The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06

COdl VI SdCkClOLu ana ashes. he is
alone in his strange joy. The Presi.
dent does not laugh with him. He has
rushed into the breach with a cure
for the failures of the bill. He would
have Commission to revise the tariff
He would not sink the knife of jus.
tice into its vitals, but he would cut
off its legs, it's arms and finally its
head. The President shows more good
common sense in this than the regular
stand-patters, but why should we have
Commission to report to a Presi-
dent who has once shown himself
weak on this very question? Why
should we not have a Commission,
which would report to the Congress of
the United States, and why should we
not have Congress who would re.
ceive and act upon that report? Maine
is the only state which has been heard
from since the Tariff Commission was
appointed and Maine says, "By all
means, bring in a revision. We will
send senator and two representa-.
tives who will stand for the rights of
the people," Other states will say
the same in November.
Endorses True insurgents.
Our platform also commends the in.
surgent congressman who voted
against the Tariff Bill and says to
Lindbergh and Davis, I'VE trust you
and support you while this important
business is up. Go back and finish
your work for the people," This is
an unselfsh stand to take and ought
to be reciprocated. The insurgents
are worthy of all praise for repudiat
ing Cannonism in the House, but in
the language of the Revolutionary
poet,
ION Vernon's Chief, why lavish al
your bags. ,
Come, honest Muse, and sing great
Marions praise"
While we honor the insurgents. we
remember that they numbered but
twenty-nine. Why forget the one hun
dred eighty-seven Democrats without
whose votes the insurgents could dc
nothing? The insurgents were the
generals in this battle, but there had
in the House carried the musket and
in that all-night fight, they bivouacked
on their arms and slept not, neither
did they slumber until stand-patism
hoisted the white flag.
Direct Vote for United States Senators
The connecting link between the
from the sovereign state. He has q
six-year term. He survives sudden pc
litical upheavals. He is balance in
the government. The makers of the
Constitution thought when they gave
the House members short term and
made them directly elective, they had
sufficiently Offset the indirect choice Of
senators, but far-seeing men as they
were, they could not project their vi
sion into the future and see that one
day there would grow up in America
organized aggregations of capital rep
resenting protected interests, transpor
tation interests, brewing interests
which would take the shortest cut tc
control the Government. These aggre
cations did arise; they did take the
shortest cut; they went with unerring
wisdom to the control of the Senate
as the key to the citadel. The people
might illuminate every two years
against recreant House; they might
every four years dethrone vacillatins
President, but so long as the interests
could erect Senate wall and man il
with watchmen, whom Senator Bever
ridge has aptly denominated "Dea
Masters" they were safe. To teal
down that wall; to hurl these "Dea
Masters into the moat, we must re
store the rights of the people in the
Senate.
1t can be done only by the direct
election of the Senators. know that
there are objections to this plan.
know that the people are occasionally
fooled and there are times when a pop
ular candidate for senator is poor
senator, but all carpings aside, the in
defeasible right of the people to thi;
protection from government of the
interests and by the interests must
not and shall not be denied.
Direct Legislation Endorse
Closely connected with this question
is similar one-that of direct legis
lation, known as the initiative and the
referendum and the recall. A few
years ago this was called chimera
hose were the days when a senator
of the United States cynically de
clared "the publication of our politics
is an irridescent dream" But oul
dreams do sometimes come true. Mer
dreamed once that taxation without
representation was tyranny, and woke
to drive it as fact into every hear
of Great Britain Men dreamed agar
that the auction block might be de
stroyed. and woke to find themselves