The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-10-14
REMEMBER WHEN YOU VOTE
That the Democrats in 1891 Defeat
ed Every Bill to Benefit the Far

That the Democrats in 1891 Defeat
ed Every Bill to Benefit the Far
mer.
The Democrats lay at the door of the
Republican party the blame for alleged ex-
listing evils to which they say the grain
grower Is subject. For defects in the laws
regulating railroads and elevator compan-
les which are productive of occasionalan-
noyance and loss to the farmers they are
censuring the Republicans in their ridicu-
lous campaign literature. But the people
OF Minnesota will bear in mind that il was
the Republican party which first gave them
the present laws for the better control of the
railroads and grain warehouses by the
state.
Ihe voters will also remember that to
effect needed amendments several meas
ures were proposed and introduced in the
legislature OF 1884, and that legislature,
which was controlled i'll both its branches
by the Observation-Disclosures combine, de-
feated every such remedial measure by
its votes.
Now the Democrats have the effrontery to
charge the Republicans with having failed
in their duty To the grain grower, and they
are actually making this braZen statement
to help them in tneif contests in the leg
islative districts. They want to capture the
Legislature again and repeat their perform
ance OF 1891. They want to be gwen an
other opportunity to vote ,
The responsibility for this condition of at
fairs must rest entirely upon the last legis-
lature, the members were thoroughly
aware that there was no law existing regu-
latlng these important matters. It cannot be
argued in excuse that the measures pro-
posed We're not satisfactory, as It was in
the power Of the Legislature to propose and
enact some substitute, instead OF leaving the
state. commission without any statute to
guide them, and the people of the state
without any law whatever on matters Of
81 oh vital Importance to their interests Ref
erence to the house journal discloses that
this legislation could have been secured but
for Democratic votes against it. 1t is a
matter or history that these
MEASURES WE'RE VIGOROUSLY OP.
POSED
on the floor and in the Hobbies, not only by
Democrats, but by prominent Alliance men,
and 1t Is difficult to discern which Of the
two were most interested in defeating til EN-.
Many other measures Of lesser Importance
were recommended There was a bill to
appoint scale experts, whose duty it should
be to examine and report the condition
OF the scales and to ADJUST and seal the
same
Another bill was to secure for the owner
OF grain in transit proper care and safe de-
livery Of the original contents of car to
A bill was also recommended by the COM
mission providing for the proper handling of
grain in special bins in country warehouses,
Tor the dement, OF the country owner and
shipper. Also, for changes in the present
terminal grain law, to correct serious de-
fects therein. All these recommendations
were before the last legislature, but they
were rejected, and the proposed legislation
failed OF accomplishment
IL VIII thus be seen that the farmers have
nothing to hope from a Democratic legis.
lature, and that the only party which has
ever given them any beneficial laws is the
Republican. 1t now remains for the voters
of the state to say whether they want To
give the Democrats another chance to
slight their interests or whether they will
entrust to the Republican party the task OF
completing the work it began in 1885, of
giving to the grain growers reasonable and
efficient laws for the protection of their in.
terests, for providing the best possible faciii-
ties for shipping their grain to market and
for checking all manner of fraud and op-
preston. Where injustice exists no party
has been more ready to relieve the people
than has the Republican, while deception,
greed, selfishness and avarice have always
characterized the Democratic party.