Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-24

nour lS Ior tnorougn, courageous,
action upon the new living public
questions before the country, rath-
er than a defense of the fundamer-
tai principles of Republicanism.
These are not now assailed. Not
even the democratic party has SER
iously advocated free silver or free
trade since 1896. The protective
principle is now an American policy,
and the only question Is one of rea-
sonable and just application. The
correct principle is the difference in
cost of production at home and
abroad, making a proper provision
for American wages and reasonabrs
return on American capital. The
creation of the tariff board, with a
liberal appropriation for investiga-
tion of the facts, is a long step in
the right direction. We should nev-
er again require a general revision
of the tariff. Special schedules
should be changed whenever shown
" NC uul CdoOudDIG VI SASCoolSCs hlo
is now entirely practicable, since the
amendment made to the House Rules
in the last week of the last session
of congress, providing a method by
which any bill may be taken from a
committee and acted on by a majori-
ty of the house whenever commit
choll nnO1nnf 70 faHn
action upon it. / consider this one
of the most important amendments
to the house rules in the direction
of popular government. 1t was sup
ported unanimously by all members
of the House, excepting one demo-
crat from Missouri, who has since
been defeated at the primaries, and
Mr.. Cannon. This instance affords
an illustration, if one is necessary,
of how signally, Mr.. Cannon has fail
ed recently to correctly interpret the
trend of modern political thought.
Under our system of government
all political power originates with
the people and is exercised by the
people, except as it may be apportion-
ed out to the peoples representatives
For the past decade the tendency
has been towards larger participa-
ton by the people in their own gov
ernment. This is seen in the pri-
mary election laws, the initiative and
referendum, the recall, and in the
populariZation of the Rules of the
House of Representatives. We are
to have more decidedly government
by the people and by their immediate
representatives. This does not con-
template a revolution in our system
of government, but return to the
system evolved by the fathers. The
| Constitution makes no provision for
the political boss nor for a govern
ment by syndicate or by special in
terests. The power of the boss and
the influence of special interests up
on legislation have developed little
| by little while the people have been
neglectful Of the duties of citizen
ship.
The present political movement
is sane, essential and fundamental,
| is sane, essential and fundamental.
The Republican party must assume
it has in every forward movement
for the past fifty years.
THE most immediate require
ments are the selection of a Repub-
lican Speaker by the next Congress
| who shall be neither a re-actionary
nor an extreme radical, but pro-
| gressiVe Republican in positive ac-
| cord with the present National Re-
publican policies; the modification of
| such tariff schedules as do not now
| conform to the tariff principle set
forth in the National Republican
platform; the development of a con-
structive system for the efficient con-
troll and regulation of corporations
engaging in interstate commerce.
South Dakota republicans are in
| hearty agreement with the present
| national republican policies. They re-
| cognize in Theodore Roosevelt the
first great expounder of the princi-
pies of the present forward move
ment, and in President Taft, a strong
| conscientious and successful promo
ter and advocate of these policies.
South Dakotans are especially
honored in Colonel Theodore Roose-
velt's visit to the state. We feel
that we have greater claim upon
him than any state save New York
and North Dakota. His temporary
residence in Dakota Territory in the
SOS has made him in a sense a citi-
zen of the Dakotas. And we are
proud to believe that those years of
personal contact with the men of the
West gave him knowledge Of Wes-
tern character and Western needs,
and developed in him a deep symp-
athy for the man who tolls in what
ever field of labor, that contributed
to make him in a sense that cannot
be said of any other, the President
of the whole people,"
PATIENCE.