New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-08-12
TO MORR ON's IS NEE TING.

Review, which is usually honest with
itself and fair with its constituency to
take such a pesslmistic view Of the
meeting to be held in St. Paul on the
18th OF August to devise ways and
means for raising additional funds for
Mianesota's exhibit at the Worlds
Fair. The Twin cities will not, in that
convention, have anything Ike an -equit-
able representation when compared to
the proportion of the amount they will
be called upon to contribute on the
basis OF assessed valuation. If 100000
IS to be raised on the plan of apportion-
ing to each county its pro rata share as
shown by the valuation returned by the
assessors, Hennepin county would be
called upon to contribute nearly 1925, GOO
and Ramsey county about 1921 1000.
Thus 1t will be seen that these two
counties would raise nearly fifty per
cent. of the entire amount. If the var
ious organizations of Brown county
would send delegates as provided in the
call, it would have nearly half the re-
presentation in the convention that
either of the two great counties men,
toned, and only about one twentieth
the amount to raise. The exhibition of
Minnesota's resources at Chicago will
be from the whole state and not from
any particular municipality or section,
and the article in the Review warning
it's readers to ''Look out for the Cities,''
is certainly uncalled for and in very
poor taste. The Review has an un-
doubted right to oppose the meeting, to
discourage the raising of any more
money, and to humiliate the great State
OF Minnesota before the people of the
world If it so choose, but tor it's own
credit it should step out onto broader
grounds than to charge that the COM
mission will be under the dictatorial
control of the Twin cities, and show up
their interests at the expense and sacri-
flee of the balance of the State. An in
diligently edited paper, such as is the
Review, does itself injustice by taking
such untenable grounds Mankato Free
Press.
Notwithstanding the above appeal in
behalf Of the commission, the Review
believes in taking facts as it finds them
and no: as it would like to have them.
Mr.. Hunt, the editor of the Free Press,
and the other mem bers of the commission
are no doubt honest. They would not will
lingly submit to seeing the states mon.
ey perverted to the use of the cities, but
nevertheless we fail to see how they
can help themselves if they would in
crease the appropriation. In the first
place the only fair way to secure an ex-
ira 100000 for a purely state show is
through an act of the legislature. This
is entirely out of the question, for the
body that met in St. Paul last winter
would never consent to so large an ex-
penditure of the peoples money, es-
pecia]ly when so much open opposition
exists towards the present proposal. AS
stated in our last issue, if salaries are
paid, it means the bringing together of
these same legislators with exactly the
same views. The direct outcome
would be heavy expense to the state
and no approach to the desired appro-
priation. If salaries are not paid, as
has been suggested, it means nothing
more nor less than the getting together
of the representatives of the interests of
large cities, who will have no scruples
in voting an immense sum. The cities,
we believe, stand ready to contribute
whatever is wanted. If they can should
er part of this onto the rest of the state,
then well and good enough. This they
would be able to do in legislative ses.
sion where no salaries were paid for the
attendance of the memb ers, and this is
one of the reasons why the Review is
''humiliating the great State of Mime
sofa before the people of the world.''
Recurring to to-morrow's meeting,
it does not occur to us wherein it can
be effective. The delegates, who are to
be present, are representative only of
city interests. The gathering will be
composed of men whose ideas 90 with
the cities and what best upbuilds com.
mercial centres. While those from the
smaller towns would be with the coun-
try usually, as against the centres of
wealth and political power, still in
matter of this kind they would grasp
only too eagerly at an offer from the
Twins to furnish money with which to
attract manufacturing establishments,
and the advertising of the states agri-
cultural wealth would be of only second