St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-24
ONCE MORE THAT STATE Ell.
EVATOR.

Whatever amount of humilitysthe oc-
casion demands the GLOBE puts on
draft, subject to call, for having fallen
into the error of saying that the state
| elevator bill carried an appropriation
| from the revenue fund of 100000. The
| original bill had such provision, the
debates assumed it as feature; and
the GLOBE, whose business is not legis-
| latiOn, assumed that what was in the
bill, and everybody supposed was In the
bill when passed, was in the act as
passed. But the GLOBE and everybody
else were "off." Somewhere and some
how, in way that is yet in the dark.
the approprlating clause was changed
so as to appropriate 100000 from the
warehouse fund then in the treasury or
thereafter received by it. AS there is
but some $4,000 in the fund, and only
dribletS will come in until the crop
moves in.the fall, the prospects for the
elevator scheme are not very brilliant.
But the interesting question just now
is how was that change made? How
could SO material all alteration be made
so quietly that even the GLOBE was de-
ceived? But above all, how could the
change have escaped the eagle eye of the
Sage. who was the especial guardian of
the measure? Was there more cum
ming one than he there? Was he hypno-
tized? 1t was not lack Of information
that misled him, for there was the re-
port of the chief inspector on his desk,
which showed balance of some $4,000
only in the warehouse fund. and that is
a long way short of the 100000.
The Sage says that CANEsT0RP did
it, and that he supposed it was all right
and didn't look at it. But what kind
of a general is one Who, when the
enemy are on his flanks and in his rear.
will take the word of one of them
that the key to his position is all right?
CANEsToRP is Republican, and can
one Of that tribe be trusted even though
he be farmer? Surely, the varied and
ripe experience of the Sage with those
cattle should have warned him from
trusting one of them, even if his hair
was full of hay seed; he might have
known that his heart was full of guile.
Just think Of what has come of the
Sage's not paying ''any attention to the
bill when it came back with the amend
ment, supposing it had been drawn by
a capable lawyer" Instead of the state
elevator prancing down among the ele-
vatorS of the bloated mOnop0liStS at
Duluth, with It's head erect and as high
as any of them, and its bowels as capa-
cious as theirs. it will go, if 90 at all, as
a measly little affair that can be built
with what remains after paying some
monopolst of water fronts a princes
ransom for place to put its feet, and
on which the monsters will look down
and laugh with scorn. Then there is
that awful shock to the confidence of
the Populists in the sagacity of their
leader that comes of il. Who again can
trust leader whom back country Re-
publican senator can hoodwink and fool
as CANEsTORP did the Sage? One who
conidingly supposes that some capable
lawyer has made the thing all right and
never looks to see what sheol the capa-
bic lawyer has played with his pet
measure? One VINO trusts capable
lawyers when every capable" lawyer
in the senate was setting traps to trip
the Sage up all along his legislative
path? And last but not least among
the results of this charming and child
like confdiugaess, the GLOBE was mis-
led to tell its million readers that the
revenue, the tax-derived fund. was to
be depleted to the extent of 00.0>n TO
crafty the Sage's appetite fol paternal-
istic schemes of legislation. II /, ,uo
hod