The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-23
GOVERNOR BuRNQu|ST'S
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(From the Mesaba Ore

(From the Mesaba Ore.)
In TRADE of monumental rot and
disgusting billingsgate directed against
the Nonpart.san leageu, Governor
Burnqu1st seeks to set himself as the
heroic governor of all the people, and
as an honest and upright official who
will tolerate no lawlessness or dis
loyalty within the confines of his DO
litical domain.
To IKE good, or half so, on his
estimate If himself, Governor Burn
qulst must needs turn square about
IN his tracks and then go a long,
long way before stopping
When Governor Burnquist declared
In the statement referred to, which
was scattered broadcast over the
state, that there is no such thing
as a Privileged Glass in Minnesota,
and that all Of the people were being
treated exactly alike, according to
their deserts, he uttered an untruth
which he knew was an untruth, and
did it unblushingly:
Governor Burnquist has been and
is the tool Of Big Business, and to
prove it we have but to relate only
few of his actions in connection
with the Bib Business effort to wipe
the village of Hibbin; off the map
and send it's citizens to the peniten-
tiary, and with the alleged labor
troubles In northern Minnesota-times
when Governor Burnquist used the
machinery of his great office for un-
warranted and unlawful purposes, and
was disgustingly rank in the execu-
ton OF the orders of those who con-
troll hina
When Big Business went to the
governor and demanded that he en-
gage with them in the persecution
of the officials of the Village Of ,Hib-
bling and other Hibbing citizens, he
| knew it was wrong, but he was too
weak to assert himself, and the great
es- travesty on justice in the history
OF the state was made of record to
blacken the character of a man whom
the people of the state had honored
with a great trust.
Instead of showing himself a man,
and not the abject weakling he is,
he preferred to turn the state govern
ment over to the mercenary Special
Privilege class and gave all the as
sistance in his power to further the
1awless and disloyal proceeding-but,
being wickedly wrong, he and his
gang of Big Business desperadoes
were defeated at every turn, and his
rotten political Vaccinations were laid
bare to the public gaze
Throughout the labor troubles in
the mining and logging districts he
was the faithful envoy of the en-
nd
aged the shameful abuse of the laws
and of the rights of citizens at all
times, and now he is doing the identi-
cal thing in connection with the nom
partisan league and at the direction
of the identical masters.
Perhaps Governor Burnquist will
tell us why the result of the legisla-
tive investigation of labor conditions
industrial Workers of the World) in
northern Minnesota was never given
to the public-was suppressed, in fact.
The reason for the suppression of this
valuable and enlightening Informal
ton was that it showed up a condi-
ton in Minnesota that no honest man
could be proud of, and the publica-
ton Of the report would have placed
the governor and his gang in anything
but favorable light.
Perhaps the governor will tell us
why he was forced to reappoint one
Andrew Fritz, veritable black-leg,
as state public examiner-and, also,
perhaps he will not. The reason he
appointed Fritz, after having had an
mother man slated for the place, was
that Fritz threatened the governor
with exposure in the Hibbing matter.
and he got the job.
Yes indeed. Governor Burnquist is
a fine specimen of official incompet-
ence and dishonesty to sit up in his
high office and tell about the dis
loyalty, lawlessness and dishonesty of
the Nonpartisan league or any other
body of men.
Every day in the year Governor
Burnquist is using his high office as
a means of furthering and Tightening
the hold of Special Privilege upon the
state, and the fear of the Nonparti-
san league is driving him to desper-
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Verify, a. little political pull and
shred of, over worked patriotism is
made to put over some awful things
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