Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-24

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states, have driven away settlers, re-
tarded development, and produced
bankruptcy where nature promised
prosperity. We demand that the
rates charged by the railroads opera
ted by the two great iron companies
in St. Louis county shall be reduced
to figure which will allow shipment
by independent mine owners. Thous-
ands of acres of rich iron lands have
been made worthless because of extor-
tionate rates charged by these syndi-
Gates and all competitors of the two
great iron companies have been driven
from the field through the Indifference
or fundamentally of Republican ad-
ministration.
We condemn the railway and ware
house commission appointed by repub-
lican governors as the subservient in
strument of interested railway and ele-
vator companies, and demand the cleo
ton OF such commission by the people.
We denounce the combined railway
and elevator ring of this state which
controls the location and building of
private elevators and prevents the free
erection of competitive elevators when
ever it chooses SO to do.
X.
We condemn the state labor commits
sloner for the prostitution of his Office
to partisan purposes and the issuance
OF political reports on "the purchase
power of gold" at the
expense of the taxpayers of the state
without authority of law, and to the
neglect of the labor interests of the
state, which he is sworn to subserve.
We condemn the public examiner for
permitting the operation of banking
and trust companies in fragrant VIOLA
ton OF law, and the governor forwith-
holding the reports on such institu-
tions from the courts and the public;
and we charge upon said executive off,
Gals through such protection of un-
lawful tnanciering no small RESPONSE
bility for the era of bank-wrecking
which has robbed the people of the
state during the past five years of so
many millions of dollars of hard earn
ings deposited in these institutions.
XII.
We condemn the state auditor for
refusing to place upon the tax rolls of
the state the deed of 100000 acres of
swamp lands selected by his predeces-
sor and decided to the Great Northern
railway, and we denounce the attempts
of republican officials to annul said
deed and give this powerful railway
corporation the power to select for it.
self from the states public domain.
XIII.
We condemn the extravaganza aud
'ooseness which has characterized the
administration of the present secreta-
ry of state and of many of the state
institutions, and we pledge ourselves
to do all in our power to give the
state an administration of economy
and retrenchment such as is forced
upon the homes and places of business
in this period of financial stress.
XIV.
We condemn the state administra-
tion in the appointment of oil inspec-
tor and surveyor generals of logs, and
we demand that these Offices be placed
upon a salary basis and that the hea-
Wy fees now derived and used as a cor
ruption fund shall be turned into the
state treasury.
We commend the recent decisions of
the state supreme court in regard to
the fixing of railroad rates and the
taxation of railway lands, mud we spe-
cial]y approve of that principle laid
down by Justice CAVITY, that the rates
charged by public franchise corpora
tions shall be based on the actual
cost OF. reproduction of the plant, in
stead of upon the watered stocks and
bonds of said corporations.
H. ...s <, XVI. =
We believe in the principle of home
rule and self-government and it's APP
plica@ion to the subject of local taxa
ton and to the drafting of municipal
charters; but we demand that the pres
ent law creating city charter commits
sioners shall i be amended so as to
make said commissioners elective by
the people for a reasonable term. in
stead of appointive for life. ~ a.,%s
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We demand the direct election of u.
s. senator's BY the people. We de-
nounce the action Of United States
senator Cushman K. Davis, who,
while holding the position Of public
servant Of this state, acted as the paid
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