The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-26

Minnesota is one Of few states
whose government has been run by one
political party without change for
forty years. Republican executives
and Republican legislators have con-
trolled the public lands, franchises,
revenues, institutions, laws, taxation
and official patronage almost exclu-
slVely since the states organization.
The result is a ring of powerful bene-
hc!aries, on the one hand, and an army
Of Offfce-holding parasites on the other,
united into a political machine which
preys upon the government and the
states resources and sets up a po.it-
ical rule in which the people have
neither interest or voice.
In these forty years Minnesota has
given away the valuable public fran
chises to all comers, in many cases
pledging them away fer future genera
items, and in no case has rese. we'd to
the state the right of recovery, a
rental for the use, or demanded any
consideration whatever.
In these forty years favoritism in
power has given to favored lumber in
terests for song the bulk of the public
timber, and practically extended to
pine land sharks and timber thieves a
franchise of immunity from convic-
tion for their criminal depredations.
In these forty years, ring rule has
permitted the two great iron syndicates
Of Northern Minnesota to acquire for
trif1ing consideration or by brand the
lions share Of the valuable ore de-
Icsits on public lands, even going so
far as to release the states legal claims
to some of the most valuable mining
property in the country, in order that
private greed might secure title. -,
In this forty years the machine has
exempted the railway lands of this
state from taxation, and the Republi-
can state convention which met on
June 80 last had not a word Of recon-
mendation for the law taxing these
lands or for the supreme bench which
declared that law valid and just.
MORE RING RULE.
Ring rule by favored interests has
practically exempted from taxation in
past years both the mining and lumber
interests Of the state, has for years
practically ignored the laws taxing
royalties and franchises.
Ring rule for years has appointed,
for the supposed protection of the state
and its resources against private and
corporate greed body Of timber CT uis
ers and surveyor generals of logs who
were the active agents and tools Of
interested lumber parties; public land
surveyors and mineral explorers who
represented and were employed by pri-
vate mining interests; railroad and
warehouse commissioners whose an
pointment was dictated by interested
companies.
Ring rule has fostered a system of
grain inspection that is condemned
time and again, only to be whitewashed
by the machines creatures.
Ring rule has defeated every attempt
of the people Of this state to secure a
progressive and efficient system OF
railway rates and regulation, such as
has been enjoyed for twenty years by
the neighboring state of Iowa, and re-
Gently was enacted in North Dakota.
CAMPAIGN TRACT BUREAU.
The state house gang has turned the
state labor bureau into a campaign
tract Office, which neglects the inter
ests and ignores the demands Of labor
while sQuandering the public funds for
private and partisan ends 1t has de-
veloped the public examiners office
into bureau for the protection OF
loose and unlawful banking and OF