The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
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been introduced in the house looking
| towards repeating tho new capitol bill.
| 1t ought to pass.
independents: The day will come
when the usurer will take his place
| along with the fOotpad and train rob-
Der, in the estimation Of honest peO-
pie. The difference is only one of re-
spectability and not OF morality.
Chicgo Times: The gentlemen who
insist that it is safer to let the nation
al banks issue the peoples money than
to leave that duty to the government
have probably forgotten the record of
the national banks in the summer of
1898.
Anoka Union: The state of Mime
sofa has 1927 COO tied up in defunct
banks, and there is little doubt that
portion Of it is irretrieyably lost.
New York World: The mayors mes
sage shows that the net funded debt
Of the city increased $3,3l6,000 during
| the year, and now amounts to over
| $l07 100000. That is great deal too
much. The labor of poverty pays the
interest on every cent of it.
| AnOka Union: A movement is on
foot to repeal the % cents royalty on
| iron ore. A member who votes for
such bill ought to be kicked into the
middle Of next week.
| WaSeca Radical: Senator Frank
Day thinks the three dollars per day
wages adopted by the legislature will.
as in the past-be increased to $5later.
Frank has been there before and
knows how it is, but we trust new,
better and wiser class Of legislators
has arisen.
Rock County News: If newspaper
reports are to be accepted as the
truth, it would be unnecessary to elect,
congressman in the future. just turn.
everything over to Wall street and
prosperity will reign supreme. Wall
street appears to guide the actions of
congress as easily as mother guides
her child.
Swift County Monitor; The long,
delayed reporto of the worlds fair COM
mission has at last been sent out. A
large proportion of the items of ex-
penSe contain the name of L. p. Hunt
or the MankatO Free Press, Mr. Hunts
paper. Evidently, Lemuel MIXED the
COW as long as there was any milk
Forthcoming.
Clarkfeld Advocate: Several ''promi-
nent citizens" of Minneapolis have
been mentioned for United States
senator. Many of these were connect
ed with the Guaranty Loan swindle.
Strange that someone isn't booming
Menage.
Moorhead News, Rep.): e. J. Moore,
Populist representative from this dis
trict, has introduced bill to repeal
the act of 1893 providing for the build
ing of new state capitol. 1t should
receive the support of all the country
members, but it won't. The capitol
job has already been traded for sena-
tOrial votes in the Ramsey delegate
Oklahoma State: The elasticity in
the Cleveland plan reminds us of the
two fellows who have the rubber cord
in their teeth and attempt to stretch
it; when one fellow lets go the other
fellow gets a taste of the elias ITCHY.
That is about the case with the people
when the banker lets go of the elias
ITCHY plan. The people will get the
full benefit Of the snap.
Pioneer Exponent: If the Baltimore
banking plan sis put into law, times
will not become much better. 1t has
all the bad elements of the worst kind
mately, such panic as the John Law
scheme produced in France. and the
Cedula scheme did in the Argentine
Republic The good times will not
last. The people are not sin it, in
this scheme. -<
National Republican: Under con-
spicuous headings the St. Paul Globe
is defending the pine land scalpe rs
from the imputations Of the legisla-
tive committee. 1t says they are in
nocent of the charges and that the
state is guilty of great Injustice. We
have been looking for just such de-
fence. 1t has been introduced at this
time to help legislators of easy virtue
to find an excuse for relieving the cul-
pritS from the consequences of their
frauds
Albert Lea Standard: 1t was de-
clared at the meeting of State Farm
erS' Alliance last week that the state
prison binding Irvine factory had
brought down the price of Irvine from
% to : cents, effecting a saving to the
farmers of million and a half of dol
lars. This proves what cooperation
among the farmers will do, and the al
lance very properly passed a resolu-
ton protesting against proposition
which it is said will be made in the
legislature to abolish the plant.
| AlUcIU Ltd CUdHUdTU. Lie fcODlC s
party convention in Minneapolis last
week, to perfect state league for eff
fective educa tional work was attended
by 20J delegates and was surprisingly
harmonious, earnest and successful.
The speeches made by Mr.. Donnelly
and Mr.. Owen were said to have been
remarkably eloquent and impressive
and to have rekindled in all hearers
faith in and devotion to the great
principles of reform and justice, of
which the new party is an unflinching
exponent.
Moorhead News (Rep.): Henry Feig
has introduced bill to prohibit the
taking of interest by state and local
treasurers for deposit of public moneys
and providing for the punishment of
violators. 1t is move in the right
direction. but inasmuch as the sug-
gestion has been made by the Farm
crS' Alliance, the same having been
embodied in the resolutions passed by
the Clay County Alliance, which is the
first public expression the News has
seen, the majority in the state legisla-
ture will jump upon it as Populist
folly and it will die Of neglect.
Buffalo Gazette (Rep): The time