The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-11-14

bowed to the storm of prejudice, had
voted their convictions the "Yes''
vote would have been not 101, but
less than 40; and it is more noto-
rious still that it was put through
on the floor of the house in indecent
haste by a ruthless application of
the. gag rule, with little legislative
consideration and with practical de-
NAL of debate. There was no appeal
to reason; there was simply the bru-
tai application of brute force. They
were as ruthless as the limitations
of their power permitted. They
played the game of the Hun; they
boast they will do it again at the
first opportunity; yet they resent the
name!
Wanted lie Printed
To such desperate lengths has this
doctrine of might makes right been
pushed by Southern Minnesota, that
in it's madness to take by force what
does not belong to it, one Southern
Minnesota member of the house &C.
tually rose in his place and urged
the house to falsify it's journal in
order that he might accomplish his
desire. He did it thoughtlessly, of
course, and Immediately abandoned
his attempt when he saw its wrong
fulness, but his thoughtlessness is
part and parcel of the thoughtful
ness of Southern Minnesota in all
| things that concern the tonnage tax.
-, How It Looks to the North.
Of course the people of Southern
they try to wrench by force from US
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decent attempt to give an ade-
quate reason, rights which are as
dear to us as any which the people
of Southern Minnesota may jealous
ly guard then it must of a certainty
seem to US that they are playing the
Hun. To us, the common thief who
sticks US up in some dark alley, makes
no more, violent assault upon our
rights than does Southern Mime
sofa in its desperate attempt to take
our property for it's own use. The
difference between the thief of the
alley and Southern Minnesota is the
difference which Germany declared:
''The state can do no wrong" ''The
power of the state to do thing is
justification of that thing" might
makes right" Southern Minnesota
ought to give a better reason than
this for the faith that is in it; it has
never done so; it has rarely tried to
do SO. It bases its attempt to despoil
US upon an arbitrarily assumed prem
Use that iron ore is a different form
of property from every other form
of property under the sun, and that,
by reason thereof, iron ore belongs
more to the county of Rock, where
it is not, than to the county of st.
Louis, where it is; it strengthens it's
position by rank appeals to preju-
dice against the "steel trust"
against whom it falsely asserts that
damages accruing from the tonnage
tax will be assessed, whereas it ought
to know, if it knows anything at all
about the tonnage tax, that those
damages will fall solely upon our
shoulders, the shoulders of it's
friends and neighbors, the people of
Northern Minnesota; and it's press
now badly proclaims that it will yet
arise not in reason, but Gin might"
and forcibly take" the things we
have that it covets.
Yet, in the face of all this, South
ern Minnesota protests that we wrong
it when we warn it q" not to further
play the Hun" It's determination
to take is only exceeded by its in
dignation in being called takers It
roundly insists that it will have the
game but it righteously protests that
it will have none of the name. .