The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-10

possible have heard that beet sugar
making had been thoroughly tried
both in Wisconsin and other places.
and had proved a total failure al
though German machinery and skill
ed German WOrkmen had been i'm
ported, with unlimited capital to
back them.
The fact of the matter is, that we
cannot, even, raise sugar cane with
profit. We have tried it ourselves.
with numbers of others in this coun
ty, and we can make good syrup. So
we have seen boys walk on their
hands, and stand on their head, but
we should not thing of asking the
legislature to provide money to en-
courage that kind of locomotion.
Yet that would be as sensible as try
ing to make sugar of beets in Mime
sofa where the frost comes so early
and hired help is SO scarce. Senator
Lienau ought to tack an amendment
to his bill, compelling all the able
bodied people in the state to pull
beets in the fall, in order to save
them from getting frozen as hard as
the heads Of the promoters of this
bill are soft.
Senator Lienau fathers another
bill equally foolish, but a great deal
more vicious. we refer to the one "to
encourage immigration" Is there
any other body of men on the face of
the globe who will allow laws to be
enacted against their own interest.
but the Minnesota farmers. And
that too when they have the power
in their own hands to stop 1t. But
they not only do so, but they also pay
the piper" in being taxed to pay
the Commissioners of immigration.
etc. DO people in other occupations
act in this manner? Not much; the
brick-layer fights for eight-hOur law,
because he knows that the shorter
time he works, the longer his job will
last. Nor does he encourage the i'm
migration of other brick-layers into
the city he lives in. let alone paving
their expenses there. 1t takes the
representatives. of "Hayseeds' to clio
that. But there is. still. more seri-
Gus view of this matter. If the
American system of government, and
American civilization mean any
thing more than what the political
demagOgue gives to them, Uncle
Sam has already got more foreign
substance on his stomach than he
can assimilate. Within fifty miles
of where | live. there are four differ
ent natiOnalities which have no
more affinity to American institu--
tiOns than the Sioux Indians have.
We could take Senator Lienau, in
good days drive, right through these
four foreign settlements, where if he
is an American. he would be looked
upon as an intruder. and where the
English language is not taught i'm
the public schools. mo Senator"
We want no encouragement Of immi-
got competitors enough of the sort
they are without going into the high
ways and hedges and compelling
them to come Senator Lienau
mistakes bigneSs for greatness. The
Chinese, if numbers give strength
ought to be the most powerful ma.
ton on earth.
We lived in the United States
when there were only thirty millions
of people in it, but we believe it was
a more powerful nation then than it
is now, with it's 65.OOO.OOO. 1t is
quality not quantity that rules this
world. We believe that if Uncle
Sam swallows any foreign substance
he cannot digest, he ought to stand
on the shores of the Atlantic and
spew it back across the ocean where
1T came from. SETH BOTTOMLEY.