The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-05-22

d1u true 10 llle people, dIiG DeHC Oll
accomplishing something for the peo-
pie of value to them. Tie true rep
resentative considers first the inter-
est of the people, subordinating every
personal consideration thereto"
Here's the slap Mr.. Spooner takes
at the legislature for extravigant APP
preparations:
''The evil of personal politics in
legislative procedure was even bet
ter exempitled in the session of 1913,
in the expedients therein resorted to,
literally damEable in some instances,
to thwart the movement undertaken
directly supported by the Duluth
New-Tribune, the Duluth Herald
the Minneapolis Journal, and at least
to some extent by the Minneapolis
Tribune and there is some reason to
DtileEe Ulldt IL Ildu CIlt ~ ilipdCl1t vi
and would have received the support
Of the Pioneer Press and the Dispatch
to secure an effective. thorougll-going
business-like, nOn-partisan, non-pOliti.
cal inquiry into and reorganization of
the departmental administration of
the affairs of Minnesota and the intro
ductiOn of economical and business
like management therein to which,
voluntarily and advisedly. more than
twO-thirds Of the entire house member
ship Ii ad committed themselves
though some 80 of them later found
it expedient to recede therefrom, a
recession procured for the most part,
through recourse to expedients liberal
ly damnable, a recession which indi-
rectly cost the tax payers of Mime
sofa at least so times as much. in
padded appropriation bills, as it is
claimed was saved to the taxpayers in
the reduced cost of legislative ex-
pense of the session of 1913, over the
session of 1911.
The increase of appropriations in
the session of 1913, is in effect :33 per-
cent over the appropriations of the
session of 1911, around twenty-one
million dollars in 1913 as compared
with little over fifteen million dol
lars in 1911, more than quadrupled,
quintupled, since the
session of l9l3-in which the apppro-
priations made were the greatest. up
to that time, in more than half CEN
tury's existance of Minnesota.
when the total cost of transacting
the business Of Minnesota is more than
quanrupled, nearly Quintupled.
during the last ten year period,
are we drifting? Where will |
we arrive? "Wllat will the harvest
b e''-unless, like any big bust
ness become improbable because
of bad management Or dis
honesty, headed in the direction of |
insolvency and bankruptcy, due in
vestigation into methods and expendi-
lures and due reorganization, not |
along self-seeking and self serving po-
litical lines but along business lines
a nd through reSourse to business
methods and business agencies of |
ability and fitness, is
speedily and effectively undertaken.
In view of this astounding and indie
fensible increase of appropriations in
the session just closed, what is to be
said of the widely published claim of
the house organization that it's mana
gers reduced legislative expenditures
s26, 900 below legislative expenditures
of the session of l9ll-unless it be
that they saved with teaspoon and
wasted with a scoop-shovel?''
In the course of his speech Mr..
Spooner made the following reference
to the Home School for Girls at Sank
Centre:
Notwithstanding the time and !
labor bestowed upon railroad matters
in that session, it will or should be-
that in the session of |
1907 j successfully fought the battle
for the women of the federated clubs,
lost i'm each of several preceding ses-
sions: resulting IN the establishment |
at Sank Centre of our magnificent |
horne school for girls and relieving a
situation at Red Wing then actually |
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