The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-01-14

immigration would give to the world
Information concerning our
never published in so striking a man
ner before.
earnestly urge that an appropria-
ton be made for the printing and dis
tribution OF this report.
The state fair Is now one of the per-
manent and substantial institutions of
the state. No more effective stimulus
TO better methods of farming and
stock raising al be found No more
convincing and attractive advertising
of the substantial resources OF the state
can be devised. No other will bring
as good a return for the money spent.
COMMISSIONS of immigration.
Under the provisions of chapter IS,
Session Laws of 1907, making the sec
rotary of the state board of agricul-
ture ex-officio commissioner of immi-
grafton. and requiring the governor TO
make the appointment, appointed Mr..
Clarence y. McIlvaine Of Huron TO the
position. AS secretary of he board
Of agriculture he has rendered every
possible service and the capable and
efficient performance Of his duties in
that regard have taken no small part
Of his time.
No appropriation is made after Jan.
/, 1909. The office is, therefore, with
out a dollar for its maintenance at
this time. There seems to he a de-
mand for the maintenance OF an I'M
migration bureau, and until some other
n better plan is to provide for, the
arrangement made by the law of 1907,
should be supported by an a~ppropria-
ton.
Insurance of Deposits.
The platform of the m party
on which the larger number of you
gentlemen were elected, contains the
following declaration:
!-- 70 NTnPS fhR
establishment of a postal savings bank
system for the convenience of the peo-
pie and the encouragement of thrlft.
The ~rotection of ~depositors against
loss by insolvent and mismanageo
banks, and the protection of solvent
and we'll managed banks against runs
and panics, requires tina postal say
ings bank laws be accompanied by enh-
cient laws. state and national, pro-
vidins for the insurance of depositors
against loss. We favor the enactment
of such laws"
It is undoubtedly true that a nation
al law is soon to be enacted establish
ing postal Savings banks. Deposlss
In these savings banks VIII be nlaue
upon time certificates only n there
will he no open accounts. The depos-
;ts will not be kept in the local banks,
but will probably be sent 10 ceht,al
reserves. and thus withdrawn from the
state to the detriment of the local
BANS, both state and national. -,
The funds thus removed Will, OF
course, be more inaccessible ana less
likely to be used in facilitating local
business than if the same were kept
IN the home banks. For this reason,
as well as for many other good anu
obvious reasons, a carefully worked
out law for the protection and IN
surance ur depositors is demanded by
the times.
Dairy and Food Commission
Certain sections in the law enacted
by the legislature OF 1907 In relation
t0 the branding and sale of drugs n
medicines were declared to be Invalid
for fatal omissions and antiquities
in the language used, leaving our pure
food law somewhat crude and incom-
plete.
The law should be amended so as
TO become effective. The purpose
should be not to favor or injure any
class but to protect the consuming
public from fraud.
School and Public Land.
The report of the commissioner OF
school and public lands shows that his
department is in a prosperous condi-
ton. The and sold during the past
two years have brought much higher
prices than ever before, and the rent
ais have greatly increased.
The large and constantly increasing
permanent fund Is all loaned on safe
securities and the department has been
unable to supply the demand for loans,
but has been obliged at times, to hold
up applications for months, and some
times has been forced to refuse them
entirely. Every acre Of capitol building
lands situated east Of the Missouri
river has been sold and over $400,0 N0
realized from these lands, with over A.
| mn $50 a%,It ,,-e41l .v,Act ne tho ttvar
Primary Election Law
Two years ago, in keeping with it's
platform pledge previously made, the
legislature enacted a comprehensive
primary election law. During the year
1908, the several political parties made
their party nominations under this law
and the dominant party selected it's
party candidate for the United States
senate, the law providing that the
Endorsement by popular vote shall have
the force and effect of an obstruction
to such members of the legislature or
the same political party as were NOM
mated in the same primary election,
to vote for and support such candi-
date in the legislature for the office Of
United States senator"
Our primary election law in its gen.
eral and essential features is similar
to that enacted in Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Washington
ana d number VI olic StoeCS' as d
system governing political party man
agement and nominations, IT has come
to stay. No instance has been report
ed where it has been repealed.
A general attack was made upon this
law in the supreme court of the state
last May in which its constitutionality
was questioned and every possible OBJ
lection urged. The general provisions
Of the law were sustained. Two provi-
sions, however, were held to be invalid,
to wit:
Sections s and 10. which required
candidates for nominations to pay a
designated fee at the time of filing
their nominating petitions, the money
received to be covered into the gen.
eral fund to reimburse the county for
expenses incurred in holding the pri-
mary; also the clause in section IS,
which reads: each county shall be
entitled to one delegate to each party
state convention for every 100 votes
or major fraction thereof, cast by such
political party in said county for it's
party candidate for governor at the last
preceding general election" also the
folio wing proviso in subdivision 3 of
section Sc: Provided, that whenever
two-thirds Of the members of the
county central committee of the sew
eral political parties of any county at
a regularly called meeting, shall decide
that there is not a sufficient contest
over the selection of delegates from
such county to the state conventions
called to elect delegates to national