New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1892-01-27
DONNELL US PINE LAND PLANK.

ronage prize OF the plne-land and lum-
bering corporations-the positionSof sur
veyor- general. WhatsMr Donnelly, a
strictly literary and social reform gen
! tleman, wished to do with this lumber
mans fat Office has always remained a
mystery. Indeed, it has always
been a matter pf9Ncenjecture what
qualifications Mr. Donnelly had for the
position, or what attractions the Office
could have for him. .l
Mr.. Donnelly's ambition for the. office
Of surveyor-ge general forcibly recurs to
mind in connection With the recent up
roar in the Farmers Alliance ranks over
the forestry plank iu the late plRallys
Fish platform. Heretofore the Alliance
in it's platforms and otherwise, has s.ood
staunchlf bYsrne cause OF forestry and
forest protection. Many of the sprinci-
pal officers and agitators in the State
Foresty Association are members of the
Alliance or in sympathy with that.Body.
Secretary j. 0. Barrett, the gentleman
who fathered the proposed forest reserve,
is himself an Alliance sympathizer. The
Farm, Stock and Home, the Progressive
Age, and other papers which sympxth-
ize with the Alliance cause, as we'll as
all agricultural journals, were strong
champions of the Northern Minnesota
forest reserve project, The members
of the Alliance in the late state legisla-
ture were. likewise minded and voted
for the memorial to congress and the
president. The forest reserve was held
up as peculiarly an agricultural meas
ure, and opposed to the Vaccinations
of the ''pine land barons." How seized
with CONSERVATION, therefore, were the
farmer leaders to see Messrs. Donnelly
& Fish present the following peculiar
and mysterious resolutions:
Resolved, That we dlsapprove Of the
scheme to set aside a large portion of
the northeastern part of our state for a
national park as scheme of the pine.
land and railroad rings to secure the
land for future corporation benefts;and
that we believe it is plan of English
syndicates to cut us off from the Lake
Superior route to the ocean,
This exceedingly -Donnellian produc-
ton, with its Bacon-cipher logic, has
stirred up among the Alliance yeoman-
ry Northwest blizzard of hostile de-
monstration. The Farm, Stock and
Home dlscourses on the Donnelly- Fish
plank after this pointed fashion:
To say that pine land and railroad
rings want to preserve~fores,s is to rea-
son curiously, and to assume that Eng
lish syndicates want to get hold of tim.
Der and mineral lands for. any purpose
other than speedy and complete devas-
tation and despoilation is passing
strange. Farmers protesting against
the preservation of forests that railroad
rings, lumber lords and English syndi-
Gates would preserve is an anamoly
rarely encountered. Strangely enough
the opponents of the reservation are
farmers, rings, corporations and syndi-
CCtlCo3 ASAO CACy oil lACCC Ou COluuOu
grounds, while skilled, intelligent, ex-
perienced, unsel6sh, philanthropic men
and women are favoring it, solely in
the interest Of agriculture.
The Progressive Age boils Mr.. DON
nelly's pine-land delivery as follows:
1t seems the very acme of indescrib-
able nonsense for the Farmers Alliance
to declare against the National Park Re-
serve for Minnesota, thus 1joining the
lumber monopolies, the plutocratic
press and the railway corporations in
their fight against the scheme. What
colossal impudence to assert that the
Park project was scheme of English
syndicates to prevent an outlet to Eur
ope by way of the lakes?
But it remains for Secretary Barrett,
of the State Forestry Association, to
"give away Mr.. Donnelly bodily, an
act which the doughty secretary sue
cessfulfy prosecuted in Monday even
ing's Tribune. Mr.. Barrett talks state
secrets, as follows:
Impressed with the conviction that an
effort would be made by he''land ring''
of Minnesota to losd its scheme upon
the shoulders of the Alliance conyen-
ton, | wrote Mr.. Donnelly, briefly stat
ing the facts in the case, believing at
the time that he would not betray my
confidence, but would add to the luster
Of his former defense of forestry, and
warned him against the cunning scheme
of the combine and plead with him
not to commit the conyention either
way, because the reserve is not polit-
ical consideration. Note the result!
His official influence was thrown in
favor of the climber land sharks!' The
convention yielded to the pressure
of the monopoly bearing upon those un-
wary farmers, under the leadership Of
the president and state lecturer, and the
secretary was ordered to report the ac-
tion of the convention to our congress-
men at Washington virtually to the eff
feet that they are opposed to reserving
q great wind break to protect them
AGAINST the polar winds. onnosed to the