The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-10-17

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business judgment, ana when I say
he 7 mean the institution over there.
He did not use the good business judg-
| ment that any ordinary business man
would. Every local dealer and every
wholesale dealer in the country could
| sea- and without any specs on what
ever, to an absolute certainty, that
! Irvine, was bound to be cheaper. Now.
| he agreed to give us twine for cost.
Remember, now, and think back five
or six or seven months, when they
| fixed the price on Irvine. What did he
| tell you this year? That the twine is
/ still there, to be sold to the farmers
| direct for cost. In other words, no
profit should be taken of and put into
| the state treasury as the Republican
administration had done for years. The
small profit that have spoken Of, in
| 1897, $4,000, and in 1893 about $S7, 600,
was to be given direct to the farmer.
1t was heralded all over this state that
/ there had been changed method Of
doing business, and that, instead of
| that profit going to the state, the
| farmer should have the full benefit of
the whole plant. Now, you expected to
| get it for cost, did you not? Certainly
| you did. And you did get it for just
! exactly what it cost them, but the
| trouble with the whole business was
| that the Irvine cost so much it wasn't
worth the price. 1t 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
| two years ago by Gov Lind.
About Grain Inspection.
/ There was another promise that he
made, which am going to examine for
a few moments now, and that was
| that if he was elected governor of this
state he would reform the grain in
| spection department.. I am willing to
concede that he has reformed 1t. 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 I want to tell you, my friends,
/ from my experience that f never Will
be quite satisfactory to everybody in
/ the state. 1t 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 a mans
Judgment, upon the eye, upon the
| Judgment Of human being, and he is
going to make some mistake, and I
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 as well
as 1 know it. but the farmers of the
state believed that wheat inspection
could be carried on to 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 if he was elected gov
ernor of this state that complaint
would be taken away entirely. He
simply promised 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, am not going
to contend. I am not going to defend
all those who were appointed by the
Republicans, by any means. Some of
them were incompetent men, and some
dIS Ncly ulCOIupclcHL IIleu IO-Udy.
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 a bushel of wheat in their
lives? Yet to-day they are your guar
Sro%~
that department. and the consequence
is that the result has been about the
same as ever. The change has been so
imperceptible 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 SO many dollars to do certain
kind of business. There are so many
car loads of wheat shipped to Mime
apolis and Duluth every year. and it
costs you so many cents car load to
have that wheat inspected, and when it
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
men were appointed. I presume that
he thinks he has made such appoint
ments. But he has run up abainst the
same difficulty that any governor runs
up AGAINST 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.
Republicans Found to be Honest.
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 a good
thing to have change, that you might
find out just how wrong and how bad
it had been. great many Of you
waited patiently for months-yes, for
years-to hear something about the
| rascality Of the guardians Of some OF
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