western and Chicago trunk lines, which,
in connection with the Vanderbilt lines,
have suffered great loss of trade and
freights through the building of:the Dull
nth, South Shore & Atlantic road, the
Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie and Allan
tic, and other lines which are carrying
grain and other produce to the seaboard
by partial transportation through Can.
ada.
1t will be noted that this leading ;orgar
of Democracy makes no pretense of mis-
understanding the motive which actuated
Mr.. Wilson. The people of Minnesota
have been getting reasonable freight
rates through this railroad competition.
The Chicago system. determined upon a
desperate effort to regain monopoly, and
impose tribute upon the products of the
Northwest by cutting off Canadian CON-
petition. AS instruments for this pur-
pose they found Mr.. Cleveland ready for
their work, and Mr.. Wilson to serve rs
his Grand boy. There IS no paliation or
excuse Tor his traitorous blowat every int.
crest of the Northwest He pretends, in a
published interview, that the effect of the
proposed law is to be merely moral, say
ing that the president, under present
laws cannot do more than retaliate upon
fishing vessels" This is not true. The
law of 1887 gives the president the power,
whenever he is convinced that American
fishermen or fishing vessels are unjustly
treated not only to forbid entrance
to our porls to fishing vessels
of Canada, but also ''to deny entry
into any port or place of the U. S. Of
fresh fish or salt fish or any other prod
uctof said dominions, or other goods com.
| ing from said dominions to the United
States" This power, it will be seen, is
already too ample. It is not to strength
en- the hands of the president, but to so
commit congress to retaliatory doctrine
as to warrant an embargo for the benefit
of the great trunk lines, that Mr.. Wilson
is sufficiently anxious to prepare bill in
advance, and to offer the Commercial,
interests of the Northwest as a sacrifice
to the corporate influences that own him.
There is no trouble in fathoming his
motives or understanding his treachery
to- his constituents. Now, what do the
voters Of the First district think of him,
and what are they gong to do about 2
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