The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-20
Republican GubernatOrial
Candidate 'tPrudently ST.
lent" on Vital Issues.
ED. Smith, says Governor Lind,
''Has Served With Eberhart,
Under Eberhart and
Over Eberhart.''

OF supply and demand, and not by rea-
son of any tariff. The only way the
tar!n affects the price of a commodity
is by limiting the supply. The avail
aole supply of farm products has been
limited, as l have shown by operation
OF natural causes.
Row much longer, my farmer
friends, are the trusts going to be able
10 pull the wool over your eyes and
make you believe that you are benefit.
ed by the monopoly tariff?
Standpat Treachery.
Another evidence of standpat
treachery to the people is furnished
by the history of the railroad bill in
the last congress. The Republican
party has promised to amend the in
terstate commerce act. Ostensibly to
redeem this pledge, the attorney gen.
eral, under the presidents direction,
prepared a bill which was sent to the
senate for introduction. The bill was
introduced by Sen. Elkins. 1t was
most generous in it's terms to the
railroads, but appeared to overlook
that the public had any rights. It Gre
ated new court open to railroads to
enJoin the orders of the interstate
commerce commission, but denied the
public admission to that court upon
equal terms. 1t denied shippers, COM
munities, firms and individuals inter-
ested in defending the orders of the
commission, from appearing by coun.
sci or otherwise to sustain the orders
in court. 1t repealed the Sherman
antitrust act, so far as railroads were
concerned, and authorized pooling. If
the bill had become law in the form
in which it came from the White
House, every shipper and every indus
try in this country would have been
at the absolute mercy of Wall street.
People Owe Much to cIapp.
Sen. Clapp is entitled to the graft
tude of the people of this state for
the able and fearless manner in
which he combatted the vicious provi-
sions of that bill. On April 26 last, he
gave voice on the floor of the senate
to the indignation he felt over the I'M
scrupulous methods resorted to by
the president and his attorney general
to force this measure through con-
gress. He said: when this bill came
from the committee, it was with a
declaration more or less official-if
we are to regard as official the die
tates of anyone-that it should be
passed without crossing a tt or dot
ting an 81 More than that, we were
told, with an assumption of authority
in the widespread publicity given to
declaration which 1 cannot question.
that the test of party loyalty would
be to pass this bill without question
ing it's provisions. More than that,
we were told that the protests which
minority members of the committee
might make to the provisions of this
bill, while no power could prevent our
making our protests, would be met
with that condition which, in military
parlance, is clothed in the expression,
Give them the cold STEEL and in
parliamentary parlance with the ex-
preston, Give them the roll CALL
But l am glad to say that we have
finally reached point where those
who would seek to defend this bill
have been obliged to meet debate with
debate"
Sen. Dolliver of Iowa said on the