The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-14

after the election Wednesday after
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such legislation as will prevent the
wrong.
That we look with alarm upon the
invasion of our country by English
capitalists, and who are selling up
on great local industries, giving alien
control to these interests which are
purely domestic and American, and
Increasing the strength of home mon
opolies by the power OF foreign
money.
That we deprecate the use of money
by candidates for office, as it de-
bauches the public conscience and
leads to the decay OF the body pol
itic.
That we urgently ask of congress
the immediate passage of Senator
Davis bill for the enlargement and
Improvement of the Sault Ste Marie
canal.
That we ask the next legislature to
establish the Australian system of
voting for the whole state.
That all public Offices which direct
ly affect the interests of the people
should be made elective, and for this
reason we hold that United States
senators and railroad commission
ers should be made elective by popu-
lar vote.
That we demand that the ''war
tariff" which has too long survived
the object of it's creation, shall be
radically revised, giving very ma
terial reductions on the necessaries
OF life, and placing raw material up
on the free list to the end that we
may compete with the world for a
MARKET. and that such Injuries as
whisky and tobacco shall in no man.
ner be relieved from internal taxa
ton, till the high protection tariff
has been wholly Invested OF it's ex-
tortions.
That we are not satisfied with the
actions of the board of control of
the states prison in not introducing
the manufacture OF binding Irvine.
We believe that the project was and
still is practical, and that the farm
ers OF this state have not been fairly
treated in the summary disposition
which has been made OF the matter.
That we favor cooperative union
of all the agricultural and laboring
classes of the nation to protect
themselves from the robberies of
non-producers.
That the alliance deems it unwise
and injudicious to establish an organ,
but regards with favor and will en-
courage with it's support all papers
which will espouse it's cause and de-
fend it's principles.
That we demand that the legisla-
ture at it's next session shall submit
to a vote of the people an amend
ment to the constitution of the state
forever prohibiting the saloon and
liquor traffic.
In the abandonment OF the rail
road between Breckenridge and
GAINESVILLE, which is a part of the
chartered line known as the Manito-
ba or Great Northern system a griev-
GUS wrong and damage has not only
been done to property holders along
said line, but to Wilkin county, and
as a matter OF public policy, if al
lowed to stand as precedent, to the
state OF Minnesota; and whereas, in
the petition of Edwin S. Templeton
against the st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba railroad a majority OF rail-
road and warehouse commissioners OF
the state decided Feb. 6, 1890, that
the said railroad company had a per-
feet right to vacate said piece of rail-
road, the state alliance considers the
vacation of said road as violation
of the law, and an outrage on the
people of that section and of the
whole state, and that we call upon
the attorney general of the state to
institute proceedings at once to test
the right of said railroad to take
such action.
That this alliance urge upon the
senators and representatives in con-
gross that they use their best efforts
to secure the passage Of a law for the
relief OF the settlers in the Red river
valley upon those odd-numbered Sec
tions of land in Marshall, Kittson
and Polk counties, now claimed by
the St. Paul & Manitoba or Great
Northern Railway company, but
which really has no legal title to the
same, by permitting the settlers to
enter the same as public lands, CIV
ing the railroad company other lands
in lieu of the same, if necessary.
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