Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 20, 1899, Page 1

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Don't forget that we sell paints. glass, screens, wire cloth, ice cream freezers, * MARKET AT DEER RIVER. eo <i fo §GVSBHLSLSWSLSVSPSLSLSLSLSVSS: a = SSSVSS SVS® SLSLSLTSS | pene Tailors, - Grand Rapids, Bion, | F. Metzger, Proprietor. Grand Rapids, Mim. Wee ae ae ae ae aE ae ae aE a ea Wholesele and Retail Dealer in Camp Beef, Pork and All Kinds of Fresh and Salt Meats, iaaener ee 1 Etc. ESTE aR Ae ae a a a ae ae a a aA aR f padeieecsebcscsbeuices THE LAME DEFENSES | risen from $800,000 in 1880 to over $I,- | power of the corporations to corrupt Put Up by Legislators Who Defeated Taxation Reform. POINTS ON SILVER COINAGE. Loren im the Fifth District —Echo Says He Could. Reform Press Bureau. It is remarkable how few of the re- publican seuators who defeated the reform of railroad taxation advocated so earnestly by Governor Lind and the reform forces of the legislature, have essayed to make any defense for their act, or effort to stem the tide of indignation which has spread over the state. ‘The “lawyers” have here and there trotted out the ‘‘unconstitu- tional” scapegoat, but except Yeung of Swift, who was first skinned by the Appleton Press, and next blistered by State Auditor Dunn, for a defense made in, the Miuneapolis Journal, about the only other senator to “peep” has been Senator McCarthy of Itasca. His defense, going out- side of the “lawyer’s p’ints,” is attri- buted toan ambition to be the can- didate for congress in the Sixth dis- trict, hence the necessity of squaring himself at least with a show of de- fense, and his may be briefly referred to. The senator's “‘firstly,, is that be- cause the railroad tax now paid has 200,000 in 1898, and may rise at the present rate until in time it pays all of the state’s expense, we should have afull discussion of the matter be- fore We surrender our present posi- tion, That is exactly what was pro- 4| posed by the bill which merely sub- mitted the question to the people, to be voted on at the next election. Second. Ifthe roads accepted the alternative method, the outlying counties like those represented by the senator would receive but a small por- tion of the taxes, inasmuch as so small ameunt of property lies in such counties. The question is begged since every intelligent person should know that there is no possibility of the railroads taking the alternative | proposition if they know that there will be an absolutely fair valuation, which there will be if the boards of ‘equalization are: removed from the and control them, as the people may |be sure they will be under such ad- ministrations as this of John Lind. Next, the view is: a narrow and se!+ fish- one, and, finally, the benefit would directly inure to the people of Will Judge Canty Lay Out Your Unyle he | development in the northern counties Third, to increase the tax would | raise freight rates. This is a long and well-worked bugaboo, worthy of no more consideration than the over- worked scheme of having railroad em- ployes protest against railroad legis- Jation on the ground that it will de- crease railroad) wages. But there is certain pretection in the Jaw recent- ly signed by Goyernor Lind prohibit- ing the raising of rates without, con- sent of the Railroad. Comn on. The point, of the same natur that | grates would retard railroad falls equally with the other. Rail- roads are built where and when it is in the interest of those who control them*to do so, and that. they are in- fluenced by legal ‘‘hampering” is too silly for attention. Finally, the senator regarded it cer- tain tbat the state would be brought | toa standstill by the roads refusing | to pay, and “hampering” it with long litigation. This was exactly the} claim made for the Anderson law, and still the wheels have been turn- ing right along, both railroad and| state. And, by the way, the greatest, | almost the exclusive benefits of that same successful law which was ‘*un- constitutional” the same as the gross earnings increase, go to the same locality ef the state for which Sena- tor MeCarthy makes his specious and ground’ess plea. * * * id United States Senator C. K, Davis more than a quarter of acen- tury ago: ‘Justinian abolished the corporations, and 1,600 years after- wards they threaten society as they did the stability of Rome.” Is “Cush” lifting. up his voice in these degenerate days of trusts and combines? Not a few. RY The strained effort of some of the Republican press to make capital of | Governor Lind’s. veto of the bill to make records of the Railroad Com- mission final’ as to findings of fact, falls flat in the explanation which the governor filed-when deciding not to sign the bill. It was this. He re- commended such legislation in his message, Which the republicsns them- selves have defeated by lugging inte the bill other matter not necessary, but vicious. “As it is now,” said the! governor, “when the commission makes an order there is the right of appeal by either party, and if it is not exercised the order is final, All the courts have to do is to enforce the order. But the measure passed was so framed that the grounds on which the order was based: might be reop- ened when the order to enforce it is before the court,” which the governor adds, “would allow interminable ap- peals end lead to endless litigatiun.”” elsit not about time for our:Ger- man-American citizens of Minnesota to tuke action on the all-absorbing questions of Imperialism and Anglo- American alliances? Missouri has taken action, and also Ohio, in a big to a man will oppose the republican | bill take effect at once. policy of foreign conquest and entang- | ling foreign alliances. * * * There is only need to repeat that there is but one responsibility for the | failure to accomplish this reform, and The Republican Press Bureau has} that was the republican determina- been transferred to Red Wing.though | tion to save the clerk of supreme its letters continue to bear the St | asteiiss that office and its extrava- Paui date line. ‘The last wrestles | gant fees would be left for future aid with the ‘prosperity’ problem, as|¢6 a republican m&ebine. It applied to the banks, proving the | they saved from last y 's wreck, the prosperity of the interior of the state} republicans cling to it like a barnacle by the fact that the country banks} to one of Dewey's ships. i increased individual deposits some} $700,000 between February and April, Fo & and now hold $18,000,000.of such de- | posits! Learned studert of. finance, how long since inc ed deposits were } a proof of prosper either. of the banks or of the owner of the money: That’s what our country banks, all banks in fact, are complaining of, that the money is piled up there and they cannot find profiteble loans for it. Not loaning if they cannot pay interest on deposits, aud business be- ing unprofitable, merchants and oth- ers cannot afford to borrow money to extend their. lines. Circulation ‘of ing all Who is responsible for the appoint- mentof Le Graft Powers to his cen- sus job, is what they want to know in the Fifth district. State republi- cans repudiate and Congressman Fletcher denies. All the same Pow- ers’ appointment to the fat berth has reduced all the places which the dis- | trict can have at Merriam’s hands to six or eight. out of the 45,000 in ail, And the blame if not taken away from Uncle Lor smoke house may make Judge Canty the next. congr es- ' 3 ,;man. It is certain some one will money is what makes business good ‘at pati setts beat Fietcher,-and why not: Judge and times prosperous, not the lock-| oy pyo ing it up in banks. : * * * * . * * Nationa! Committeeman Johnson: “T have yet to see the man who helped to make the Chicago platform .or who voted for W. J. Bryan who has a thought of regret for either act. \ * * x The Minneapolis Flambeau ciub which squirts flame on repablican oc- casions blew out the eye of a Minne- apolis lady. They didn’t mind a lit~ tle thing like that, but the lady has obtained a. judgment of $4,000 dam- ages. What a pity if this flamboyant |republican adjunct was obliged to quit the fiame-squirting and eye-de- stroying business! A friend has furnished the bureau acopy of oneof the campaign issues of the Republican state central com- mittee, in which they sounded the alarm of the “attack”? on the grain a8 % department. It is a most amusing composition bearing the signatures | of Chairman Steele and Secretary | Rasmussen. “Stand by the state grain inspection as you have done before,” is one of the appeals. “It is | alla demo-pop trick to deceive the young and cheat the ignorant,” says| Chairman. Steele. Finally the ad- dress promises that if there is any- thing wrong the republican party will The price uf silver has now passed average price of wheat in the country markets, though lately standing neck and neck. It is a good time to re- mark that a very few» “doubting ‘Thomases,”’ like the bimetallic editor of the Midway News, stil! fear that legislation cannot change the bullion value of the silver dollar. If so, please consider this: Suppose that on Wednesday last when silver was investigate and make it right, for 64.7-8 cents per ounce, whieh would William H. Eustis has so “expressed make the dollar for ‘that day 50.1-5 himself on several occasions.” Well, y i Ripe acts aCe | cents, Bryan was president and a law sate iain ae nae a | was passed and signed making Silver Ha swimig ndeecee We kracpoine coinage a law on equal terms with iG eat eaibaled | sald, You could then have taken ‘3 i 4214 yrains of silver to the mint and have it coined into a dollar that was legal tender for all debts. public and private, without cost to you. Would you then part with that dollar for 50, 60, 80 or 99.cents? Legisiation has * * * The continued charges that the re- form members of the legislature are responsible for the defeat of the anti- fee bills, are scarcely worth attention. The facts are that those nrembers| then changed the value of the bullion were so uncompromising in their de-| bas it not? You would net part with termination to follow the governor's ;40y Silver bullion that you had, nor recommendations that they went|@nyvne clse, for less than’ $1.29 per farther than the Republicans even» ounce, because you could have it made in the latter’s moye against. the oil | ®/-29 40 coined dollars at. the mint inspector ouly, when the Jatter re- without cost to you. fused to include the republican su-| The builion value has never fallen, preme court clerk. For wheu the re-|Bever can, and never will fall below publicans in the senate agreed to| the coinage value, under free and un make the oil inspector bill take effect | limited coinage. , in two years, protecting the present democratic incumbent during \hi Closing the mints to silver caused every locality by the lowering of the DEFECTIV tax rate of the state. E PAGE meeting at Toledo. Ittis believed that. Minnesota German-Americans | its debusement, the same readmitting it will restore its value, and one is ay If not, why not? term, the reform senators acused and said no, and voted to make the! right asthe other, —— +