The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-26

FAR. =. Felix Gouraud'S Oriental
Cream or Magical Beautif1eV

rather extreme in the past about leg
islation affecting the transportation
business. The feeling that the state
is somewhat inclined to extreme leg
islation has had a tendency to keep
capital away. Some regulation is
necessary and desirable in our modern
complex industrial system, but during
the last few years regulation has too
often been interpreted by the ambi-
Iious lawmaker or the active railroad
commissioner to mean the taking away
of something from someone else,
whether such act was just or not
Prices of commodities and railroad
rates cannot be handled on a rigid
arithmeticaI basis with no elasticity,
and there has not been enough states
manship and everyday common sense
in connection with attempts made to
regulate and manage business by
statute Commissioners and legisla-
lures should have before them always
the question, What is best foor all the
people. including the owners and en-
ployes of railroads? and not the ques-
Iion, Can the railroads stand another
reduction in rates without the courts
Every legislator, every commission
err and every right minded man should
remember the words of Chief Justice
Waite of the United States supreme
court, who said, This power to regu-
late rates is not a power to destroy
and limitation is not equivalent to
confiseation under pretense of regulat-
ing fares and rates. The state can
not require a railroad corporation to
carry persons or property without re-
ward. Neither can it do that which
in law amounts to the taking OF pri-
vate property for public use, without
just compensation or without due pro-
cess of law"
In closing Mr. Elliott used the fol-
lowing words:
Minnesota has the land, the climate.
the water, the soil. transportation. a
good system Of schols, fuel in the shape
of wood and peat, and markets reason
ably near. She needs the people. and
better pulling together by all of the
interests of the state, for the pur-
poses of settlement and development.
The commercial clubs and the business
men representing them. and the fed
Grafton of commercial clubs can do
much to make better use of the ad-
vantages Minnesota offers, by point
ing out that thorough, careful and
scientific farming affords any man a
chance for a happy and prosperous
life within our borders; by encouraging
the idea that greater care and economy
in the expenses of the municipality.
county. state and nation means a saw
ing to all; by encouraging the idea
that closer attention on the part of
everyone to their own business, and
less attention to and interference with
the business of other people, will pro-
duce in the long run. better results
than to be trying to manage the other
mans business; by encouraging the
idea that rational legislation and less
rather than more laws is the policy
of this state, SO that1people with money
to invest will feel that their principal
is safe and tht they can earn a re-
turn on that principal if they exer-
else business Judgment, common
sense, and are willing to work.
''The north star state has become
a great commonwealth, but it can
become still greater in the future. and
such organizations as are represented
here today are factors that will shelp
TO give Minnesota the place that she
is entitled to in the sisterhood of
states"