St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-24
INJUSTICE TO ENTIRE STATE
IF Minneapolis or Any City Is AL
lowed to Pad the Census.

IOWC W 6tu SCuSuSs
''No taxation without representation"
was the rallying cry of the founders of
the great American republic little
over century ago. To-day the people
of Minnesota are but carrying out this
same spirit when they insist that they
shall not be taxed by legislature
apportioned on padded census. If
alleged, to her population $4,000 to
10000 names that do not belong there,
an injustice will be done, not only to
her commercial rival, st. Paul,
but also to the entire state
of Minnesota, and. indirectly, to the
nation. The fight which has been
commenced against the alleged census
frauds in Minneapolis, then, is not a
local contest between two ambitious
young cities in their struggle for SUI
premacy. Far from it. 1t is contest
that involves the sacred right of every
section of Minnesota to be represented
in the law-making bodies of the state
and the nation, in proportion to the
number of inhabitants each may con-
tain.
Will the people of the state at large
submit to all imposition like this?
Will the country districts of the state
allow Minneapolis representation in
senate and house of the state legislature
and in the national congress for 10000
people more than she has within her
borders:
These are questions that can meet
with but one answer at the hands of the
people of the state, and, if the United
States authorities fail to perform their
duties as required by law, this contest
will be fought over in the legislature Of
the state when the next apportionment
is made.
1.-The last legislature of Minnesota. it
will be remembered" said state sem
ator from Northern Minnesota yester-
day, passed new appOrtiOnment act,
by which the state Legislature was made
to consist of 81 senators and ia repre-
sentativeS, or total of 1853 legislators.
The population of Minnesota is now up
wards of 100000. and this apportion
ment, it will be seen, gives about one
representative for each 10000 people.
On this basis Hennepin county is given
no less than twenty-one members
OF the next Legislature. Of these seven
teen OF eighteen are given to Minneap-
oils alone. Now suppose, for example,
that 10000 bogus names are added to
the census of Minneapolis, what will be
the result? Will that city not get six or
seven representatives and senators to
which she is not entitled at all? This
is a very grave matter and when the
people OF Minnesota understand it they
will be solidly on the side of st. Paul.
In the country districts we shall be
doing remarkably we'll if 80 per cent of
our people are enumerated the way this
census is being conducted and it will be
nothing less than an outrage il
big city, like Minneapolis, sisi
allowed to pad her census reports.
| don't care a cent which city
st. Paul or Minneapolis-has the
larger population, but LIDO object to the
country districts being robbed of their
proper share in state affairs by any city,
unless the latter is entitled to it. When
it comes to show down you can de-
pend upon it that the people of the en-
tire state will be with st. Paul in this
contest, for it is very important mat
ter to every outside community in the
state"
Joel P. Heatwole, the Mortified ed
| itor, expressed himself in vigorous
| terms upon this same matter yesterday
afternoon, and his remarks against the
| Twin Cities being allowed to fix out
| selves met with approval from cOterie
| of country gentlemen who were seated
around him in the Merchants lobby.
| In fact, the most emphatic c0ndemna-
ton of the alleged Minneapolis frauds
came from gentlemen who do not live in
| St. Paul. solely on account of the in
creased influence Of Minneapolis in the
political affairs of the state.
"In my opinion said gentleman
from the Second district yesterday,
civilian Pitt Murray is entitled to the
gratitude of the people of the state for
the nerve which he displayed in this
matter. If Minneapolis would make an
attempt to disprOve the charges that
have been made rather than indulge IN
so much wild abuse of st. Paul. think
the people of the state would think bet
ter of her. You see. so far at least,
the irate Minneapolitans have not
tried to deny the existence
| of the "manufacturing annex" but
have simply devoted themselves to de
nouncing st. Paul. If that "annex'
existed, it is the best possible evidence
that the charges made are true. II
there was no such institution, why in
the world don't William Hennery Eus-
tbs and his fellow screamerS say so? A
recount should be ordered in Minneap-
oils, and the men who have been en-.
gagged in the padding" business should
be punished. In my opinion. Gene
Hay will be compelled to act in these
matt erS."