Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-03-05
MARTINS ANNoUnCEMBNT.
Is Candidate for denomination to Con,
gress as Republican. His Posi-
ton on Public Questions.

Is Candidate for denomination to Con
gress as Republican. His Posi-
ton on Public Questions.
To the Republicans of South Dakota.
! Answering recent communication
from Republican friends in the Black
Hills Counties, l have already stated
my purpose, when the nominating petit
tons shall have been presented, to be a
candidate for denomination as a Mem
Der of Congress from the State of South
Dakota. My candidacy will be made as
a Republican, standing upon the funda-
mental principles of the Republican par
ty, as developed and applied 10 the pres
ent national conditions; and will be
subject to the approval of the Republi.
can voters at the Primary Election to
be held on the first Tuesday in June,
1910.
Great and important rational ques-
tions are engaging the public mind, and
1t is proper that announcement should
be made of my position upon them.
ROOSEVELT AND TAFT.
The administration ofTheodore Roose-
welt was moral and political awaken
ing. 1t will mark an epoch in Ameri-
can progress. 1t was forceful assertion
of the rights of the many as against the
aggressions of the few. First principles
of square deal to all men were restat-
ed, and policies were formed for the ap-
plication of these principles to business
and government. Some of these poll
cies ripened into law, but much was left
to his successor. President Taft assum-
ed his Office with firmness and courage.
His administration was plunged at once
into revision of the tariff-the most
perilous task that an administration or
political party has to perform. That ac-
complished, the President has begun the
really great work of his administration
the forming of the Roosevet-Taft pol
icies into concrete law, and the enforce
ment of the law against all opposition.
The Presidents message in support of
enlargiug the powers of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and for the Fed.
eral control of interstate corporations is
even a step in advance of the positions
of President Roosevelt upon these sub
jects. He deserves the vigorous sup
port and cooperation of the people and
of Congress.
REGULATION OF CORPORATIONS.
The country has been threatened with
monopolistic control of the necessaries
of life. The danger is not yet passed.
Corporations large and small are neces-
sary to modern business. A combina-
tion of corporations, for the purpose of
controlling prices, is both unnecessary
and unlawful. This is the modern trust.
l believe in thorough system of Fed
eral regulation of corporations in inter
state commerce that will prevent and
suppress unlawful monopolies. Free
competition is the only safety for the
people against the greed of monopoly.
This is the principle of the Sherman
Anti Trust Law. New legislation should
not modify this Act, but should aid in
it's enforcement. A Federal license plan
is the best. Federal voluntary incor-
poration is helpful SO far as it goes, if its
provisions are carefully guarded so as
not to offer shelter to monopoly. Even
with voluntary incorporation, a Fed
eral license system would still be neces-
sary to reach large corporations which
might not voluntarily submit to a Fed
eral charter.
THE TARIFF
The Payne Tariff Act is the best that
has yet been passed. 1t is a substantial
revision downward. Some of the sche-
dulles are still too high. The correct
principle is that announced in the last
Republican national platform-the diff
ference in cost of production at home
and abroad with fair profit added. AS
long as tariffs are revised en- masse and
are adjusted in part on the method of
barter and compromise, there are bound
to be inequalities. favor a tariff COM
mission to gather facts for the education
of the public and of Congress, and be-
lieve that particular items should be
changed whenever shown to be unrea-
sonable or unnecessary, without waiting
for a general overhauling of all tariff
schedules. The President interprets the
recent law broadly in aid of this pur-
pose. Any further power or funds re-
Commission prompt and effectual should
be added.
SHIP SUBSIDY.
am against ship subsidy. However
drawn, it is a species ofspecial privilege.
We justify limited application of the
idea of special privilege at home in the
protection of American labor and Amer
lean citizenship. The application ofthis
idea should be curtailed rather than en-
larged. Ship subsidy, however modest
ly begun, would start the United States
upon system of special privilege, in
field as wide as the commerce of the
world. 1t would be much better to lib
eralize and modernize our navigation
laws. When ocean transportation is
American enterprise will
again master the sea as it is now domi-
nant on the land.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
The Republican national platform of
1908 pledged the party to pass a postal
savings bank law. This pledge should
be kept promptly and in good faith.
must be placed in the meas
ure, requiring that funds deposited in