The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-11
From a Staff Correspondent.

From a Staff Correspondent.
OWATONNA, Mimi, Oct. 10.-OWa-
tonna more than did itself proud in
the reception rendered Leonard A. Ros-
ing, standard bearer of the Democracy
this afternoon and evening. 1t was
the banner event of Mr. Rosing's tour,
and rendered as it was by community
considered rock-ribbed in it's Repub-
licanism, it filled the Democrats, local
and state, with renewed hope of the
great political victory which Mr.. Ros-
ing seems destined to win Nov. 4.
The mass meeting at the auditorium
in the evening was an outpouring of the
representative citizenship of Owatonna
and Steele county. The pretty and
commodious theater was filled to the
doors and scores of interested citizens
unable to find seats stood in the aisles
and main lobby Mr.. Rosing's address
In point of fire was perhaps the best
made on the tour and held the big
audience Interested and enthused for
over an hour. Mr.. Rosing was intro
duced by Mr.. Virtue. Speaker and
audience were in perfect accord. There
was an air distinctly Democratic per-
vading and full of only cold cheer for
the opposition.
In Mood for Democratic Doctrines.
Steele county Republicans and Dem
ocrats alike have always been consist
emily opposed to high protective tariff
and the prevailing prices of necessary
commodities. A coal famine and dis
tinct hostility to the board of control
management Of the state public school
had prepared the citizens of Steele
county to receive Democratic doctrines
with favor.
Mr.. Rosing held up to ridicule the
Republican policy of taxing the Min
nesota producer and manufacturer tc
fatten the dividends of New Jersey and
other Eastern corporations, and called
attention to the determinations made
adverse to home institutions and man
ufacturers by allowing Eastern corpor-
ations without stock liability and un-
taxed on their franchises, to compete
unfairly with Minnesota concerns COM
PEELED to conform to Minnesota's laws
and support the state. The fallacy of
barring Minnesota from the great mar
kets of Canada by the artificial tariff
wall and the national policy of trade
expansion which requires the expendi-
ture of 500, 100000 to secure $4,000, 900
per year in trade while vast empire
within the United States which might
be made productive of untold wealth by
irrigation is permitted to lie waste,
were handled mercilessly.
As to the Coal Strike.
Mr.. Rosing's position on the coal
situation was indorSed with tremend-
Gus enthusiasm. OWatonna is not only
v1TifI nh In, hut c.nft SC
gone and wood supposed to be held by
MinneSotans in unlimited quantities is
not so apparent to the hOuSeholderS of
Steele county. Mr.. Rosing pointed out
how, when England and Venezuela
sustained strained relations over the
boundary question, the president of
the United States informed England,
the worlds greatest military and naval
power, that unless it chose to arbitrate
the matter arbitration would be taken
UP by a commission appointed by the
government of the United States. Only
q few days ago a handful of million
aires, made such by discriminating
laws, declined to arbitrate purely do
mestic question at the request of the
president, and defied the chief execu-
tive. Government-ma giants flaunt-
ed their power in the teeth of the
American people and insulted the head
of the nation.
zone of the most important ques-
tions before the people of Minnesota
today" Mr.. Rosing said, is taxation 1t
should be approached conservatively
and the aim of the people should be
not only the honest enforcement of the
laws the state has, but judicious addi-
tions and remodeling until compre-
hensive, just system is in vogue"
Basis of Taxation.
Equitable laws of taxation, Mr.. Ros-
ing argued, must have three basic
principles: First, certainty of suffi-