The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-07-07

the passage oil measures carrving ont
the pledges of the party and for the
welfare CT the people.
we recommend and endorse the
work =. our senators and representa-
Nv, S in congress for their untirine
Efforts in endeavoring to secure leg
islation in the interests of the people,
and especially commend their united
support OF the tariff commission, rec
ognlzlng in it the successful founda-
tlon of future intelligent and euuita-
BE legislation upon this exceedingly
difficult and technical proposition.
The republicans of Minnesota re-
new their adherence to the policy of
prot -ction to American industries and
American labor as defined and declar-
ed by the republican national Plat
form of 1908.
We especially commend the provis-
ion Of tariff legislation of the sixty-firs
mum and maximum tariff rate where
By ths president, by proclamation, has
been able to remove all discrimina-
ton against the importaticns of
AM rican products into foreign coun-
tries and at the same time apply the
minimum rate of duty fixed by such
law On the products of all foreign
countries admitted to our markets.
We also heartily commend and ap-
prove the efforts of President Taft
and of our s-nators and representa-
tlves in the congress to establish a
tariff commission to the end that
there be made a scientific investiga-
ton of the cost of production at home
and abroad and all other matters
connected with the tariff, and we be-
lieve in the revision CT the tariff
schedules, in whole or in part, in &C
cordance with the facts ascertained
by such commission.
We, the representatives of the re-
publican party in the state of Mime
sofa, voicing the unanimous senti-
ment of the citizenry of the state, ir-
respective of party affiliation, ex-
pr SIS deep and sincere regret at the
untimely removal, by the hand of
d ath, CT the brilliant governor and
popular state treasurer in the noon
time of their efficiency and in thu
morning of their promise, and extend
profound sympathy and heart-earnest
coincidence to the b reaved families
Of those faithful and much-loved pub
lie officials.
Called to the executive chair und r
peculiar distressing circumstances,
Governor Adolph Olson Eberhart has
D. .rformed the difficult and delicate
duties of his position with credit to
himself and honor to the state.
Believing that each and every sec
ton of the state should be fairly
repr, scented in the lawmaking bodies
as is provided in section 2, article ~
of the constitution, we pledge the re-
publican party to the passage of an
law by the next leg
islature. based on population, as
shown by the United States census for
1910, to take effect on or before Jan.
1, 1912, that will give to each coun-
ty the representation it is justly
entitled to in both branches Of the
state legislature.
We are unqualifiedly in favor of
the conservation CT our national and
state resources along the line sug-
gest d by Theodore Roosevelt and be-
gun by him during his administration.
We especially commend the efforts CT
the national administration and of the
officials CT our own state furthering
this movement.
Recognizing the Importance of good
roads in the development and upbuild-
ing of our state we heartily favor
the enactment by the legislature and
submission to the voters Of an amend
ment to the constitution providing
for a l mill state road tax, the levy
ing of u Of mill state road tax by
the next, legislature, and a liberal
appropriation annually hereafter to
enable the state highway commits
sion to employ corps of competent
men to supervise the work of road i'm
provement and to advise and instruct
the local authorities in the correct
method of roadmaking.
Realizing that the only true way
to conserve the great natural re-
sources of the state is to use ana
develop the same, and the only way
that can be accomplished is by men
and women, we recommend the work
of the state immigration commission
in procuring desirable settlers, and
recommend that they be given enlarg-
ed powers and increased funds to bet
ter facilitate them in securing de-
sirable immigrants.
We recommend that a system be
adopted whereby the arabic lands of