The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-10-04
FIRST VICTORIES!
Elections in Maine and Yer
! mont Indicate the r emper
ofthe people.
Third Party Disappeared In
theAEast. asst Will In ~
the WoSt.
Substantial Benefits to Minno.
sofa From Republican ace
miniStration.

The Republican flag hangs high and
dntters proudly in the breeze of popular
approval this week. While everybody
believed shat the utter disgust OF the
people of this country iththeir expert
ment Of 1892 which showed itself at the
polls in oil the states where elections
occurred last year had increased rather
than diminished, there was no positive
proof of it. Now Vermont and Maine
have spoken. And they tell just the
same story that was told a year ago by
the 100, 600 majority against Maynard
in New York and tho nearly 100000 for
the Republican ticket in Pennsylvania.
They have not only gone Republican,
which was to be expected, but they
have
Given the BisGest Majorities
for the ticket ever heard of. Vermont
led off with a little short of $4,000, Only
fifty votes short of the majority for
Harrison in the triumphant year, 1859.
Maine goes cna better with a majority
that viii fall. ittlssif AM below &C, 900
when all the returns are in. In both
states the legislatures are both practic-
ally solidly Republican. There will be
nine Democrats in the Vermont body,
and less than that in Maine. These
are victories that count for something.
They indicate temper Of the people
that cannot be mistaken. The
Most Gratifying Thing of All
is the fact that the third and fourth
parties disappear, utterly wiped out of
existence. The votes for Populist and
Prohibition candidates are not worth
counting. Yet the people of these two
states are as alive as any to new issues.
they have felt the stress of hard times,
their workingmen have followed with
as careful interest as any the progress of
recent disturbances. It is proof
of what every shrewd polit-
ical observer insists upon; that the
summed up by the Peoples
party reached its height in 1892, that it
will show declining strength every
where this year except in some little
benighted pockets of territory where
has not yet penetrated,
and that two years hence it will not be
q factor in the situation, if, indeed, it
puts any candidates in the field. That
has been the confident belief of the best
students of politics. The re-
turns from Vermont and Maine make
it the handwriting on the wall.
The NTipnaso%o CoporeSs;o-ol S;tuaf;op
A few more candidates for congress
have made their appearance in Min
nesota this week, simplifying the situa-
tion. In the Sixth Major Baldwin was
renominated as matter of course, and
the Pops sprung a surprise by resar-
recting Kittel Halvorsen, whose fame,
like PETER S, rests mostly on his beard.
There is very plain sailing over
straight course there for Mr.. Towne.
In the Second the Democrats and Popu-
lists are actually going to rpm jim
Baker again; Jim, who can give points
to Donhelly himself on the opportuni-
ties of politics as a business, and who
has belonged to about us many differ
ent parties in the same length of time.
Such a fellow gets less dangerous
every time he is a candidate. Lin
coins famous saying that you can fool
all of the people all of the time comes
into play. When g man has been Rec
publican. Democrat, Populist and any
thing else that holds out to him hope
of an office within few years, GER
tain number of people are bound to find
him t. Jim Baker don't begin to be
q dangerous candidate in Minnesota
now. All that is left of him is his,
lungs and his record. The latter can be
left to take care Of the former.
Rsaefical Experience Wi.h Republican
Administration.
In the meantime the farmers and
other producers of the state have had
practical experience of the benefits of a
Republican administration Of the laws
in Minnesota, through two important
decisions made by the state board of
railroad and warehouse commissioners.
In the first, known as the Steenerson
case, the rates charged on grain by the
Great Northern from points in North
western Minnesota to Duluth and Min
neapolis were declaaed unreasonably
high, and a schedule of reduced
rates was announced by the commits
sion. In the second case, the pitition Of
citizens Of Moorhead for a reduction Of
the rates charged for shipping coal from
Duluth is granted, and the rate by the
Northern Pacific is ordered to be set at
e.. 25 instead of So. These two decisions
viii be Of vast benefit to.the people Of
the Northern part of the state. They
are the evidence of a straightforward,
unfiinching, but honest and careful adj
ministration of the laws by the present
state government, with the Single view
of doing justice to all. These are SUBJ
stantial benefits which the people, In
their turn will remember when they are
asked to pass judgment on that admin
istration at the polls.
Che Destruction of Reciprocity.
One of the most injurious effects of
the new tariff act, which was least agi-
tated at the time and now threatens to
become most serious in its industrial
consequences, is the destruction Of the
reciprocity policy entered upon in 1890.
One gr .at difficulty about increasing
onr exports, and especially enlarging
The sale Of our agricultural products,
has always been the high duties on such
commodities imposed by nations which
would otherwise look to us as their
principal source of supply. To remove
this barrier, partly or wholly, at the
same time that we made necessary re-
ductiens in our own tariff rates, was a
master stroke Of the highest statesman
ship. 1t was provided, accordingly, in
the Mckinley bill that while sugar, tea,
coffee and hides were to be admitted
free Of duty, this should only apply to
such countries as imposed reasonable
tariffs upon our own products. If the
duties of any country were held to be
unreasonable, the entry from it of these
articles could be suspended. This is
The Only Wise Policy of Trade,
Not to give things away, but to barter
one advantage for another. The time
was too short for this policy to work
ont its best results, and the period dur
Ing which it vas in force was one OF
general and Increasing commercial de-
preston. 1t proved, nevertheless, 50 be
of ff,a bipbast I,nf,aG1 ~ tha 1Tni.ad