The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-09
FALSE PROMISES.

HOW THE REPUBLICANS DECEIVED
AND CHEATED THE PEOPLE IN 1891.
Editor Representatives:
AS the cold north winds, comes bowling
past my office door think of the terrible
suffering there will be among the poor
Gods unfortunate the coming winter and
l remember that one year ago the condi-
tions were the same, bankruptcy and
starving thousands in the midst of plenty,
unemployed labor, shivering in rags and
in despair listening to speeches made by
the candidates Of the old political parties,
promising if elected to Office to relieve the
distressed condition of the suffering. The
Republican party by the aid OF the Dem
ocratic leaders in our state was success
full and it was declared a great Republican
victory in Minnesota. Our legislature has
met and adjourned. What are its acts and
what have they done? They have elect
ed to the United States senate Knute Mel
son, who was the attorney of the Great
Northern Railway when elected governor
OF Minnesota. Before he resigned as gov
ernor OF M.nneota to be United States sem
ator Knute appointed Geo. L. Becker, who
was his opposing candidate for governor
on the Democratic ticket, chairman of the
Board of Railroad Commissioners to fix
the rates Of freight on, the railroad of
which he was once president, that is to
say the Great Northern when it was built
through Minnesota and other railroads.
Ine results are an attorney Of the Great
Northern elected United States senator
and an ex-pres.dent of the Great North
ern, when constructing, made chairman of
Railroad Commissioners to fix rates. Our
legislature met and adjourned.
What are the results? Are taxes less?
No, they are increased. Are railroad
freights less? No, they are increased;
probably to make up expense of last
years campaign. Is interest on money
less? No, it is more than any country
on the globe, except Turkey and China,
towit, ten per cent per annum and one
years interest taken in advance; if our
government reports are true. Are sal
aries less? No; new Offices have been
created.
Can anyone tell what the people have
gained in Minnesota by the promises
made last fall to our distressed citizens
and countrymen by the great Republi-
can party? Don't they still tax the peo-
pie and take from them money worth
ten per cent and loan it to the scrub
banks for three per cent, who again loan
it to the taxpayers and take mortgages
on their homes and chattels and make
an average profit of fourteen per cent,
after paying corruption fund into the
Golfers of the old political parties. Now
is it not clear that as long as the Scrub
banks make an enormous profit from
the money gathered from an overtaxed
people, Thirteen millions per year, that
they are In favor of high taxes and will
aid the political party, to-wit, the Re-
publican and Democratic leaders who
aid them in the skin game. Who has
gained or been benefited by the great
Republican victory in Minnesota last
fall. Jim Hill has and owns politically
United States senator. Jim Hill owns
politically the governor of Minnesota.
Jim Hill owns the chairman of the
Board of Railroad Commissioners Who
owns Jim Hill? An English syndicate.
He moves at their nod and bidding and
with less grumbling than one of the
"scab" workman now occupying the
place Of an Independent American citi-
zen who dared oppose Jim Hill and mis-
English bosses in the great strike.
When our great rebellion broke out the
president of the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad was a union man but most
of the rolling stock found it's way into
the Confederate lines, now Jim Hill and
his English bosses own large line of
steamers on our great lakes. Should
there be trouble between our once great
republic and Jims English bosses, you
would see Jim's great steamers run into
Canadian ports and be pierced for guns,
and appear before the cities that gave
the great Republican victory last fall,
and give them a taste of the results of
the dictation of Jim Hill and his English
bosses. What was the name of that old
Scotch shad belly who said the English
Isles contained about thirty millions of
inhabitants mostly fools? If true what
would he say about Minnesota and its
overtaxed and over burdened people,
and their thousands out of employment?
Should they say tvote at the next cleo
ton for the old parties with their scrub
banks? A. G.. S
Annandale, Mimi, Sept. %,