The Irish standard., 1900-10-06
AN EFFECTIVE REPLY TO DUNN.

AN EFFECTIVE REPLY TO DUNN.
In speech ut Milaca on September
%, Robert G. Dunn, the Republican
state auditor, charged the Lind adj
ministration with extravaganza and
mismanagement. He dwelt Mt length
on the state grain inspection depart.
ment and gave figures by way Of
demonstrating his allegations. His
party deemed his address sufficiently
important to use it as campaign
document and thousands OF copies of
it have been disseminated through
Minnesota to gain votes for Van SAINT.
Mr. Dunn is an expert at figures and
handles them so dexterously that it
requires an expert to expose his Jug
glery.
= Elsewhere in this Issue there ap-
pears reply to Mr.. Dunn from H. 2.
Bjorge, an official of the grain in
spection department. He shows that
the state auditor is guilty of a deliber-
ate attempt to deceive and r1islead
the citizens of the state, that he
blends facts with fiction and dishon-
estly tries to misrepresent the
work of the reform administration.
Mr.. Bjorge takes up his figures and
shows that the expenses for three
years in the inspection department IN
der Lind are less by $12,424.33 than
the expenses under Repu5lican rule
during the three years before the cleo
ton of the present governor, despite
the fact that expenses ire growing ev-
cry year in building new elevators
and equipping them with scales.
weighers and inspectors.
An examination Of the figures sub
mitted by Mr.. Dunn in his campaign
address shows that during the year
1899, when the Republican chief grain
inspector was in Office, the expenses
aggregated S213, sOs95, While under
Chief Inspector Reishus for the crop
year ending August 81, 1860 the ex-
penses amounted to $2O7, 955.58. That
is what Bob Dunn in his political zeal
calls extravaganza, but any unbiased
citizen sees that it is q saving to the
state of $5,S08.95. Clever as Mr..
Dunn is in the manipulation of figures
lie cannot bamboozle the people in that
manner.
In his speech last Monday evening
Mt the Minneapolis Exposition build
ing Governor Lind referred to tho
grain inspection and said:
II felt that by my election I was
commissioned to do my utmost to re-
form the grain service of the state. l
am willing to leave it to the sound dis
erection and the good intelligence OF
our farmer friends whether they are
getting better and juster treatment
than they did two years ago. There
is only one feature in which it inter
ests you, because it concerns the fair
name. the good repute of our metro
politan grain city, the city of Mime
apolis. That is the character, the Ger.
tainty and the integrity Of the state
grades.
1--WE have made your terminal ele-
vators put out as good No. and No. 1
as they take in, which they never did
before. Our grades to-day are quoted
at Il premium in the lotions of yes
sells in the harbor of Liverpool with
out ever being seen. Our No. cont
mands a premium-consult your pa
pers-over the like grade Of contract
wheat, Chicago inspection. Our No. /
hard commands a premium over the
Manitoba hard, which it never did be.
fore. So that I feel justified In say
ing two things-we have maintained
the integrity of our grades and done
Justice by the producers"
There are other matters pointed
out in Mr.. Bjorge's letter in refuta-
ton Of the bare-faced charges of Au-
ditor Dunn which every citizen ought
to weigh and consider. Mr.. Dunn
himself is forced to admit that under
Republican legislation there are III
Minnesota "many wealthy and ~un-
scrupulous tax-dodging corporations
and individuals who escape by paying
a 1.-THE of what they ought to pay"
Why not give credit to Governor Lind
for trying to make them pay, and why
not rebuke the Republican legislature
which rejected his recommendation to
pass laws for taxing foreign corpora
tons doing business in the state!
Why not give him credit for asking
a Republican legislature to raise the
tax on the gross earnings Of rail-
roads? Bob Dunn is a political partl-
san and. that is why he antagonixes
the best governor the state has ever
had. The people recognize the ability