Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-10-07


alone in his strange joy. The Presi.
dent does not laugh with him. He has
rushed into the breach with a cure
for the failures of the bill. He would
have Commission to revise the tariff
He would not sink the knife of JUS
! tice into it's vitals, but he would cut
| off it's legs, it's arms and finally it's
head. The President shows more good
| common sense in this than the regular
stand-patters, but why should we have
| a Commission to report to a Presi-
dent who has once shown himself
weak on this very question? Why
should we not have a Commission,
which would report to the Congress of
the United States, and why should we
| not have a Congress who would re-
| ceive and act upon that report? Maine
is the only state which has been heard
from since the Tariff Commission was
appointed and Maine says, by all
| means, bring in a revision. We will
send senator and two representa-
tives who will stand for the rights of
the people," Other states will say
the same in November.
Endorses True Insurgents.
Our platform also commends the in
surgent congressman who voted
against the Tariff Bill and says to
Lindbergh and Davis, I'VE trust you
| and support you while this important
business is up. Go back and finish
your work for the people, This is
an unselfish stand to take and ought
to be reciprocated. The insurgents
are worthy of all praise for repudiat-
ing Cannonism in the House, but in
poet,
ION Vernon's Chief, why lavish all
your bays,
Come, honest Muse, and sing great
| Marion's praise
While we honor the insurgents, we
remember that they numbered but
Twenty-Five. Why forget the one hun
dred eighty-seven Democrats without
| whose votes the insurgents could do
nothing? The insurgents were the
generals in this battle, but there had
to be privates also. The Democrats
in the House carried the musket and
in that all-night fight, they bivouacked
on their arms and slept not, neither
did they slumber until stand-patism
hoisted the white flag.
Direct Vote for United States Senators.
The connecting link between the
state and the nation is the senator
from the sovereign state. He has a
siX-year term. He survives sudden po-
litical upheavals. He is a balance in
the government. The makers of the
Constitution thought when they gave
the House members short term and
made them directly elective, they had
sufficiently Offset the indirect choice OF
senators, but far-seeing men as they
were, they could not project their vi
sion into the future and see that one
day there would grow up in America
organized aggregations of capital rep
resenting protected interests, transport
tation interests, brewing interests,
which would take the shortest cut to
control the Government. These aggre-
cations did arise; they did take the
shortest cut; they went with unerring
wisdom to the control of the Senate
as the key to the citadel. The people
might illuminate every two years
against recreant House; they might
every four years dethrone a vacillating
President, but so long as the interests
could erect Senate wall and man it
with watchmen, whom Senator Bever-
ridge has aptly denominated Deal
Masters" they were safe. To tear
down that wall; to hurl these Deal
Masters into the moat, we must re-
store the rights of the people in the
Senate.
| It can be done only by the direct
election of the Senators. know that
there are objections to this plan. I
know that the people are occasionally
fooled and there are times when pop.
ular candidate for senator is a poor
senator, but all earnings aside, the in
defeasible right of the people to this
protection from government of the
interests and by the interests must
|
| Direct Legislation Endorsed.
| Closely connected with this question
is a similar one-that of direct legis-
lation, known as the initiative and the
referendum and the recall. A few
years ago this was called a chimera.
hose were the days. when senator
of the United States cynically de-
clared "the publication of our politics
is an irridescent dream" But our
dreams do sometimes come true. Men
dreamed once that taxation without
representation was tyranny, and woke
to drive it as fact into every heart
of Great Britain. Men dreamed again
! that the, auction block might be de-
stroyed, and woke to find themselves
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