The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-23

attacked.
They reduced the salaries of the
teachers employed in the public state
schools.
They reduced the salaries of the la
boring people employed in the state in.
stitntions.
They k lied our bill which provided
for board of arbitration to settle dis.
putes between employers and employees.
And so we might 60 on and show
that the course of the house the men,
bers Of which made their campaign on
tirely on the grounds that if elected
they would promote the interest of the
industrial masses, has been directly
opposed to every measure of relief
asked for by the organized wage.
earners of Kansas. The Alliance as an
industrial organization has failed; as \
friend of the wage-earner it is worse
than an enemy; as promoter Of pub.
lie interest it is as useful as a drouth
or an invasion of grasshoppers.
The Minnesota Legislature ad-
journed on Monday of this week, and
sense of relief IS expressed by nearly
all the exponents of public opinion.
There will not be, we Judge any very
general dissatisfaction with the ]egis-
lation accomplished, for the parties
were so evenly balanced that no ex-
treme measures could get through both
houses. But the uneasiness of the
public mind was in regard to what the
radical element might be able to do.
The adjournment gives relief to all
such fears, and the business of the
state will go forward with briske:
movement. The expressions of the
press on the adjournment are quite
amusing. The st. Paul Globe Says:
The list of laws enacted is not
a complete measure of the good which
has been accomplished. The social at
mosphere has been cleared by all the
discussions which have 1T tn had, and
the Legislators have learned a great
deal about the pleasures and the dan
gers, the joys and the sorrows of life in
a great city. They have been Jealous
patrons of our theatres and other
places of public resort They have
themselves provided the reading and
the listening public with form of en-
tertainment which has at times been
exceedingly interesting. They have
occasioned the capitalists, who usually
have most of the fun few moments
Of anxiety which will be good discipline
to them. And the general futilitV of
their planning and debating has proved,
if proof were needed, that under our
system vested interests are uuite safe
from the attacks Of the radical, even
when in authority"
The Minneapolis Tribune says that
this legislature will be known chiefly
by the damage it tried to do but failed
TO accomplish. 1t congratuiatcs
the State on defeat of the Currier bill,
i. measure designed to throw the rail-
road corporations into bankruptcy, and
also on defeat of the usury bill, which
would have driven millions Of capital
from the State The Republicans by
standing soIidly for the keyes amend
nent to the Australian ballot bill
effected great reform by making ma
chine control of votes more difficult.
The legislature is not accused of any
very bad legislation, and the appre-
tensions felt that some ilisadvised pro-
jects might be put through have not
been fulfilled.
President Harrison is winning
honOrs for himself as an orator in the
course of his Southern tour by his brief
addresses at the different towns and
cities along lis route of travel. Modes,
in manner, yet both forcible and ele-
CANT in diction, his speeches are pos
sessed Of an attraction to the listener
few public speakers are able to inspire
His old neighbnrs in Indiana are we |
aware of the power Of Ben Harrison, -
as they call him. in public speech, but
until now lie has not been heard beyond
his own state. lie has made the most
successful impression even made so far
by any Presidential tourist.
The National Republican League
| convention at Cincinnati held April
21st was an enthusiastic Blaine as
semblage. The "Plumed Knights
never had such an enthusiastic multi
tudes in his train as he has to-day.
There must he a great change effected
in the minds and hearts of the great
mass Of Republican voters if Blaine is
not nominated by acclamation in the
| convention of 1892.