The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-25
NUMBER 40.
The Railroad Attorney.

lHc ISdllTOaO Attorney.
Il am not here to say word
against railroads or corporations
These were the pregnant words
that fell from the lips Of the Demo
cratic candidate for governor in his
acceptance speech at St. Paul last
Tuesday. Mr. Wilson'S apparent
frankness is one Of his chief char
acteristics. For thirty years and
more he has been a corporation at
torney. For every hair in his head
or beard that has turned grey, the
corporations Of the Northwest have
paid him a hundred hard dollars.
He has formulated laws that have
gone upon the statute books Of the
northwestern States; laws which
to-day rob the agricultural interest
of much of its hard-earned wage,
and make many an honest farmer
a keen sufferer, living upon lands
heavily mortgaged. Mr.. Wilson
has earned the money that makes
him rich and respectable by using
legal bubbles to defeat the suit of
the brakeman who has lost his leg
in the service of railroad trust; by
cutting down the value Of the farm
er's land forced from him for right
Of way by these same corporations;
! by defending the railway company
against the just demand. of the
widow Of the slain husband, and
the righteous claim of the defense
j less orphan children. Mr.. Wilson
!. may well pledge himself s'not to
say word against railroads or
3 corporations. Common gratitude
q of the servant to his master should
prevent him from biting the hand
that feeds him. He owes to every
corporate interest and every organ
lied trust fattening upon the sweat
of honest toll, a debt of eternal
gratitude. He has buttressed
s with legal chicanery every vested
right that they have flched from
! the people, and they in return have
. made him cushioned seat
amongst the plutoeratic princes Of
the great republic. Mr.. Wilson
: does sexcellently for himself and
the political cause that he repre-
sents to whine about Protection"
: and attribute to that great and just
principle all of the evils which af-
f1ict the nation. He is trying to
turn the dogs of wrath upon the
wrong scent, that he may still con-
: tinue to fatten upon the fees paid
to him out of the plethoric purses
of trusts and combines. Now,
then,-let the Democratic party
make this sentence their war-cry
for the campaign: II am not here
to say a word against railroads or
5 corporations" Let the Farmers
) Alliance take up the refrain and
: carry it to the mortgaged fields of
the honest tillers of Gods free soil.
: Let the crippled employee Of the
l railroad barons, as he halts upon
his crutches while going through
the world eating the bread of
friendship or charity, remember
that the Democratic candidate for
governor will make no war upon
railroads in his interest. Let all
the working people of this great
: State take heed that the reform"
e Democratic candidate for governor
< of Minnesota will make no war in
!. their interest against that pluto
9 cratic clientage whose wealth,
e wrung from the people alone. has
t made him respectable and rich.
d When the sun shall set on Tues
J. day, November 4th, he will have
Q the privilege to return perman-
d emily to his law office in Winona,
there to serve the masters whose
bread he eats. The people of the
). State have no desire for 4 railway
e attorney to serve them as chief
e executive. Mortified. Meas.
= Let Them Take Their Puffs to
7. Some Other Office.
Q 1t makes a printers heart glad
to have an individual or society