Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
What u loss to few is gained by the

-ernor represent the dignity and.
honor Of the state when he urged |
the Immediate recall of the Thir-
teenth regiment from the Philip
pines, even giving out wrong
cablegram from the officers? Min
nesota soldiers were never quit
ters; why should his excellency
now disgrace our good record?"
"These questions, Mr.. Victor
Lawson, I consider pertinent!
Please answer them as we'll as you
! CAM
"You, as the editor of a So
called reform paper, did not hesi-
tate to hold out and promise great
reforms in the public service in
the event of your candidates being
successful. Please point out now
to an expectant public q few of
these reforms.
Respectfully yours,
HENRY FE1G.
A man must be desperately in need
of something to criticise when he
makes such statements as the above.
"Sending wrong cablegrams " looks
very much like accusing Gov. Lind of
forgery, and is evidently considered
by Mr.. Feig his highest trump card.
Now the truth of the matter, as near
as we can remember, is this:
The cablegram came in cipher, and
a portion of it being rather indistinct,
the decipherer rendered it 'Regfment
must come home" The governor sent
it to the legislature as he received it.
1t was afterwards found that the cable
gram should haye read, "Regiment
wants to come home" This makes a
clearer statement. "Must" implies
outward compulsion, and might have
meant that it was forced to come
home. "Wants to come home" is q
statement that cannot be misinter-
preted.
Now, as the time of service of the
regiment had expired, and it wanted
to come home, how did Gov. Lind in
any manner injure the dignity of the
state by doing all in his power to aid
the regiment in attaining it's desire.
Nobody thought of those boys as cow
ards. They had enlisted to fight in a
war of liberation. That war was
over, their term of service had ex-
pired and they were being held to fght
IN another war-one of conquest. This
comes awkward to liberty-loving peo-
pie. Worn out with fighting in an
Indifferent cause, sick, wounded, is it
any wonder that they did not wish to
serve any more overtime? None but
d coward who likes to see others do
what he dare not attempt, or an un-
scrupulous politician who wants to
manufacture political capital, would
object to the granting of their wish or
crisicise the governor for trying to
help them.
The people of St. Paul and Mime
apolis are preparing to give grand
reception to the Thirteenth regiment
on it's arrival. They expect it to come
home before the war of subjug alton is
over. If it was against the dignity OF
the state for the governor to work for
the return of the boys before the Phil
ippines have been pacitied," is it
not still more undignified for those
cities to receive the boys in such grand
style. The citizens of St. Paul and
Minneapolis evidently do not think
the boys are "quitters." Would i,
not be good idea for Mr.. Feig to &c
down there and enlighten them as tC
what the "dignity" of the state de-
mands?
We have now, to the best of ou1
ability, answered Mr.. Feig's queries
We have devoted a great deal of time
labor and space to it, not because VI
hope to influence Feig's mind in tn
least, but because we thought ther'
mi ght be some who have been mislet
by his ingeniously constructed ques
tions. and HONESTLY want an expla
nation. We now hope that Mr.. Fei,
will be equally willing to answer a fev
queries which we shall PROFOUND.
l. You advocated the election O
Feig as a "reform'' issue. Pleas
state what you had intended to do, Mr.
Feig.
2. Why did the republican legis
lature OF 1897 and the administrator
do nothing to compel the bondsmen o
the closed banks to pay up?
3. Please explain why % republic
an senators voted to open the door TO
the Younger brothers, and only 10 Q
the republicans voted against it.
4. How much did the legislature wi
in dignity byo passing the sugar boun
ty bill over the governors veto, an
afterwards pass bill doing just wha
the governor wanted them to do, whe
they might just as we'll have amende
the first bill as he suggested?
S. State also how it happened tina
in all these years the republicans dt,
not realize the vast Importance G
having the railroad and ware
house commissioners elected by tn
people, until the election of Lind too
the appointive power out of the repuh
lican party's hands.
s.. Please explain how. the O'Nei]
anti boycott bill could pass commit
tee where the republicans had NOR
than q two-thirds majority, and ais