The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18

American waters.
Whenever the subject of removal
or reduction of a tariff on fish is
mentioned in congress, certain rep
resentatives, with fearful eloquence,
want to know, eff we would rob
the poor fishermen who take their
lives in their hands and go out on
the vastly deep to capture its finny
denizens for our breakfast table: of
any of their meager profts?" and
the representatives of the American
people permitting sentiment to over
shadow sense answer ono, a
thousand times no."
The truth is, however, that before
a tariff was imposed on fish, indie
pendent packing houses lined the
New England coast. The fisherman
had scores of Independent buyers
to bid up the price of his catch.
After the tariff shut off outside
competition these were merged.
There is now practically but one
market for the fish he catches. He
can take what is offered him or
throw his fish back into the ocean.
The fisherman does not get as big a
price for his fish as he did before a
tariff was placed upon them, but the
people who eat them, pay more.
The advocates of a tariff on fish are
not shedding their tears for the
poor fisherman, buffeted by the
waves out in the midst of cold,
rain and sleet. They are weeping
for the trust owners of packing
houses.
This tariff reduces the price of
fish to the men, who in the midst
of incredible hardships and dangers
catch them. If persisted in long
enough it will render our waters as
barren of finny life as the Dead Sea;
for there are more people in the
United States to eat fish than there
are fish to feed them and the supply
is constantly growing less. This
tariff brings in little or no revenue
to the government, and to call it a
protective tariff is misrepresenta-
ton while to call it a revenue tariff
is farce. To shut out of the food
supply of this country by an almost
prohibitive tariff, the fish that TEEN
the waters of Hudson and James
bays, the inlets of Newfoundland,
and other parts of the world, is
putting a premium on hunger.
Yet the generation of "stand-
patters" and "tariff boosters tell
us it is treason to republicanism,
republicanism which if it means
anything means the common good
of the multitudes, to talk tariff re-
vision.
What think you of the PROPOSE
ton, oh ye countless hosts of work
ing republicans who don't draw any
official salaries, work for living,
who pay the taxes and have sense
enough to come in when it rains?
Elmer E. Adams, editor of the
Fergus Falls Journal, has filed as a
republican candidate for the legis-
lature in Otter Tail county. Mr..
Adams is splendid example of the
modern young man in politics who
knows how to do things and does
them. AS chairman of the republi-
can congressional committee in the
old days of populistic ascendency
he demonstrated his ability to
achieve results that gave him not
only state but a national reputa-
ton for accomplishing the seem
ingly impossible. Without dis
paraging the ability of any other
member, if he is nominated and
elected, he will be the most valuable
man in the next Legislature. When
man like Mr.. Adams consents to
run for the legislature he ought to
be nominated by reclamation and
elected unanimously. We know
the man and know what we are
talking about.
Judge Parker absolutely refuses
to allow ametuer photographers the
privilege of taking snapshot of
his features. We will gladly stand
in front OF, the III eraId office and
let every photographer in the
United States train his camera on
the classical lineaments of our
visage and we wouldn't trade our
future chances of becoming Presi-
dent even up with Judge Parker.