The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06

Did you ever hear of the Mountain
Iron Mine, at one time a school sec
ton belonging to the school children
of the state? It's wealth would have
put consolidated rural schools upon
a plane that would assure the agri-
cultural supremacy of Minnesota. It's
loss is an old story; so is the trea-
son of Arnold an old story, but it still
points a moral. Where were the ma
iority's conservationists when there
was more to conserve?
Favors Conservation Department.
1 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 a 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
the state. The right man at its 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 Irvine
and harvester plant. This institu-
ton is perhaps the most successful
enterprise of it's kind in which the
people have made a business success
| in fighting 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-
| vester trust to pay liberal share of
| the dividends upon it's 100000, 600
| capitalization.
The Minnesota State Prison plant
| last year turned out and sold to farm
ers Irvine product of 15,S5O,0O0
| pounds valued at nearly s1.200,000
! Besides giving our farmers their Irvine
at reduced prices, the plant turned
| to the credit of the taxpayers a net
profit of $180,00O.
Through the fundamentally of Gov
ernor Johnson, Representative Spoon
err, and the Board of Control, the 1907
| looiclaturo anpropriotod com On0 foy
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 a total
of S2,250,000 for a 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 taz
levy. Both as business proposition
and as a defense of the people agains,
| 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 o.
conservation is that Of taxation. The