The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-12
WE ARE SOCIALISTS
Henry LOOMS Nelson Continues inv to, to
Study Minnesota's Political
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Fauna. III.
He Says the Republican Party Has
Made US AL So
cialists. zss..

pleaseS MIN, and continues:
The interests Of Minnesota are injured
by the protective policy of the republican
party, and by the antitrust influence Of
Theodore Roosevelt The northwest pro-
duces minerals, lumber and flour products.
It has gone thru many ups and downs, and
Is slowly gaining wisdom from. its expert
'ences. The interests otis people are be-
ginning to ask for q hearing The strength
OF Mr.. Roosevelt In the northwest is due
to his command tof: the affections of the
people, of those Of the farmers, of those
of the man who believes In the presidents
impunity, and of thosesof thsslabor agita-
tor of the sincere Workingnah, as well
as those of the shiftless and the thought
less youth. ag S
Minnesota is hampered. In @tfis the
resemblance is strong between herself and
her immediate neighbours. What has been
said Of Minnesota is trusi of the adjoining
states. and SO, whenw reach con-
clude the conditions and prospects of the
others. $#sSI$Se=
| ''The republican party exists on the
theory that the general government should
take care Of private business enterprises,
and thereby promote, the general welfare.
+ 1t does not help communities to- thrive
despite themselves, it has no reason to ex
4 list. 1T has attempteds8'to convince the
people of Minnesota that their forests,
their mines and their wheat have brought
themEWealth because Of the legislation Of
the republican party. For most Of the
time most of the people here have be-
lieved this. They will continue to believe
it in every prosperous year. They will
vote for the republican.spa because it
has made, or has seemed to them to
make, the country rich.cEe - -
The Party Did It. #. p,
To the minds of the farmers here the
republican party has built up the cities Of
the state, has constructed the great flour
Ing mills TO Minneapolis, has made ST..
Paul the merchant and transporter of a
country which would not*yet have existed
but for the railroads, one Of which has
been greatly aided by. government. It is
to the government at Washington that the
republican party has taught these western
people to look for their.welfare and their
prosperity. This is the very heart of pater-
2 nalism, and for all that has flown from it
the republican party is responsible. "
The consequence Of this protective
teaching is the breeding aud maintenance
of socialism. It is the unacceptable truth
truth which much be recognized by all
observant visitors to the, west, that, with
rare exceptions, the people here believe
that the government. can cure all the ills
Of the body polite. It has made the lum
herman rich by its laws,7permitting the
grabbing Of the public sdomain by those
! who are thus enabled to cut off it's trees
, It has responded to the ';demands of the
timber mon and has shut out Canadian
lumber 1t has raised up a tariff wall
pretending that it has been for the benefi
Of the. farmers, and, Sat the refine
, has enorm ously increased freight rates
and made farming more expensive
TITS due to the foSeatght, ipf -privatt
4 citizens and corporatiops. that freight!
!. business; but all {5att thse govsfahaent ha.
\ 1,@~ L.
? majority The theory that the .enactin en-
Of laws for the enrichment Of the few
will tend to the promotion Of the genera
! welfare has proved unsound. Whateve
prosperity has visited the state has beer
" despite the government, which has Winket
e at the aspoliationF Of its forests, and, by it
9. tariff in aid Of the iron and steel manu-
: facturers Of the east, has taxed the Min
? nesota farm in aid Of the Pennsylvania
e furnace and mill.
: Republican Paternalism.
"All the time the preaching has been t
y the effect that republican paternalism, es
n sentially socialistic, has bred prosperity
The text of the sermon OF Mr.. Hanna /
"the full dinner pail" The men VIII
d have stolen the public lands, who have Gu
It off the trees from the lands of the middl
west until now all the pine lumber in tn
Mississippi valley and west of the ALE
IT state and Is sufficient for five or six years
It consumption at the utmost, the men VIII
n have worked benefits Of one kind an
~ other out of the government, have laugh
" the people here that the federal govern
$ ment is the beneficent giYer Of all goo
- that they must look for any ad
- vantage which they may desire, or fc
or the remedy Of any i'll Under which the
lie may suffer. Consequently, socialism ha
,e hardened and deepened in the mindsEt
:, the men who have lived upon the publ
! lands or in the vicinity Of them.
In Hard times have come, however, an
e more difficult problems are to- be face
8. The consequence Of the government
p" wastefu1ness, and Of it's undue concer
Id for certain favorites, has been felt, and
In to be felt again. In 1893 the people bega
to feel that the government should en-
- brace all of them in the benefits whic
it's paternal policy was showering upc
er the lumberer and other favored person
IS. and they began to agitate, doctrines whie
-, are frankly socialistic. When good tim
~ are here, glib political orators tell the
1g that the government has brought. the
err on; when bad times come. their inclin
Nv ton IS, therefore, TO turn tosgovernme
'" for a5<remedy. s
~ Government Makes Prosperity.
es If government, made the Pittsburg ste
II manufacturer rich, 1if government car
Sc lessly permitted rich lum bernlen to ste
as | the cOuntry'S domain, if advanced go
l., eminent has had the power to establi
~ prosperity, why should it not also ha
and exercise the power to restore tt
same prosperity when it is lost, or VIII
he it has strayed away? Therefore, VIII
no politicians, ready to take advantage
-. the popular moods, told the people, who
iie minds were thus inflicted by the socis
lal istic teachings of the republican part
It's that the government could right all tn.
ha wrongs by the free coinage Of silver
- the ratio of 16s to i, the mischieNous dc
nc trine found ready minds for its acce
'e- lance, and now, when the silver idea h
m met defeat, the same quickness is mar
ay tested to accept the panacea of-publici
or Of any other anti-trust nostrum viii
half informed economists, socialists a
Il demagogues can invent
In BRIEF the northwest is decided
socialistic, and it's socialism is direc
on traceable to the teaching, of the poll
aa, clans who have insisted that general pro
ne perity is due to the fostering care Of t
III III general government. The man on
zen farm, he in the mill and he In the sire
lu- has been induced to believe that, sin sol
'A s way, great aggregations Of capital {
he ., =, 81 80 a. Ia n,s ,,,l,iab - ~
the building up of these vast aggregation
it must be able so to restrain the own,
~ that they cannot use their opportunity
tyrannize. IS e sd ~ -
- Politics from Capitalists. Z
- Minnesota has taken Its poIitics- fr