The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-03-01

the law Of 1895 should be amended
so as to limit the amount to be paid
in sugar bounties during the next
two years.
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When the bill to pay the St. Louis
Park company its just claim reached
the executive it was sent back to
tho house with the governor veto.
In his veto message Gov. Lind spe-
officially stated that it was a legal
and moral debt which the State had
to pay but he would not permit it to
be paid until the legislature amend
ed the sugar bounty law so as to
limit the amount to be appropriated
in the future.
The absurdity of the governor S
veto is apparent to any one who had
a just claim to collect. Suppose you
had ten dollars coming from a man
money which you had earned and
which was due-and suppose when
you presented your bill he should
say: eyes, this is legal and moral
debt which I owe, but I will not
pay you until 1 am sure that I will
not have to pay you too much in the
future.
Gov. Lind by his fool veto virtu-
ally took the position that, provided
that no Legislation in line with his
dictation could be passed, he was
willing to repudiate the debt which
the State owed and which was al
ready overdue. A more unfair or
unbusiness-like proposition could
not have been imagined. The proper
course for him to have followed
would have been this: He should
have approved the bill to pay the
States debt and then sent mes
sage along with it recommending
the changes in the present law
which he thought wise.
The governors message reached
the house just before the vote was
to be taken on Mr.. Laybourne S iron
bounty bill-a very strange co-inci-
dence, indeed. The friends of the
bill were positive the veto was sent
in simply to influence the house on
the iron bounty question. Satur-
day morning the house took up the
sugar bounty appropriation and
passed it over the governors veto.
The house did not propose to be
dubbed into line by any arbitrary
mandates of the governor when he
was so unreasonable.
The action of the house in turn
ing down the veto so neatly came
as great surprise to. the governor.
It taught him the lesson that he will
have to get up early in the morning
if he proposes to make political
thunder for 1900 out of the Repub-
ican legislature.
The veto message is at this writ
ing in the senate.
Speaking Of the ratio Of 16 to l,
Mr.. Bryan said in his St. Paul
speech:
mo, my friends, we will not
change the ratio. (Applause.)
Sixteen to one means something.
(Applause.) Don't understand me
to say there is anything sacred
about except there is some,
thing sacred if it is the only thing
that will save US. There is moth
ing sacred about board, but if it
is the only board you can walk on
to escape from death, you will re-
we're the board. Nothing sacred
about ratio. But, my friends, 16
to is the ratio selected by those
who believe in bimetalism It is a
ratio submitted to the primaries
throughout the United States and
Endorsed by them. It is ratio for
which the people voted in 1896, and
it ought certainly stand until some
body proposes some other ratio.
''The men who say they don't
want 16 to l, havn't anything else
that they want. Do you know of
any of them? Do you know of any
opponents of 16 to l, who are trying
to secure bimetallism at any ratio?
My friends, if they tell US they