New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-03-12

to the Union Pacific fifty years ana reduce
the interest on It's bonds from to 8 per cent;
Central Pacific bonds, now due, bonds bear
ing II per cent to be paid in 125 years, we
denounce as an outrage upon the people Of
this country.
That we protest against any Impairment
of the force and Yigor OF the interstate COM
merce law, and that we especially protest
against the repeal of that part of the law
which prohibits pooling, discrimination
and the charging more for a short than
That we demand that the next legislature
shall pass a law: fixing the rates of trans
portation upon the railroads of this state
that will be sufficient to pay interest on the
actual cost of said railroads and their ex-;
penses and repairs, but not one cent of in
terest on Watered stock.
That we hold that mortgage indebtedness
should be deducted from the tax upon
realty. whether such mortgage is held at
home or abroad; and we ask such laws as
will make the hidden property pay equal
taxes with the visible property.
That we favor material reducti on of in
terest on money, and demand that severe
penalties be attached to the practice of
usury.
That we favor an increase in the volume
OF money equal to the requirements Of an
ever increasing trade and business, without
the Intervention of banks, which shall be
made full legal tender. and that we demand
the free coinage of silver.
That we respectfully insist that our men-
bers in congress shall support such legsla-
ton as will positively suppress the beef
combination which has practically de-
stroyed cattle culture in the whole country.
and robbed both the farmer and the con-
sumner to create millionaires at their eX-
pense.
That the exchange system adopted by the
mlllers, whereby they practically take one
fourth instead of one-eighth as allowed by
law, is unjust tax upon the farmers, and we
urge such legislation as will prevent the
| wrong.
That we look with alarm upon the inva-
sion of our country by English capitalists,
who are Selling upon great local industries,
giving alien control to these interests which
are purely domestic and American, and in
creasing the strength OF, home monopolies
by the power of foreign money
That we deprecate the use Of money by
candidates for office as it debauches the
public conscience and leads to the decay of
the body polite.
That we urgently ask of congress The inn
mediate passage OF Senator Davis bill for
the enlargement and Improvement of the
Sault Ste. Marie canal.
That we ask the next legislature to estab-
lish the Australian system of voting for the
whole state.
That all public Offices which directly af-
feet the interests of the people should be
made elective, and for this reason we hold
that United States senators and railroad
commissioners should be made elective by
popular vote.
That we demand that the awar tariff. y
which has too long survived the object of
its creation, shall be radically revised, Civ
ing very material reductions on the neces-
the tree list to the end that we may COM
pete with the world for market and that
such luXuries as whisky and tobacco shall
in no manner be relieved from internal
taxation, till the high protection tariff has
been wholly Invested of its extortions.
That we are not satisfied with the actions
of the board of control of the states prison
in not Introducing the manu- facture 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 rob-.
berries ofnon-producers.
That the alliance deems it unWise and in
Judlcious to establish an organ, but regards
with favor and will encourage with its sup
port all papers which will spouse it's cause
and defend its principles.
That we demand that the legislature at it's
next session shall submit to vote of the
people an amendment to the constitution
OF the state forever prohibiting the saloon
and liquor traffic
In the abandonment of the railroad be-
tween Breckenridge and GAINESVILLE, which
is part of the chartered line known as the
Manitoba or Great Northern system griev-
Gus wrong and damage has not only been
| done to property holders along said line,
but to Wilkin county. and as matter
OF public policy, if allowed to stand
of Minnesota, and whereas, in the petition
of Edwin S. Tenlpleton against the st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad a major
ity of railroad and warehouse commission
ers of the state decided Feb. 6, 1890, that the
said railroad company had a perfect right to
vacate said piece OF railroad, 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
Thatthis alliance urge upon the senators
and representatives in congress that they
use their best efforts to secure the passage
of q law for the relief of the settlers in. the
Red river upon the certain odd-numb ered
sections ofland in Marshall, Kittson and
Polk counties, now claimed by the St. Paul
d 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, giving the
railroad company other lands in lieu Of the
same, if necessary.
Crows as Weather Prophets.
Jere Hill, an old character who lives In
| small house on the northern mart If tho