Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 24, 1897, Page 4

Published Every Saturday.) By E, C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Six Months...... $1.00 {| Three Months.,......50¢ Entered in the postofice at Grand Rapids Minnesota, as secoud-class matter. SS TARIFF AND THE TRUSTS. ‘fhe American, a political journal of wide reputation, conservative and reliable, has the following very able editorial on the pending tanft Ill, and the Herald-Review considers it well worthy of reproduction: So long as it is in the House the tariff bill will have plain sailing, for a minority in the House is powerless in the shaping of legislation. But when it gets over to the Senate the tar- iff bill will not have such smooth sail- ing. Iv will be subjected toa full de- ate and searching examination, and where it is shown to be a monopoly tariff, amendments will be ofiered and debated. A tariff framed so as to ex- tend protection to monopolies and trusts organized to repress competi- tion, arbitrarily advance prices and depress wages, is false to the bro- tective theory. This will be made} AS nator Pettigrew point edly said, in an interview of a few, days since: ‘The argument tor the protect tariff has been that by its sistance we would build up Amer- jean manufactories and obtain their products at lower prices. This result cannot be brought about if we allow trusts to be formed, and thus main- in prices to the limit of the tariff.” In short, the formation of trusts and monopolies defeats the purpose of protection which 1s to epgender home competition. The stifling of this competition is the purpose of trusts and combinations. Therefore au true protective measure must eradicate trusts and monopolies, and all real protectionists, protectionists from principle, not from selflsh in- should lend their aid to this end. Now, for the accomplishment of thisend, Senator Pettigrew pro- poses a general and admirable amend- ment to the tariff bill that should command universal support among protectionistsand free-traders alike. ‘The amendment he intends to offer will provide that all articles in the dutiable list of the Dingly Bill, the production of which are monopolized rolled by American trusts, e admitted tree of duty, the rters of such articles being em-| powered to prosecute their claim for free entry in the district courts. “The chief difficulty, of course, about the enforcement of such a provision, is’’ adds nator Pettigrew, *‘the method by which it shall be de- termined whether a trust ex not. My amendment will provide vhat this shall be determined by the courts, the same as any other ques- tion of fact. It will empower the im- porter of any article to apply to the courts for exemption from duty for the reasen that the article is con- trolled by a trust, and allow the courts to take evidence and deter- mine the question. Such a plan would make all the importers de- tectives and jnterestedin enforcing the law.” To believes in protection should object, Yet, to this amendment that all pro- tectionists should welcome ,there is objection. It is spoken of as ‘“‘em- barrassing,’’ but why should it em- anyone? Obviously ib can ss none save those who would verest, make the tariffa protector of mon-|* opoly and special interests aud who fear to become the outspoken advo- cates of a monopoly tariff. That there should be opposition to this amendment does not speak well for some of the advocates of protection. It shows that they want a tarif built so as to conserve special inter- ests, not a general weal. That all the Republicans in the Senate will avow themselves, when jt comes to the scratch, as advocates ofa monopoly tariff we cannot be- Neve, and we trust the amendment will receive favorable consideration at the hands of the Senate and be agreed to by the House. Immigrants Coming. One of the best evidences of the coming prosperity promised so long is the nuwber of immigrants who bave come to the Northwest lately from the East and elsewhere, Quite a number of these have settled in Chis- ago and Pine counties, Minnesota, on the line of the Saint’ Pau} & Dyluth Railroad. The Duluth Short Line, as this road is popularly known, be- sides offering great inducements to settlers, ruus fast, finely equipped trains between the Twin Cities and! Duluth, West Superior, Stillwater and Taylor’s Falls, and jas for years been a prime favorite with the public, because of its facilities, good service and-to-date ideas. Ir you want to see people, go via the Duluth Short Line, For information, etc.; apply to zicket agents generally, or write to CE. Stone, General Passenger Agent, ‘Sw Pdul, Mion. .| Seventy-eight counties so unpatriotic such an amendment no one who | ployed by sa THE GORRUPT AUDITOR The Salary Grab of County Auditors Failed to Materialize, THE IMMIGRATION BILL BEAT The Itasca Lobbyists Will Return Home Sorely Disappointed Oyer the Defeat of Their Money- - Making Schemes. As the Heral-Review has_ stated a number of times would probably be the case, since the late legisla- ture convened, neither ofthe measures championed by Auditor King or A. G. Bernard became laws. The audit- or’s bill for the extension of the term of that office from two years to four years, created the only scandal that was developed | dunng the sessiou. Mr. King of Itasca was selected by the county auditors of the state to push the measure at St. Paul and he remained at his post up to the hour of adjourn- ment, and for all this paper knows he is still there. The bill was unpopular with,a majority of members from the start, because it had all the ugly ear marke of a salary-grab, but its sucuess meant much to the audttors and they were not easily shut off. A heavy assestment was levied on the officials interested—the Minneapolis Times estimated the amount at six- teen thousand dollars—and every pos- sible effort made to carry it through. First deteated in the house, the cor- rupt influences were not discovered and made public until it came up in the senate calendar last Saturday and the Mimneapolis. Times thus describes the action taken and the scenes ac- companying it; At3 p. m. the county auditors’ lob- by had ‘thirt en senators fixed sure” for the ditor’s salary grab. At4dp. m. the salary grab was dead, | and the lobby went down into the basement to swear. ‘There a sen- | ate rule, adopted ten days age, that | lobbyists and all visitors not of- ficers of the state shall be denied the floor of the senate during the passage of bills. Nevertheless, when the bill toextend the terms of the eighty- one county auditors of Miunesota from the two years to which they were elected last fall by the peo- ple to four. me up, the wall of the senate floor was lined with a row of | noble county auditors and faithful | workers, all hungry and patriotically zealous for the bwo years’ extra ten- ure and its salary in par ular. Be- hind Senator Johnson of Hennepin stood the handsome auditor ef Hen- nepin county and agoodly representa- tion of workers. ‘The famons of St. Louis county, who ha of his own just now, also s' of his valuable time to travel 165 miles to the pie counter where audit- ors are served an extra two years’ term without going to the trouble of Nor other being elected by the people. were the auditors of the as to give their city brethren no mor- al support ia the trying hour when $240,000 of salary was at stake. Sena- tor Roverud, the naughty country editor of Caledonia, arose six feet five and placed his 254 I J sbehiad the follow- | ing resolution, which opened the ball, and speaks for itself; Whereas, [t has been reported that the county auditors, under the auspices of the County Auditors’ association of the state of Minnesota, have resorted to illega! methods | in the passage of senate file id the term of county audito! therefore, be it Resolved, That this bill be laid over until day next, and that a committee of five be appointed to ir igate the methods em- ir asso ion in be- mittee shall have four years; half of th report of same. ‘This was very discourteous on the part of Senator Roverud, when eighty-cne anditors or the representa- tives had come so far to visit the senate. No wonder some of them felt bashful and retired to the halls ir offices. Vo come for years’ office und then be treated to a threat for investigation was too much, The senatorial push behind the bill tabled the resolution instant- er, but it had its effect just the same and was a decided dampener on the cause, Senator Thorpe then took up the fight in a wicked manner. He took up the auditors’ lobby, Delib- j erated pro and con as to the sizeof the barrell which it controlled, and then seni up to the clerk's desk an oditorial of the ‘Times, ‘to be read, in which the Dill was condemned as against good morals, public policy, the principles of the republican goyern- ment, and the provisions of the con- stitution, Senator McHale tried to make out that tne Times wust be down on some auditor to oppose so good a thing as $240,000 of auditorial plunder. He could not see how the bill could be opposed on any other theory. As. for himself, he was in favor of the grab, heart and_soul. ‘fo vote two years extra office and salary to the eighty- one boys without causing them to go to the trouble of being elected by the people was in perfect harmony with his intellectual, moral and legal standards of what was proper. Senator Dunn spoke against the bill, taking the ground that it was wrong in principle and unconstitu- tional. He quoted from Troep and Meacham on public offjcers and from the New York reports as to the con- stitutionality of the _ bill, Under these authorities he said: “There ‘is great doubt whether the supreme court would not hold this bill unconstitutional. in this state. ‘The people,” he-said *felected the | on board. | How the Mojaves Explain the Division county auditors fer two years. It is au unwarranted assuwption on the part of the legislature to elect the. auditors for two years’ mere. If we can legislate the térms of county auditors to four years, we can -legis- late them to twenty years, and thus continue the terms of the «present county auditors during*their natural life. It is unjust and unfair to the people to take the right of franchise from them in these matters. If an auditor is a good man the people are competent to judge, and will kee him in office. If, on the other hand, he is a bad man and incompetent, the people should have a right to go to the polls and defeat him. “Lhis bill isin the interest of the county auditors alone, and is against the wishes and interests of the peo- ple, and the senate will make a great mistake if they put such a law upon the statute books.” The bill was finally defeated and it 1s to be hoped that the next time the auditors want legislation in their be- half more honorable methods will be employed, The immigration bill should have been passed, and would have been but for two opposing elements. First, it was made to appear that the meas- ure was projected to create a fat office for someone. A. G. Bernard has been hanging about St. Paul and Minneapolis all winter exhibiting a pe- tition for his appointment as secretary of the proposed bureau, and was so persistent in his efforts among the members that much suspicion was created and many friends. lost who would otherwise have supported it, The other reason was the ignorance of many of the sovthern members concerning the vastness and richness of northern Msnnesota. In truth they do not know the state which they are supposed to represent. The Sixth district would have received a major portion of the benefits from an im- migration bureau and it is indeed to be regretted that the bill failed to be- come a law, UNLUCKY ROYAL SAILOR. Nearly All of Them Have Some Bad Ac- cident to Their Discredit. Somehow or other royal and imperial princes who have adopted seafaring life as a profession seem to be pur- sued with ill-luck, says London Amer- ican. At Petersburg not long ago the Grand Duke Alexis, lord high admiral of the Russian fleet, managed to run his yacht into the Russian steamship Limorno, with little damage to the latter, but injuring the yacht to the extent of some 100,000 rubles. His brother-in-law, the duke of Coburg, quitted active service in the British | navy with his record besmirched by the | loss of his flagship, the Sultan, on a rock near Malta. The queen’s nephew | admiral, the prince of Leiningen, is! celebrated in particular for his feat | in running down the yacht Mistletoe } in the Solent while in command of the | royal yacht, the’ queen herself being | Several lives were lost in | this collision. The sailor brother of the emperor of Germany has hitherto escaped maritime disaster from the | relatively small amount of sea service he has done. But his misfortunes on land have been uncommonly numer- ous, especially when he has been out shooting. Not only did he severely in- jure a Greek gentleman by the acci- | dental discharge of his gun at Corfu | some years ago, but there is also a! gamekeepe: of his uncle, the grand duke of Baden, who is in receipt of a \ handsome pension from the prince for | the serious wound resulting from ‘his | carelessness in handling a gun. Arch- duke John of Austria, who passed the examination uecessary to secure’ his papers as a licensed skipper, disap- peared from sight a few years ago while rounding Cape Horn in his ship, and no one knows to this day whether | he is alive or dead. Indeed, the only | royal sailor princes who have escaped mishap are the duke of York and the Italian duke of Genoa. i INDIAN LEGEND, of the Races. The mystery surrounding the origin of the Indian race is greatly enhanced by listening to some of the quaint legends, says the Los Angeles Herald. Here is one of them, related by the older men of the Mojave tribe: j “At the time of the Mojave, the white man, the negro and all other people lived..together with thcir god, Mulevelia, whose mother was the earth and whose.father the heaven. “They were all supplied with food, clothing and many luxuries. Besides these, they had tools and all kinds | of implements and machinery to work with. “Everything was manufactured, and especially matches. “One day Mulevelia died, and all the people, except the Mojaves, fled, after looting the camps of everything they could lay their hands on, not even leaving a match. | “Here was a pretty state of affairs, and the dead god awaiting crema- | tion! “There ‘seemed to be no other al- ternative than to dispatch a messen- ger for a spark from one of the bril- liant luminaries of the upper region, and a coyote was sent to a star for} some fire. “After a long time he returned with- out success, and so hungry that he tried to eat up the dead god. | “Mastanho, the man, sat by rubbing willow sticks together, and produced fire, whiih they used in burning § up Mulevelia. “After the cremation, which took Place somewher near Fort Mojave, the TAX JUDGMENT SALE. ee AS hah tah a dcod r Pursuant to a real estate Tax Judgment of the District Court, in the county of Itasca, State of Minnesota, entered the twenty- second (22nd) day of March, A. 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