The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-06-04
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES

10 tne Republlcan Electors OF the
State of North Dakota:
Ambition to represent the state of
North Dakota in the United States
senate demands of me an honest, frank
and straightforward statement to the
people regarding my views on some of
the many questions of public concern.
I believe that the Ambition to reprec
sent the people in the upper house OF
congress is o laudable ambition and
calls for the exercise of the purest
motives, the devotion of ~unsellsh en-
ergy and fair consideration of every
appeal from every interest.
In perfect accord with the admins
tration and the splendid leadership of
successor should be one who has the
the policies he has SO ~fearlessly, Wig
sorously and successfully pursued, I
believe Secretary Taft to be the ideal,
or of Mr.. Roosevelt for the presidency.
Agriculture is the basis Of all our
wealth, the farmer and his toll the
foundation of our prosperity. I be-
lieve in legislation, state and national,
that will give our farmers fair grades
for their grain, check excessive dock
age and other leakages from their re-
turns, insure standards of grading
that are uniform and just and see that
the producer and not the middlsman
gets the benefits of these uniform
standards.
I believe the state should have a per-
manent commission composed of men
experienced in the growing, grading
and handling of grain, to have charge
of all elevators in the state, and to
whom they shall be responsible, an
appropriation sufficient to investigate
conditions, enforce rules and laws and
correct evils, if any.
Transportation is as necessary as
food. l believe in the proper encour-
agement of railroad building and in
wise, firm and just control and regula-
tion, of railroads, so that the shipper
shall have prompt, adequate and eff.
fective remedy against injustice, of
whatever sort.
The free pass and franking privileges
are condemned by public sentiment,
and state, as we'll as interstate, laws
abolishing these privileges should be
passed.
Taxation is an issue of the first pub.
lie Importance. l believe in the tax
alton of railroads and corporate prop
erty and to this end I believe in thoro
inquiry to ascertain the true and cor.
rect value of railroad and corporate
property. I believe that every man,
firm, corporation or railroad should
stand equal before any law and all
laws. l believe the same justice should
be afforded them and the same obedi-
ence to law required of them. The
state should lever depart from the
fixed policy of full valuation of cor.
porate properties and equitable tax.
alton of all interests.
Combination of capital is recognized
i as necessary and advisable under the
Industrial evolution now in progress
throughout the world, but predatory
wealth must always recognize the
source of its being and combinations
and trusts in restraint of trade, to con.
troll the price of labor and material,
oppressive to the producer and con.
sumer, is a menace to society and its
federation is i~ndefensible. Federal and
state laws regulating trusts and com
binations should be direct and com
prehensive and rightly applied. The
withdrawal of tariff protection from
trust made articles would have a whole
some effect on persistent violation of
the antitrust laws.
The methods of the Standard Oil
trust in crushing out competition in
every form and wherever it arises, and
the cruel destruction of Legitimate en-
terprises through the advantages of
unlimited resources against weak but
honest effort cannot be too severely
condemned, and the heroic and un-
faltering determination of President
Roosevelt, our judiciary and all branch
es of u government to bring this
trust to bay has the overwhelming ap-
proval of all people who stand for fair
play and a square deal.
New and changed conditions demand
a REIMBURSEMENT of the tariff schedules
and such revision should be made at
once by The friends and O the ene-
mies~of the protective system. There
is merit in the contention for an ex-
pert tariff commission, to report from
time to time information for the guild
ance of congress.
The duty of two dollars a thousand
VII AiAOC "ho du ~1uCACuSdDlG COQCeS-
sion in the formation of the tariff
schedules burden upon the home
builder of the northwest that should be
speedily abolished, The tariff IN
wood pulp should also be removed.
The establishment of experimental
stations in come ton with the agri-
cultural college in different parts of
the state is of the greatest benefit to
the agricultural interests, in that it
will be determi ned what grains and
other products are best adapted to the
various sections of the state under diff
ferent climatic and soil conditions.
The federal government should liber-
ally support and supplement these es-
Establishments.
The systematic drainage of the great
Red River valley is one of the most
urgent problems for federal consider
alton and of the vast sum being con
stantly contributed by North Dakota
to the reclamation fund, beyond the
requirements of feasible irrigation
projects in this state, the expenditure
of 1000, 900 or more of this fund for a
comprehensive system of drainage is
not only advisable but of the greatest