The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-30
The Business View.

Business men are inclined to take
very plain, common-sense business
view of politics, and since we are hear
ing a great deal just now about the
business mems vote, it might be well
to inquire where that vote will find
lodgment on the question of governor.
Do business men-honest business
men, we mean-approve of that style
of business" that was done by the
Guaranty Loan company during the
time William Henry Eustis was a man
aging director of that concern and was
writing testimonials commencing the
high social, moral and business char
acter of Menage? If so, they should,
by all means, vote for Mr.. Eustis.
Do business men approve of the
transaction by which the city of Mime
apoIis was saddled with a hospital site
that was worth about % cents on the
dollar of what it cost the city, and all
because of the energetic Partially of
the then mayor of Minneapolis for the
Bracket family? If so, they Will note
for Mr.. Eustis.
During the session Of the legislature
of 1895, when the construction of the
a committee from Minneapolis, headed
by Mr.. Eustis, appeared before that
body and offered to donate Loring
park and a million dollars if the legis-
lature would move the capital from st.
Paul to Minneapolis. The delegation,
and Mr.. Eustis in particular, knew that
Loring park could not be decided for
such a purpose; that Minneapolis
could not as a city contribute one mil
lion or any other number of dollars for
such an object, and that the only re-
suit to be gained by this kind of a
buncO game was to crafty an unrea-
soning hatred against st. Paul. Was
that business? If so, business men,
and particularly those of St. Paul,
should rally round the Guaranty Loan
candidate for governor.
And the business men OF the East,
who, we are told, will be afraid to in
vest money in Minnesota-What will
they think about it? Will they be at
tracted to a state which is overrun
and tax-ridden by an army Of political
parasites, who eat up the substance of
the farmers and tax the working man
to support a political Organization ?"
in one that has rebuked extravaganza
and prOfigacy and corruption by elect
ing an honorable and unhampered man
as it's governor?
Investors are no fonder Of paying
eXorbitant taxes than are other folks,
and the election of one upright man
for governor, just for a change, will
not drive capital away" Capital is
supposed to feel safest in the keeping
Of honest men. Do business men be-
lieve that William Henry Eustis, the
candidate Of the elevator combine, the
mining combine, the milling combine
and the Twin City Rapid Transit COM
pany, will give an honest administra-
ton, if ne honestly wanted to? If they
do, then William Henry Eustis is their
man. and they are the men for Will
liam Henry Eustis.
Business men are not fools, even
if some of the Republican politicians
down the street think they are. Fools
do not succeed in business. Business
men want to see the states interests
in the same kind of hands that they
entrUst their own business affairs to.
They want to see the state government
conducted on business principles and
not used as a mere machine through
which to grind out votes for the con-
tinuance in office of the same set of
hungry leeches year after year. They
believe in having taxes equitably dis
tributed. They must believe, if they
stop a moment to consider, that a
party which becomes so arrogant and
impudent that it can take up the most
conspicuous tool of the most objection
able combines in the state, and nomi-
nate him for governor, has survived its
usefulness, or at least is in urgent
need of cultivating the humilities and
| especially the virtue of honesty.
Business men who take this business
| view Of matters will vote for John
Lind, and we are inclined to believe
| that there are more OF them than the
ma nagers Of either party have sus-
pected.