Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-04-03
CITIES VICTIMS OF
CONFIDENCE GAME
ANENT THE ARMOUR
PLANT CONTROVERSY.
The Rowe Bill is Indefinitely
Postponed by the St. Paul
Legislators and Substitute Pro-
missed Railroad Litigation and
Proposed Railroad Laws.
(Heatwole's Legislative Lottery

(Heatwole's Legislative Lottery
The people of st. Paul have at last
awakened to the fact that in the mat
ter of the Armour plant they have
been made the victims of confidence
game by the handful of schemers who
rnn for both parties the politics of the
town. The members of the st. Paul
legislative delegation are but the
pawns these people play with and are
in no way responsible for the moves
in the game on the political chess
board. What the purpose of the junta
was in working the citizens of st. Paul
up to a frenzy of excitment is yet OBJ
scure, and there is still doubt as to
whether it has been accomplished or
abandoned. Possibly we will know
more about these things as the session
progresses, when the appropriation
bill comes in, Or when Mr.. Armour
makes public his expense account.
This much at least is certain, that a
great many honest people have been
completely bamboozed, and as result
made themselves not lite ridicu-
lous as they debated on the menace
to the city's health and comfort in
volved in the establishment of a pack
ing plant seven miles away.
Even for those who have all along
questioned the good faith of the men
responsible for the stockyards agita-
ton and their professions of interest
in educational institutions, for whose
welfare they have no real concern,
there was surprise in the early prick
ing at the bubble, 1t is thought that
at least a show would be made of an
attempt to pass the bill, which had
been exploited for weeks as essential
if the State university, the agricul-
tural college and St. PauPs most ex-
elusive residence sections were to re-
tain their placeon the map. The whole
thing, however, proved a complete
fiasco. The men behind pulled the
strings and Cal. Stone moved the in
definite postponement of a bill whose
object was the removal from st. Paul's
Vicinity of an enterprise to prevent
the establishment of which in the
location proposed it had been repre-
sented that st. Paul's leading citizens
were not only willing to bleed and die,
but if the worst came to the worst to
give up real money. The motion was
promptly seconded and carried with a
whoop, and the Rowe bill was only a
malodorous memory. Forsaken and
betrayed by their leaders, the people
who had packed the galleries and
thronged the corridors to cheer the
champions of st. Paul on to victory or
to glorious defeat, remained for a
while idly on the scene unable evil
IDENTIFY at first to take it all in, and
then gradually melted away, and the
great stencil agitation was the thing
of the past.
OF course, some pretense had to be
made that measures would be taken
to protect the people of st. Paul from
the dire menace which they had been
induced to believe overshadowed
them. This came later in the form of
bill which conferred on the State
board of health certain supervisory
powers it already possessed, and
which appeared to require Mr.. Ar
mour to remove part of his plant a
few rods further away than the point
at which he was said to have designed
to locate it: AS an evidence of good
faith and to carry conviction to the
people that all sores had been healed
and the twin cities were still united
by Siamese bond bill was rushed
through under suspension of the
rules looking to their political ANAL
gamation. The members of the del
egation whose relation had been
strained rushed into each others arms
and once more peace bro oded over a
united family.
DR.. Witherstine of Rochester is not
among those who have lost faith in
the tuberculin test. He has observed
how it worked out in Olmstead coun
ty, and he finds that there in every
case where cattle have been condemn
ed as result of the test they have
been found to be tuberculous. He was
convinced that in practically every
case where the tuberculin test failed