The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-25

kind of iron ore that it might be work.
ing off through the agency of fnde-
pendent operators, but for the fact that
they cannot pay the eXtortiOnate
freight rates and compete with other
producers. AS long as Rockefeller
owns the roads and ships his own ore
he may charge himself 50 a ton if he
wants to and not be a penny out OF
pocket, for he pays it to himself, but
the man who doesn't own the road has
TO pay just as much wages as the one
who does, and he can't get his ore to
market, for it would cost him almost
as much to get it to the docks as 1t
is worth when it gets there.
The effect of this can readily be seen
The vast tracts Of state land lie there
idle year after year. They cannot be
leased as long as Mr. Rockefeller wants
the price of the ore for hauling it TO
Lake Superior. 1t has been stated on
careful official estimates that the state
Should receive no less than $180000 a
year from this source, if independent
miners could secure such rates of ship
ment as would warrant them in going
| in and working the state lands on
leases or under contracts. an amount
not to be despised even in an econ
Omic" campaign.
If there should be any doubt Of the
statement that the Rockefeller interest
has been retained in support of Mr..
EustiS, it will be instantly diSsipated in
the mind Of any one who remembers
I the course of events at or about the
time Of the state convention. It had
long been conceded that Duluth was.
outside Of the First district, the strong
est territory for Van SAINT, and up to
the very day Of the holding of the pri-
maries it was not expected by the
EustiS men themselves that they would
! make more than formal showing in
the fight there. But at the last mo-
| ment the Big Four'-the Minnesota
iron company, the Rockefeller mining
| Interests, the Duluth, Missabe & North
ern and the Duluth & Irong Range
road, all now under the control of the
! Rockefeller intereSt-tOok a hand in the
! fight and elected delegates that were
! instructed for Eustis. There were many
| Van SAINT men and not a few Collins
! men on the delegation, but they were
!. held in reserve under the instructions.
and it was we'll known around the
Windsor hotel that the Eustis man
| ayers had a long
/ SEANCE WITH COL. SELLWOOD,
vice president of the Iron Range Rail-
road company and chairman Of the
delegation, before it was settled that
the delegation should be for Eustis.
And that point being settled, the dele
cation went out among the highways
and byways of the other delegations
Whoop1ng it UP for William Hennery
and giving the quiet tip wherever 1T
would have the desired effect that cit
was all right" and that 1--WE will be
taken care Of"
The Duluth people are said to have
made their contribution on the spot,
| and that was the fund from which the
| expenses were paid I'D to the time
| when that ia n lot
! that assessment that exceeded bv
! about $4,000 the total amount that
| William Hennery had said he would
| permit to be spent in the whole cam
! paign. But Col. Tom Lowry has not
had the very best of luck in the COL
lection business, and when Col. Sharood
went around to touch UP the mer-
chants and business men of St. Paul
| he found them very Indifferent in the
| matter Of making contributions. They
! didn't seem to care a rap whether Will
! liam Hennery was elected governor or
went back to Mexico 10 have another
caucus with his friend Menace. Ar
any rate, they wouldn't give up. Just
about that time the Republican county
! committee for Ramsey county went I'D
to make a touch" Mr. Steele told
! them that they ought to be ashamed
| OF themselves, asking for money thar
way; that instead Of cutting into the
Wdu they SIlOuIu get OUT ana raise a.
nice little fund for the support of Eus-
tbs. The committee went away to look
! for its hammer, and the state central
saw that 1t had to do something.
BROUGHT HIS CHECK BOOK.
At this time it was decided to pass
the matter up to the Rockefeller peo-
pie. kilograms were sent to the proper
people at Duluth, and representative
| Of hot lett L
showed up at the committee rooms the
latter part of last week. And he
brought his check book with him. Thew
had hearkened to the call, and now the
committee sees it's way clear to make
what it is pleased to call an "aggres-
sive' campaign from this time on
1t would be the very height and sum-
nit of ingratitude for the people OF
Minnesota to fail to appreciate the
charity and public spirit Of the emf
nent Mr.. Rockefeller in thus relieving
the necessities of the Republican state
central committee and the Republican
candidate for governor at this critical
Juncture, but there are people in this
state who are just ungrateful and un-
appreciative enough to say that Mr.
rockefeller ought to be satisfied with
owning the state governments of Ohio
and Illinois, with a chattel mortgage
on that Of Pennsylvania and that
AlnHeSOIa mas really all the home
bosses she needs without importing one
to take charge Of the railroad and min
ing interests OF Minnesota. There are
people who even object to the mort
gaging Of the state railroad and ware
house commission to the Canadian Pa.
cific by Mr.. Eustis, and who will re.
gard this as the last straw.
| STATE GOOD TO ROCKEFELLER
In the monopoly of the ore shipping
business on the range, and in the en-.
joyment Of about $4,000, 900 worth OF
property that he should never have
been permitted to accumulate on the
range-property that was taken out OF
the public school fund in order thai
the Rockefeller interest might not fade
away and die out in the state-Mr
Rockefeller should regard himself az
having been quite generously deal
with by this state. Any one can SEE
where. by getting in with those who
will control the railroad commission. he
could head off any attempt to inter.
fere with the very nice little stroke