The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-02-24
LIMBS VETO MISTAKE.
he Governor Would Place the Good
Name of the State in Peculiar
i0hf
Light.

the first time Four years ago the leg
islature passed law giving bounty
of one cent per pound on sugar manu-
( featured in this state. A sugar factory
was completed at ST. Louis Park, near
Minneapolis, two years ago and last
season manufactured nearly $4,000, 600
pounds, the company being entitled to
something less than $780, in bounty.
, The Legislature this session appropriat-
this amount to pay the first claim
priation was passed, however, there
was a general understanding among
the Republicans of the House and Sen
ate that the law of 1895 should be
amended so as to limit the amount to
be paid in sugar bounties during the
next two years.
= When the bill to pay the st. Louis
Park company its just claim reached
the executive it was sent back to the
House with the governors veto. In his
veto message Gov Lind specifically
stated that it was legal and moral
debt which the state had to pay but he
would not permit it to be paid until
the legislature amended the sugar
bounty law so as to limit the amount to
be appropriated in the future.
~
, The absurdity of the governors veto
is apparent to any one who ever had a
just cain to collect. Suppose you had
ten dollars coming from man-money
which you had earned and which was
due-and suppose when you presented
your bill he should say: Yes this is a
legal and moral debt whi;h owe, but
l will not pay you until am sure that
I will not have to pay you too much in
the future
Gov. Lind by his veto virtually took
the position that, provided that no leg
islation in line with his dictation could
be passed he was willing to repudiate
the debt which the state owed and
which was already overdue A more
unfair or unbusiness-like proposition
could not have been imagined. The
proper course for him to follow would
have been this: He should have APP
proved the bill to pay the states debt
and then sent message along with it
recommending the changes in the pres
ent law which he thought wise.
49,
The Democratic party in the late
campaign made much of its devotion to
the idea of postal savings banks, and
criticised Republican administration
for not establishing them. 1t declared
this to be an evidence of ill-will toward
the workingmep; and that it was one
of the national issues which it was will
ing should be discussed.
1t might be recalled, in this connec-
ton, that it is,not so many years ago
that the Democratic party controlled
the presidency and both houses of con-
gress. 1t could do what it pleased, and
it did pass tariff bill so bad that its
own president would not sign it. But
it did not enact the establishment of
postal savings banks, nor did it try to,
or take any interest in the matter what
ever. Such a system has been recon-
mended by postmasters general, of all
political parties, pretty much ever since
the close of the war But the Demo
Gratis never remembered or realized the
Importance of it until the campaign Of
1898
A more important fact is that they
did not confess that the postal savings
bank, to all intents and purposes exists
today; and that has been established
without any fuss or feathers, wi hout
even any action by congress, simply by
a regulation of Republican admins
tration of the postoffice department,
Indeed 80 many people everywhere
seem to be unaware of the change that
it is worth calling their attention. The
need of postal savings banks has been
removed because we have them now at
all money order offices in the country.
1t is provided that any personal---very.
buy, in the usual way, postal order
payable to himself or to any other per-
son, and also payable at the Office from
which it is obtained instead of at dis
lance. This constitutes the postal saw
ings bank For if citizen can buy at
any money order postofice an order for
a sum of money on that office, which it
must honor whenever presented, the
transaction is exactly the same as max
ing deposit in bank and taking out
a certificate payable without interest.
AS the postal savings system does not
contemplate and could not afford topay
interest, the things are Identical.
1t thus appears that, by simple ex
tension of the regulations, the postofice
department has psettled controversy
before the country and congress for
many years 1t has put the postal saw
ings bank idea into practical operation
without the need of any legislation
whatever The Republican party has
authorized IT, and the people will owe