Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 6, 1902, Page 2

oo a The Herald--Review. By E. C, KILEY. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS, + Naturally Europeans are curious to see three real soldiers. Venezuela seems to be suffering from an overdose of Castroria. After all, can Cuba be blamed for wanting $35,000,000? Who. doesn’t? Now if Hobson would get married perhaps the girls would let him alone. King Edward has been “coronated,” but Mrs. Maybrick has not been liber- ated yet. The man in Venice who doesn’t want to go to church now has a rat- tling good excuse. Liang Cheng Tung be If Minister makes any mistakes they will mere slips of the Tung. Let it be said for Polar Explorer Baldwin that he got back without a relief expedition, anyway. Prince Chen has proved that he has the constitution of a diplomat by sur- viving a fifty-course dinner. The Missouri river will have to keep its snags or employ some other dent- ist. Uncle Sam gives up the job. The man who hints that he “dies for his family’s sake” generally has some coward or crazy reason of his own. Senator Clark’s new $2,0vv,000 man- sion is temporarily obscuring that other Montana product, Mary Mac- A skeleton with an eight-inch jaw has been found in Texas. Lots of good senatorial timber was wasted in the past. More oil in Texas. That once inim- ical state is in danger of floating off, some morning, on a wave of petroleum and prosperity. The Alaska earthquake was not an event of much importance, inasmuch as it did not shake any gold nuggets out of the ground. The cruiser Chicago has arrived at Cronstadt, Russia. We shall soon know if vodka is all it is cracked up to be as an intoxicant. The main trouble with Mr. Carne gie’s plan fom dying poor is that as fast as he gives away one big fortune he goes to work and accumulates an- other. p A New York man was detained ag an insane person because he threw away his money in London. Surely there must have been some other evi: dence, Manifold are the uses of the injune- tion. Now a_ persecuted Chicago bachelor applies for one against a woman who persists in trying to mar- ry him. The veracious story from Bay City, Mich., that a girl there is supposed to be turning to marble, should be a warning to girls who are developing a marble heart. With the present outlook in the coal market, now is the time for in- ~entors to bring forward their pro- cesses for storing and utilizing the heat rays of the sun. At a recent family reunion in In- diana there was one man present who had seen six generations of kinsmen— and still had $5 in his pocket that hadn’t been borrowed. On the government experimental track between Berlin and Zossen, Ger- many, a trolley was recently run at the rate of 110 mites an hour. See what we are coming to. That petrified ship beyond the Yu- kon may be the ark, or may simply show that attempts to“lift what is now the America’s cup have been made ever since the stone age. Persons should be careful about experimenting with queer medicines. The Pennsylvania farmer who tried the bee sting cure for rheumatism is now an object of interest to the near- est undertaker. There were 103 British war vessels at Spithead, ostensibly for a naval review. The real reason is they got together to protect themselves and other British shipping from Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. A Cleveland, O., paper sneers at the American recipients of Prince Henry’s souvenirs as a “job lot of citizens, anyway.” The trouble seems to be that there wasn’t a Cleveland man in the whole bunch. Experiments at the University of Chicago have found that mosquitoes have a strong preference for dark red and blue. to find the white spots now and then. King Edward’s head is not so uneasy as it was before the coronation. A tactful woman saved him the annoy- ance of getting his crown on crooked, ‘Che Earl of Dudley, who has just been appointed lord lieutenant of Ire- may already count on having several millicn enemies. \ They still seem to be able. ROSING CAMPAIGN DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR GOV- ERNOR OPENS STATE CAM- PAIGN, HIS SPEECH AT MINNEAPOLIS HE WOULD ENFORCE THE LAW AGAINST ALL MERGERS ALIKE, TRUSTS CREATURES OF LAW TAKES DIRECT ISSUE WITH GOV. VAN SANT ON THE TAX CODE. - Under a system of government where the people choose their own servants and executives of the law which they them- selves have enacted it has become cus- tomary for the candidate for the chief executive office to formally express his views upon the questions which confront the electorate and demand settlement in the campaign in which such candidate comes before the people to have his views ratified or rejected. On the 25th day of June the Democratic party of Minnesota assembled in convention applied Demo- cratic principles to pending questions and took their stand accordingly. The plat- form so adopted I indorsed without reservation, and in accepting the nomina- tion I said that at some future time I would take occasion to formally express my views more fully upon the various questions touched upon by that platform. The principle of equal rights for all and special privileges to none applies in, state as well as nation, and in the application of this principle electors must decide upon which side they will take their stand. Liberty Goes With the Flag. One of the questions of national im~ portance which the people must consider and decide upon in this campaign relates to the very foundation principles of our government. , Shall we continue true to the principle of self-government? Shall we continue in the old faith that all just gevernments are founded on the consent of the gov- erned? Shall we, as Americans, maintain that wherever the American ‘lag floats as the emblem of sovereignty, there it must mean the samo constitutional berty and the application of the same governmental principles which have made tis nation the greatest world power to-day? Only a few weeks ago the senior senator from this state, in illustrating his position upon a public question, used this lan- guage: ‘‘None of you would like to be the subjects of an absolute monarch, no matter how kind and benevolent.” If such sentiments are creditable to us, are they not equally creditable te ten millions of people who desire the privilege of forming their own government, suitable to their own condition in life and the en- vironment whick God has ¢reated? The Incorporated Trust, ‘A question of public concern, the settle- ment of which demands, our best thought and courageous action. is that involved in the monopolistic tendencies of the so- called trusts. We are living in a time when consolidation and co-operation seem to be the central thought in all the rela- tions of life. Churches ané lodges advo- cate consolidation to promote united ef- fort. This tendency can be traced through all our social relaticns, and a universal tendency is a difficult one to restrain or prohibit by statute. Capital has for many years consolidated in various forms; first, in the form of co-operation between individuals, persons, as corporations. and then in the law-made The right to form corporations is wholly law-made. It iS not a natufal right. Corporations are formed under statutes enacted by the representatives of the people, and the power that creates neces- sarily has the power to fix ghe limita- tions of its creatures. Remove Special Privileges. As a preliminary sten. 1 would advocate the removal of all special privileges which these so-called trusts snd eombinations in restraint of trade enjoy. Democracy believes that the first rem- edy should be the removal of all duties upon articles handled by combinations in restraint of trade. : Let them comnete with the world. ‘These “infants.” that have been capital- ized at a billion dollars and more. would seem to have passed beyond the need of tribute from the purse of the American citizen. No Subsidies for Trusts. Protective duties are only another form of subsidy, the difference being that we say to these captains of industry. we will not pay you the cash out of the treasury of the United States. but we will permit you to take it out of the pockets of the individual citizens. As we are opposed to this form of indirect subsidy, so we are also opposed to all forms of direct subsidizing. In this connection I desire to call to your mind that the two United States sen- ators from Minnesota voted for the ship subsidy bill. The senators from Iowa and Wisconsin did not dare te do so. Let me say to you that should the people of this state send to congress a solidly Repub- lican delegation this fall, then I believe that ship subsidy bill will be passed. It is now held up to avoid shocking public sentiment in the face of a congressional election. I would suggest that the people of Minnesota call upon their senators for a_ definite explanation of their vote on the ship subsidy bill. Kecord vs. Promises. The Republican candidates. state and congressional, have no right to go before the people of this state upon a platform of promises. They have had the oppor- tunity, they have had the power and the people of the state have a right to say to them: ‘What have ycu accomplished? Do not tell us what vou are going to do.” The party now in power has had com- plete control of the executive and legis- lative branches of the national govern- ment for six years, and trusts and com- binations in restraint of trade have never flourished in the history of the world as they have during this period. Have we not a right to ask these gentlemen for an account of their stewardship, rather than be saticfied with glittering promises for the future? Reciprocity With Canada. There is one more question of national interest which I desire to touch upon, and that is the question of reciprocal ar- rangements for trade with Canada. ‘0 the north of us there is opening the great- est new market in the world to-day. Shall we pass it by or shall we do everything in our power to get our share of the trade of this rapidly developing country? While we are expending one hundred million dollars a year for the purpose of opening up new markets in tne Philippines. that took from us onlv about three million dollars’ worth of goods last year. we have erected an artificial barrier at the north- ern boundary of our state. and we say to the tradesmen and the manufacturers of the great cities of this nation. and par- ticularly of our own state: ‘In this new market you shall have no snare. You may travel ten thousand miles across the sea to sell goods to the people that need but little, but with these people who live within three hundred miles of the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and who are neighbors to Duluth, you cannot. you shall not trade.” TI do not think it is necessary to argue this question. It is so apparent that it would seen. that there could be no difference of opinion in regard to the desirability of securing this trade for our own people, Power of the Beet. But what do we find? They are frit- tering away their time in protecting “beet sugar.” At least that their ,claim, but most of us think that the inter- ests of the “sugar trust” is the object of their tender solicitude. Be that as it may, the fact remains that for many years Canada has been anxious to make reciprocal trade arrangements, and we have said: "No, we will not trade with you.” Beet sugar even had its influ in.the precnt state ennvertton of. buries | i pul brethren. Great is the beet. and ie Minnesota del ion fs = prophet, ‘rous in ite of Wwe. In a state with such magnificent re- sources the immediate effect of the elec- tion of one man or another, or the pas- sage of one law or another can be but slight. Bad legislation and bad admin- istration can only retard, they cannot prevent our progress. ‘The state will make magnificent advances whether the people shall decide to elect, the genial gentleman who is my opponent fn this contest or mysel. There is one suggestion in this cam- paign up2n which I desire to express my views with special frankness. .1 say suggcstion for the reason that it does not appear to me that any issue is pre- sented upon the matter, at least so far as our opponents ure concerned. Merger of Northern Ratlroads. For a good a, years there have been upon the statute books of this state pro- visions forbidding the consolidation of arallel and competing lines of railroad. t is claimed that these provisions have been violated by the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads, and it seems to me that it must be apparent that it they have not been directly violated, an attempt has. at least been made to evade their spirit. Foilowing their plain duty in the premises, the executive and high- est law ofticer of the state instituted pro- ceedings to prevent the evasion or vio- Iction of those statutes. The proceedings so instituted are now pending and must be pressed to a final conclusion without regard to the result of this campaign. My wish or vours as to the result of the litigation will have no weight with the judgment of' the courts before whom those cases must come; and I am fully convinced that our courts will decide them with the same impartial integrity and intelligence that has always char- acterized the American judiciary. Merger of Iron Range Roads. Gov. Van Sant did his duty in calling upon the attorney general to enforce the law against the consolidation of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern, but there he stopped. The state senate of Minnesota, during the extra session of. 1902, pgssed the. following resolution: “Resolved, that the attorney general be and he is hereby requested to investigate the alleged consolidation of the stock of the Duluth and Iron Range and the Du- luth, Missabe and Northern Railway com- panies, and if he finds tnat a practical consolidation of such companies has been accomplished by the concentration in a single corporation of a majority of the capital stock thereof, that he at ence institute legal proceedings to prevent a by ry violation of the laws of this state. Why has not this resolution been obeyed? In Gov. Van_Sant’s extended acceptance specch on July 1, he abso- lutely neglected to touch upon this point. Merger Versus Merger. The Iron Range roads were merged by the United States steel trust in Febru- ary, 1901, sixty days after Gov. Van Sant’s inauguration, an? nine months before the attempt to merge the Northern coast lines. If the present state administration is entitled to re-election because it brovght suit to forbid the consolidation of the coast lines, what does it deserve for ignoring the merging of the Iron Range railroads, which are wholly with- in the State of Minnesota, and are the originel merger offendezs? Pledge to Enforce the Law. The Democratic platform | pledges it: candidates and the party to tlre enfore: ment of, the present statutes against con: golidation, and that in every case, and if my nomination shall be ratified at the polls this fail, I pledge myself to carry out Be instructions of the party in that regard. “Regulation of Railroad Rates. The brinsing of suits to prevent the merging of railroads, however, is a small art of the duties of our officials in deal- Ine with the great transportation com- panies, for although no question of the consolidation of parallel and competing lines has arisen under the law forbidding the same, it was yet found that the state must undertake to regulate these im- mens? and natural monopolies, both as to their charges and methods of busi- ness, and for that purpose the railroad and warehouse commission of this state was created, and in the nation at large the {interstate cammerce commission— with much tess Powe, unfortunately— was created by congress. Step by step, and through the decisions of an upright and fearless judiciary, the prjnciples have been established and rec- zed upon which this right to regulate rests. ‘The important consideration at this time is that the railroad and ware- house commission of this state shall con- sist of men possessing the ability to real- ize the full extent of the power they possess, the courage to use it for the est interests of the public, and the sound judgment to direct them in such use. In my judgment, this is the im- portant question with ‘reference to tne reciprocal sigh! of our large railroad corporations a the public. ‘Are the rates charged to the people of this state reasonable? Are the rates upon iron ore reasonabl Do the Iron Range railroads, subsidized as they have been by portions of the public domain, fulfill their duties as common carriers when they so manipulate their business meth- ods that a deposit of iron ore upon the planet Mars would be as beneficial to the independent mine owner as it is when within a four-hour journey of where we now stand? t No Dodging of Issues. "Therefore I feel that, whatever merit there may be in the institution of the so- called ‘merger’ suits, the managers of the Republican party in this campaign, the party which created the trusts; the party which has frittered away in grants to these same railroads so much of the public domain and so ‘much of the prop- erty which beldénged to the school chil- dren of this state; the party of special protection for special interests; the party of subsidies and imperialism—that the managers of this party, I say, shall not be permitted to raise a false issue in this campaign and escape in the confusion. My opinion is that the state must exer- cise a continually increasing control. To make such control efficacious additional power must be given to the interstate commerce commission, so that the same regulations may be enforced in regard to interstate traffic that we now exercise in regard to traffic within the state. The record of the present railwav commission is one of inefficiency and subserviency to special interests. The re-election of the present administration will be setting the people’s seal of approval upon such in~ efficiency. Th> election of the Democratic state ticket will mean that the people are ready-to exercise the power they possess to regulate rates, Record of Democrstic Commission. The record of the Democratic railroad nd warehouse commission, of which lessrs. Ringdal and Knox were members and the controlling spirits from 1900. to 1901, just twelve months, indicates what can be accomplished by honest, energetic and courageous men in that position. One order issued by them, applying to 172 sta- tions in twenty-two counties in the sout! western portion of the state, saved the farmers of those counties $400,000 in freight rates on the crop of 1900 alone. ‘They also brought a suit to prevent the consolidation of the St. Paul & Duluth railway with the Northern Pacific sys- tem, under ‘the statute prohibiting the consolidation of parallel and competing lines. That suit was settled by the state without trial, upon the offer of the North- ern Pacific railway to give a contract binding itself to forever maintain and operate the present line af the St. Paul & Duluth, with its terminals at Duluth, as at the time the suit was brought, and that in all cases involving the question of rates the St. Paul & br bed railroad should be treated and considered by the railroad com} as a separate and distinct entity. This contract was signed on behalf of the state by the governor, attorney general and .the railroad and warehouse commission, and on behalf of, the Northern Pacific by the officers of that corporation, and was submitted to the bee ajay of 1901 for its approval or rejection. The securing of this contract marks one of the most important achieve- ments in the history of railway control in this state. The St. Paul & Duluth is the only line of communication between the Twin Cities and the Head of the Lakes which is wholly 4 stare road, and subject, under this contract, to the juris- diction and control of the state railroad ission. The importance of this will be readily realized when we take into consideration the fact that much of the grain raised in the southern part of the | state goes East via Duluth and the Great Eulsh, Shocmeeite all Some uen ints the state, and tl this read Wethe aane connecting link yeen na’ and the other railroad systems to state gontrol. The recent de- ion of the supréme court of the United Stat holding it the state railroad comi ion has be) ine to an os Yates, emp! importance % commission’ terests had ie action. If the state’s.in- not been conserved by the vigilance of the Democratic administra- tion in the above action, then we would | now be helpless, because all that the Northern Pacific would have had to do to jurisdiction would have been to move its terminals to Wrst Superior, thus depriving the state of the right to fix reasonable joint rates and the city of Duluth of the business connected with the docks and terminals of this great system. Reeord of Republican Commision. What has the present state railroad commission done to make this decision of the supreme court of the United States effebtive on the coal rates in the state? The right of the state ta compel the es- tablishment of joint rates is not only im- portant in itself, but it is important, be- cause it shows how much can be ac- complished in the way of regulating com- mon carriers when an honest and intelli- gent effort in that direction is made. A joint rate may be over two or more roads and means a fixed and single charge for the entire distance over which the com- modity is carried. By this means a lower rate is not only obtained, but expensive transfer charges can be avoided and each carrier is kept from practicing extortion. In addition to all this, the doctrine is be- coming more and more firmly recognized that railroads, as common carriers, are conducting great public highways, thus performing a governmental function, and are subject to the fullest regulation by the state which is necessary for the public good, subject of course to the constitu- tional protection which all enjoy that their property shall not be confiscated or used for public purposes without just compensation. Iron Range Rates. Noy. 9, 1900, the railroad and warehouse commission, on its own motion, passed a resolution to investigate the reasonable- negs of the rates then in force for carry- ing iron ore on the so-called iron ore roads, being the Duluth and Iron Range, the Duluth, Missabe and Northern, and the Eastern Minnesota. The first hearing Was set for Nov. 21, 1900, and was ad- journed from time to time, at the request of the roads interested as to the Eastern Minnesota railroad, for the reason that its terminals were at West Superior, Wis., and the commission had no jurisdiction. As to the other two roads, an order was made on the same day, reducing the rates for carrying ore about 25 per cent. Prior to the filing of this order, an soon after the proceeding was begun, these com- panies had withdrawn their schedules of rates, theretofore on file with the commis- sion, and upon the argument took the position that the commission had no ju- risdiction to fix the rates, on the ground, first, that all ore was being -arried under special contracts; and, second, that the traffic was interstate. f course by the order reducing rates, the commission de- cided both questions against the com: The filing of this order was the final act of the Democratic commission in the matter. The new commission took office on Jan. 8, 1901, and on the same day these roads applied for a rehearing, upon the ground that the commission had no jurisdiction over the matter, because the traffic in iron ore was interstate. A re- hearing was granted, and the proceedings thereafter adjourned from time to time until Noy. 11, 1901, nearly a year having elapsed, when an order was made by a majority of the commission, directing the roads to file tariff schedules for transport- ing iron ore from their several stations on the iron ranges to the docks at Two Harbors and Duluth, destined to points within the state. That order fixed no rates and said nothing in regard to what they should be. About Dec. 1, 1901, the companies filed new rate schedules, being the Same as those in force at the time the investigation was begun, except, as I understand, they are expressly made ap- plicable only to shipments of ore from he penge to points within the State of “nnesota. The particular point in this order and the schedules filed thereunder is that the rates are made to points in Minnesota be- yond the docks, when, as a matter of fact. there is not an ounce of ore shipped to any point in Minnesota beyond the docks. The order, and the schedules filed thereunder, are fakes pure and simple. State Taxation, For the past six years the Democrats of this state have had a plan for co! recting the mogt glaring evils of our present tax system, and if the Jegisla- ture of 1901 had not been blinded by par- tisan prejudice and the desire to make political capital. rather than to legislate for the interests of the people, there could have been no possible excuse for calling the extra session of the legisla- ture. The legislature of 1901 2uthorized the appointment of a comrriss: which should present to the special session the following year a complete revision of our tax laws. The system formulated by that commission met. with so much opposition and was/so radical in many of its feat- ures that it could not reccive the ap- proval of the representatives of the peo- ple. The minority members of the legis- lature presented a complete program, in harmony with Democratic ideas. ‘That program our party platform indorses, and y it I am willing to stand. It provided for amendments of our present law, the effect of which would have been to elim- inate its most glaring wrongs and incon- sistencies. and it also provided for a sim- ple amendment to the constitution which would permit the imposition of a state ir.come tax and the exemption of such property as would be necessary tod bring about equality of taxation. Jt, is still true that “our state is exacting taxes on the little stocks, tools, implements— the means of subsistence—of numbers of our citizens who are struggling to suj port themselves and families. while tho’ sands Who possess great wealth escape.’ Democratic istence, the legislature of Minnesota was conipelled to pass a bill for the increase of the railroad gross earnings tax, and to submit that question to a vote of the people of the state this fall. The difficulty of reaching ‘invisible’ personal property, such as notes, stocks and bonds, and all evidences of indebt- edness. has convinced our best thinkers that the only adequate way of forcing the persons whose wealth consists large- ly of this class of property t> bear their ust share of the burden is by means of an income tax. With the adoption of a 4 per cent gross earnings tax, a tax on foreign corporatins and domestic fran- chises, and the imposition of an income tax upon the class of persons who escape taxation almost wholly, the taxes of the state would be reduced to so small a percentage that they would hardly be felt by the -ople. Municipal Ownership. ‘The Democratic platform declares that we favor the municipal ownership vf }ul- lic service corporations. ‘he cities and towns of the state, as a rule. own and operate their waterworks, and in every instance with better results than where that Loto td is private. Numerous towns and villages own their own elec- tric light plants, and have secured bet- ter service at lower rates than under the old system. An investigation of the subdject proves that in a majorit;- of in- stances this public ownership is perfect- jy satisfactory and public thought is rap- idly advancing along these lines. ‘The municipalization of all lighting Ulantsand other public institutions, such as street car systems and telephone tines, will be issues of the not-distant future. How far this process of state ownership shall be carried and how rapidly thc changes shall be made only time and experience will demonstrate, Direct Legislation. The principle of direct legislation is so thoroughly that there should be ould not the people retain the veto ower in their own hands? They ha’ Selegated to power to enact laws. rot retain the hy should they es. if a Y favor thereof? With this power in the hands of the people. have to be exercised. be very democratic and_ republican no difference of onion in regard to its desirability. Why 8 their representatives ie er to annul objection- Produces only some part, the question spect he | one of grave importance. Under rises of a public or private nature, Therefore, becomes the it of labor to ize for its own protecti Democratic party, recognizing the right of the individual to promote his own interests so long as he does not tres- pose sapon the rights of others, declares in its platform that the interests of labor can best be subserved by organization, and pledges to organized labor its moral and, if entrusted with power, and administrative action sure justice. ‘The invention” of machinery and the factory system, with its division of la- bor, increasing the productive capacity Si man, is of but little avail if it does not shorten the hours of labor necessary to tring comfort and prosperity to the homes of our working people. We, there- fore, join with organized labor in its ei forts to shorten the hours of the worl ae day and pledge our support to that State Institution: Until two years ago each of the institu- tions were managed by a separate board, each composed of high-minded, patriotic citizens, whose only object and recom- pense consisted in the success of the work in which they were engaged. Unity of purpose and management of these va- rious ‘nstitutions was secured through the medium of the board of corrections and charities, composed of men of the broad- est humanitarianism, sympathies and business ability. Their work was altru- istic in its highest sense, and under their general direction and advice the institu- tions of Minnesota advanced to the high- est rank in the nation. In 1901 this sy: tem was radically changed by the pass- age of the so-called board of contro) law, whereby the management of these insti- tutions was intrusted to three men, called @ board of control, who are regular saja~ ried officers of the state. This board will undoubtedly ‘be able to show a saving of some money to the state in the manage- ment of these institutions, but the ques- tion is, has such saving been made at the expense of efficiency? The sole question with the peopie of the state is not wheth- er the expense of management is $3 or $2.90 per capita per week. The important question is whether the state receives adequate return for the money expended in the cause and advancement of the un- fortunate wards of the people. Three men, even when they devote their whole time to the business, carnot give that careful indvidual attention and considera- tion to the different classes that was pos- sible under the individual board system. Their method of dealing with the insti- tutions must necessarily, be more upon the material, bureaucratic order, The ele- ment of human sympathy and the al- truistic spirit RinApy cer to a large extent. If the legislature does not deem it wise to restore the old law of individual boards, then, in my opinion, the law crea- ting the board of corrections and chari- ties should be re-enacted, with such amendments as are necessary to meet the changed conditions. That board would do much to bring these dependent mem- bers of society under the influence of per- sonal care and sympathy. educational institutions of the state should not be hampered by a eontrol which recognizes only the dollars and cents standarc, or places them upon the basis of charitab]> institutions. Our peo- ple are justly proud of the educational facilities which we possess. The public school system of our state, supported in part by direct taxation and in part by the magnificent endowment secured by our fathers through the donation of pub- lic lands, has developed a citizenship of the highest type. The normal schools are furnishing intelligent . and competent teachers, and higher education is provided for in our state university upon a plan so board in its scope that the young State of Minnesota will soon be recognized as a leader in the higher relam of thought. If elected, it will be my constant aim to lavor to maintain and advance our public school system as a whole, and to extend the scope and efficiency of the common schools so that every Minnesota child will be able to obtain a training that will be of practical value to him in after life, whether he remains on the farm or enters the industrial field or chooses a profession. Tribute to John Lind. In conclusion, my friends, I hope that you will pardon me if I speak in a per- sonal vein for a few moments. For more than a year it had been the hope of the Democracy to place in nomination for the governorship that peerless leader of men, that sterling man of the people, the loved friend and counsellor, John Lind, who, as governor, gave the people of the state, regardless of party, a new and higher ideal in administration and citizen- ship. To him I owe much—more than I can ever repay. lay life to him be al- ways as perfect and happy as he has been true to his duties. He having declined to again lead our forces, the duty was as- signed to me. The party honored me with the nomination for the highest office in the gift of tke people of the state, and i accepted with the determination to ‘wage a winning battle and confident that I would be able to do so, I believe I am fighting for right and justice and the best interests of cur citizens. I yield to no man in my love for our institutions and our state, In Minnesota my life has been spent, and 1 promise you that if elected T will, under gvidance of God, be true to th inte~- ie hat its people. : associate their wealth for the promotion of gis FROM THS NEW SCOKS. Love is never found;—it comes.— Graystone. It is less futile to consider our past than to predict our future.—Phil- ip Longstreth. To ask a question that can’t be an- swered. is merely feminine—Chim- mie Fadden and Mr. Paul.’ No real gentleman will tell the neked truth in the presence of ladies. —A Double-Barreled Detective Story. The time for repentance is in ad- vance of tie crime.—Abroad with the Jimmies.—Compiled oy the Era Maga- zine. If a man admires a girl at all, he will want to marry her—as long as she treats him badly.—Myra of the Pines. Many little services will count as much as the big ones, when the time of reckoning comes.—The Thrall of Lief the Lucky. People are seldom man and wife half their lives without’ wishing 1 impart their sufferings as well as their pleasures to each other.—The Ken- tons. Well it is to be able to read runes, but better yet it is to know what the Lord has written in men’s eyes.—The Thrall of Lief tae Lucky. Tears and laughter weil com- pounded make the sweetest joy; grief and joy the truest happiness; happi- ness and pain the grandest sovl.— Dorothy Vernon cf Haddon Hell. “Ets er long lane than an’t got no turnin’ whatsumever, and I've noticed tais all my life—the longer she is be- fore she does turn, the bigger tura ; she makes when she finally cits to it.” —The Silent Pioneer. Be she right or wrong, a woman wiil not permit 4 man to ques.ion her metives. - Pessibly she never hal _& motive; that all her actions beinz the result of impulse, cannot be m212- lyzed; or peradventure, being a wo- man is of itself a good and sufficient VICTIMS OF PELE OVER ONE THOUSAND KILLED AND FIFTEEN HUNDRED INJURED. ‘ WORK OF THE LAST ERUPTIONS THAT OF AUG. 30 ONE OF THE MOST SEVERE THAT HAS BEEN EXPERIENCED, GREAT TRACTS ARE DEVASTATED GOVERNOR ARRANGING FOR EVACUATION OF THE NORTH- ERN PARISHES. 7 Basse Terre, Island of Guadeloupe, F. W. L, Sept. 3—It has been learned from the gendarmes of the Island of Martinique that 1,060 persons were killed and 1,500 injured during the last eruptions of Mont Pelee. According to an official account the eruption of Aug. 30 was one of the most severe that has been experienced as yet. Morne Rouge and a great part of Ajoupa Bouillon were destroyed. The zone between the River Capote and the valley of Champ Florre and Fonds Marie Reine has been devas- tated. Mont Capote suffered severely and the hills around Basse Pointe were burned. The governor of the island is ar- ranging for the evacuation of the northern parishes and the removal of the wounded. The temperature at Martinique is reported to be almost unbearable. Awful Reports Confirmed. Point-a-Pitrie, Guadeloupe, Sept. 3.— The French line steamer Canada ar- rived here yesterday morning from the Island of Martinique. Her officers con- firm the reports brought to Castries, St. Lucia, by the British steamer Corona of the eruption of Mont Pelee. The vessel's officers declare that 1,000 persons were killed at Martinique and many severely wounded. The sea en- tered Fort-de-France for a distance of forty feet. The French cruisers Su- chet and Tege are bringing the inhab- itants of the northern part of the is- land to Fort-de-France. The previous scenes of distress and panic are being repeated. VICTORY FOR JOHNSON. Chio Democrats Unanimously With Him for Presidential Nomination. Sandusky, Ohio, Sept. 3. — Mayor Yom L. Johnson of Cleveland won a decisive victoty yesterday in the pre- liminary meetings of the Democratic state convention which meets here to- day. Ever since he was selected as chairman of the convention by the state central committee it has been the general opinion that this occasion would be made the initial public open- ing of his candidacy for the next Dem- ocratic nomination for the presidency. In that respect his success has been phenomenai. No Ohio candidate for the presidency ever had more unanim- ity of sentiment in his favor among the delegates at a state convention than was shown at the meetings last night by congressional districts for the selection of officers and members of the various committees. Commit- tees of the convention, the committee on credentials, permanent organiza- tion and rules and order of business are almost unanimously with him for anything he wants. t ENT. FATAL EXPERIM Young Student of Chemistry Tasted Muriatic Acid and Is Dead. Chicago, Sept. 3—Frank Klooster, fourteen years old, is dead from hem- orrhage of the stomach, caused by tasting muriatic acid. Young Klooster was an enthusiastic student of chem- istry, and had fitted up the basement of his home as a laboratory. A few days ago he was making a number of tests with muriatic acid when the whim seized him to taste the liquid. He felt no immediate ill effects, but his mother became alarmed when she found what he had done, and called_in two physicians. They told the boy to stay in bed, but he persisted in walk- ing about the house. Later he was seized with convulsions and grew rap- idly worse until death ensued. " GEN. MILES DELAYED. Cannot Start for the Philippines for Another Week. y Washington, Sept. 3.—A change has been made in the plans of Lieut. Gen. Miles as announced last week. It was expected originally that he would leave on his tour of inspection of the Philippines to-day and sail from San Francisco on the transport Thomas on the 16th inst. The pressure of work in his office at present is so great, how- ever, that he finds he will not be able to leave Washington before next Wednesday. ; ELECTS TO BE SHOT. Condemned Murderer in Utah Makes a Grim Choice. Salt Lake, Utah, Sept. 8. — Peter Mortenson, the condemned slayer of J. R. Hay, was sentenced yesterday to die Oct..17. The laws of Utah give condemned murderers the privilege of choosing between ing, and Mortensen elected to be shot. Revolution Spreads. Tangier, Morocco, Sept. 3.—The rev- olutionary movement in favor of Mo- hammed, brother of the sultan of Morocco, is spreading among the Ber- ber tribes. 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