The Mankato free press., 1908-07-31
Gave Reasons Why He Wanted
To Go to Congress; Great
Ambition.
Discussed Tariff at Length, and
Put'Both Opponents in the /
Grill Pan.
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Paul A. Ewert of Pipestone, one of
the three republican candidates for
congress, gave the twelfth speech OF
his campaign at the theatre last
night, and announced that before the
campaign was over he would address
fifty audiences in addition to the
twelve that he has already spoken
to. Last nights was the smallest
that he had yet had. When he started
to speak at $3.50 o'clock just forty
four people were in the theatre but
this number a little later was raised
to sixty, and then dropped off little.
The heat and the sickness prevailing
and the lack of interest in politics
had much to do with the small at
tendance.
Mr.. Ewert is good speaker. He
was introduced by w. "A. Funk, who
told why he was for Ewert for con-
gress, and did not think it disloyalty
to support a man from the western
part of the district, although Blue
Earth county has two candidates. The
county had had the congressman for
sixteen years, and it's candidate was
gnomininiously defeated two years
ago.
7,tl.9r He Wants the Honor
= Mr. Ewert said that lie was cam
didate because he wanted the. honor.
and because he had been asked to
run by republicans who thought that
some man ought to be put up who
was not connected with the McCleary-t
Guttersen fight of two years ago. I His
platform had been extensively publish.
ed, and all Of its planks but one were
in the national and state platforms,
Rooseyelt's, messages and Taft's letter,
of acceptance His address might be
considered democratic, but he assured
any democrats: in the audience that it
was really republican. A man should
stand for something. A corpse can
float upon the waves, but it takes
a live, energetic man to stem, the
tide. /, L.&f5a2 a.-s s1.
slH Discussed the Tariff. iG s5FSI
Mr. Ewert devoted more than: half
of his address to the subject. of the
revision of the tariff. He said that
it ought not to be approached in
a spirit of hostility, because the cardi-
nal principles of the tariff was to pro-
tect American workmen, who are now
the best paid of any in the world.
1t was not necessary to disturb this
in revising the tariff. The tariff ought
not to be revised by .standpatters.
Mr.. Ewert declared himself in favor
of permanent non-partisan tariff
commission to gather facts and submit
them to the ways and means commit
tee of congress. This was theN German
tariff plan, and German industry un-
der it's workings is overshadowing that
of all other old world countries. This
reduces the tariff system to business
basis. 3t
Mr.. Ewert was in favor of taking
the tariff off of lumber, for the report
of Special Agent Pinchotte to the pres
ident showed that the lumber supply
of the, United States will become ex-
hausted in twenty or thirty years. A
few wealthy men and corporations
have acquired practically all of the
timber. The tariff should also be re-
moved from wood pulp and print pa.
per, because trusts have sought to
bleed the people of 100000, 900. Law
yers who conspire with persons or cor
porations to evade the laws and hold
up the peoples be- given the
same sentences. as. .the other .violators