The Sauk Centre herald., 1906-09-06

adopted?" and there were ayes 81
nays 80.
House Files No. 25 was what il
known as the Gross Earnings Ta1
Bill, which provided that the gross
earnings tax from the railroads o.
this state should be increased from
8 to 4 per cent and provided for the
submission of the same to the people
for their ratification in the ensuing
election. This was practically the
same amendment that was adopted in
the legislature in 1908, which re
suited in an increase in the revenues
Of the state of approximately 9
million dollars annually, and its de.
feat at that time, which was only
secured by a majority OF one, resulted
in a net loss to the state in hel
revenue of more than q million
dollars.
Anyone who cares to investigate
the matter and look over the records
| of the house and senate during the
time that Mr.. Buckman was a member
OF the same will invariably find that
whenever question came up before
those bodies in which the rights oil
the people and the welfare of the
state were opposed to those of the
railroad companies and corporations
he was always found voting in favor
of the corporation and with the
corporations members.
In the fall of 1892 Mr.. Buckman was
elected to Congress and is now in the
latter portion OF his second term and
is appealing to the voters of this dis
trict for support upon his "record. "
This record appeared simultaneously
in all the Buckman newspapers in
this congressional district. All those
who have had experience in news
paper business are we'll aware of the
fact that when an article appears in
the editorial column of various news
papers, identically the same and SIM
ultaneously, that it is written by a
single individual and published as
per order and so it is safe to assume
that this record was prepared by some
individual and transmitted to the
various Buckman papers throughout
the district for simultaneous produc-
ton. We do not know who wrote this
record but we can guess. We appre-
hend it was written by Mr.. Buckman's
private secretary who was formerly
city editor of the St. Paul Globe. We
are more certain of this from the fact
that we do not believe any person un-
less his imagination had been unduly
stimulated by many years service on
Democratic paper could have pro-
duced such q document.
The first item that he claims is the
installation of 1913 Rural Free Delivery
Routes extending the daily mail SER
vice of the United States to 100, 1000
farmers. With magnificent self-com-
placency he takes the credit of all the
rural routes that have been established
in the sixth district during Judge
Morris incumbency in congress and
all the work that Senator Nelson has
accomplished in this respect. But as
matter of fact, whenever tn ereis a
strip of fairly good roads not to exceed
25 or 80 miles in length embracing a
certain number of families, where a
petition is prepared and filed with the
Postmaster General, they would Sc
cure rural route whether they were
represented in congress or not and it
is a matter of common knowledge that
where these conditions exist these
routes are established irrespective of
whether the member OF congress is a
Republican or Democrat.
He claims the credit of the installa-
ton of the County system of Free
Delivery Routes in six of the twelve
counties of the district. It would be
just as logical and legitimate for him
to claim the credit for the sun rising
once in every twenty-four hours.
Whenever there is a sufficient number
of routes in county the post-office
department installs the county system
purely as q matter of economy, and
they would be so established irrespect-
i've of the fact whether the member of
congress representing that county
either favored or opposed the same.
He claims credit for an appro-
priation for the purchase of site for
public building for Brainerd, the
first Northern Minnesota city of it's
class to receive such an appropriation.
This is certainly a most remarkable
claim. The city of Brainerd at the
time the appropriation was granted,
and it must be borne in mind that
it was not granted for a building,
but merely for site, contained
approximately 5000 population. In
1895 there was an appropriation of
seventy-fve thousand dollars appro-
priated by congress for a public