The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-02

A puI the oats WOulQnC raIClo, so / TOOK
little tin pail that we had, two quart
pan, and l used to put handful of oats
IN mat pail and say. Prince. Prince,
and rattle raft, IT, the oats Prince, foolish fel-
but he heard the rattle of the oats he
would see the dinner pail and he would
come Cloud laughter and applause)
My friends, since first heard this din
ner pail argument, have thought to my
SELF, did old Prince ever weigh in his
mind mind The equivalent between the mouth
1uI OF eats and the harness that so rest
ed on bis back and that dragged upon
him all day. daughter and APPLAUSE
REMEMBER OLD PRINCE.
My friends, let not the trusts, LEI not
the special interests shake that tin pail
(Applause) Old Prince got a harness and
drag. If You .hafken to Mark Hanna's
voice, If you harken to the plea for i'm
perlallsm, and standing armies, great
ness, as they call it, not greatness of
good, not greatness of institution, not
greatness OF honor, but grea tness of war
IKE preparedness; if you harken to that
harness. soldier on your back to feed
with your wife and children. (Applause.)
An abler man is coming here to dis
cuSs these questions than am, one that
VIII AFFORD you more pleasure to listen to
and am sure as much pleasure to vote
1or, SO l Will not take up the time to
go into details (ApplauSe)
started To say that the question OF
taxation is an important one. l made
three recommendations to the legisla-
ture; I will submit to YOU whether or
not they are fair. One was that every
foreign corporation that came into this
! state to do business should be requ rsd
TO pay a license tor the privilege OF the
same amount and of the same character
that we exact from our own citizens to
I form d corporation under our law Was
| that unfair? {Cries of MOI 1t became
a law Somewhat buns ing In form but
we have 1t and we can amend it. 1t has
| brought 500, 600 into the treasury of the
state in less than a year that it has been
much ahead.
I made another recommendation I beg
| ged of the legislature, for the like rea-
sons, to pass a law that would enab e
| US to impose an annual tax on foreign
| corporations doing business in this state
] the same as we do upon domestic corr
| porations. We have corporations, fore
worth Of business, employing millions of
| dollars worth of capital, enjoying the
of our people. All the equity and justice
| of our court and the protection Of our
institutions; but they paid not a cent
Think of it. There is no law upon tie
statute books of this state, after forty
years of Republican rule uninterrupted
that enables you and I to tax the Stan
dard Oil company as corporation of the
state Neither is there a law that en-
! ables us to tax the sugar trust nor the
Federal Steel company, that has acqui ed
most of the valuable iron lands in the
IT,
my friends, 1 might as well have spent
my time to talk to the post Qaughter).
! as the image of an honest man (laughter).
| but the judiciary committee of the senate
| did not. That is harsh Language. but I
| neither withdraw it nor apologize forsit
! SAaPpiallse:t (Cries, That is right
! ~, lh ls5 were exceptions, they are shown
! ply TO the honorable exceptions.
EXPECTS RAILROADS TO HELP.
The railroads in this state are doing,
| thank God, a prosperous business. l want
every industry in this state to prosper.
i like to see railroad stocks quoted at
par il they are not watered. 1 like to see
railroads declare dividends like to see
railroad labor we'll paid. But justice de-
| mands that that class of property, like
| your little homes, like the farms titled
! by our farmers, the goods-somet times
| Sold by our merchants and still patched
L Say fair play and Justice demands thai
railroad property should pay its fair pro-
| portion of the expense of maintaining our
institutions iIl the same as the other. Is
| that unfair? -(Cries of, No" (App,aIIse
In our sister state of Iowa railroads pay
/ In round figures 4 per cent of their gross
! earnings; here they pay 3. In Wisconsin,
Hearty yo1n IN Kag gures n In 5llnois
either 3 or 9, l am not certain which; in
conservative Connecticut, s. To ilius-
trate: In the year that our legislature
met, the gross earnings of the railroads
OF the state of Massachusetts was $H-
J 0OO00O; in our state, $40,00O,9O@, within
/ $l,OOOOOO as great as in Massachusetts,
| In Massachusetts the railroads paid over
S., 5000 900 Of taxes; in our state, 81 100 600
If we collected the same rate OF ia xes
as they do in Iowa (and our railroads
pay more per mile than they do in Iowa.
we would have % per cent more than we
have The same in Wisconsin If the
same as in Massachusetts. 20 per cent
With such figures, such arguments,
! reasonably expect to appeal to the good
! Judgment, to the honesty and to the
patriotism, of a legislative body? But
my appeals failed and Ivy no fault of
mine. say, as duty that you owe your
| selves, as a duty mat you owe the good
| cause of good cove nment, you cannot
unseat these members of the senate fer
two years; but show your condemnation
! by such decisive vote at the polls that
they will construe it as rebuke, and
place that vo@e on tie right ticket.
Cloud applause)
Your mayor referred to another matter
which l will sueak of but briefly. II is
not political question, but It is one
that concerns US all as citizens. There is
! a constitutional amendment pending.
which, if adopted, will enable the state Of
ficers having charge IF u sthuol fund
state money to municipalities to The ex-
tent of Is per cent Of The assessed valua-
tiCn. If that amendment Is adopted we
will be able to supply You from the state
school fund, from the university furd,
from the funds of our institutions, ali
the money necessary to refund the bonds
OIL the city OF minneapolis at a low rate
of interest (Applause.) More than that,
| my friends, you will not have to make
out bonds running ten, fifteen or twenty
years, but every bond will be payable on
or before. You can do away with the
expensive luxury of a sinking fund.
Every man who understands business
knows what a loss a sinking fund in
wolves 1 hope you will bear this in mind
and vote for that constitutional amend
| ment.
TO PAY MUNICIPAL DEBTS.
Thank God, we have a great school
fund. 1t will pay, 1t will advance, the
| money to take up the municipal debts
OF all our cities If it is property handled
and cared for. 1t is now over $4,000 O0O
We have added more than 81, e0O, coo to it
IN m the e last year (ApPlause.) We will
add, II the public lands that really be-
long to the state are property cared for.
properly husbanded and saved-we can
increase that school fund to an amount,
in my judgment, exceeding SOS. 900 600.
(Applause) Our university fund, which
now reaches $1,000, 0O0-cheer, boys Qoud
cheers by the university boys)-now
boys, our university fund reaches s., 300,
600. believe that it is possible, by good
administration, to save 100000 acres of
swamp lands to the state, If they are
| husbanded. A portion of them Should
go to the university fund.- applause. )
| I would like to see that saved for that
| purpose. I want to see this noble insti-
| tuition Of ours which made it possible. Cor
me to stand here and address YOU to-
| night want to see it made possible for
you to aspire to that and to other high