The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-10-17
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>CAPT. kAY'S FOSITION STATED.

CAPT. EAY's POSITION STATED.
In entering upon mycampatiigp;nn ia
this first contest for. the Congress
ional seat of the new Eighth Dis
trict, I cannot hope nor do 1 desire,
to be held. forth az anything but
what I ana plain business man.
Under the Constitution of the
United States, Congress has power
to regulate commerce, and perhaps
most of our national legislation
during the last decade or more, has
come under that head. @5 Il
lean e no reason why a business
man should not become a member
OF Congress, 30 long as he has the
welfare and interest of the masses
of the people at heart, and is of
sufficient mental calibre to conserve
the rights and interests of those he
represents.
The great questions of the day are
chiefly economical ones.
look upon the office of Congress-
man from the Eighth District of
Minnesota as being in a measure a
great business undertaking, as
though a man were asked to oversee
a great commercial enterprise.
We have in this district the great
est primary wheat market in the
world. A great wholesale center,
the greatest iron deposits and great
est iron mines in the world, through
the operation of which, more than
fifty thousand people directly sub
sist. We have a large farming dis
trict, filled by thrifty farmers and
hundreds of thousand of acres of
rich, fertile land waiting to be titled.
A number OF important railroads
traverse the district hauling the
products of the farm, forest, mills
and mines. It has been truly stated
that there is no other congressional
district in the United States with
more diversified or greater CONNER
f cial interests than the Eighth Dis
trict of Minnesota.
r The office of Congressman from
this district will always be one of
hard work, if one fulflls his trust.
. [ do not look upon the office as a
place where a man may exploit
some personal accomplishment or
, peculiar faculty, but rather a place
where dignified and conscientious
work and effort may accomplish
f good to the people who are epre-
scented. .
f am opposed to the great trusts
controlling the natural resources
!, of this country and believe the evils
therefrom can be remedied by Con-
gress, if the members of Congress
can be held faithful to their trust.
1 believe the farmer is always en-
titled to a fair price for his products
) and 1 am opposed to having the
trusts fix or manipulate the prices
Z for him. I believe that the trades
T man is entitled to a fair profit on
l the goods he handles, and supplies
: to the consumer from the producer
and should not be made simply the
agent of the trusts. / believe that
the laborer is entitled to fair wages
and should receive his share of the
profits of the wealth that he helps
t to produce.
The vital issue of the day is how
are the people to be protected
l against the monstrous OF
the great trusts, which manipulate
the natural resource and necessities
of the people.
I believe that Congress has the
power to regulate and control the
! trusts, and should at once make full
invest cation into the workings Of
those great trusts, such as the meat
flour trust, coal trust, etc., and the
9 time has now come and it rests
with the people to elect men to Con
gress who will conscientiously and
fearlessly take hold of the matter
and make a complete investigation
as to the mannerin which the trusts
operate, and manipulate the resour
ces and necessities of the people
- and at once enact laws that will
remedy the evil and check thei1
rapacity.
If elected to Congress 1 promise
to at once be among those to com
mence this light on behalf of the
people.
t Every man in Minnesota who has
to use coal is almost as vitality in