The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-20
JOHNSON HERALDS
NEW ALIGNMENT.
WESTERN MEN WILL TAKE POLIT-
ICAL LEADERSHIP FROM EAST.
Minnesota Governor Delivers an Inter
esting Address Before Merchants
Club Of Chicago, Sharing the Honors
with Cummins Of Iowa-He Says
Both Parties Have Been Duped by
False Leaders.

Chicago, Feb. 2O.-GOvernOr. John A.
Johnson of Minnesota and Governor "A.
speakers Saturday evening at the din
ner of the Merchants club, held at
Kinsley's. Governor Cummins present
ed serious discussion of the trust
question, and declared that. the people
would insist, on the preservation OF
competition in n the supply Of ;neeess a.
had, we will drift into a system Of
state socialism. - ~ .ss&j
Governor johnson took even more
| radical ground. He began by review
ing some Of the results of the late cleo
| tion, and drawing the conclusion that
the people are being stirred to peace
mated, both parties, by the economic
center of the country in the; east and
have voted as blind partizans. =.
"The republican and the democrat, ~
he said, "has been equally blind in his
partizanship. A splendid example of
obedient stupidity was illustrated in
the democracy of the nation bending
the pregnant hinges of its knee to the
great Juggernaut Of the east; waiting
for the car to pass over it's PROSTATE
form, and then back up and practic-
| ally complete the party's annihilation.
The western republican rejoices over
the misfortune Of his neighbor, not real:
|
been equally the victim Of the calamity |
| of a political system which has taken |
all and given him little in return. He,
too, for years, has been the victim of
a conspiracy which has yielded him the
rare and gracious privilege Of subscrib-
ing to his own undoing. He has de-
lighted himself with the thought that
was voting Faithfully and prayerfully,
early and often, year after year; for |
party policy Of special privilege, de-
vised by Pennsylvania, whose every |
congressional representative is. con-
trolled by the Pennsylvania and Stand
nursery of trust incorporation, and
finally drafted into party platforms and
law by New York, where the trust man
ayers live, move and have their place
Of business.'
Congress is now in the domination of
one section, he declared, and it is about
time the great middle west asserted it's
Independence: The political center Of
the country should be the political
center OF the nation.
The West Should Control. :!
"There must eventually, and posi-
, ment; but even under the sold align
ment, the great center of political pow
Ell should be close to the population cen
ter and industrial center of the nation.
It should be in the Mississippi valley,
star Of political power, following the
dustrial achievement, will yet rest over
the great empire of the interior, with
the Father of Waters and the Great
Lakesas it's outlet to the ocean, and
York, with. it's vice., and New England,
with it's virtue to balance the ledger,
today. control the economic policy of the
nation. The time has come to transfer
Ohio, Kentucky, Iowa, Minnesota, Wis
consin, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and
the Dakotas. The best brain and the
surest Drawn of the nation is found here
mighty moral, material and PATRIOTIC
force to overthrow paternalism and
plumber, and regenerate politics and the
Both the political system and the
tune, said the governor: Corruption is
rampant both. in politics and finance.
False capitalization has broken the
faith of the people. Watered, stock; has
become Nc Phase of 1egalzed
mitted to issue a dollar: Of stock that
is not paid in cash and certified by
state examination. Capital invested is
entitled to a fair profit, but not to a
profit on fictitious value, which the peo'
p? II have a in m nj d.; he said, fan cleo.
trio railway company with $50 miles of
track, and with an equipment to cores
pond, which earns 5 TOT per cent inter
est and divide9 95s on on stocks sH% aad bonds
to build and equip the road as high as
. $30,0OOa mile, or a total Of $7,5OO,000
we have corporation charging. the
.. public and collecting profits on an infa,
ton or franchise value four times act,
steam railway companies in too great a
Degree. and yet, more common to the in
dustrial trusts.'
"Trusts protected by unjust tariffs
pressed: He cited the trust:owned ore
= railroads in northern Minnesota, paying
$50 per cent dividends on their common
stock.
Party Names of No Consequence.
oursev es TO- the ne 8 upbud
ing, to. the reconstruction of party and
of national policy, on broader and big
ger plans. Let us demand Leadership
consecrated to the PUBLIC veal by the
esty, equality and manhood. Let US
consecrate our. efforts to uphold the
~ majesty Of the law by enforcing it's OBJ
servance upon the most powerful as
upon the humble. Political parties viii
survive, but let it be a survival of the
fttest. care not for the name of thu
party I choose, SO long ais it stands fol-
the rights of the people," ~. ,
z, In conclusion, he said: =. -"
Ours is a new country. Our west ma
been created within the memory of me1
still living Our development knows NJ
parallel in history. Out Of the presen
Industrial and political chaos, will. com
+ order. The yeomanry Of the land strucl
for liberty at Bunker Hill. They brough
the ship OF state thru the awful night o
civil war. They are responding to a nev
- call of duty and thru them will come tn
reclamation and regeneration of. the ma
ton. It will not come from the extremis
who does not believe. In government. I
will not come from the theorist who be
lieves commercial progress is wrcng-i
will not come from those who deny tn
/ property rights of others-but it will com
thru the sober common sense Of thos
h tolers who create the wealth so essentis
to our prosperity as nation and as in
dividuals It will come; not thru excite
b ment, anger or hate, but after cali
&. study Of the true conditions and a fear
less determination to arrive at what
best for all the people. The true grandeu