The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-25

1t takes time to solve the problems.
How to Beat AIdrieh.
THE way to beat Aldrich is to keep
McCumber there. A1drich has been
there forty years and McCumber only
ten, 1t is the senior senator and con-
gresham who lis sent to washington.
term after term who amounts to some
thing in the national capital. Ask
your congressman to stand for co.
100000 Of people, because he repre-
sents them all.
In 1900 the sixteen to one speeches
didn't sound as good as the speeches
OF 1895, yet they were the same The
people were not so sick in 1900 as
they were four years before -
i AS / said before the real cost of
thigh living is the modern inventions
and the desire for them. If you throw
away all of your modern inventions
and go out in the garden and dig up
your meal ticket you will be living
as they lived fifty years ago, and
don't believe there is a man in this
hill who would care to do So All
OF these modern inventions are bless
ings and the world is happier therefor"
He spoke in humorous manner Of
the hen and the incubator and said
that no respected old hen should be
required under the new existing cir
cumstance to work a night shift too,
in setting on her eggs.
PessimIsts Bring Ruin.
"Our country is ruined theoretically
every ten years.. and they are trying to
do it again this year. We must have
pessimists in the world. We can't all
be optimists like 1 am, but just think.
the United States has never been ruin
ed and it never will be If / can help it.
"Mr. Engerud will go down to Wash
ington, If you send him, to uphold
the hands of the president, so will
Senator McCumber and Congressman
Hanna. You cannot help Taft if you
don't have party, and the party
should begin at home.
Political organizations are neces-
tsary. If you elect $50 men to congress
without a party when they would get
ito Washington they would draw off
into cliques and you would have a
score of parties, and couldn't ac-
tcomplish anything. The insurgents
are against more things than they are
IS
vote is not only helping to shape the
destiny of this nation, but it is reach
out and shaping the destiny of other
nations.
There are many problems that I
wanted to solve in the six years was
in congress, but didn't get them all.
For instance tried 70 swop off the
PHILIPPINES for Ireland so we could
raise our own policemen" Then
he talked of the Philippines and
showed the good that he had seen
done and how the problem of those
islands were being solved, and he said
that when the Christian Endeavorers
went there first to save the little brown
men, they, couldn't find a place on the
little fellows to pin their badges.
II stand for America and all that is
American. / am not here TO abuse the
democrats. I know how hard it Is to
be a democrat. I tried it myself, but
I believe there should be two great
political parties.
Insurgents Must Object.
"The trouble with the insurgents Is
that they are running on no particular
platform, excepting a platform of
abuse, and when they get to washing.
ton, If they do get there, they don't
know what to do except-obiect."
He said the present direct primary
law of this state should be doctored
and for this he was warmly applaud
led.
Some people think the world is
growing worse all the time and they
think that the seat of all evil is Wash
lington and the congressman and sena-
tors therein. want to say to you
that I was there six years and know
how hard the lawmakers work. /
wrote 100 letters day, attended con-
gress, almost every day in the week,
met committees of my fellow citizens,
and in the evenings generally attended
a social function Of some kind, for
you have to do that If you get into the
king row at all.
Mecumber and Hanna Working.
IT know how your senator, McCum-
Der, is doing and I know what Con
gresham Hanna is doing. They are
working and working all the time, not
only for your interests but for the in
terests of the entire country, and If
Senator McCumber was ever fitted for
o~-~~~-~~~e~~~@~~--~D~ ~~~-~~~-~-~~-~~~