The Sauk Centre herald., 1905-12-28
WHO is GETTING FOOLED?

in the Sauk Centre H Herald. All of
which sounds we'll for it is in line with
the campaign agreed upon by the
railroads and other corporations. The
design is plain. A hue and cry about
the tariff, it is thought, will give less
attention to corporate abuses. One
thing at q time, gentlemen. There
must be q par amount issue In Mlnne-
sofa politics, and that already exists.
But we are surprised that Eddy has
fallen into the trap set by the st. Paul
Dispatch and other corporation organs
in taking up the tariff issue at time
when there is absolutely no interest
in the subject. Within six months
every corporation controlled daily
paper in the state will be shouting for
tariff reform. They have been in
structed to throw dust into the eyes
of the people, and, if possible, evade
the main issue.-Heron Lake News.
With due respect to the superior
wisdom of the editor of the Heron
Lake News, we desire to intimate that
we are not exactly ''spring chicken"
We have had some experience in pub
lie matters. We possess some know
ledge of the sinuous, serpent;ne
methods adopted by skillful repre-
sentatives of corporate greed to ac-
conplish the results they desire to
achieve.
The first is to loudly proclaim, in
republican states, that any paper dares
to show any independence is demo-
cratic organ. In democratic states
the cry is reversed, and such papers
are asserted to be "black republican
Sheets" and if public man dares to
stand up for the rights of the people,
and has the courage to denounce cor
ruption, he is pointed out as "cheap
demagogue," one who is "playing to
the galleries."
The second method is still more
effective and equally transparent to
the observant, and that is, to select
some question that the dullest dunn
head knows will and must be dis
cussed and passed upon, declare tnat
to be the paramount issue," raise
the fool cry of "One thing at time,"
and with hypocritical assumption OF
sanctimonious regard for public in
terests, declare that anyone who dares
to assert that legislators, either state
or national, in their sleeping or
waking moments, should dare even
to give an instantaneous, fleeting
thought to anything but the great
paramount" issue that can be, and
will be, settled in less than weeks
time is foe to public interests, a
traitor to his party, or has "fallen in
to a trap" and some, happily but
few, country editors, hypnotized by
corporate representatives, raise their
voices and help to swell the silly
chorus.
1.-THE editor of the Heron Lake News
does not know he ought to know that
congress has abundant time to con-
slider rate legislation, tariff revision,
and every other measure that is
demanding attention. That it has
just adjourned for an unusually long
holiday vacation because ''It had
nothing to do" and that the most
serious problem that confronts the
leaders of the present congress is how
to kill time and accomplish nothing.
If the editor of the Heron Lake News
will take the trouble to make even the
most casual examination he will
discover that if President Roosevelt
carries his Railroad Rate Regulation
ideas into effect he will have to depend
on the tariff revision congressman and
senators to do the work and even the
most obtuse politician knows if you
stick pin into an open or secret
opponent of Theodore Roosevelt's
primitive republican policy you will
hear "stand-patter" squeal.
Foraker, Depew, Platt, Odell, Dalzell,
Lodge, Grosevenor and score of
others of the same ilk who are ex-
hausting every effort to defeat the
Presidents plans are everyone. of them
"stand-patters" and profess to think
that everyone of the Dingley schedules
are as sacred as the ten command
ments. If the editor of the Heron
Lake News does not know he will find
out before the close of this congress
that those who are so insistent on
"One thing at time" will use every
means fair and foul to prevent do
ing anything at all.
= II the editor of the Heron Lake News
wants to get into bed with these fellows
and pull the blankets of self
complacency over his head and ears
so he cannot hear the demand for fair
play and a square deal that are coming
up from the people it is his privilege
to do so. We don't have to and we
won't.
Instead OF our falling into trap the
editor of the Heron Lake News has
his two hands and both feet in one.
A trap set for suckers by enemies of
public interests and friends of grafters
and SO certain were they of catching
gudgeons that they did not even
conceal the trap but painted it red and
above it printed in glaring letters,
"Come this way if YOU want to get