The Irish standard., 1898-10-08
EQST|S and THE
CORPORATIONS

The Republican Candidate and
His Service Of the Lowry
Monopolies When May
or of Minneapolis.
VETO OF THE HARVEY ORDINANCE
Tho Record la the Caso--Keapect for Mo-
morinl hay Could Not Restrain Him
From S-rvile Service Of the Hallway
Company - His Announced Princ,ple
Would Deliver Minnesota. Body aud
Soul. to the Corporal ons-How Eu,tis
Wonld Stand IT Elected Governor.
The Reform Press of Minnesota have
shown the people the undcniable facts
OF the connection of w. IL. Eustis, Re.
publican candidate for governor, with
tho swindliny Northwestern Guaranty
Loan company, and his official re.
sponsibility for the 500, 900 City Hos
piial job of his administration US mayor
of Minneapolis. While the victims OF
the ono are scatter, d all over the land,
taxpayers, the peop,o of the Twin
Cities suffered losses to tho am ount of
thousands of dollars from another i'm
por'aat act Of his administration, to.
Wit, his service OF tho Minneapolis
Street Railway company, in the strug-
glo which tho people had with that
monopoly during hls administration,
to obtain u reason be and fair transfer
system on the Lowry lines; while the
case at tho same tlmo disclosed that
w. H. Elstis holds principles touch.
ing tho proper regulation of tho cor
p,rations which ii applied in this state
by his election would mean tho COM
pote surrender of all our material in.
terests to the corporations aud the
monoIo les.
Il al tho facts from tho record, in
the celebrated Harvey Transfer ordin.
ance and its veto by Mayor Eustis, and
see it this is not the unuucstlunable
conclusion.
When the City Of Minneapolis con-
fe,rcd uron the Street Car Company
tho privilege of substituting electric
power i'll place OF the much more cx-
pensive horse power. the company
agreed to transfer passengers without
Charge from any of its lines to
any other line connecting Herewith
But it largely ignored its obligation.
1t wholly refused to issue transfers to
its ''parallcl" lines, and so ignored tho
spirit OF its agreement as to render tho
privilege to Il large extent valucless.
There were at the timo 80 connecting
points where lines ttrSectod, but tho
company only gave transfers ut six
OF these points. 1t required that
any passenger desiring transfer
Mt any of the outlying connecting
points, should, in order TO obtain
1t. ride upon the car to Il central sta.
ton, and from there back to the point
of Intersection. And under this system,
passengers desiring to transfer ut any
ono OF "a lntersocting points were COM
pcllcd to pay an additional fare or
travel unnecessarily u distance varying
from one.half mile to moro than five
Furthermore. under tho old system,
the transfer could only be obtained, il
al all. after the passenger had lelt tho
car and was upon tho street, in the
business part OF tho city. whore danger
from passing vehicles could only DO
evaded by the utmost diligence.
The Street Railway Company's pur.
pose in thus failing to provide suit
able transfer privilege was apparent.
First, upon its 30 called "parallol"
lines (many Of them running mnce
than half u mile aparD many passen.
gers woro compelled to pay two fares
in place Of one. Second, tho securing
OF the transfer at the outlying points
was so lnconvoniont and dilatory that
most passengers preferred. rather than
go to tho central station. to nav mn
additional fare
Thousands of readers of this article
know from experiences when in the
Twin Cities how iniquitons this sys.
tenn was. But the company wanted it,
for by it's own showing in court IT'S
INCOME WAS INCREASED UP.
WARDS OF ONEIlUNDRED THOU.
SAND DOLLARS A YEAR BY THIS
MEANS. 1t was Interested, therefore.
in continuing the oppression as long as
possible.
On July Ia. 1898, tho Minneapolis
City Council undertook to remedy this
owl, by tho passage of an ordnance re-.
curing the railway company to Ito.
liver Eat tho junction or intersection
of any of its lines transfer
to any passenger demanding tho
same" and providing also that "said
transfer shall be issued to sn d passon.
ger from aud upon tho car
on which said passcngor has paid his
full fare
THIS ORDlN ANCE WAS PASSED
UNANIMOUSLY.
In the language of the official record
of tho council proceedings for 1893 (p.
425) "thore wero-yeas, ~; nays,
nome" Every person in Minneapolis,
save only the officers Of the Street Oar
Company and the Mayor. at that time
favored this ordinance. Not news.
paper raised its voice against it, New.
ertheless, William II, Eustis, unfor.
tunatcly at that time Mayor of Mime.
npolls, proceeded to veto tho proposed
ordnance. The veto message is SGT
forth on pages AL. 443 AID 443 of the
& 'un'ii proceedings for the year 1898
He declared tho ordinance invalid; and
SO lar as he could doprivod hp courts
OF any power to pass upon its validity.
In this message Mr.. Eastls assumed
that the 'ransfer privilege then in op.
GRAFTON was entirely salts a:tory, whom
in tact. its burdensome and oppressive