The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-10-08
PITHY POINTS FROM
JACOBSON'S SPEECHES
Republican Candidate for Governor
FearlessIy Strikes From the
Shoulder on All Issues.
THE RAILROADS.

{ fact is as heartily despised by the peo-
pie of the state as the ultra reaction
ary who recognizes no wrong to be
/ remedied. corrupt railroad lobby
must be suppressed and driven away
from our halls of legislation. And
with that WILL of his own weight, go
the boodler and the eg-puller-neither
. of them will survive long with the alb
Sence of the first.
The re ilroads can as safely rely on
reason, argument and just cause for
a fair decision as the people them
selves can. The mutual distrust en-
gendered by a continuation OF the Old
method of dealing with the railroad
question cannot but result in harm to
Z both sides.
: and | feel the time has come when
E the railro IDS can safely take the peo-
4 pie into their confidence and deal with
them more openly and frankly, and
they will find that the people, on their
part, will meet them more than half
p way.
The officers of the state who have
the enforcement of the laws in hand
. in the suit. now pending should and
must be sustained by the people of the
state, by all the means necessary to
carry these cases to legitimate con-
clusion.
EDUCATION.
That state is best economically,
socially. morally and Intellectually
which wisely spends most for the edu-
cation of it's people, We have a splen-
+ did school system, but feel that some
of it can be made more practical than
at present.
Z Il plead for economy, but not par
simony in all matters of education.
Spending money for a good school,
good hook or the requirement OF
good habit, is economy.
Manual training, domestic science
and agriculture furnish the field for
! our highest efforts and our best
. thought.
THE farmer boys and girls, because
of their scattered sOttlem 2nts. receive
to-day the poorest chance for an edu-
/ cation. Yet no other single calling in
. the state is of half the Importance and
if our present school system is found
to he inadequate fors their special
I training, to make them more intelli-
gent, 10 make them better farmers
than they are at present, this need
s'~"'a he speedily and adequately sup
piled.
"Nothing suggests itself to me at
I present to he more practical and fea-
siDie than the establishment of county
agricultural schools. They should be
built and maintained, partly by the
state and partly by the localities In
hich they are established. If they
s. -! become a gift Of the state
4 there would rest in as unbclv and un-
iii r.fod scramble for them as the
world has ever seen.
FORESTRY.
5 We have yet in northern Mime
sofa small portion of our once great
forests, some of it still owned by the
4 state. | feel the time has come when
the state should adopt new system,
not only fer their protection, but the
state should set at least some portion
of them apart to be used as demon
strating what can be done in the way
of preserving them instead of what
we are now doing, disposing of them
to be cut clean in a single season,
leaving the lands comparatively
worLniess. ..
Hand in hand with work of pre-
serving our forests should go an eff.
ciert and scientific system of refOres.
tation on some suitable tracts judi
ciously selected for this purpose.
THE LIQUOR QUESTION.
Il stand on all moral questions just
ev%"..v wheie | stool twenty years
ago If an 'option bill should come
to me when l was governor, passed by
. the legislature, l should certainly
sim it. | will not deceive any one,
even TO secure votes.
Il have always been consistent
Supporter of all LEGISLATION that would
tend to lessen the evil of intemper-
ance, and my at itude on this question
is 100 vel known and is too clearly
a matter of record to require extended
comment. County option has become
ne question in all the legislative
districts Of the state. This is a mat
te5 -!at uill come before the legisla-
tnre in some form or another, and it
is Gistiuc ii ely a matter for legislative
enactment. But my position on this
SUI g is just what it has always
been. And can assure the people of
the state most positively that if
County option law should be passed
b., he next legislature and come be-
fore ne for signature as governor, in
caea .? my election, ] should promptly
and unhesitatingly sign it.
DRAINAGE.
y ar heartily in favor of continu-
ati"n and extension of the drainage
of the wet lands in Northern Mime
sofa, belonging to the state. l feel
that The time has come when these
norle streams should be made part
of orr national highway, and unless
the state that is most interested takes
t. Initiative, the national govern
nic11t, cn its own motion, will scarcely
c"n'" ~ our aid.
FINANCE. a.
e geople are entitled to good,
clean, business administration of the
states financial affairs, and every dol
lar collected for the people for the
support of the state government, our
s.;..5..~ and all other state .il...,a-
ions, rhould be judiciously and eco
nomically expended. And every dol
1or encnt should be -i~'H'-- ccrr---t5-
for.
IMMIGRATION.
81 am in favor of an immigration
bureau of more practical benefit to the
state. Minnesota has millions, of
acres of good lands that viii in time
support very large population. We
sboul' not only reck TO prevent our
people from leaving the state, but by
disseminating knowledge of our own