Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-10-19

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Remember. now. and think back flve
sSor az or3 seven months. when they
liked the price on Irvine. What did he
tell you this year That the twine u
still there. to Ne sold "a the farmers
direct Tor cost. IA other words, no
profit should be taken on add put into
the state treasury 40 the Republican
administration had done for years. The
small profit that have spoken of. Al
1891. $l7, 900. and In 1855 about $s7. 900
was to ~ given direct to the farmer.
III was heralded all over this state that
there had been : changed method d
doing business. and that, instead 81
I that profit going to the state. the
farmer should have the full beneflt Of
the whole plant. Now. you expected "a
get it FOR cost, did YOU not? Certainly
YOU did. And you did ret It for just
exactly what 4 cost them, but the
trouble with the whole business was
that the Irvine cost 80 much 1t wasn't
worth the price. It was not exactly
/ the kind OF reform you expected In that
institution. but It Is exactly what you
got. and that was the fulfillment Of
one OF the promises that were made
tWVs yV046 h8V Wynn 4/AuUs
$sss About Grain Tnapcction. 8 $
There was another promise that he
made, which am going to examine fol
q few moments now, and that was
that II he was elected governor Of this
state he would reform the grain In
spection department. am willing ia
concede that he has reformed II. i am
willing to concede everything that he
claimed he would % as far as he went,
but he has not quite succeeded In sat
isfying all the people Of this state upon
that subject yet. We know that the
inspection Is not quite what It. ought to
be, and want to tell you. my friends.
from my experience that Il never wfll
be quite satisfactory to everybody in
the state. It is not like weighing out
wheat. There you can depend upon a
mathematical certainty for result,
but when It comes to inspecting wheat
you have got to depend upon q mans
Judgment, upon the eye, & upon the
judgment Of q human being, and he is
going to make some mistake. and /
don't care how honest and how faithful
the man may be. Now. Gov, Lind and
everybody else that made the charges
two years ago. knew this Just az we'll
as know 1t, but the farmers of the
state believed that wheat inspection
could be carried on to a mathematical
certainty; that with the right kind Of
men in there there would be no further
reason for complaint. Now, Gov. Lind
must have known that this could not
be done.and yet he tried to convey to
your minds that IL he was elected gov
ernor Of this state that complaint
would be taken away entirely. He
simply promised a good deal more than
any other man ever will be able to
accomplish in this day. To say that
there was not cause for complaint two.
four and six years ago, Il am not going
to contend. ] am not going to defend
all those who were appointed by the
Republicans. by any means. N Some OF
them were incompetent men, and some
are very incompetent men to-day.
Take some Of them that you know;
would you ever pick them out as the
guardian OF your interests. out there
especially? You know some Of them.
Would you select some Of those indi-
viduals that have been appointed In
that department? Men who never
handled q bushel Of wheat In their
lives? Yet to-day they are your guar
dians, looking after your interests In
that department., and the consequence
is that the result has been about the
same as ever. The change has been so
imperceptible't that many OF you have
not been able to see It. But there is
one thing In the administration Of the
affairs of that department that we can
all see very plainly. and that is that it
costs 80 many dollars to do q certain
kind Of business. There are 50 many
car loads OF wheat shipped to Mime
apolis and Duluth every year, and 1t
costs you SO many cents q car load to
have that wheat inspected, and when 1t
comes to the business part OF the de-
partment Mr.. Lind has again failed to
come up to. your expectations, or his
own, for I haven't any doubt but he
was honest in that part Of It, that he
would see to 1t that none but honest
men were appointed. presume that
he thinks he has made such appoint
ments. But he has run up abainst the
same difficulty that any governor runs
up aSainst that Is. he has appointed a
lot of men on the recommendation Of
some one else, and some OF them have
not turned out to be the class Of men
that ever ought to hold office, and
there he has not been any more sue
cessful In this particular branch Of the
business than any other governor Of
the State OF Minnesota. f, ~ !. S5-t
Republicans Found to be Honest. A
a great many thought that the Re-
publicans had been in Office SO long,
having been in power for almost forty
years, that there must necessarily be
something wrong. and It was good
thing to havesa change, that you might
find out just how wrong and how bad
It had been. "A great many Of you
waited patiently for months--yes, for
years-tos hear something about the
rascality of the guardians of some Of
those institutions; Have any of you
ever heard a thing? Has there been
any exposure Of a single dollar stolen
or misappropriated In either OF these
departments? With all the machinery in
his own hands to investigate these In.
stitutions not one OF those things hap
pened that you expected. I simply re-
mind you OF these things that you may
see that the administration that you
had thought had become useless, to a
great extent, and thovsht that &
change would be beneficial to yourself
and to the state. was not, in. fact, SO 4
They have, however, proven one thing