New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-03-18
Exchange Sentiment.

The New Ulm Review is undertaking
splendid work for the republican
party in this state by endeavoring to
create sentiment for. candidate for
governor who shall shave nothing but
his merits to run on .''-Springfeld Ad-
vance.
"Good morning," said the lawyer, as
he started for his Office, II have to go
and rob somebody, now.'' Il sympa-
thize with you" "said the legislator. Il
have been poor myself. All have to
Dc. now, when am hard up, is to in
troduce an anti-railroad bill. ."-Midway
News.
The Pullman Sleeper charges you
$3.50 to ride from here to St. Paul. In
a parlor car with as many copveniences
you can ride the same distance for 25
cents. Why there should be that differ
ence is something we cannot under
stand. Pullman sleepers ought, accord
ing to this, be taxed about Is per cent
of their earnings.-St. Peter Herald.
Eric Olson, who was an Alliance
striker and general hanger-on, was ap.
pointed clerk of the Prison committee
OF the Minnesota House of Representa-.
tives at salary of SIS per day. AL
though he had attended but two meet
ines Of the committee up to last week,
his salary amounted to $115, for $57 so
per meeting. Eric comes high, but we
persume that our Alliance friends must
have him. Yet good many farmers
as we'll as other tax payers are wonder
ing where the promised ''retrenchment,
reform and economy" come in.-St.
Cloud Journal Press.
A bill is introduced in the legislature
to pay expenses of contesting members,
S.. .796 81 being asked for, of which on
ly 81, 1876. 81 is for actual expense while
$3, $4,000 is attorneys fees, most of it
going to Bill Erwin and Cylus Yelling
ton. While it might be right to pay ac-
tual expenses of members holding Ger.
ti6cates to seats, we see no fairness or
good sense in paying the expense of
every candidate who feels he ought to
have been elected. 1t is bid for con-
tests and an encouragement for slick
politicians who desire notoriety and
good time at the capital, expense all
paid. And again what sense is there in
paying thousands of dollars attorneys
fees. There need and should be no at
torney's fees. Let the man bringing the
contest present his case IN person be-
fore the legislature and the elected
member present his side of the question
in person, each presenting such testi-
mony as they choose and then let the
legislature decide the case on its mer-
it's. There is no need Of attorneys and
and there should be no expense bill of
that kind allowed on either side.-Wa.
SEGA Radical.
The legislature of Minnesota now in
session has had before it numerous
measures regulating all sorts of alleged
abuses, but none has been more ill-ad-
vised than the bill introduced to tax the
holders of mortgages. It is a cunning
ly devised measure in the manner pro-
vided for enforcing the law, which pro-
hibits county recorders from making
an entry of the mortgage before the tax
has been paid. 1t is not, however, the
method but the principle of the act
which makes it unwise. AS the law is
at present constituted only resident
holders of mortgages are taxed, those
of other states being outside the juris.
dictlon of the county officials. This
bill is designed to remedy the supposed
injustice, and to treat all alike, with ad.
ded measures adopted for it's enforce
ment. How utterly fut.le and disas-
trous to the best interests of the state
this bill will be. it passed, time alone
will demonstrate. Sufficient IS it to say
that no legislative enactment can COM
pei a person to loan money if he don't
want to and that the measure would
simply amount to.placing an embargo
upon the investm snt of both local and
foreign funds in that way. Heretofore
the imposition of the tax has been east
ly avoided by local loaners, but under
the new order of things practical pro-
hibition will result. Money will newt
ably follow the laws governing all 9TH
er commodities and seek the channels
where it will be the least hampered By
taxes or other restrictions and receive
the largest returns. The utter futility of
endeavoring to regulate the price Of any
| article or the rates of interest, by legis-
lative enactment, was never better illus.
| trot,d than hv this aCfemnt tO fay mort.