The true northerner., 1898-02-16
PINGREE In PAW PAW.
THE oovERNOR MAKES Speech.
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reditable Reception Given TO Michigan |,
Chief Executfye-The Goyernsr stArte<i \
| His Commercial Career in This Piace.
A fine audience assembled. at the
opera house last Friday evening TO list
en- to Governor Pingrees address given
under the auspices OF Paw Paw grange,
in honor OF Lipcoln's birthday.
Mrs. j. j Woodman. grange lecturer.
introduced the governor to the audi
ence, prefacing her introduction with a
neat little speech in which she briefly
stated the objects of the Organization q
saying that they wets pot 70 exalt the
order, but we're to let the order exslt
its members.
A hearty round of applause was Civ
en- the governor as he stepped to the
front of the platform. He began his re-
marks by stating that tire hardest work
| he had TO do was to talk ia public. II
never made speech, (" he said, land il
| is now too late to start" He said he
sometimes wrote out his ideas and read
chem TO his audiences, but he had made
no special preparation for the occasion
| and did not know what he should talk
about. He was not unmindful OF the
honor the people had conferred on him.
| nor of the duties of the position he held.
| He had visited Paw Paw before; the
| first commercial business he ever did
was in this town in the spring of 1866.
just after his discharge from the SER
! vice. He came here and bought car
load of potatoes and shipped them TO
Kentucky. Thought that was the way
he gained his familiar nickname. And
the governor was first called Potato
Ping at Paw Paw"
While on the train for this place, the
governor said, he got into conversation
with an insurance man who said busi-
ness was much better in Indiana than
in Michigan, and who alleged the cause
to be that there was so much id Pin
gree business in this state.
Taking this alleged railroad converse
tion for starting point, Mr.. Pingree be-
gan to discuss his favorite topic, ''corpor-
ations." Insurance companies arc gen
eraily pretty healthy concerns and able
20 bear their full share OF the public
bnrdens. he told this insurance man
| that he had been in business in Michi-
gan for more than thirty years and that
he had made an investigation along
this line and had found there was not a
corporation in the state that was willing
To pay its just sharsh,f taxes. The peo-
pie had been shy ~ corporation taxes
for many years, had been robbed of
SO, 100000 per year, and that was the
reason business wa better ia Indiana
than in Michigan. IQdiana gets 81
O00, 900 more railroa9 TAX every year
Mfnh M sox
| fact, Michigan has ,40d<more mik3
railway than Indiana Ii it va
for the fact that Michigan is44AiV
| ly rich in her natural resources,
this system of corporation robber;
thirds of her people would be
poor houses.
| More than one-third of the viSM
property in this state, he said. is nol
the tax rolls. 1t is the present sy
of taxation that is responsible for
times in Michigan.
The Calumet q Hecla reports 8
900 of capital invested in its mir
don't know how much tax 1t p2
am going to look it up before
let the people know"
Corporations claim we car
in only one direction--in
"bdt am going to try and
their error" "I am not ag
ations" said he, .and if th
wronged. would figh1
quickly as for an individ
that way"
Corporations don't b
TO do their business, q.
Michigan was in gre;
secured her presenK
for the meager salaI