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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-03-24
PRAIRIE HON {.

John Duff entertained friends Sun.
day afternoon.
Miss Rena Larsen spent Sunday with
home folks at Bruce.
Miss Katie Duff spent Friday with
her friend, Miss Able.
Mrs. Clarence Martin called on old
friends Thursday afternoon.
Archie Bishman and lady friends
spent Sunday at Lake Campbell.
Mrs. Mary Bulls entertained com
pany at her home last Sunday.
Miss Louise McComb entertained
friends for dinner last Thursday.
Mrs. |. c. Southland is spending the
week in B~rookings with friends.
Orilla Hough and a gentleman
friend spent SUNDAY at Will Kennedy's.
George Chapman is out in the coun-
try looking after his farming interests.
Miss Maude Lucas, after enjoying
a weeks vacation is busily employed
in Sterling A.
A number Of the young people at
tended church services in B~rookings
Sunday evening.
Herman Mitchell enjoyed a Sunday
visit from his brother and family who
live in Fountain.
Mrs. Wilcox and daughter were
pleasant callers in this neighborhood
one day last week.
Mrs. Arthur Larson and daughter,
Della, were Friday afternoon callers
at the Bishman home.
Herbert Blakely, Maude Lucas and
Mary Blakely attended teachers meet
ing at Bruce Saturday afternoon.
Eugene Kelly, Of Irish-American
minstrel fame, was a visitor in these
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-03-24

Mr.. Fox OF Brookings VAS down
in Trenton Tuesday looking after his
farming interests.
Quite a number have been having
the grippe. as one In every family
seems TO have II.
The Epworth League social vas
held at Mr.. Bisbey's Friday night and
a fine time was enjoyed by all
Charles Wilson, r. S. Carter and
the Telkamp boys went up to take
the |. o. o. F. third degree Monday
night.
Messrs. Frank and Gus Teikamp
and Rob Carter drove 10 Brookings
Monday evening TO attend the I o.
o. F. lodge.
The Trenton league is 70 hold a
social and oyster supper at Bisby's
on Friday evening, March IS. Don't
forget the date.
The ladies aid have been excused
from work this week owing to the H.
ness of Mrs. Hahn, we're the meeting
was TO be held.
Miss Lille Berg returned Saturday
to take up her school duties. Her
sister is still very low with no hope
for her recovery.
Among those who finished corn
picking this week are Pete Haggard,
Frank Telkamp and Mr.. Staarman fin
ished his last week.
Herman S%chlobohm has had his
granary newly sided and painted. Her
man is getting to be quite an artistic
paint singer himself.
James and Howard Biggar were
down from Bookings Saturday. James
stayed over night but Howard return
ed the same evening.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-03-24

ciety may do so by sending in their
names to Mrs. l. G. Southland, preSi-
dent.
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country Correspondence

The Registe" desires a correspondent IN every town
ship in the county. II your township is not represented
write US and We viii send you the necessary stamped
envelopes and paper. All correspondence must be signed.
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senatorial 1ouas Bought.

Time and again II has been proven
that men have bought seats In the
Senate chamber as they might pur.
chase membership in a stock exchange.
The latest on this roster Of fame
made Infamous, is Lorimer Of Illinois,
who pleads that eff his place was
bought, some wicked fellows paid the
brides without his knowledge and
thrust the toga on his honest, unsus-
peeting shoulders!"
| cannot call the long roll to its end.
To do so we're to fiji a volumes space.
But at the head, and in supreme COM
mand of the "unholy alliance" stands
the dictator of the republican MAORI
ty in the senate-he controls that ma
jority as the master of the hounds
guides a servile pack. At once the
creator and creature of illegal COM
binations-united by family ties with
the house of Rockefeller. he holds his
place by the sheer force of money
This man is Aldrich, of Rhode Island
the rotten borough of American poll
tics.
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REEDS PLATFORM in BRIEF.

stand for a tariff for revenue only.
would gather tariff revenues from luxuries, rather than neces-
sites. -.
l favor a tax upon the incomes of both persons and corporations.
favor extending the power of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to enable that body to compel fair freight rates upon all in
terstate commerce.
favor the preservation of the integrity and powers of the various
states.
Capitalization is both undesirable and dangerous.
| favor the enactment of a statute which will prevent the annul
ment by federal courts of a state law until the tribunals of the state
have been permitted to pass upon its consttudonalty.
A foreign corporation voluntarily entering a state for the purpose
of continuously doing business therein, should be compelled to submit
itself to the laws and courts of the state.
l favor the election of United States Senators by a direct vote.
The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers should be made naVlganle
and their rich bottom lands protected.
The government should establish fair and just interstate railroad
rates without waiting for relief which water competition may compel.
against all who violate them.
larceny.
a million of the peoples money every working day in the year ought
to be driven from Office.
Graft in every form should be eliminated.
The benehciares of legislation and their agents should be driven
from the halls of congress and the departments OF state to tn END
The men and newspapers giving me support are inspired by no
other motives than patriotic fidelity to the Democratic party unnam'
pered by entangfng alliances o embarrassing environment.
am relying for success wholly upon the loyalty OF good democrats
who Mace principle above all other considerations.
If elected shall be in a position to faithfully serve the people
and to the extent of my ability represent their interest
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Men of other Days.

In the great tribunal that once list
ened to the Olympian tnunders Of Web
ster, the matchless eloquence of Clay,
the iron logic of Calhoun, the pro-
found reasoning of Thurman and Ed.
munds, and the patriotic appeals of
Sumner and Douglass, we now find, OF
have recently found, squat on the
benches of the great. Guggenheim,
proprietor of the smelling and mining
trust, who answered not, when on the
floor of the General Assembly of Col
orado a Democratic State Senator op.
emily charged him with bribery and
corrupt practices. There for years
was the corrupt, If easy" boss OF
New York's political machine, Thomas
C. Plat; Chauncey M. Depew, brief
less attorney of insurance swindlers.
lingering money flched from widows,
for which he rendered no service save
the loan Of his political prestige;
Stephen J. Elkins, whose hands have
gathered into a network of combina'
lions the control of the mineral and
railway properties of West Virginia,
and skinned by lawless methods the
cream of her wealth and commerce.
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The United States Senate.

The Senate of the United States is
often referred to as the greatest de-
Lucrative body of earth. Whether or
not il was ever justly entitled to the
high encomium, none will deny the
tremendous importance of its RESPONSE
bilities, nor challenge the fact that ex-
allied patriotism and a high sense OF
honor should guide its members in
their official acts. That there are many
senators who combine these virtues
with great learning and intelligence is
beyond doubt.
It is, however, a lamentable fact that
those who seek to prey upon the pub
lie have been and are actively, shrewd-
ly and ~forcefully seeking to gain con-
troll in the senate. That they have sue
ceeded beyond the knowledge of the
average citizen is also lndubitably
true. Men have been repeatedly sem
to the senate who we're void OF all
attributes of heart and brain, which
should go with the office.
To place their proprietors and rep
resentatives in the senate chamber,
"the interests" have not hesitated to
corrupt the voter-to bride the legis'
lator, nor to purchase, as far as pos
sible, the press of the land, to the end
that the voice of protest may be 81
fenced and the edge Of conscience
dulled.
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A Car RuIed House.

The House of Representatives has
ceased to be a dellberative body. For
years 1t has been In the control OF
Joseph G. Cannon, special pleader and
advocate of the corporations.
Thus. these important branches of
the government are practically in con
troll of the enemies of the people.
Thus has the voice of protest until
recently been almost silenced and the
arm of opposition paralyzed.
How well the combinations have
done their work is demonstrated by
the fact that they have been strong
enough to compel the administration
to violate its solemn promises to the
country, and to even break faith with
the republican party. 1t has become
at once the instrument of and apollo
gist for roguish frauds and impudent
villianies! Conditions demand langu-
age of vigor-invective is the proper
form Of expression. Since the days
when the Tweed rings reek filed the
alr-since the hour when the Credit
Mobilier infamy astounded the nation
and tainted both houses of congress-
there has not been put so great a
shame upon our people. The cabinet
is involved in scandals-more than one
of its members rest under grave sus-
picion. The President has become an
object of pity, II not derision! can
only in the most hasty manne cata-
logue a few of the great gratis at.
tempted or consummated:
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One Single Exception.

The solitary representative in the
cabinet of the common people is
James Wilson, Secretary of Agricul-
ture, who is without political influence
or power, and the potentialities OF
whose Office are limited to the distri'
button of garden seeds and agricultural
pamphlets.
In the entire cabinet there cannot be
found the name of a single mar who
has ever championed the cause of the
people, or struck a blow for humanity.
Offense to "the interests places
"the bar sinister" upon the escutcheon
of all who aspire for admission to the
Presidents official family.
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mates. No cause can be brought
against his will and no litigation can
proceed without his sanction. No of
fender against the statutes of the
United States can be brought to the
bar of justice unless he so orders. The
enforcement of all laws against trusts
Is thus placed in the hands of the man
who built their legal framework,
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Rubber Tax Robbery.

Thus. Aldrich and ~Guggenheim have
voted a tax upon ninety million peo-
plel Thus do they thrust dishohest
hands into the pockets OF every mar
and every institution consuming a
particle of rubber!
These men, in disregard OF every
principle of honor and OF law, nave
voted to enrich themselves. The
countless millions that in one years
time can thus be gathered by their
greedy hands cannot be m or
foretold by prophecy.
Thus do we trace the ugly roots OF
the cancer of corruption into the Pres
dents cabinet, into the departments
of government, and into the senate
chamber of the United States!
Wrong such as these are not I'M
precedented-but in the past. culprits
have had the decency to mask their
acts by the pretense that they were
trying to conserve the public veal.
Not hitherto have they so boldly done
their work, nor conld we in the past
bring evidence so conclusive mat
those high In the government were en-
gagged in intrigues for their own ex-
elusive benefit.
The organization of the rubber COM
bine to which | have just adverted
furnishes a startling example OF the
entire tariff scheme and serves 10 dem
onstrate that in its essence n con-
ception, It never has been other than
a smooth device by which the wealthy
and powerful have picked the pockets
of the common man.
Protection only for the Rich.
1t is within the limits Of conserva-
tive statement to declare that during
the last twenty years there has not
been a single tariff schedule written
to give protection to the weak. Only
the rich, the powerful and influential
have been able to secure the passage
of a law to give them greater profits.
The enormities of to-day differ not
in character, but solely In degree, from
those which have been practiced for
four decades Of time, Two illustra'
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great financial and Industrial comDi-
nations occupy seats in congress, and
from this vantage aid. abet and legal
lie the schemes which fill their purses.
The Presidents Cabinet.
The Cabinet OF the President is not
immune to the ~pestilential invasion.
Formerly composed of great thinkers,
statesmen and patriots, 1t is in this
latter day often recruited from the
ranks of great combinations which
prey upon and despoil the
people.
The path to official station too fire.
quently leads from the fortress oil
privilege, through the morass of I'M
lawful monopoly and criminal combi-
nation.
Applicants for admission to the
Presidents official family must bear
the union LABEL Of the interests
Let US call the roll:
The steel trust-vastest combina-
ton of earth-boldest defer OF anti
trust legislation-selected the port-fo-
Ito of State and advanced to that ex-
allied position its attorney, Philander
C. Knox, who assisted in formulating
the scheme of its criminal creation.
The Railway interests sent up the
name of Jacob NJ. Dickinson, for many
years General Counsel of the Illinois
Central: upon him was conferred the
Secretaryship of War.
The Standard Oil Company, the
Beer Trust, and the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway placed at the
head of the Department of Commerce
and Labor their attorney and adviser,
Charles A. Nagel.
Frank A. Hitchcock, a mere politi-
clan. who had never performed a sin
gle service to his country, but whose
close and intimate relations with the
predatory interests was demonstrated
by the alacrity with which they re
sponded to his every request for cam
paign funds, was made Postmaster
General.
Those conspirators who had in mind
the exploitation OF Alaska and the seiz'
ure of the vast and almost inconeeiv'
able wealth of that country, were care
full to gain control of that department
of government which alone was able
to deliver the peoples property into
their hands. Richard Achilles Ball
niger, their erstwhile attorney, coun
sellor and friend, became Secretary
of the Interior. How well they knew
their man-how earnestly he at
tempted to further their schemes o.
loot, is, thanks to the honesty o
I Clifford Pinchot, publicly known. MOI
can the ugly facts be concealed BY
the coat of partisan whitewash re
Gently applied
III Lut hldlC Va ANO" AeAh 49,
; George w. Wickersham. For years hi
has been recognized as the ultra-cor
. poration counsel of the country. Hi
: brain is the incubator from which an
+ nually there has emanated a brood o
. trusts. Practically every great cor
poration, first or last, sought his coun
sell. He devoted his life to devisint
| plans to enable commercial marauierI
: to escape the penalties OF the Jaw. HI
/ was, when appointed, the confidential
adviser of the sugar trust and simila'
organizations. As Encouragement, HI
was given supreme command of tn
a Department of Justice. He rules alb
1 solutely over an army OF United State
a District Attorneys and their subordi
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citizen Is denied the privilege oil NY
ing or selling in. an open market.
Federal courts. primarily intended
to punish offenders against national
laws and to afford an unprecedented
forum for men residing In different
states have so expanded their juris-
djction that at the instance OF even
the smallest nonresident stakeholder
of a domestic corporation, they ire
auently arrest the processes OF local
courts and enjoin the enforcement oil
the laws of the sovereign state which
gave II corporate life.
The power of the state to regulate
the charges and conduct OF public ser
vice corporations and to prevent the
organization and operation of monopo
lies, has been greatly impaired.
Washinqton's Advice Abandoned.
We have abandoned the advice Oh
washington, established dominion oyeI
alien islands, and hold in military
thrall a servile and degenerate popula
ton. To do this, the standing army
has been ~quadrupled, millions Of
treasure squandered, and thousands o.
lives sacrificed. In a time Of pro
found peace, officers scour the lane
for army and navy recruits. The peo
nile are burdened with taxes in a vair
attempt to initiate in the republic the
example of Europe's war lords
The assembling of Congress is char
acterized by the gathering OF com
mercial cormorants from the foul
corners of the nationi its adjourn
,nent furnishes the spectacle OF theil
joyful departure, glutted with loot
The code of honor which exaite'
yalor, appreciated genius and measur
cd men by public service rather THAI
nv private fortunes, is too often dis
regarded.
The idea that congressman anu sen
ators stand as representatives OF tn
rights of men, is largely supplante'
by the notion that their chief omc'
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National Crafts.

The public domain of Alaska EN-
braces a known mineral wealth SO vast
as to stagger comprehension. Its I'M
discovered are probably be-
yond the horizon Of human magma
ton. Upon this wonderland, Morgan
and ~Guggenheim cast c~ovetous eyes.
They beheld its e~xhaustless fields OF
coal, Its priceless deposits of copper,
its beds of sand and veins of quartz,
yellow with unmined gold. These re-
sources President Roosevelt had
sought to protect and conserve for the
benefit of the American people. But
Morgan and ~Guggenheim were not ap-
palled by the difficulties of the situa-
ton, nor the justice Of Roosevelt's
order. They went boldly to the cabi-
net of the president. They knew
where to apply. The Secretary of the
Interior was their man. They had
assisted him to position. Ballinger
knew the voice of his masters and
obeyed. Two honest public servants
stood in the path OF the marauders
They dared to lift their voices In pro-
test. They refused to be either ca
joled or intimidated. And when the
plunderers demanded Pinchot's official
head, and Ballinger brought 1t to them,
as in the ancient days at the demand
of the daughter of Herodias, Herod
sent to her the head of John the Bap-
fist on a charger" CLAWS, in like
manner, was sacrificed. Clifford Pin
chot stood before the chief executive
of the United States and demanded
Justice. The long line Of illustrious
presidents looked down upon the
scene. The traditions Of the preslden-
tial office. the voice of honor, the spir-
it of official chastity, all demanded a
fair hearing and cried out against a
prejudiced Judgment. But Oh, unthink'
able truth! The President permitted
Ballinger, the author of the wrongs
against which Pinchot appealed, to
write the decision generating himself
and condemning Pinchot for having
dared cry out against the peoples
plunderers. And then the President
signed Ballinger's decision and Ger
titled 1t to be his own.
Pinchot-Glavis-even the poor stem
ographer, Kirby-every honest mar
was discharged-while Ballinger still
sits securely in the cabinet In which
to longer sit can scarce be called al
honor.
Were this the story's end, the mint
would naturally seek to find some pal
liation, or would rebel against the re
voting TRUTH But other facts of sim
t. liar import. marching in long eviden
/, tial procession, force from our though
all Incredibly. l shall not seek Il
marshal all, but here and there direc
; your glance toward three or four o
: the great mountain peaks of infamy:
Taft's Land Purchase.
; When Taft was Commissioner to tn
Philippines, he purchased from tn
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is to appear as advocates OF the In
terests."
The old-fashioned mandate hat no
man shall adjudge a cause In which he
has an interest, is ~relegated to the
garrets of antiquity. Proprietors Of
great financial and industrial combi'
nations occupy seats in congress, and
from this vantage aid. abet and legal
lie the schemes which fill their purses.
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candidate for United States Senator,
opened the Democratic campaign in
northeast Missouri, In the City this
afternoon, with a mastery keynote
speech which was cheered to the echo
Oy thousands of voters representing al
most every county and township In
uls division of the State. He spoke
as follows:
Mr.. REEDS SPEECH.
All thoughtful men agree that ques-
IONS of grave confront the
nation.
we are not required to consider
matters merely transitory or trivial.
ine problem before US goes to the fun
uatlentals of government and the
structure of society.
That we have radically departed
rum the Ideals which inspired the
'a'ners OF the republic must be con
Veued by the candid. That present
poiicles tend toward the establish
Hieht Of a system of government and
d code of ethics incompatible with
pure democracy, requires neither
PROOF nor demonstration.
Government for the Few.
A government, originally simple in
'S structure. and embracing in its
exercise little more than the preserva
uoh Of the national peace, has estab
nShed a departmental bureaucracy as
complicated, and in some respects
Almost as arbitrary as that of Nicholas
Of Russia.
me national government has ex
tended the field of Its operations un
I'll 1t affects the business OF the land
from that Of public carriers to private
individuals.
me right to tax for the support O
eoVernment has been distorted int
'ne power to levy tribute for the en-
''ohment OF monopolies.
AT the command of the trusts, thu
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Taft's Land Purchase.

When Taft was Commissioner to the
Philippines, he purchased from the
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