St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-28

GOV. BOlES. or were uuly
| sworn in by Judge Rothrock. of the Su-
! preme court, and Gov. BoieS delivered
| his inaugural message to the largest
gathering of its kind ever known. He
| proceeded to take up one by one the
most important public questions at pres.
| ent agitating the people of the state OF
Iowa, discussing them at great length.
| Concerning the railway situation Gov.
BOieS said that before the present laws
the railways were not satisfied. with re-
munerative dividends upon the money
actually invested, but
THEY WATERED THE STOCK
of their corporations, sold it at prices
far below its face value and then under
took to conduct business Oh a basis that
would return dividends on these imag-
mary investments. TO accomplish this,
individual and public rights alike were
often sacrificed. Odious discrimina-
ton was repeatedly practiced. Towns
and cities if one part of the state were
favored at the expense of those in other
localities, wherever this would operate
to the advantage of the railway COM
panies. IL was dangerous power that
railway managers welded when they
controlled the situation and they abused
it. Unless judiciously exercised, it
might easily become a dangerous power
the people have assumed. and care
should be taken that no man can justly
charge that they have abused it. 1t
was no wrong to the railway interests
of the state that the people desired.
They only demanded that their own in
terests should be fairly treated. No
one overlooked the fact that to the rail-
roads they were indebted for the WON
derful development of the state. 1t was
faO
Iowa most needed. She should help
hasten the day when the waters of our
great lakes would be turned from their
course, and made to mingle with those
of the mighty rivers that clasped her
IN THEIR GIANT ARMS.
A considerable portion of the message
is devoted to the tariff, and the present
high protective tariff condemned. 1t
says: Any system of taxation. the eff
feet of which is to take from one class
and give to anOther,iS necessarily par
tiaI and unequal distribution of public
burdens. 1t is probably true that the
burdens of an eXOrbitant protective
tariff fall more heavily upon Iowa than
upon most of her sister states. Such a
tariff is necessarily in conflict with the
best interests of the one great industry
which is the chief hope and sustenance
of her people. 1t increases the cost of
everything we buy, and diminishes the
price of almost everything we sell. We
denOunce as conspiracy a combination
between few men to Increase by arti-
fetal means the cost of the least of our
neceSsarieS, and encourage by national
law vast monopoly that defies the law
of trade and regulates in its own inter-
est the price of nearly everything we
are compelled to buy. We have fol-
lowed this delusion of protective tariff
with the blind faith of a devotee, listen
ing to the most deceptive of arguments,
believing in the
MOST PATENT OF FALLACIEs.
We have been willing to believe we
could enrich our workinen by making
milliOnaires of their employers; that
we could increase the farmers income
by system of legislation that clogs the
outlets for his products that must go
abroad Or smother the market we would
nourish. We have been clay In the
pntters' hands, nodded to suit his selfish
will, until with granaries OVERLOOKING,
with f1ocks and herds that man can
scarcely number, we are still poor, be-
| cause by artificial means the profits of
our own great industry have been de-
pressed below their normal condition
that those of another might be elevated
all our experience, We are confronted
by a policy we are as much responsible
for as any one, that is draining the ma
tiOnai treasury by eXtravagant eXpendi-
lures that war tariff may be main-
tanned In times of peace; that threatens
| to remove the tax Oh the worst of luXu-
| rieS that it may be retained on the great
est of necessities. Let it be understood
that the people OF this state demand
cheap clothing, cheap food, cheap i'm
plements of iabor-in short, cheap
necessaries. That they are not inter-
ested in cheap whisky or cheap tobacco,
and if compelled to take the latter
cheap and the former dear, they will
surely resent the injury. Coming to
the question of prohibition. the govern
or stated that the prohibitory
LAW HAD BEEN DESPISED,
disregarded nd ignored in most of the
large cities g the state from the day of
its birth down to the present day. The
use of intoxicating liquors as bever-
| age has not been diminished. Millions
| and millions OF the capital of citizens
had been invested in the business and
| then it had been coldly wiped out
without one effort to compensate those
who were ruined thereby. Wherever
the law had been enforced. owners had
been impoverished. In his judgment
| the chief obstacle to the enforcement of
| the law lay in the fact that it was a
| cruel violation of one of the most valu
| able of human rights. 1t was impossi.
BILE to read the platform of the respect
| i've parties without reaching the con
clusion that no political issue was ever
more clearly defined, more thoroughly
discussed and better understood by the