Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-09-06

lamb chops, -four mills additional
taxi don't, say again don't get
too gay! The lamb may be spoilt.
Willmar is Incorporated under a spe-
ci;tl act of the Legislature, and it is at
least a grave question whether
special law can be amended or not.
Under q recent decision of our su-
preme court in the county assessor
case from Ramsey county they dealt
a death blow to general amendments
CT special laws. So after all the dear
Taxpayers of Willmar may not bene-
fit by Messrs. Grue and Nelson's
hard labor. 1t is barely possible,
yes probable, that the mutton feast
will have to be postponed owing to
the toughness (unconstitutionality)
OF the proposition. Oh Grue, Grue!
Oh Nelson, Nelson! You have my
sympathy. You spent 1Oe days in
the legislative halls of our state Tor
elsewhere!) You introduced bills to
release bondsmen of defunct banks,
you tried for u $4,000 drainage ap-
preparation for the Lake Lillian
ditch; you wanted a small sum for a
bridge in Roseville; you tried to get
few well deserved dollars for the
people of Kandiyohi township for
diphtheria quarantine; you tried to
put up monuments at every section
corner (out uf the taxpayers pockets
OF cOurse), and out of the whole bust
ness you finally rescued the bill above
alluded to, viz: for all additional
tax in Willmar. You gentlemen who
were going to lessen expenses, whose
s!bbOleth Is Retrenchment and Re
form, finally as the result of an all
sessions hard work and as Reform
Lawson calls it. by Exercising great
care" and using good Judgment
present your constituency with adj
ditiOnal burdens of fifteen or sixteen
hundred dollars per annum Of the
law stands and is applied.)
And this all in the great name of
Reform, and in obedience of the great
demand for retrenchment. And for
this kind service which you 80 ably
rendered a delighted and thankful
constituency you put in 1O6 hard
days and nights and only charged
the State the small sum of 81, O6O and
about sixty dollars more for mile.
age. Isn't that grand record to
come home with? Not a cent for a
bridge; not farthing for road; not
a sou for ditch, no nothing, abso-
lutely nothing, but four mills more
taxes on IL portion of your constit-
uency and for this you are satisfied
with q niggardly eleven hundred and
twenty dollars ($l12W. 1t is no
wonder the Tribune was so silent on
yorr record. Who wouldn't be?
You yourselves, my honorable sirs,
fain would solicit eternal silence on
such a record of absolute and unde-
niable incompetency. You will pro-
badly plead first experience and
know fully well that experience in
legislative matters is more essential
than commonly believed, but, my
dear sirs, you ought to be able to
point to some one thing commenda-
BILE In your whole winters work;
something of benefit to your constft.
uents. Your sponsor Lawson was
unable to point out one single bit OF
legislation that became law insti-
gated by you. In the platform on
which you ran last fall and were
elected occurs the paragraph eve
favor the reduction of the contract
rate OF interest to eight per cent. -
Now, friends Grue and Nelson, In
accepting your nomination you be-
came pledged to make all effort to
carry out this PLATFORM. What did
you do? Did either of you introduce
a bill to carry out the provisions OF
your platform? If SO, it escaped my
observation. Perhaps when our
mutual friend Lawson publishes your
record he will tell us how you lived
up. to the platform promises you
made.
Just tell an expectant public Mr..
Victor Lawson when and where did
Messrs. Grue and Nelson do one sin
gle thing to secure reduction of the
contract rate Of inteeest. And if you
cannot do that, then please acknowl-
edge that the honorable gentlemen g-
nored the platform upon which they
ran and used at least one plank to
catch votes. And again, the last
paragraph of yourlast falls platform
reads as follows: eve believe that
our State capitol lands should be re-
served for some State institution to
be located at or near the same"
Now, dear Mr.. Lawson Will you
kindly tell us what our distinguished
reform Legislators did as to this
declaration? Come right out dear
Vic and acknowledge if you have the
moral courage to do so: They didn't
do thing! They never even made
an effort in any shape, form or man
ner to carry out this part of their