The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-06-02
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Is G. o. p. Administration In Washing"
ton and Minnesota,

ton and Minnesota.
Reform Press Bureau, St. Paul, Ma,
28, ROCKVILLE the trusts pull tn.
strings at Washington and Cuban steal!
follow embalmed beef and other army
scandals in the all-prevailing rottennes:
of money control of the G. o. P, we
have the same kind of goppite cloth il
Minnesota, lacking only the presence O
imperial troops and colonial Offices tc
give us the full fruition. Thus we sec
the state republicans placing a lumber
truster, department store king and the
Twin City Street Railway magnate al
the head Of the delegation to the Han,
na-McKinley convention, but of most
forceful application we see the repub-
lican department charged with the ad-
ministration of the laws governing cor
porations utterly ignoring its duties and
meeting Governor Lind's efforts to
have foreign corporations taxed with
ridicule and studied insult.
Lesson after lesson has appeared
since Governor Lind was inaugurated
of what the people lost by not making
a clean sweep in 1898. None is per-
haps as forcible as this case of the
Somervillc law and the republican sec
rotary OF state. The secretary of state
had knowledge of the law, for its orig
'inal lies in the vaults OF his office. How
did he observe it? Very leniently.
The-act did not take effect until Octo-
Der, 1899, six months after passage
Now the law has been in non-effect for
six months more, although all that was
required of the secretary OF state was
that he file information for prosecutions
for violation. Governor Lind found a
list OF some 800 such derelicts, each
subject to penalty, OF which the gov
ernor formally notified Secretary Berg,
furnishing himsuch list, with the result
now known all over the state. To date,
the only action taken by this repub-
lican official has been to weed from the
list here and there corporation likely
to escape. The list remains sufficiently
large to bring to the state thousands OF
dollars in just taxes and penalties.
Governor Lind's earnest desire to
have this law enforced goes back to his
inaugural message in which he recon-
nended taxation OF foreign corpora
lions.
In what marked contrast stands the
insurance department, in reform con-
troll, with the republican secretary of
states administration, Insurance Com
missioner O'Shaughenessy having
turned into the state treasury some $12,-
'co in fees required of foreign insurance
under the same act. Action
oy this derelict republican official
would have multiplied this sum at least
several times, by this time.
1t is directly in point, and something
hat the people should know, that Sec
'etary Berg has for months been mere
figure head in his office, he being en-
gagged in "citizenizing" himself in a far
distant portion of the state, engaged in
acquiring homestead" and in a new
townsite operation at the Lake of the
Woods, not neglecting, however, to
lraw his salary with proper regularity.
During this period he has probably not
spent 10 per cent of the time for which
The people pay in discharge of his Off
sial duties. At least such is the declar-
alton of fellow republican state Off
cial.
The humbug that republican admin
stration makes volume of business is
not better disposed of than by the fig
Tres OF railway earnings in different adj
ninistrations of party control. Take
any reliable manual and see the figures
Of such business in the United States in
he presidential terms since 1881. Thus,
republican, 1881-2-3-4, the democratic,
rom 1885 to 1880; then the republican
administration from 1880 to 1893, and
that of the democratic party from 1893
% 1897. The figures are:
1881 to 1885 (republican),
gross railroad earnings .$2,ooo, 200, 900
1885 to 1880 (democratic),
gross railroad earnings. 3,o75,ooo, 900
1889 to 1893 (republican),
gross railroad earnings. 3,145,ooo,ooo
1893 to 1897 (democratic),
gross railroad earnings. 1880 900, 900
And speaking OF comparisons, demo-
cratic soup houses" so called, do not
with wholesale strikes and
ockouts, as political reminders.
And as to such reminders, govern
ncnt by injunction, where, as in St.
Louis, New York and other places, the
courts have doubly increased their
sweeping orders to include every posi-
bic demand of the corporation against
abor, even to prohibiting contributions
Tor feeding the strikers, exceeds them
all. How many who condemned the
Chicago platform for its declaration in
1906 against government by injunc-
ton are not since come to see the wis
dom and justice OF the declaration?
There are thousands on thousands who
have.
That was cracking good point
made by Lentz OF Ohio in daring the
republicans of the house to put trust