New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
The Business View.


Business men are inclined to take
very plain, common-sense business view
of politics, and since we are hearing
great deal just now about the business
mems vote, 1t might be we'll 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 "bus-
mess" that was done by the Guaranty
Loan company during the time William
Henry Eustis was a managing director
of that concern and was writing testi-
monials commencing the high social,
moral and business character Of Menage?
If so, they should, by all means, vote
for Mr.. Eustis.
Do business men approve of the tran.
saction by which the city of Nlinneapo
lis was saddled with hospital site that
was worth abont 25 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 vote for Mr..
Eustls.
During the session of the Legislature
Of 1895, when the construction of the
state capitol was under consideration,
committee from Minneapolis, headed by
Mr.. Eustis, appeared before that body
and offered to donate Loring park and
million dollars if the legislature would
move the capital from st. Paul to Min
neapolis. The delegation, and Mr.. Eus-
tbs in particular, knew that Loring park
could not be decided for such purpose !;
that Minneapolis could not as city
contribute one million or any other num-
Der of dollars for such an object, and
that the only result to be gained by this
Kind of a bunco game was to crafty an
unreasoning hatred against St. Paul.
Was that buslness9 If so, business men
should rally round the Guaranty Loan
candidate for governor.
And the business men of the East,
who, we are told, will be afraid to invest
money in Minnesota what will they
think about it? Will they be attracted
to state which is overrun and tax-ri6-
den by an army of political parasites
who eat up the substance of the farmers
and tax the working man to support a
political "organization?" Or will they
rather take their chances in one that has
rebuked extravaganza and prohigacy
and corruption by electing an honorable
and unhampered man as its governor?
Investors are no fonder of paying ex.
orbitant taxes than are other folks, ano
tile election of one upright man for gov.
ernor, just for a change, will not ''drive
capital away" Capital is supposed tc
feel Safest in the keeping of honest men
Do business men believe that William
Henry Eustis, the candidate of the ele
vator combine, the mining combine, the
milling combine, and the Twin City
Rapid Transit company, will give al
honest administration, if he honestly
wanted to? If they do, then William
Henry Eustis is their man, and they are
the men for William Henry Eustls.
Bust ness men are not fools, even
some of the Republican politicians thlnl
they are. Fools do not succeed in bust
ness. Business >nen want to see tn,
states interests in the same kind of hand
that they entrust their own bushes
affairs to. They want to see the stat
. government conducted on business prin
ciples and not USED as mere machin,
through which to grind out votes 70
the continuance in office of the same Sc
Of hungry leeches year after year. The,
believe in having taxes equitably distri-
buted. They must believe, if they stol
moment to consider, that party whicl
becomes SO arrogant and impudent tina
it can take up the most conspicuou
tool of the most objectionable combine
in the state, and nominate him for gov.