St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-22

leSSneSS. he TAX was one cent pound.
If the ad;va!orem equivalent of this were
1876 per cent 1t follows that the cent
was 1876 per cent of the price per pound.
or, to make 1t simple TO these confused
kindergartners, some sum multiplied by
1855 will produce l cent. Dividing l
cent then-we hope the older ones will
be patient while we are trying to get
some simple mathematics into these
obscured intellIgeDces and not laugh
by .ls6 we get 5.37 cents as the price per
pound OF cut nails, or S5.S7 keg. The
hardware boys and carpenters and
builders on the back seat will please
stop giggling.
FIVE MlLi.lO>S AT STAKE.
Five million dollars are at stake in
the election that will take place two
weeks from tomorrow. On the surface
there is to be only a choice of some
officers by the voters of the state. u
der the surface millions are being
fought for. to be won by railway cum-
pany and lost to The people and their
institutions, or saved to them.
The game began 10 be played months
1t began before the session of the legis-
lature in 1898. A part Of the work of
that body was but the playing of a part
of the game. 1t entered into the pro-
ceedIngS and action of the Populist con-
vention in July, and carried its point.
1t had hand i'll the Republican con.
vention, and had its way there. 1t
played strong hand in the Democratic
state convention, and Was defeated
there; and now. because OF that last de-
feal. it is transferred to The campaign.
hoping to win at the polls.
he players for this enormous stake
are the Great Northern railway. on the
one side, and the state institutions of
Minnesota on the other. What the
stake is we tell i'll this mornings issue.
A part OF the game not told before. we
tell now. The other part we told some
time ago when we printed the commune
cation of State Auditor Biermann to the
voters Of the state. Then the parties
were that company and the auditor.
Now new figure appears as playing a
part. Then we only saw the auditor
safeguarding OF the interests of the
state against the demand OF the railway
company, Now the governor of the
state appears, standing not with the
auditor and helping him to preserve the
patrlmOny of the children of the state,
but with the company, refusing TO do
his duty; delaying action the law makes
mandatory; waiting in hopes that the
voters of the state will remove the OBJ.
| stinate auditor and replace him with a
| plant HAL.
| We ask every voter of the state to read
the exposure we make this morning.
| We call Oh the Democratic press of tie
state to aid in placing it before their
readers. The amount involved, The In
tereSt every voter and every voters
child has in it, demands this. They
should know what, under the surface OF
an ordinary election of state officers, is
involved and what their vote means to
them and their children.
Then when each voter goes into his
booth on that fatpful Tuesday morning
next month. lie will say, If ne votes for
Knute Nelson for governor, and Robert
q. Dunn for state auditor. that be is
willing to give to the Great Northern
Railway company 100000 rather til all
that 1t should be given to or retained
for the children of the state. And if he
believes that this great sum shall be put
where the law contemplates it shall GO
to the support of the institutions of the
state. he will take care that his ballot
aids in putting into the governors and
the auditors offices men who will dc
their duty to the state no matter what
may be The imperious demands of cor.
poration. They will see TO it that 6
man goes into the governors chair who
will sign the deed which Knute Nelson
| now neSitateS TO Sirn,