Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-10-07

Did you ever hear of the Mountain
Iron Mine, at one time school sec.
ton belonging to the school children
of the state? Its wealth would have
put consolidated rural schools upon
a plane that would assure the agri-
cultural supremacy of Minnesota. Its
loss is an old story; so is the trea-
son of Arnold an old story, but it still
points moral. Where were the ma
jority's conservationists when there
was more to conserve?
Favors Conservation Department.
I believe in using all due diligence
to reserve to the people their full
equity in what is left, and to that end
I shall, if elected, favor the creation
of Department of Conservation
charged with the administration of the
remaining public lands and ore beds.
Such commission might be de-
nounced as a useless addition to the
already numerous boards and commits
sions, but it is demonstrable that such
department composed of the right
material would be of untold profit to
the state The right man at it's head,
and he should be chosen without re-.
gard to politics, could make himself
a name second to none among the
benefactors of the state.
Farmers Of Minnesota Benefit.
One of the greatest triumphs of the
people of Minnesota in coping with
tariff protected trusts is in the estab-
lishment of the State Prison tWine
and harvester plant. This institu-
ton is perhaps the most successful
enterprise of it's kind in which the
people have made business success
in fighting a great industrial corpora
ton. AS the leading wheat-producing
state in the Union, Minnesota was the
special mark of the Irvine and har.
vester trust. The farmers of this
state were depended upon by the har-
yester trust to pay a liberal share of
the dividends upon it's $120,000,0 900
capitalization.
The Minnesota State Prison plant
last year turned out and sold to farm.
ers a twine product of 15,S50,000
pounds valued at nearly $1,200,000.
Besides giving our farmers their twine
at reduced prices, the plant turned
to the credit of the taxpayers a net
profit of $1S0,000.
Through the, instrumentality of Gov
ernor Johnson, Representative Spoon
er. and the Board of Control, the 1907
legislature appropriated 100000 for
a harvester plant, and the state is
now manufacturing harvesters and
binder and mowers, over 80 binders
and 200 mowers, the first output, be-
ing marketed this season.
BY the active labor of Representa-
tive Spooner and the cooperation of
Governor Johnson, the Board of Con-
troll and Warden Wolfer, the 1909 leg
islature voted a tax levy to be paid
of ten annual installments for total
of $2,250,000 for new plant and pri-
son that will be one of the finest in
the world.
Large though this appropriation
looks to the taxpayer, it is apparent
from the excellent business statement
shown by the Board of Control and
Warden Wolfer, that the profits of the
plant will eventually meet the tax
levy. Both as business proposition,
and as a defense of the people against
trust domination, therefore, the
state harvester plant deserves and
will receive, in case of my election
as Governor, my most earnest support.
# Problems Of Taxation.
Inseparable from the question of
conservation is that of taxation. The
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