Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26

department by the reform forces and by
Governor Lind on the stump. mas
much as the charges, originally from
Clay county, have brought this condem-
nation of the regime of Inspector Clausen
it will be we'll to recall what the Clay
county committee declared of the de-
partment and system as it has been
conducted, 10, these many years, under
Republican administration. Said that
committee:
''First-It gives to one man autocratic
power to say how much we shall receive
for our property.
"Second-It degrades and humiliates US
by placing us in the position of wards of
an INSCRIPTIONS ring.
'Third-1t makes millionaires at the
terminal points at the expense of the pro-
ducers.
"Fourth-It depreciates the value of
our real estate.
'F'ifth-It brushes the poor man who is
laboring to make home for himself and
family.
'Sixth-It legalizes robbery
The unanimous voice which then de-
clared for the abolition of the system,
will at least rejoice when Governor
Lind, upon the finding of this Republic
can Committee, proceeds to reorganize
the Department..
Those pushing the Farmers Co-opera-
tive Grain Growers association, find in
the jacobson investigation great en-
courageme nt for their enterprise. The
recommendation to establish elevators
and warehouses of their own is right in
line. But as to cleaning their wheat to
escape dockage, they say that it is all
nonsense, that the dockage will go on
all the same, under the present system.
as Eric Olson says, that ''dockage will
be abolished when 60 pounds OF wheat
are sold for bushel."
And Mr.. Olson throws light on in
spection, when, abiding to Inspector
Clausen's statement that experts are
used to inspect grain into the elevators,
but the learners" can inspect out, he
says: 1T is one thing to inspect in for
the farmers, and quite another to in
spect out for export The mixers are
not in the business for their health"
well says Mr.. O.
The latest suggestion for amends to
the shortcomings of the late Republic
can legislature, is to have the next Re-
publican state convention pass resolu-
tions covering the matters of remiss-
ness. Yes, for instance on the gross
earnings bill. Imagine the Republican
convention. assembled on the usual
number Of railroad passes for delegates,
passing resolutions condemning the SEN
ate for defeating that bill. 1t would
make horse laugh.
It now appears that the attorney gen.
erals Office has been left without sufi-
cient appropriations for prosecuting the
states business in imperative cases,
which responsibility is laid at the door
of Senator Young of Swift. Well, the
crippling of the dairy and food depart
ment is laid at the doors of both house
and senate. The responsibility is on
the Republicans in both cases.
A scheme of the railroad lobby which
come to naught through Governor Lind,
was to make a test case of the Chica o
Great Western railroad by raising its
gross earnings tax from to 3 per cent,
hoping for adverse decision in the
courts, and thus reach a fnality on the
states power to raise the gross earnings
tax. The scheme was credited to the
wise Republican quintet of the senate
judiciary committee, and went along
swimmingly until Governor Lind wrote
his letter to Senator Halverson, in which
he showed that none of the roads, ex-
cept the Great Western, had ever paid
any tax under the supposed binding ter
ritorial contract" In such case the
Great Western would have been no
test, and the quintet knew it, and the
scheme thus died bornin'.
The sugar bounty lobby missed cog.
The scheme was not to have any legis-
lation passed, but whip-saw the houses
by the BATE bill for the repeal of all
bounty, and the Roberts bill limiting
and ultimately repeating. At danger
Gus hour the chief lobbyist went from
the scene, and while gone the Roberts
bill was whisked through the senate.
The lobbyist returned out of breath, but
it was too late. OF course the game will
be to have the next Republican legisla-
ture handled with more care, aud the
last measure repealed.
The trust controlled Associated Press
chronicled that Governor Lind and
Governor Lee of South Dakota were
much criticised at Washington for their
demands for the return of our volun-
teers from Manila. But the same AS
ISOLATED Press now comedies that it was
due to the efforts made by those reform
governors that the administration is to
send the volunteers home.
The vigilance of Public Examiner
Pope has resulted in the closing of two
more banks. one at Merriam Park and
one at Nicollet. Had there been safe
and proper administration of that de-
partment for the past five or six years
of Kenyonian rule, the people would