The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-12-14

amended so as to permit the imposi
ton of a national income tax on al
net incomes in excess Of $4,000.
Expenditures.
No public money should be expend
ed except for public benefits.
No public money should be spen
on public improvements unless the
public benefit from the same is equa
a reasonable rate of interest on the
same.
The government should not perform
business services for corporation
or individual without collecting the
cost of such service.
The government should pay nc
more for business services performed
for it than the corporation or indi
vidual performing similar services fol
other corporations or individuals.
All needful Official service should be
literally paid for, all ornamental off,
Gals, purely political supernumaries,
rigidly suppressed.
The government printing Office
should be confined to purely govern
mental work and not be made medi
um of advancing the interests Of polit-
ical parties or stocking the libraries
of favored officials with costly publica.
tons.
Our navy should be kept in condi-
ton to lick any navy that might come
after it, but it is not necessary that it
be made powerful enough to go out
after all the navies in the world and
lick them.
Transportation.
A transportation company should
not discriminate by carrying freight
or passengers for nothing, or at a less
rate for some than it does for others.
Freight and passenger rates should
be reasonable and the law through
it's proper officials has the right to
say what is reasonable
Transportation companies are only
entitled to reasonable return for
capital actually invested and the law
has the right to compel them to dis
close the true amount of capital in
vested.
If a business must pay penalty
for holding cars after reasonable
time the company should pay bust
ness for failing to furnish cars in a
reasonable time
Every possible precaution must be
adopted for the safety of passengers
and employees by transportation COM
panies.
Nominations and Elections.
All nominations should be made by
a direct vote Of the members of the
political organization making the
nomination.
There should be an absolutely uni
form suffrage qualification for suf-
frage in every voting precinct in the
nation.
Every official elected by the people
should be elected by direct vote.
All violations Of the election laws
should be tried in the United States
courts, the judges of which have no
interest in the outcome Of the cleo
ton in which the fraud is alleged
Marriage, Divorce and PoIygamy.
Marriage and divorce laws should
be exactly the same in every portion
of the nation.
Every person practicing polygamy
shall be deprived of the right of sui
frage and be disqualified from holding
any Office of trust. honor or emOlu-
ment in the United States.
STATE ISSUES.
Drainage.
1t is the duty of the stats to con-
tinue the rainage of swamp lands al
ready begun and liberal appropria-
lions should be made for such pur-
pose and if necessary bonds should
be issued to carry on the work. Pros
pective settlers should be employed
to do the work as far as is practic-
able. AS fast as the lands are re-
claimed and made tillable they should
be sold to actual settlers in tracts not
exceeding 100 acres each for reason.
able price for the land and the cost
of reclamation.
We request our senators and mem
bers Of congress to labor diligently to
secure an appropriation from the gen.
eral government to drain the lands
on the Indian reservations and the
opening of the same to homestead
settlement at the price per acre paid
the Indians and the cost of reclama-
ton.
Good Roads.
The legislature should make liberal
provisions and pass legislation pro-
viding for scientific. permanent and
practical improvement of the high
ways of the state.
Railroad Legislation.
The legislature should pass a re-
ciprocal demurrage law providing a
penalty if cars are not furnished in q