The Sauk Centre herald., 1905-02-23

to submit the merits of the proposition
to the will of the people. Merit always
courts a majority and wrong in
trenches itself behind the buttresses
of a minority.
In this land of politics and country
of politicians all questions that effect
the rights of the people are political
questions and must be dealt with and
settled as such. The forum of the
people is the best tribunal before
which to try questions affecting the
rights of the people and just cause
need ever fear the action of the
multitude. Every wrong inflicted on
the mankind in the ages past was
conceived and executed by the few in
spite of the many and every wrong
from which mankind will suffer in the
future will spring from a minority
and not from majority. Questions
decided by the people must be decided
by political parties. Non-partisan-
ship is a hearse that has conveyed
more reforms to the cemetry of
oblivion than all other means of
conveyance combined. The Trust
question is political question and
instead of trying to take it out of
politics, every citizen who loves his
country and his fellow man should
insist that it be kept in the very
forefront of politics until it is settled
and settled right, and whenever man
talks of settling the trust question
outside of politics he is either trust
stockholder, trust sucker or a fool.
The aim of these classes of people is
to keep the trust question out of
politics and if they can only succeed
in convincing the American people
that the trust question is not politi-
cal question, in very short time
there will not be any politics in this
country to settle the trust or any other
question.
Every true friend of the people,
care not what political party he
affilliates with, should manfully
resist any attempt to take this
question or any other that affects the
rights of the people out of politics and
should at all times insist that every
candidate of his party for any execu-
tive, legislative or judicial position
should declare his position on this
question and outline the policy he
will follow if successful, before the
nominating conventions and pri-
maries make their selection. There
is absolutely no way the people can
secure the legislative reforms they
desire except to select representatives
that are in favor of such reforms and
the proper time to find out whether
they do this or not is while the people
still possess the power of substituting
others in their places if they do not
He'll will be used as skating rink
before the people get the trust legisla.
ton they want if they elect law makers
law enforcers and law Interpreters that
are opposed to such legislation. Il
the people do not secure what they
want when the power is in their hands
they will have to take what they car
get when they have delegated thai
power into the hands of others. This
is such simple proposition that il
seems almost an insult to the intelli.
gence OF the people to make it. Yet
only need to cite the last election in
Minnesota to show that the people pay
mighty little attention to the position
OF their elective officers on positions
in which they are interested. They
are more interested in the spoils o!
Office in which not one in five hundred