Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-02-16
M'cUnBER's VIEWS.
Interview With North Dakota's New
Senator on National Topics.

Senator McCumber was interviewed
regarding national affairs, on his recent
visit to Wahpeton and said:
1.-THE Chinese and Japanese take very
readily to to American breadstuffs, and
it we can put our wheat or -four into
their ports for the price they pay for
rice, a market will be created that will
consume our surplus wheat which will
increase the price when that demand
has been established. It may be for a.
time that the wheat will have to be sold
for less than the market price, and in
order to insure the producer, a subsidy
or export bounty bill will have to be en-
acted"
He is opposed to the Hanna-Payne
ship subsidy bill as it now stands. He
says:
II can see no encouragement for the
farmer unless we open up new markets
for our surplus. Owing to the immense
grain producing districts that have been
opened up in the last few years in Rus
STA, India and South America, with
their cheap lands and cheap labor, our
farmers must meet their prices or got
another market, and I think this market
with a little labor can be found in the
orient"
He believes in the government paying
a subsidy for every bushel or ton and
not according to the speed or tonnage of
vessel.
Regarding other matters he is reported
as saying:
"In regard to the Panama canal I
think the canal should be built by the
United States and controlled by us I'M
der treaty. I do not favor the bill that
provides for the building and fortifying
of the canal. I do not understand that
the Suez canal is fortified at both ends
and do not think that if we build the
canal we should insist that we be al
lowed to fortify it, so that at any time
We saw fit we could say to the word at
large: You cannot use the canal, but
must 60 around 1t would be better, in
my opinion to have it under treaty neu-
trail rights and then the whole world
would be benefited.
"On the matter of trusts l must con-
fess that with the limited study I have
given the matter I am at a loss to sug-
gest a remedy for this evil at present.
In the first place we misuse the word.
A trust is an organization formed to con-
troll the price and production of some ar
ticle and is dangerous to the public vel
fare, but can to a great extent be con-
trolled by laws. We have only a few
trusts; the others called trusts are con-
binations of capital not particularly
made to control the price but to lessen
the cost of production and better the
quality of the goods, and in this they are
a success; the cost of production has
been decreased; according to the actual
cost goods were never sold as cheap as
now, but the individuality of the manu-
facturer is destroyed. The man who
owned and operated the small factory
goes into this combination. He ceases
to be proprietor and becomes a clerk,
carrying out the ideas of the central
head of the organization. His children
will not succeed him but must commence
at the bottom and the chances are hat
they never rise to the position of mana
ger. Ambition and individuality in the
man IS destroyed and he becomes a mere
machine. I know of no constitutional
law that will prevent such combinations
but the remedy rests with the people.
Let them buy of the small manufacturer
and give him all the encouragement DOS
sible and the question will soon be SET
tied.
"Of the expulsion of Roberts I would
say that 1 think the house established a
dangerous precedent in refusing to allow
HIM to take his seat. He could have
been sworn in and then expelled. With
the precedent that has been established
it will be possible where the house is
evenly divided to trump up charges
against a member and in this way keep
him from voting until some measure
that his vote would have killed can be-
passed,
ION political matters the outlook for
the republican party never was brighter.
Our people are all making good wages
and are prosperous and happy, our mon
etary system is on a sound basis: the
war in the Philippines is practically
over; our export trade is rapidly increas-
ing and the business outlook was never
more favorable, which condition of af-
fairs was brought about by the republi-
can administration"
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