St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-24

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appear to apply to all. In this there is
material difference between the act
and the measures recommended by the
commission: that body having intended
| 10 recognize the two classes of business,
the strictly private one of buying grain
with which the state had no right to in
terfere, and the other one which re-
ceived grain for storage for compenSa-
ton, thus assuming function of the
common carriers business, and hence
liable to supervision by the public.
The commissions report of December,
1892, after reciting the futile efforts of
the commission to secure suitable legis-
lation, says that it sis disposed to draft
another law which shall place all eleva-
tors and grain houses on the right of
way of any railroad company in this
state, with tue consent of such com
pany, directly under the control and su-
pervision of the railroad and warehouse
| commission, and make such elevators sub
| ject to such restrictions, conditions and
obligations to the public as they would
be ii owned and operated by the railway
| companies themselves"
| uC COuEiuIoolOIl pldCCS GulS cAclClSO
of the power OF the state upon the
theory that with the consent of the COM
| panies. such grain houses are doing the
work of common carriers in receiving
and forwarding grain; are acting thus
i'll public capacity, and are subject to
obligations such as would attach to the
company itself if it undertook the
| work."
The commission further proposed
law permitting persons to erect elevators
on their land adjoining the right of way,
and that such elevators should not be
! subject to state control. "but allowed to
transact business as private persons, in
their own way, subject only to the gen.
eral laws of the state"
| The difference between the commits
sion and the governor, then, is that the
commission recognized the broad dis
tinction between the business of re-
ceIving grain for storage and shipment,
| for which a charge is made, ana the
purchase of grain on private account,
using grain houses to store it in pend
ing shipment. The governor also rec.
! ogniZed this inherent difference, but
was less frank than was the commits
sion, and, foreseeing that, unless the bill
! were made to appear to include both
| classes of business, it would not be even
a pretense Of redeemIng the pledges he
made the farmers, had the original bill,
| which, following the commissioners
draft, provided license for those eIe-
vators doing grain business for others
| for compensation. recalled, and had the
wording changed to its present obscured
| form.
But no mere juggling with words can
alter principles. The radical difference
between storing grain for hire ard stor-
ing grain in the owners own house for
himself and his own convenience, rec
ognized by the commission in its two
| proposed bills, exists i'll the governors
bill'' in spite of the effort to conceal it.
| The owner of the grain house who buys
outright and refuses to store for others
is outside the scope of the act.
''B. G. (BEFORE CLEVELAND. )"
The Milwaukee Sentinel mixes its
sarcasm and its wit and its partisanry
| together to refer to the great states men
| of the Democratic party "B. G. before
| CLEVELAND" On the whole, we are
| inclined to think that the country will
accept this irreverent flip of the Senti-
neFS in seriousness and make a use
! of its ''B. c." in manner that may not
be altogether palatable to that ultra
partisan paper. The historian, writing
OF these times, will refer, for instance,
70 no ind in,
serted that the tariff is not a tax as of a
date ''B. c." Similarly, the political
economist Of the next century, measur-
| ing the advance then attained, will
| point to the time ''B. Co." when a large
party controlling the government taught
people to believe that the more men
taxed themselves the richer they grew.
| The days when government set itself
| to the task Of making some VocationS
| profitable at the cost of all the peO-
pie will be put in the period "B.
! c." The lunatic idea that the govern
ment should take care of everybody,
and that no one should take care for
| himself who could get the government
to do it for him, will be noted as having
! subsidized 'B. c." The student of civics
will mark as one of the noteworthy
events of these our days that 1t was only
"B. c." that it was regarded that per-
sons with corns OH their feet, one on
each foot, or that persons who had lost
their hair. or who couldn't hear a watch
| tick when held two inches from their
ears, were thereby so disabled from
earning their living by manual labor
that they were entitled to claim and get
their support from the government.
But why continue this enumeration?
Space forbids, to say nothing of the in
| jury to the feelings of our Wisconsin
contemporary at this appropriation OF it's
pleasantly. Suffice to say that we thank
the Sentinel for the word it has given
the country.
A DISCREDITED COUNSELLOR
Ex-Secretary FOSTER was in New
York the other day, and proceeded to
give the administration some financial
counsel. He said that II think it nee
essary that President CLEVELAND and
the secretary of the treasury should de-
clare that the gold reserve will be main
/ tainaJ no bNrf bair