St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-07
NORTH DAKoTA's WILDCAT.

The GLOBES information from Bis
marck relative to the Louisiana lottery
scheme proved to be reliable. The job
was well set up, and is being rushed
through with lightGing-like rapidity,
lest the storm of popular indignation
that is brewing throughout tina new
state may overtake and arrest its
progress. 1t is safe to say the legis-
Iative annals of the world do not eX-
hibit more villainOuS specimen of
Jobbery. or one that was concocted and
pushed through with more secrecy and
skill than this same piece of legislative
fnanciering in North Dakota. To be-
gin with, the men who are engineering
the job are enough to arouse suspicion
as to its questionable character, and, in
the second place, the record the North
Dakota legislature made in the late SEN
atorial election advertised it to the
world as being body where corruption
would thrive if given half a
chance. The moral standards of the
Republican party in North Dakota
are the queereSt anyway that were ever
set up. They enact prohibition one
day, and the next turn around and pro-
pose TO establish gambling hell under
state auspices. AS between the two
evils. the saloon and gambling, no ra-
tional person has ever questioned that
the latter was the greater of the twain.
And yet the North Dakota Republicans,
while carrying prohibition to the eX-
IRENE of inhibiting the use of wine in
the church sacrament, purpose to trans
fer the Louisiana type of civilization to
their own borders and not only legalize
gambling, but to make it a part of the
state machinery, and the main source of
public revenues. The plea that this is
being done under the eXigency of
depleted treasury is all bosh. The
naked truth, when broughtto view, will
possibly develop that it is being
done by filling the pockets of the men,
bers of the legislature with bribes The
resources of North Dakota are album
dant enough to provide all the reve-
nue. that the state needs, or ever will
need. If not. then the best thing that
North Dakota can do is to surrender it s
statehood and resume its former terri
tOrial conditions. II the state govern
ment has to be maintained and the chill
dren Of the state educated out of a fund
raised by the turn Of lottery wheel,
then it would be better for our Ameri-
can civilization that North Dakota be
blotted from the face of the map. But
such necessity does not exist, No
young state ever entered the American
Union with fairer prospects and bright
er promises than North Dakota. The
worry yoD hot ~ l,ol ,,oJo
territory pleaded so eloquently in be-
half of its admission that partisan oppo-
SitiOn was stilled in the halls OF con-
greSs, and all united in placing the
crown of statehood upon its fair young
brow. Jet. with less than year of Re-
publican administration. the young
state is made to appear before the world
IN the roll of pauper willing
to sell its honor in order to
gain the means of subsistence. This
action of the Republican legislatu re of
North Dakota is vile calumny upon the
people and upon the fair name of the
young state. The state is not reduced
to poverty, nor are the people anxious
to plunge into vortex of immortality,
The Republican administration in
North Dakota is responsible for the I'M
savory condition of affairs existing at
Bismarck. The governor, the state
officials and the members of the legisIa-
ture have all along been in possession of
the secret of this lottery scheme, and
yet they failed to communicate il TO the
people and ask for an expression of
opinion. Gov. MILLER expects to make
some cheap political capital out of his
exercise of the veto when the bill comes
before him, and yet he will do it with
the knowledge that the bill will be
passed over his veto, and with the
further knowledge that if he had
aroused the people in advance Of the in
PRODUCTION of this bill it would have died
In the shell. All these months that the
conspiratOrs have been Matching this
lottery scheme the governor was aware
o. the conspiracy against tie honor of