The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-30

que this question. 1t is so apparent that
1t would seem that there could be no
difference of opinion in regard to the
desirability of securing this trade for
our own people. While this important
question is pending, it would seem that
our representatives should devote their
best energies and great ability to solv-
ing the problem.
MINNESOTA CONGRESSMAN
PROPHETS OF SUGAR BEET.
''But what do we find? They are fritz
tering away their time in protecting
beet sugar. At least that is their
claim, but most of us think that the
interests of the sugar trust Is the OBJ
ject of their tender solicitude Be that
as 1t may, the fact remains that for
many years Canada has been anxious
to make reciprocal trade arrangements
ana we have said, No, we will not
trade with you Beet sugar even had
It's influence in the recent state con-
Ventton of our Republican brethren.
Great is the beet and the Minnesota
delegation is it's prophet.
In his last message to the legisla-
ture, January, 1901, Gov. Lind said:
THE history of Minnesota spans but
half century. In that brief time the
persevering industry of our people has
converted an inhospitable wilderness
into a land of plenty, dotted with
homes. Fifty years ago our population
was told in hundreds; we now have
nearly 100000. Our soil yielded in the
year 1900 not far from $4,000, 900
bushels of cereals Our forests produced
2,0O0,000,0 600 feet of lumber. Our mines
turned out 10000, 600 tons of ore, and
the stock and dairy products of the
state exceeded $40,000,000 in value. Our
manufactures. including flour and lum-
Der, appropriated $280,000,000. Our
iC faI e of
railway within the state and our bank
ing capital, exclusive of private Banks,
is $20,000,000. Learning is disseminated
by 1O,515 teachers, employed in 1903
school houses, which have been erect
ed at cost to the public of $14, 800, 900.
Our past has been phenomenal. and our
present is great.
And we can truthfulIy say that the
promise for our future is greater. The
name Minnesota stands for Opportu-
nifty. No state or territory of equal ex-
tent offers such great variety in it's
natural wealth as this state OF ours
Gov Lind hastily enumerated some of
our material resources and graphically
pictured our productive capacity. The
chairman of our commission at the
Buffalo exposition happily named Min
nesota as the Bread and Butter State
providence has showered it's blessings
upon us in abundance, and it now de-
pends upon us to see that the bread
and butter of opportunity is offered
equally and without discrimination to-
all our citizens
In state with such magnificent re-
sources, the immediate effect Of the
election of one man or another, or the
passage of one law or another, can be
but slight. Bad legislation and bad
administration can only retard; they
cannot prevent our progress. The
state will make magnificent advances
whether the people shall decide to elect
the genial gentleman who is my oppon-
ent in this contest or myself. It is only
because l am a believer in tendencies
that think it important to the people
to consider carefully the matters call
ing for their decision this fall.
There is one suggestion in this cam
pa1gn upon which I desire to express
my views with special frankness I
say suggestion, for the reason that it
does not appear to me that any issue is
presented upon the matter, at least so
Tar as our opponents are concerned.
ADMINISTRATION PERFORMED
ONLY HALF ITS PLAIN DUTY.
For good many years there have
been upon the statute books Of this
state provisions forbidding the consoh-
datlon of parallel and competing lines
or railroad. 1t is claimed that these
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
railroads., and 1t seems to me that it
must be apparent that if they have not
been directly violated, an attempt has
at least been made to evade their spirit.
FOLLOWING their plain duty in the prem
lses, the executive and highest law Of
1cer of the state instituted proceedings
TO prevent the evasion or violation Of
those statutes. The proceedings so in
stltuted are now pending and must be
pressed to a final conclusion without
regard to the results of this CAMPAIGN
MY wish or yours as to the result of the
litigation will have no weight with the
Judgment of the courts before whom
those cases must come; and I am fully
convinced that our courts will decide
them with the same impartial integrity
and Intelligence that has always char
acterized the American judiciary.
SENATE RESOLUTIONS ARE
FORGOTTEN BY GOVERNOR.
Gov Van SAINT did his duty in
calling upon the attorney general to en-
force the law against the consolidation
of the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern, but there he stopped. The
state senate of Minnesota, during the
extra session of 1902, passed the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved That the attorney general be
and ne is hereby requested to investigate,
the alleged consolidation of the stock Of
the Duluth and Iron Range and the Du-
1uth, Missabe and Northern Railway com
panles. and if he finds that practical
accomplished by the concentration into
single corporation of a majority of the
capital stock thereof, that he at once
institute legal proceedings to prevent a
further violation of the laws of this
state
why has not this resolution been
obeyed? In Gov. Van SAINTS extended
acceptance speech on July he abso-
lutely neglected to touch upon this
point.
THE Iron Range roads were merged
by. the United States Steel trust in
February, 1901, sixty days after Gov.
Van SAINTS Inauguration, and nine
months before the attempt to merge
the Northern coast lines If the pres
ent state administration is entitled to
reelection because it brought suit to
forbid the consolidation of the coast
lines, what does it deserve for ignoring
the merging Of the Iron Range rail-
roads, which are wholly within the
state of Minnesota and are the original
merger offenders?
STATES POWER PRosTITUTED
TO USE OF FIGHTING FACTIONS.
II have perhaps no right to question
the governors good faith I am GER
tainly not inclined to do so, but the
personneI OF his advisers, who were
closely identified with other connecting
railroad interests, gives color to the
claim that the power of the great state
of Minnesota was at least permitted to
serve the purposes of one or parcel of
contending factions.
/. The Democratic platform pledges it's
candidate and the party to the enforce
ment of the present sta tl1tes a erainr+