The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-09-28

was passed, 10 make IL IMPOSSIBLE for
any wheat ring to exist, and that the
farmers might have state inspection
and weighing. This, with &he old
terminal elevator law passed in 1887
and amended in 1889, has ratified
and sustained by the Supreme Court
0f the United States. The railroads
had been in the habit of standing in
with the great elevator companies,
keeping others from building ele-
Vacors. A law 30 rectify this was
passed by the Legislature, enabling
the farmers to put up theigfDWn ele-
Nators and warehouses if oppressed by
big companies, and the courts shall at,
ali times DE open to hearings to carry
TonS this law. A law was passed COM
peflng the railroads to bUsld side
tracks 10 elevators and warehouses
OF Ghe track. A switching law was
passed. ithe Australian ballot law
was passed, and the State Reforma-
tory at st. Cloud was established. The
railroad and warehouse commission
mas lately MADE three important de-
clsloalS IN favor OF the farmers, reduc-
ing storage rates to two cents, re-
duclng ra6eS on the Great Northern
fifteen per cent all around, and re-
duciRg the rates on hard coal from
So 90 80 S2,25 ton from Moorhead to-
Duluth on the Northern Pacific.
These Indirectly affect thewh0le state.
Everything IS in favor, of the Repub-
lllcan legislature as compared with the
fusion legislature. The lesson to be
drawn from this is to send good,
honest, bread7gauged Republicans to
the legislature, who will legislate for
all classes. 1t is monstrous, unwise
and folly supreme to segregate the
farmers into class by themselves. It
want do 80 crush out all other inter-
estS. The farmerS cannot prosper
without prosperity in all other classes,
ana the latter cannot prosper unless
the farmers do. Send up such men to
the Legislature as your Republican
candidates for the legislature in this
county, good, honest, broad-guaged
men, who will look out for all inter-
eStS.
Gov. Nelson then took up national
issues. He spoke of the desire for
change. and enough people voted for
it to get it. Providence permitted
the Democrats to elect their presi-
dent and congress in order that the
country might have an object lesson.
The country was getting too proud.
Providence permitted this change the
same as it permitted the PopuIist, to
control the government of several
western states as a great object lesson.
The Republican party is composed
OF the representative intelligence.
industry, culture, and bust
ness of the country. The Demo
cratic'party is controlled by. the south
ern eXslave holders, who raise pro
ducts different from those raised in
the north. In the large cities the
wards where vice is congregated, the
slums, these are the Democratic
strong holds of the north. There
are many good Democrats in the north |
who are completely swamped by the
southern wing of the party. | feel
like saying to them, 'sgood brother. |
come into the Republican party and |
let us together bring order out of the |
present chaos" The Democrats made |
certain promises in the political |
but in preparing their bill |
in congress the southern Democrats
were as ready for protection as any
"black Republican" in the north. |
They did not want free trade for
themselves, but wanted it only on |
products raised or manufactured in |
the north.
The Mckinley bill put big tariff |
on barley and last year for the first |
time the western farmers shipped |
barley TO the eastern MASTERS and