St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-07
THE FARMERS lNSULTED.
The TilIers Of the Soil SHubbed
and Their Platform Rejected.


The following minority report of the
committee on resolutions, submitted by
Gen. Barrett, president Of the Farmers
alliance, was rejected:
To the Representatives of the Republicans
of Minnesota, in Convention assembled:
The minority of the committee on reSolu-
tons appointed by your honorable body, re-
grets the necessity imposed upon il of max
ing Il separate report The minority assents
to all that part of the majority report upon
which the paper herewith submitted is silent,
and makes IL part Of its own report.
sense of responsibility 10 the people OF this
state, and just regard to what it considers
the interests of the Republican party. i'm
pose upon il the duty of making separate
report on the questions OF monopolies, mar
kets control of railways, bonding or licens-
ing country elevators and grain houses, eX-
ecutive appointments, the agricultural col
Iege. the method of conducting elections and
the tariff. Respectfully submitted,
Il. Ii. BARRETT.
The Republican party has from its birth
been the party of freedom. Organized to op-
pose the extension of slavery, il carried the
country triumphantly through the great civil
war, prevented the disruption of the Union,
struck from the slave his manacles and in
corpOrated into the national constitution the
principle that everywhere throughout the
| Republic all It's citizens should have the
equal protection of the laws. Three hundred
thousand patriots-young men i'll the full
a
| ing sacrifice to- its principles Upon the rolls
of Immortality it inscribed the names of Lin
coin and Grant; upon the pages of history,
Gettysburg and AppomattoX. In its policy
il was generous rs well as just-when it laid
down authority the nations wounds had al
ready healed.
The representatives of the Republicans of
Minnesota, III convention assembled, renew
their pledges of fealty to the principles so
long illustrated by the history of their party,
and pledge themselves anew TO see 10 il that
the rights of all people are protected from
dangers incurred because OF the weakness
engendered by unthinking ignorance, and
| from the hidden perils of purchased legisla-
ton, as well as from the open assaults of
| power
Great changes are taking place in the
structure of civilizations; new powers, un-
! known to the founders OF our government
! are being rapidly organized creating new
! fields for the selfishness of ambition and new
! dangers to the liberties of the people 1t be-
| comes patriotic men of all parties-it is espe-
| cially incumbent upon all true Republicans
| that they look the present situation
squarely in the face and prepare TO meet it,
Steam and electricity, as applied to loco
| motion and the transmission of intelligence.
| have greatly enlarged the powers possible to
mankind. To permit these forces to be
/ mainly controlled by few individuals is to
! place in their hands an organization for sub
! jecting the people to their will more etfectu-
/ allv than could be accomplished by military
/
! protect the people from this threatened mas
| lership ought to be done.
| The facility with which corporations create
| themselves. and their readiness for cOmbin-
! ing with each other-whether under the form
| OF trusts, agreements associations, or any
| other name-it will be admitted by all are
| evils of the gravest character. If private in
! dividuals should resort TO the same or similar
| combinations, they would be ameuable to the
law against conspiracy. Yet combinations of
| corporations. in their effect upon the welfare
! of the people, are far more injurious than
any combination of individuals can possi-
| bly, be.
Among the many combinations for unjustly
| eXtorting money from the people there is
none more powerful and INSCRIPTIONS. or
more dangerous TO the public welfare. Than
| the one which exists in our own state for the
| purpose of buying, storing and transporting
| wheat and other grains. The effect of this
| combination is to divide ND territory and
| prevent competition in buying-in short 10
| mOnOpoliZe the market. The railway man.
! ayers part i'll this conspiracy, without which
| 1t would prove ineffective, is TO so operate
| the road under his control that the independ-
| ent buyer shall be at such disadvantage in
| making shipments as TO compel him to pay
| the price dictated by the combination. or be
| eventually driven out of business. 1t also
| falls to the railroad manager TO so adjust the
| rates for transportation that favored persons
| and places to which shipments are made
| shall have an advantage over all other per-
sons and places. 1t is fact that under the
operations of this infamous conspiracy, in at
| least one of the general railway Offices of this
| state, man has been stationed upon whom
the duty was devolved of daily debating by
telegraph TO the buyer at all stations OH that
road the price to be paid for wheat. II it
! shall be said that this was done in the inter
est of and 10 protect the people. the answer
is made that the people ought 10 not be
placed in such a condition as to need pro-
| lection of this kind,
But the agricultural interests are not the
only interests at stake. There can be nothing
| more hateful TO the man who believes in the
| right of freemen 10 tax themselves, than the
| spectacle. to which we are so often invited
| through the columns of the daily press, of
| seeing half a score of men-more or less
meet in some private office, perhaps in some
distant city, and, after a secret discussion,
| proceed 10 levy upon the traffic and industry
| of the whole Northwest in accordance with
the caprice Of the moment of their individual