The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-11-03
IMPORTANCE OF YOUR
VOTE.

VOTE.
The Importance of one mans vote ba.
often been demonstrated. Not rarely
does the fate of parties, and sometimes
. the destinies Of states themselves inn.
pinge upon the fact Of whether one man
shall o.. shall not go oat to the polls and
cast his ballot in accordance with his
political principles.
A vote in the Sixth congressional dis.
trict on the 9Th day of November, 1899,
may be ofspecial Importance. There is
no district in the entire nation today
more thoroughly and entirely in the
formative period of its existence than is
this one. Either the Sixth district must
proceed in its development along indus
trial and mechanical lines, or it must be
permitted to continue in the state that
nature made it until the advent of q
wiser generation.
There are magnificent water powers
scattered everywhere, broadcast, over
this section, waiting to be chained to the
wheels of creative industry. No section
Of the nation is more richly endowed
with that raw material out of
which vast wealth may be called
into existence than may be found
everywhere in the Sixth district. Cast
your eye over map showing the geo
logical formation of this virgin section,
and see the vast region hereabouts that
is underlaid with an inexhaustible
supply of the richest iron ores known to
the mineral world. See cropping out
everywhere around Lake Superior and
down the valley of the Mississippi within
our districts limits the unlimited and
almost untouched quarries of grey and
red granite, of numerous varieties of
lime stone, of the magnifcently tinted
brown and red sandstone Of which the
palaces and temples of the future are to
be builded. Gaze upon those splendid
forests of white pine, cedar, tamarack
and hard wood, already worked for q
generation, and yet seeming to be un-
touched except around the outskirts.
All of these features mark out the
destiny of this section as clearly as the
hand of God ever chooses to point to his
intelligent children the fate that is in
store for therK. The Sixth district is des.
tined to become the home of the factory
and the workshop, the mill and the
foundry, the quarry and the furnace.
Within another generation there will
have grown up within our borders some
of the most important towns and cities
of the state; ard the industrial smoke
from Thousand chimneys will curtain
the suns rays from the earth.
What is to produce this miracle2 The
continuance and perpetuity of the
American protective system as repre-.
sented today by the Mckinley law.
With that law, just as it is today upon
the statute books OF the nation for a
quarter Of a century, and the area Of
country geographically represented by
the Sixth Minnesota congressional dis.
trict will rival the busiest and richest
manufacturing sections Of New Eng.
land or Pennsylvania. Strike that law
from our national code row and this
district will remain stationary except as
the constantly increasing demands fol-
lumber will denrde our hills and valleys
OF their luxuriant covering of timber
and leave drouth and sterility
behind. IF the wealth created in
the section is to be retained
at home, there must be here erected
those industrial centres which attract
alike the capitalists and the laborine
man. Both of these classes must be,
come denizens of our towns, cities and
villages. Here they must build the
houses that shelter their families; TIT
school houses in which their children
are to be educated; the factories that
give employment and bread to the
workers; the mercantile houses that fur.
nish supplies to all highly organized
communities.
1t is remarkable, that with all the adj
vantages furnished by modern educa-
tional facilities, there should yet be a
great political party known in the re-
public that boldly announces that it will
destroy our great industries, and make
this free republic again dependent upon
the factories of Europel The idiocy of
the Democratic party is simply super
human, the imbecility and ignorance of
the working men and mechanics who
vote that ticket only little less than
miraculous.
For two years the section represented
by the Sixth Minnesota Congressional
district has been practically unrepre-
sented in the congress of the United
States. Mr.. Halvorsen is doubtless an
honest man, a good citizen and alto
gether well intentioned. He would
have made good representative had he
possessed sufficient amount of intelli-
gence. But this he did not possess. He
was not, and is not, to blame; but that
does not help the dilemma any. The
opportunity is now presented for the
Sixth district to secure the services Of
one of the brightest and best men in the
state to represent it in Washington.
Hon. d. B. Searle is brilliant lawyer,
an eloquent and trained speaker, an
educated gentleman and a man of the
highest character. With him in
congress no district in the ma
ton will be more ably or
more intelligently represented than
this. In every public position to which
ne has been chosen he has proved him
self to be both honest and capable.
Will the people of this district heed
the commands of common sense and
take the first step on the roadway
toward and11,inn. ,,rocr,n,.;4.- L.. ,x.4:..a.