St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-08
THE STATE CAPITOL.
What the State Papers Say as
Far as They Have Got.

Democrat.
Two hundred and fifty-six thousand
dollars for the state capitol site!
Whew.-Rochester Record and Union.
We dreamed that the capitol would be
Dullt Without another appropriation.
wonder IT dreams come true|-Ren-
vile Star Farmer.
While this may be fair and equable
value for the land chosen, the journal
believes that suth sites should be do
nated.-Big Stone County journal.
The capitol commission OF Minnesota
has selected the head of Wabasha street,
81. raul, for the new capitol. Price,
S256,O75. = Grand Forks Northwest
News.
The new capitol cmmission has bought
q site for the new capitol building for
$4,000. or more than twice the assessed
valuation. Robbery number one is now
reeorded.-Anoka Union.
The capitol commissioners have bar
gained for site for the new state house
III ST. Paul. The price is little over a
quarter OF million dollars, and it is 10
Gated about three blocks north of the
present capltol.-New Ulm News.
The great state of Minnesota will not
begrudge the outlay of money, if
honestly and intelligently expended,
and we want a capitol that Will be 4
credit, something different from the
present e.-Falrmont News.
OF all damphool laws passed by the
last legislature the one to build a new
capitol was the worst. Minnesota didn't
need new capitol. and the next legis-
lature ought to pass law deferring its
erection for about twenty years.
AnOka Union.
The capitol commission has at last Sc
cured site. 1t Is near the old capitol
building and costs the state S256. 900. A
site in the Midway district would have
been given the state free of charge, but
the three-quarterS of a mile limit made
it utterly impossible for it being located
here.-Fertlle journal.
Minnesota has to pay 1856, 900 for the
site fQr a new capitol building. Very few
building sites. There are usually real
estate boomers and city corporations
enough looking for chance 10 donate
grounds for public institutions of this
klnd.-Heron Lake News.
The capitol site has at last been Sc
lected. The cost is something over
S2O0,00O, with longtime payments. The
commission has only commenced its
arduous labors, and the number OF peo-
pie that they cannot satisfy Will fill the
ar With their cries OF dissatisfaction.
Martin County Democrat.
Those st. Paul real estate sharks
should donate site, Or else the capitol
should he located 1t Midway Nj where IA IA
site would he donated to the state. But
then the capitol isn't built yet, and the
next legislature will probably sit down
real nard on the present capitol COM
mission and their doings.-Houston Sig
nal.
When the Republican party of this
state, through its stump speakers next
fall, enumerates its many glorious
achievements in administering the af-
fairs OF the people it should not forget
10 tell that 4 state capitol was built in
1852, that the same has been under re-
pairs ever since, and that now new
one has to be built.-Ada Herald.
For the ground on which to place
Mlnnesota's new capitol building at st.
Paul, the sum of S256.00O was paid,
doubtless five times more money than
the actual value of the land, but the big
real estate sharks of the metropolis had
to have rake-otf, and 1t is not every
day they get access to the state treas
Winnebago City Press-News.
A park is something our farmers have
never had, and the state capitol grounds
will fill long felt want. Having
helped to pay for it, they will feel
sense of ownership i'll it, and many will
doubtless visit the city In the years to
come for the purpose of viewing their
real estate and warning st. Paulites off
the grass.-New Richland North Star.
1t the capitol is worth having it is GER
tainly worth donating site for. The
Midway district Is the place to locate it.
The capitol isn't to be built for this
year, or for next year, but for years to
come, and site should be chosen with
that fact in view. Midway is 10 Gated
half way between st. Paul and Mime
apolis, it is the true location, and there
it should go.-Rochester Daily Record
and Union.
A fortune squandered for site when
there were others inside the city limits
OF st. Paul that could have been secured
for nothing. Curse the capitol commits
sion. Every Woodworking taxpayer in
the state will curse it before it is done
with Its job. There is but little demand
for new capitol now, and no demand
for site that costs the sum named
above.-Swift County Monitor.
There is much sentiment against the
purchase of capitol site expressed by
the state papers. as beautiful site
could be donated only little further
out, and st. Paul-(Pigs-eye itseems to
be still, as it has piggish eye) ought to
donate ten acres. While we need new
building the project is very liable to be
knocked out at the next session of the
legislature. -AleXandria Post.
There are other towns in the state
beside, st. Paul that would furnish
ground for state capitol for $3.50. 900.
and we reckon there are some that
would furnish such site, or a better
one, for nothing, and contribute liber-
ally towards the erection of the canitol
besides. If st. Paul really wants to do
the handsome thing she will, as Frank
Day suggests. 'get a big move on, raise
the money and give that capitol site to
the state without money and without
price. "-Montevideo Leader.
What next? That depends. The con-
summation Of this outrage upon the
state ought to be averted. If appeal to
the courts can do it, it will be; if not,
the issue will be made so hot in the next
legislative elections as to thoroughly
arouse the people to a realizing sense of
the situation. All that those who have
thus far defended the interests of the
state as against the greed of real estate
anu pOllIlcai cOfiDln6S,. Is TO lie low and
watch an opportunity to throw the job
into court. Then the inside history of
the scheme will come out under oath.
Ii that can't be done then the best way
is to refer the whole matter to the peo-
pie when the time comes to elect an
other legislature. This is no time to get
hot. The capitol is not yet built.-Mid-
way News.
There is no justice in the way some of
the country papers are roasting the Min
nesota capitol commission regarding
the selection OF site tor the new CAPT.
tol building. That more suitable
building is an imperative necessity ad-
mits of no dispute. The site selected is in
every way satisfactory, the price is rea-
sonable, and there is no kick coming.
There is no reason why st. Paul, which
must pay large. share of the cost
of the erection of the new building,
should also contribute site. Minnesota
is not bankrupt commonwealth, and it
is silly and beneath our dignity as a
state to plead for donations like com