New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-08

dis bodcOu. bue Sp0dkGTs Scheduled I
to make the third address, come to
New Ulm. Attorney Manahan was
the sole representative of the associa- |
ton, and, to those who have watched
his turbulent. not to say tempestuous
career, he was a appointment. He
did not foam at the mouth nor run
around in small circles uttering in
articulate cries, and he made a sad
failure of living up to his reputation
as the original untamed fre-eater OF
Lincoln. Even in the matter of hair
he did not live up to his press notices,
for his close-cropped head, far from
being the vivid rose-lake OF the re-
porters, was of a very subdued, retir-
ing color-more on the order of the
asshetic auburn affected by the lady
novelists. New Ulm people feel that
Mr.. Manahan has been unjustly ac-
cused of being wiId-eyed belligerent,
for they now know him to be a ready,
graceful speaker and man who can
make a dignifed address. He did
complain of his inability to bring the
state railway and warehouse commits
sion out of its comfortable nap of
forty years, but its habits are SO well
known to the people OF Minnesota that
they feel no surprise at his failure.
Mr.. Manahan arrived in the city in
the afternoon and at night the Second
Regiment band paraded the streets as
a preliminary to the meeting. Shortly
before 8 O'Clock the speaker was in
PRODUCED to the audience by Philip
Liesch and, after thanking those
present for turning out to hear a speech
on railway rates, which he defined as
a demonstration of the right kind of
citizenship, Mr.. Manahan Immediately
took up his discussion of the trans
portation problem For more than an
hour he talked on unjust and unrea-
sonable freight tariffs, and he ap-
pealed to his audience to aid in the
great work Of rate reform by support
ing men pledged to vote for legislation
designed to correct these abuses.
In the course of his address Mr..
Manahan outlined the work done by
the Shippers and Receivers associa-
ton when it began agitating the re-
duction and revision of rates, and he
stated that the more he went into the
question, the more was he convinced
that the railways in Minnesota have
| been, and are extorting unreasonable
rates from the shippers and producers
Of the state. AS a concrete illustra-
ton of the practice of charging ali the
traffic will stand, he cited case which
applied locally-that Of the rate on
hard coal from Duluth to New Ulm
After reaching this city, he said, he
! inquired about the coal rate ano
found that it was S2.05; there being nc
/ difference on the haul from Duluth, &
distance of 240 miles, and that from
/ Chicago, a distance of $50 miles. This
on it's face, showed inequality and dis
Grimm alton, but it amounted to posi-
tive extortion when compared with
4 rates for like distances. 70 clinch his
point Mr.. Manahan stated that, in al
lexamin alton before the railway com
l missioners a year ago, he had the vice
4 president and several other officials O
the Northern Pacific road placed or
! the stand and from them secured The
admission that their road had con
tract with the Milwaukee system tt
! carry all the coal it needed from
i Duluth to st. Paul for fiat rate o
i 40 cents a ton, This, they admitted
was fair and reasonable, allowing
them q decent profit, but, on the sam,
! basis, the rate on coal to New Uln
4 should be no higher than IS cents
Thus, he declared, the people of Ney
Ulm were quietly submitting to rob
berry of something like S1.40 on on
: commodity. and he considered it thei
. duty to protect themselves at the polls
SSooSA
is a statesman if he Acknowledges al
8 legiance to the royal house of Hill
but demagogue if he opposes tn
wishes Of the. great railway magnate
i No railway, in his opinion, should b
permitted to spend money to help cleo
man to office or to defeat a man TO
Office, but when he had J. j. Hill hale,
3 before the railway commissioners tina
], the latter might testify concerning
!, political contri buttons he had made il
Minnesota, no opportunity was givel
{ to cross-question the witness. Thi
was accomplished by excluding tn
speaker from the case, and later, Whel
it was taken up by the senate commit
tee. that body, acting upon the advict
:, Of Lieutenant Governor A. O. Eber
!, hart, decided that it had no lega
Il right to 60 into this phase of the cues