The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-10-05


stand without reservation and through
the legal department of the state i
shall exert every effort to guard the
interests of the people in all the so
called Minnesota rate cases now pend.
ing before the courts.
Legislative Record.
Referring to the recent legislatures
the Democratic platform accuses them
of being:
.'Debauched by aggressions OF mo-
nopolistic and lawless wealth"
concerning those same legislatures
. Governor Johnson made this signif.
cant statement in his keynote speech
at Montevideo two years ago; and
quote it here, because want to add
my hearty endorsement to it:
mo legislature in the history Of
Minnesota has enacted into law as
many vital reforms or placed upon the
statute books as many important
measures of constructive statesman
ship as the legislatures of 1905 and
1907
Knowing the work of the last legis.
lature it is safe to conclude that had
Governor johnson spoken today he
would have included the legislature Of
1909.
Good Roads.
One of the most important problems
to which it has been my privilege to
devote considerable time and atten.
ton is that OF good roads. After Sc
curing the passage Of the Highway
Commission Act" in 1905, immedi.
ately set out to interest the people of
the state in the appropriation of nee
essary funds. Through the efforts Of
the press generally, good roads asso
Citations, leading men, such as Hon
the commission itself, there has arisen
such an interest all over the state
that will recommend, in accordance
with the Republican platform, that
the next legislature authorize the SUB.
mission to the people of 1-lnill state
road tax. 1t should also raise the pres
ent levy to the authorized limit Of one
fourth mill and amply increase the au.
thOrity OF the commission so that roaC
construction throughout the state
could be properly supervised and i'm
proved. The state can make no better
investment than the extension of aid
in the supervision and construction
of good public highways, not merely
from a purely economic standpoint.
but because it is essential in the
proper development of rural schools;
Labor. r." -.~ +.
Minnesota is rapidly advancing as a
commercial and industrial state. Con.
sequently the protection and advance.
ment of labor should receive the most
careful consideration. No state car
be prosperous unless its laborinG
classes are prosperous and amply pro.
tected by the strong arm CT the state
There is no question where the Repub
lican party has stood and where il
stands today with reference to labor
All the advance labor legislation or
our statute books has been enacted
pursuant to its policy of aiding an6
protecting labor, and / shall use every
effort to secure further legislation ir
the interest of child labor. the protec
ton of health and life Of all wage
earners and the enactment of work
mems compensation act in accordance
with the recommendations of the com
mission provided for by an act Of the
last legislature. ".
Education. $
No state in the Union can boast OF
better educational system than Min
nesota. Yet | think we are ready to
admit that our state has paid too lit.
tie attention to the teaching of agri
culture, industrial training and home
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