The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-07-01
IMPORTANT ISSUES TO
Be PRESENTED IN FALL
Voters Will be Asked to Decide in
Three Great Questions
Is Praised.

NSPHbllGdu lSiueIS lof the COnSlueI-
alton Of the voters of the country
during the coming campaign. The
first will be the legislation thus far
completed by the extra and first
regular sessions of the 61st Congress
The importance of this legislation
has probably rarely, if ever been,
exceeded by any previous Congress.
Three laws will stand out foremost in
addition to several hardly less i'm
important laws for the consideration
Of the people. First. the tariff law
passed at the extra session; secondly,
the new railroad law, and third, the
postal savings bank law. Then, too,
the appropriations of the present
session will undoubtly be scanned
very closely, because an attempt has
been made in spite of the constantly
increasing demands made upon the
government to keep these approprla-
uons very close to those made for
last year.
IN the consideration of the tar
1T law the Republicans will have
great adVantage-it can be un-
Questionably proved that the law
has been most eminently success
full In the first place it is quite like
" that the deficit for the year will
BE- wiped out altogether. Last year
it was S58, 100000, and the in
crease in revenue under the new
tariff law will just about equal that
amount. Then, again, the people
wall not have to be told that under
the operation Of the new law there
has been a great increase in the
number OF people employed, as
well as a great increase in wages.
They will not have to be told that
from an industrial standpoint the
United States and the people of this
country have made great progress
since the law went into operation on
the fifth OF last August. The issue
of protection and free trade should
not be an acute one during the COM
ing campaign-the whole argument
should be whether the new law has
proved successful or not, yet. UNI
doubtedly, our opponents will claim
that the tariff was not reduced in
accordance with Republican prom
ises. The president, however, and
the Republican leaders have already
proved that in several ways, but the
best proof of all IS the operation of
the law itsef, and that the tariff was
revised downward is shown by the
following figures:
I'M POR is Average Ad ValOrem.
Dutiable Total
Imports Imports
Mckinley law 47.1O 22.12
AT months)
Wilson law AZ 81 2l.92
(35 months)
DINGHY law 45.76 25.4S
(144 months)
Payne law 41.73 2O.91
(9 months)
The third issue will be the splen-
did administration that has thus far
been given to the people by presi-
dent Taft Of the president himself,
there is little need to add to what
has already been said and acknow-
lodged by all fairminded people.
President Taft is successful resi-
dent from every standpoint, and
when the people learn, of his great
efforts in their behalf they will
accept this from one end of the
country to the other.
But besides the presidents own
acts are those of the departments
under his instructions-we find
that efforts towards economy have
been perhaps greater than for many
years Every department will show
either a great reduction in expendi-
lures during the last year, with plans
for further reduction in the future,
or else will show that every dollar
appropriated has been made to do
the greeatst amount of work possible.
The administration throughout
is honest, clean and economical to
an unusual degree. PARTICULARLY is
this noticeable in the various de-
partments under the management