The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
YESTERDAYS TEMPERATURES.
washington time q p, m. s.. PauD.
WHAT THEY HAVE GAINED.

Gustav Theden became an American
through the process Of expatriation from
Sweden snd our naturalization courts.
That is to say, he became an American
just as some persons become Christians
by the ceremony of baptism, or some
men become gentlemen by V caring dress
suits and silk hats, or rs a iackdaw be-
came a peacock by draping itself In the
feathers OF that bird, or as an ass became
lion by donning the hide of one. Be
ing an American and assuming the name
of one may be the same thing, and
again 1t may not Theden, AFTER going
through the motions of becoming an
American, aspired to and did become
legislator, serving himself is state SEN
ator by securing the passage of a bill
giving him cent pound for what beet
sugar he could produce. lie managed
his 'Americanism" so well that he walk
ed out Of the state treasurer's office
last spring with a check for. some $4,000
OF good money for sugar bounties paid
by Ainnesotans to the tax gatherers.
IL is row an ex-senator and says he
IS not in politics. Other americans
of his stripe have also gone out of poll
tics with checks more or less legally OBJ
tanned and drawn and cashed Being out
Of Office and out Of politics, and with
S2o02c in his pocket and more to
come, he takes the opportunity of
a gathering of some other sim
fairly made Americans to talk politics to
them. He arraigns Gov. Lind IN very
severe terms for not appointing them all
to office. He accuses them Of being re-
sponsibe for the election of the governor,
and he aske them: what have you gain
ed?" Whereat the Theden-Amerfcans up
roariously applaud If the ex-senator
had not his owE peculiar notions of what
constitutes gain" if he had been
real American, he might have told
his hearers what they had gained He
would have said to them someting like
this; Republican legislature passed,
and a Republican governor approved
bill that compelled each one of you to
contribute to starting some fellows in
the business of refining sugar from beets.
It agreed to pay them one cent pound
for whatever amount they might make
a show of having refined. The bin left
# entirely with them 10 say how much
they had made; and, my friends, you
nor l nor any prudent business man
would do that. These fellows built re-
flnery and ran it, and made sugar and
sold it at just the price the sugar trust
said should be the price, and then went
down to the legislature and asked for
$4,000, or a cent a pound for what they
said they had made And the legislature
being Republican. and therefore not
really American, voted 10 give them the
money.
Then this man whom you elected gov
ernor vetoed the bf1r and told the Iegis-
lature that while the money ought to be
paid, because the other legislature had
promised it, it was q bad promise, and
ought to be recalled. And, though the
legislature passed the appropriation over
his Veto it afterward passed a bill that
put limit to this bounty giving, and
said that no more than $4,000 should be
paid bounty in any one year, and that
no refinery should get more than $4,000.
And this governor signed it. And so,
after Jan. 1. 1901, you will not have to
pay the tax gatherer any more money to
be given to some fellows for making
sugar out of beets. And that act of his
killed a bin that would give some other
fellows a bounty for making iron, and IT
smothered another bill, all ready to be
showed through that would give still
another lot of fellows a bounty for
making starch. This. my friends, IS what
you gained by not electing Eustis
But not being anything more than a
whitewashed American, and having his
own peculiar notions Of WHIT gain" is,
he told tham that they mad gained moth