Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-09-07
LINDBfRGH'S ADDRESS

Candidate for Congress
Speaks at Court House
Saturday Night
Chas. A. Lindbergh spoke at the
| Court House Saturday night 10 an
audlen which filed the court room.
! Mr.. B1ckman was not present, al
though some OF his supporters were.
Mr.. Llndberghs remarks were
lar e1y based upon the campaign cir
cular sent cut by Congressman Buck
nan. He took up the claims made for
Mr.. Buckman ard discussed them one
by one. He said that rural routes are
established urder general laws where
| citizens petition the PostoAice Depart
ment for route and the government
does all the rest. It is MT within
the power Of a congressman to either
grant or refuse the petition. The
same thing applied to county systems
of free delivery.
Referring to pensions, the speaker
said that the ola soldiers secare their
pensions under general laws. Possibly
in some cases the cons ressman' s secre-
tary may assist. In as large a dis.
trict as tie Sixth two hundred pen
sions would not be considered many.
The speaker said that he favored pen
sions for the old soldiers. So far as
the twelve pension bills were con.
cerned that is the numter each con.
gresham is allowed to pass. Mr.
Buchanan had intro duced four hun
! dred pension bills. 1t was certainly
not very rapid to set four through
per year.
Brainerd had received SO, an.
preparation for a site for q public
building. It would seem that it
ought to be entitled to an appropria-
tion for a building when Cronks;on
and Fergus Falls, both smaller cities,
had received $50, 600 and SIS, 900 res
pectively.
The Cass Lake LAND Office controv-
ersy had been Of very little interest
to the larger part of the district.
Regarding water powers ard water
power bills, there had been many
false staten ents made. Neither the
speak r nor Mr. Buckman owns the
| Pike Rapids power and never did. It
| was singular that the bill which MR.
Lindbergh's client desired passed did
not go through but the bill in which
Mr.. Brewer WIS interested did pass
and little later Mr.. Blower decided
not to run for congress.
The President fav ored measure 50
supplies for the Panama Canal could
be bought abroad or rather that the
privilege of buying them abroad
would make the prices more reaeona-
BILE at home. It was Calculated that
this would save the people $50, 600, QUO
but ths trusts opposed this and Mr..
Buchanan voted with the trusts.
On the Tariff Mr.. Lindbereh said
that monopolies which sold goods
cheaper in foreign countries tnan
they did here ought not to be pro-
tected by the tariff ard that Mr..
Buchanan could not be depended on
to vote for tariff revision.
Taking up the record Of Mr.. Buck
man bstore ne became congressman,
Mr.. Lindbergh said that after Mr..
Buchanan was elected state senator
OH the issue of taxing railroad lands
he showed his real feelings by voting
| against the people. When the bill
! Came up in the state senate on March
28, 1899, the Gross Earnings Bill to
! increase the tax on railroad earnings
one per cent, exclusive ct Senator
Buchanan there were thirty for the
bill and thirty against There was
! the chance Of Senator Buchanan to
really aid tie people. But he voted
against the people and that one vote
of G. B. Buchanan cost the PEOPLE Of
the state more than a million dol
lars. One act of this kind brands q
man fer life as unfit fer public trust.
Still again on Feb "a, 1899, on the
bill to erlarge the powers of tho rail-
road commission Buckman voted no,
which was another betrayal of the
peoples trust.
Chapter 342, Session 1899, was a
lien law Of great importance demand
ed by Labor. Buchanan worked and
voted against it. That is the true
touch stone and shows how slim his
alleged sympathy for labor. The
speaker said he did not think Buck.
man could be trusted to protect the
Indians in the care Of their pine TIM
Der. His record showed him thorough
~ unrelia bic in this as in other res.
poets.
The speaker said that Buchanan had
never originated a single measure
either in the legislature or in Congress
which was Of benefit to the people at
large and said no one coula possibly
dispute the statement.
The speaker said he believed in
helping home institutions and home
industries and had always made it q
point to help 80 far as he could.
| The speaker made an urgent appeal
to all to vote according to their CON
victions and by securing the candidate
who would best look after public in
terests, they would help to secure good
government,
Mr.. Li2dbersh was attentively lis.
tened to and literally applaued.
BLACKSMITH INJURED.
Peter Bek', blacksmith employed
In Raseier's shop on First avenue
northeast, suffered q painful though