Mower County transcript., 1903-07-15


WEDNESDAY. !. .JULY & s.; / sos Ys5 M
FARMER Ben COL 4
see eS that the extrayag gance 5on 81 the
new stateh honses ain nit yet I've
kicked rite along about the wicked and
sontrag Gus deceptio on of startin for a.
zstateh ouse that was ostensibly and pros
fs =fegsedly to cost not to- exceed two mil
lion llIQ ollars and 5alre eady gettin' in four
Sarldssa a hall and the next legislatur will
yno doubt be asked for another million
81 OH tE'f two q which the gumps will freely
I vote as they haV heret tofore. Folks.
Ss1leedn' II wonder that it's goin' to cost
five Is &, ~ Isl six illion when they tab up all
the 3 outrage geouss foolishness of expendi-
Etllare that the people money is squan- &
der .dered in The latest appendix is a
[qnadriga to be set over the main door
way, the contract price Of it bein' 1886,
s50. " by, the present statehouse, that
amt been used twenty years yet, only
cost q quarter Of a million and here the
spend dthrifts are putin over one
seventh Of the total cost Of the old one
Into q foolish and needless ornament
that, amt Of any more use than a piano
lima II deaf and dumb institute on. The
Iandacity and brazen extravaganza OF
the capitol commissioners would shock
asield of barley. conldn' find out
TT 9 while Just what a quadriga was.
elnr gal Sarah looked it Il lin the die
tfonary and found tito a Wo-Wheeled
chariot to which four horses were har-
messed abreast, Of frequent occurrence
in ancient sculp lpture. Now what in
The world has the great comm monwealth
Of N Minnesota to do with such a gig?
Ofc course when the co ommission went
toZG to- Georgia to get marble to veneer the
new buildin' with when Minnesota has
the finest granite on earth, naturally it
looked the proper thing to go to the old
heathens Of a million years ago for a
qu'ladriga, but amt it a fool job all the
same 5s .y
sgI asked one Of the boys about this
qaadriga and be said that it was goin'
istasbe manuf factured of bronze and rep
resented Columbus in a chariot drivin'
a1s. the four y T. il hand and that it was a
second hand reproduct ction OF some crazy
| design they had at the world S fair.
christopher Columbus, but wouldn't
cork you and strike you dumb?
saf y been dead four centuries
and he never saw. IN innesota OF the
i United States or comrade Sam Y anSant.
The idee of stick in up. such a contrap-
tion on a twentieth century capitol.
Columbus want even character. = He
didn't travel to this country in any
such way. L bet he never see chariot.
Maybe he wouldn't know how to hitch
| UP a team to ploW with, I question if
he could drive: even one horse without
accident. George Russell could beat
him all hollow. y ct the state Of Min.
nesota is putin in $36, 800 into such a
contraption. Why, think Of how many
. new buildings for the insane this 1885,.
i 800 would put up in Granny Pease's
4 town. Think Of. what $36, 800 would
/ show for new buildings for ShaW's
state school at Owatonna for INDECENT
children. Think Of how many bushels
! of hard earned grain raised by the
sweat of the farmers brow were. .sput
4 into tax money to make up this .sss36,55OC
and all this wasted on a good for-noth
in, four hundred years behind the
times, heather and outlandish contrap
| tion#that nobody even knows the mean
in,of because it amt got any. 81
Farmer Ben had been consulted, insted
of a quadriga there would hay been5a
group Of Injins on one end and a auto
mobil on the other with Sam VanSant
| Bob Dunn and Mo oses Clapp ridin' in it
i That would represent somethin' Min
nesotan and somethin, that would rep
/ resent progress and every body coulG
catch on to what it, signiied and j
4 needn't cost a housand do ollars. s3a u n
II #s@ 70 8s zx33$