Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-07-24

OF the state government in all their right
as the most competent administration 70
our domestic concerns and the surest bull
wark against a~nti-republican tendencies
ana In the preservation of the genera
government in Its whole constitutions
Yigor as the sheet anchor of our peace a
home and safety abroad" we are oppose,
TO the Capitalization implied in the sug
gestions, now frequently made, that TIL
powers or the general government shoul,
be extended by executive and Legislative,
action and by judicial construction. Their,
is no twilight zone between the nation
and the state in which exploiting inter
ests can take refuge from both, and ii Il
as necessary hat the federal government
h exercise the powers delegated to 4
as IL Is that the state governments shall
use the authority reserved to them, bu
we insist that the federal remedies for thu
regulation of interstate commerce and fol
the prevention of private monopoly shall
be added to, not substituted for, state
remedies.
The Tariff.
We welcome the belated promise OF tar.
in reform, now offered by the republican
party in tardy recognition of the right
eousness of the democratic position on this
question. But the people cannot SAFELY
entrust the execution Of this important
work to a party which Is so deeply OBJ
igated to ,le highly protected interests
as Is the republican party. We call at
tention to the significant fact tina the
promised relief was postponed until after
the coming election-an election TO sue
ceed IN which the republican party must
have that same support from the benef-
Charles of the high protective tariff as 1t
has always heretofore received from
them; and 10 the further fact thai dur
ING years OF uninterrupted p.wer no ac-
ton whatever mas been taken by the re-
publican congress to correct the admitted
- existing tariff iniquities.
we FAVOR immediate revision Of the tar
III by the reduction Of import duties. Ar
ticles entering into competition with trust
controlled products should be placed upon
The free list, and material reductions
should be made In the tariff upon the
necessities of life, especially upon articles
competing with such American manu-
features as are sold abroad more cheaply
at home; and gradual reductions
should be made in such other schedules as
be necessary to restore the tariff to
a revenue basis.
Existing duties have given to the manu-
f~acturers Of paper a shelter behind which
they ave organized combinations to raise
the price of pulp and Of paper, thus i'm
losing a tax upo the spread Of knowl-
edge. We demand the immediate repeal
of the tariff on wood pulp, print paper,
timber and logs, and that these
articles be placed upon the free list.
Trusts.
A private monopoly is indefensible and
intolerable. We therefore favor the Wig
enforcement OF the criminal law
guilty trust magnates and Off
Gals. and demand the enactment Of such
legislation as may be necessary
to make 1t impossible for a private mo-
nopoly to exist in the United States.
Among the additional remedies we specify
three: % A law preventing a duplication
OF directors among competing corpora-
tions; () a license system which will,
abrioging the right Of each state
to create corporations, or its right to reg
ulate as it will foreign corporations doing
business within its lirnits, make 1t nee
essary for a manufacturing or trading
corporations engaged In interstate COM
morce to take out q federal license before
IL shall be permitted to control as much
as % per cent of the produce in which It
deals, the license 10 protect the public
watered stock and to prohibit the
by such cooperation of more than
30 per cent OF the total amount of any pro-
iuce consumed in the United States, and
CD q law compelling such licensed corpor-
atoms 20 sell to all purchaser in all parts
Of the country on the same terms, after
due allowance for cost Of trans
Railroad Regulation.
We assert the right Of congress to ex-
srcise complete control over interstate
commerce and The right Of each state to
exercise like control over commerce within
Is borders.
We demand such enlargement of the
lowers Of the Interstate Commerce COM
mission as may be necessary TO compel the
'ailt Dads to perform their duties as COM
non carriers and prevent discrimination |
and restore confidence.
We favor the efficient supervision and
equation of railroads engaged in inter-
state commerce. 10 this end we recon- !
mend the valuation of railroads by the
commission, such
to take into consideration the |
value Of the properly, the origi-
lay cost and the cost of reproduction and
of value that will render the
fair and Just.
We favor such legislation as will pre-
rent the railroads from engaging in bust
less which brings them into competition
With their shippers, also Legislation which
viii assure such reduction in t~ransporta-
ion rates as conditions will permit, care
)eing taken 10 avoid reduction that would
compel a reduction of wages, prevent ade-
luate service or do injustice to legitimate
Investments.
We heartily approve the laws prohibit
ng the pass and the rebate, and we ia
'or any further legislation necessary TO
~estrain, correct and prevent such abuses.
We favor such legislation as will in
the power or the Interstate Com
nerce commission, giving TO it the initi-
tive with reference to rates and trans
Charges put into effect by the
abroad companies, and permitting the
commission on its
initiative to declare a rate illegal
nd as being more than should be charged
or such service. The present law relating
hereto is inadequate by reason of the fact
the Interstate Commerce commission
5 without power to fix or investigate a
ate until complaint has been made to it
" the shipper.
We further declare that all agreements
4 traffic or other associations of railway
gents affecting interstate rates should
&c unlawful unless filed with and APP
'roved by the Interstate Commerce COM
mission.
We favor he enactment Of a law Civ
ng TO the Interstate Commerce commits
ion the power to inspect proposed rail-
DAD tariff rates or schedules before they
o be unreasonable, 10 initiate an adjust
nent thereof.
Banking and Currency.
The panic of 1901, coming without any
egit.mate Reuse when the republican
had for a decade been in Complete
ontrol of the federal government, fur
ishes additional proof that 1t Is either un-
tilling or incompetent to protect the in
OF the General public. 1t has so
mixed the country to Wall street that
he sins OF the spectators are visited up
n the whole people. While refusing TO
escle the wealth producers from spolia-
ton at the hands of the stock gamblers
nd spectators In farm products il has
eposited treasury funds, without interest
nd without competition, in favorite
1t has used an emergency for
Which 1t Is largely responsible to force
congress a bill changing the basis
Z bank currency and inviting market
and has failed TO give to
he Is. C00,000 depositors of the country pro-
ection to their savings.
/ require an mergenc cur
ency alCh CURRENCY should ba ieSuad and