The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08
SNAP SHOTS

The Banner man when he Topped
before the caucuSSes, led the people
to infer that the ns urgent move
ment was a sort Of spontaneous up
rising of the people against Dictator
ship ard machine rule. We
note, however, that in his last
issue. he practically admits that they
simply discarded one machine to
make room for another. La his re
port of the state convention, be says:
"The slate made by leaders in caucu,
Monday, carried without exception y
Ono. So the dear people had moth
ing to do about 1T, and the machine,
albeit 1T is a different machine, still
rules
The Argus Leader is Il believer in
organization, and hence it does not
offend 1T to note that the convention
of yesterday was pulled off pretty
much after the style tn which we
have been accustomed ia tins state
for many years. The leaders pretty
largely determined things. and made
the slate which the delegates ratified.
Ii is inevitable that this must he so,
there are some who expected the de-
feat OF the old organization tn bring
q change ia syste;i. and expressed
themselves as just but dissatisfied
that it had not.-Argus Leader
=. y y
SENATOR ARTHUR p. Gormaa is
dead. He died at his home In Wash
ingtOn June 4tL aud the state OF
Maryland mOurns one OF its brightest
political stars. Arthur German, you
might say, was reared IN the United
States senate, having been page in
that body up to his twenty-seventh
year. He knew it and its history Of
the past fifty years as a man might
know that of his private business,
and was considered the most reliable
authority on matters of memory
since the death of Blaine. He was
born In Maryland on March IL. 1899,
and was 81 years Old at his death.
At the age of u he was appointed
collector OF internal revenue for the
Fifth district of Maryland. In 1869
he became general superintendent of
the Chesapeake 4 Ohio Canal com
pany and since 1872, has been presl-
dent of that corporation He was
elected to the United States senate
in 1899, and was reelected in 1902,
after three years OF private life. AS
democrat he was influential in the
Affairs OF his state and those of the
United States. He opposed the force
bill IN 1889, and took a prominent
part in reframing the Wilson tariff
bin in 1884
The American Monthly Review OF
Reviews .or June, commenting on the
Hepburn bill and its relation TO the
coal roads, says among other things
"Another feature of the bill winch
is Of the utmost significance requires
that after May, 1, 1908, no Interstate
carrier shall engage IN the transpor
tation of commodities or it's own il
competition with shippers over Its
lines. This Is intended principally
to break up the control that the rail
roads now exercise over the anthrac
ite--coal business In toto, and owe
the 5ltuminous-coal business In large
part. 1t remains to be seen whethe
this part of theta can be so carried
out as to be made really effective
AS rule, the coal business of tn
railroads is organized separately
although the stock Of the coal com
panies is owned by the railroad com
panies and the presidents os the Goa
roads are the presidents of the com
panies that mine and sell the Goa
Perhaps the most complete monopol
now existing In America is til
anthracite.coal monopoly, and 1t wi
be next to impossible to break it vi
For most great trusts and comblr
atoms It is easy to present stron
practical argument based chiefly u,
on the economies resulting from til
substitution Of united and coopeis
tive methods on the large scale Il
the wastes and Implications OF til
old Comparative system. But
argument At all can justify mon,
poly due 70 the seizure Of the Who
supply Of some natural commodi,