Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1903-10-10

merger issue is taken out of state
politics, IL they desire to take issue
on the proposition, am willing to go
before the republicans of Minnesota
on the same.
BETTER Tax LAWS.
Another issue in sta politics is
the matter of taxation. There is
only one just principle in taxation,
| and that is; Every dollars worth of
property, outside of exemptions
provided by law, shouts pay an
equal amount of taxation. That is,
a dollars worth of diamonds should
pay as much taxes as dollars worth
Of dirt. dollars worth of bank stock
as dollars worth of farm sto TX;
dollars worth of automobiles as a
dollars worth Of wagons, aDd 80 on
to the end of the chapter.
In the northern part of our state
are vast tracts of swamp lands he-
longing to the state, which, if
properly drained, would support all
immense addition to our present
population. I believe these lands
should be gradually drained by the
state and put u thu market and
sold to actual settlers, at price that
will reimburse the state for the
money expended.
STATE EXPENDITURES.
The most rigid economy should
prevail in the state expenditures; but
In this connection it should be re-
membered that there are cases where
parsimony is extravaganza aud liber-
atty is economy.
Revenues used for educational pur
poses are not spent, but loaned, and
will be repaid by the improved char
acter of our future citizenship An
intelligent citizenship IS better than
full treasury; but might add that
full treasury never exists except III
commonwealth where it's citizens are
intelligent. Ignorance and poverty
go hand in hand in the case OF states
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Sufficient wages should be paid in
all departments of the stale govern
ment to secure officials competent to
perform the duties incumbent upon
them. Incompetency is never cheap,
even if furnished free.
Buy GOODS AT HOME.
I believe that all the supplies for
the state institutions should be furn
ished by Minnesota business concerns,
if they will do it for a fair living prof
it. Extortion should not be. permit
ted; but if their bids should happen
to be little higher than thoseof a /
foreign house, they should be given
the preference, if no extortion is prac-
ticed.; and the board OF control ought
to be able, and are able, to disting
uish between a fair profit and extor-
ton.
Mr.. Eddy then took up his own
personal political record at some
length to show what he had contrib.
uted to the success of the republican
party in Minnesota. He told how in
1894 he took hold of the old Seventh
district, the stronghold of populism,
and against almost hopeless odds
it into the republican col
umn for keeps. He said he was the
only congressional candidate in the
United States to receive a greater
percentage of votes in 1896 than in
1894. But for the work of himself
and friends in the Seventh district
,he state would have had two demo-
cratic governors and two democratic
United States Senators.
He took up his congressional rec
nd, showing how much he accom- I
o'ished, despite his ''greeness" the
irst year he was in the national I
house. He commented especially up
III his valuable work for better Indi- {
III schools and his success in secur-
ng public buildings for his district. t
Said he:
The HOMESTEAD BILL.
I introduced and passed, with the /
.ble assistance of the Minnesota dele {
,ation and other friends, the eddy
free Homestead BILL" which saved to c
he poor homestead settlers of North
rn Minnesota more than a million