The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-09-22
EIGHTH ANA!lM, FAIR IN STEARNS COUNTY

raignment of the forces that menace
+, the government by saying that when
ever men have accumulated more
wealth than they can count in a life
time, they become a menace unless
they use that wealth properly. 1t
eminent to regulate things. The
spirit that seeks to pervert the func
tons of representative government
may exhibit itself in two ways, either
by silently permitting wrongs, or by
giving special privileges to the few
This brought him right up to the
'trust-busting" problem.
There is such combination of in.
terests as is legitimate, he said, and
that which is not. Whenever com
bination throttles competition, that
combination is vicious and should be
abolished or curbed. The great
struggle now is to save the common
people and the government from
combinations and to preserve our
national commercial life. The sena-
tor at this point related some of
the governments experiences with
the meat trust. the tobacco trust and
the sugar trust, giving Illustrations
that were exceedingly pat. He told
about the fight over the tariff bill
at the last regular session of con-
gress and said that the fight was not
between free trade and protective
tariff but between fair and honest
protection to American industries
and unjust protection to certain
privileged interests. The American
people, he said, have awakened and
have forced the idea of tariff COM
mission. (Cheers) The tariff COM
mission provided for, said the sena-
tor, is not as good as it might be,
but in general way it is will do.
Here he shouted:
'The troubles with the tariff is
not politics but the pork barrel in
the tariff" and deafening cheers fol-
lowed.
Proceeding, he exclaimed: THE
doctrine is preached in high places
that the struggle now in this nation
is whether we shall have a republic
can or a democrat in the office: l
do not subscribe to that doctrine
The struggle should rather be wheth.
er we shall have an honest republi-
can or an honest democrat in office"
And this sally was greeted with loud
cheers. The political parties, said
the senator, should be compelled to
put up their best men for office.
Political parties will be just as good
as the people will make them or
just as bad as the people will let
them be. The political party does
not live in the White House or in
congress, but in the hearts and minds
of the people. 1t is not the men
who hold Office but the people who
are engaged in this struggle with
predatory interests. This is the
greatest struggle in history; it can
not be settled at Washington, it must
and will be settled at American fire
sides. The senator closed with a
brilliant peroration in which he en-
Joined the people to stand by their
representatives in congress and sus-
tain their hands in the mighty strug-
gle in which they are new engaged.
He sat down mid prolonged applause.
Senator Clapp's address made a
distinctly favorable impression and
was commented upon by all who
heard it.
The senator spent the rest of the
afternoon quietly at the Palmer
House meeting friends He left for
st. Paul on the early train Sunday
morning.
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