Morris tribune., 1888-01-04
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,elong.
FREEDOM OF TRAFFIC.

Gney WOftn--lO WHOM w ohSS
belong.
FREEDOM OF TRAFFIC.
Tile freedom Of Traffic Law enacted
by ahe last legislature has never been
enforced. We call your attention. to
this fact also. We understand that
the section of the law providing for
"transfer facilities" between different
railroads has been ordered To lie pro-
vided in certain cases, that the conn
panies have failed 10 comply with
the order, and that the matter is now
resting with the attorney general. We
demand of him that efficient measures
be promptly taken to compel conpli-
ance, not only with that section, but
with that far more Important pro-
vision of the law relating to the right
of the shipper to select the '.route or
routes" over which the shipments
shall be made.
We respectfully ask Why the di trict
court OF Ramsey county has suspen-
ded the order of the commiss oner to
reduce rates on the Manitoba railway.
We call the attention of the people
of this. portion Of the state to the. ct
that while the immediate section OF
the state in which we live, Is mainly
prairie, yet there lies close ulon our
borders forest SO vast and extended
that those who have not paid especial
attention TO the subject have no COM
prehension of its magnitude, 1t be-
gins near the e,st line Of Grant coun-
ty and extends Ill almost an unbroken
body to Hudson Bay, and the Allan
tic ocean. 1t is more than thousand
miles through it in a northeast direcs
| ton and to the eastward more than
fifteen hundred miles. 1t is :. one .!oi
the largest bodies of timber ON the
continent. Although this great. forest
is at our doors, in order that coal
brought from Pennsylvania and Ohio
may be forced upon us, and that the
lumber harons may exact their tribute
we are shut OF from this vasl-foresl,
except on such conditions as monopo.
lists may dictate. The fuel and lumber
I combinations are as relentless in he'll
exact ions as are the wheat and rail
road-"combines". The recent iuss
of life i'm western kan~as for the lack
of fuel is startling commentary Oh
the helplessness Of the people WI ere
monopoly has full sway.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,
We approve the resolutions of the
State Alliance at its last session, ale
also the resolutions and address o
the National Alliance at it's annual
meeting in October last. We especia.
ly endorse that part OF the resolution
relating to agricultural colleges ant
reiterate our demand fer the complete
separation of our agricultural cuilr: t
from the State University, and the
establishment of college where
students at small cost MAY obtain I
L
study of agriculture shall, i'll every
case, form II prominent part. The
action of the regents since the All
| journment Of the last Legislature
does not, in our opinion, meet t, {
necessities of the case.
| While we do not wish to condemn
what is known as farmers institutes
a company of eloquent and entertain
ing speakers travelling over the state
at the peoples expense, teaching the
practical farmer in the most scientiti,
manner how to raise hogs, make but
ter, select cows, build silos, the greal
superiority of bran as an article .
food for fatning stock, Indeed, Will
we sympathize with their laudlb
efforts to instruct the farmers how
make home happy,-still we are un-
able to bring our minds to the CON
clusion that their efforts will not say,
this state from the tremendous evil
which the people suffer.
The resolutions of The state an.
National Alliances on the tarIi
tquestion meet our hearty approval. VI {
commend our representative IN con
gress, the Hon. Knute Nelson, for Ia
efforts to relieve the people from TIL,
unnecessary burden of an inlquitou
tariff and especially insist OH lumber
coal sugar and the material out Of
which binding Irvine is manufacturer.
beput upon the free list.
d. w. HIxsoN,
A. K. LEE,
| A. s. GIFFIN.