Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-09-22
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tor the taxation OF grain held IN ele-
vators, law repeating the law of
struck juries, the effect of which is
to give the rich corporations and the
humblest citizen an equal chance in
our courts of justice, a law for the
taxation of unused railroad lands,
a law appropriating money for
drainage purposes in the Red River
valley, besides many other measures
which show conclusively that the re-
publican legislatures OF this state
have aimed to benefit the common
people, that the tendency has been
to reach out and tax the property
OF corporations and monopolies.
As to state aid for drainage, Mr..
Nelson said that as governor he had
specially interested himself in the
matter and used his influence to Sc
cure the passage of the law. The
large number of bitches that have
been built by the appropriation and
the great benefit already derived
from them proves the wisdom Of the
plan,
When the fusion legislature OF 1891
Was in power it made the highest tax
levy for state purposes in the history
of the state. Subsequent republican
legislatures have constantly reduced
the rate until now it is only about
half what 1t was then.
Branching out into national poll
tics he compared the conditions of
the country during republican and
democratic administrations. During
CleveIand's first term a large surplus
in the treasury, owing to a republic
can tariff policy being in force,
caused him to raise the hue and cry
of a reduction in the revenue. After
four years OF happy and prosperous
republican rule under Benjamin Har-
rison during whose administration
the Mckinley tariff bill was passed,
Cleveland and the democratic party
raised the free trade banner so high
that they fooled the people and were.
placed in power again. But the elec-
ton was scarcely over before the
frightening effects Of prospective,
free trade were felt in the whole
country. Factories closed, laboring
men were thrown, out OF employment
and a financial panic burst upon us.
We had hard times. Cleveland had
no trouble about a surplus in the
treasury. Revenues decreased, and
the Withdrawals of gold from the:
treasury became alarming. In order
to keep up the one hundred million
dollars gold reserve Cleveland began
to issue bonds. During his term he
increased our bonded debt to the ex.
tent OF 1862, 100000 The German
Wilson tariff bill was passed and
failed to secure the needful revenue
for the government. The free silver
coinage question was also being
greatly agitated, and a majority of
the democrats embraced the doctrine.
The people fearing that the country
would go to a silver basis boarded
their money, especially gold, causing
stagnation in all kinds of business.
Realizing that free trade had utterly
failed to cure our national ills, the
democrats in 1895 came with a new
remedy, viz: the free coinage OF sill
yer at the ratio Of. 16. to 1.
The trouble really is in our money,
they said. Money is too scarce and
too dear. Bryan and his followers
made mighty effort to fool the peo-
pie with this new theory, but the Sec
ond sober sense of the American peo-
pie averted the catastrophy. AS soon
as Mckinley was elected there was
change for the better at once, confd-
ence was restored, money flowed back
into the channels of trade, mills and
factories were opened up and laborers
found employment. A tariff law pro-
tecting American industries and fur
nishing ample revenue has been pass
ed. No free coinage law has been