Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-06-04
GRonNA's ADDRESS
What Hs Says to Voters on State
Aftairsland National Leg
islatlon.

IS10tI0n.
Congre ssman Gronna is delivering
q number Of addresses around the
state during the campaign. North
Dakota is big state to visit by ANY
candidate, but Congressman Gronna
will.undertake to ..meet as many Of
che residents and farmers as possible.
He is ashard worker both in and out
Of congress, man easy TO meet and
who listens with patient ear to all
reasonable suggestions and requests,
and in congress has been especially
active in attending to the multitude
of such duties as the growing inter-
ests of the state now require Of a
congressman. He KNOWS the needs
Of settlers, is large land owner. and
business man himself, and is a thor
oughly representative citizen Of the
prairie state'he halls from. He is a
candidate. for reelection ..and should
be given a vote at the primaries.
Mr.. Gronna made an address at
Valley City last week in which he
showed his familiarity not only with
the conditions of his own state but
good grasp Of national affairs. He is
republican, and believes that thru
the republican party the best inter-
ests Of this country and the real pros
perity of the people can be secured
and maintained. He observed what
everyone knows, that the republican
party is not retrograde organiza-
zion. It's watchword is progress, and
he pointed out that as proof Of this
fact more prosperity has been seen in
the last ten years in this country
than ever before. He favored the
federal regulation and control of all
public service corporations, including
railroad Transportation companies,
and that these companies owned
practically by one million out of our
IS millions Of population should be
subject to reasonable and proper reg
ulations for the benefit of the majol-
-lty. He declared there should be no
Discrimination in the punishment
of violatos of flaws, and that as an
evidence of the party's good faith
there are no rebates given favored
shippers today, and the small COM
petitor and the small industry is be-
ing fostered as never before 10 the
history Of this country, prior to- the
passage Of the Hepburn bill. He be-
lieved that under the republican ad-
ministration the small dealers in
many articles we're beginning to get
foothold which they have not had
until the effect of that wise law be-
gan to be seen.
Regarding the financial policy Of
the country in connection with
banks, Mr.. Gronna declared that the
republican party had secured sound
money for the nation and should. and
will make banks. transacting busi-
ness under the federal laws, sound
banks.
Bonds are the basis of circulation
and bank depositors who lose in
banks tnat fail, should be paid back
their money by the government, and
a tax raised from the banks them
selves, should provide a..fund for this
purpose. Our banking law, he. ad-
mitted, is yet faulty. 1t started in
with the end of the Civil War when
business affairs we're In a chaotic
condition, and while many improve
ments have been made, much yet
remains to be done in the way Of ma
tional legislation 10 secure safe banks
for the people IN which to deposit
their funds and to provide basis of
circulation sufficient for capital to
meet every demand Of the develop
ing country and an Industrious pop
ula!on. The losses 10 broken banks
in the last twenty years have been
small, in the aggregate, and should
be reduced to nothing, under proper
government supervision.
Mr.. Gronna said the tariff should
be modified. and 1t should be such as
to raise only the reasonable expenses
for the government. 1t should not be
entirely protective and present laws
should be revised BY the party which
has promulgated them and which
has enacted SUCH laws as. favor to the
greatest extent, all classes. The fac
tory alongside Of the farm should
come under our tariff benefits. He
believed In taking of the outy on
lumber, coal, iron and paper-pulp,
placing all those articles on the free
list and called attention to the fact
THAT Noreil /. Dakota was annually
burning 0pI Immense quantities. Of
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