The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-08-01
CONGRESSMAN
COUNTING DAYS
UNTIL THEY CAN ADJOURN ANC
GET SACK HOME" AMONG
THE FOLKS.
POLITICAL CYCLONES WRECK FENCES
Members are Anxious to Get Home
And Repair the Damase-Everyone
For Himself Seems to be Case.

(From Our Washington Correspondent
The only difference between the
juvenile habit of counting up the time
until the last day of school," and the
congressman's eXpectancies in refer
ence TO the final day of adjournment
is that in the latter case there are so
many things that may happen, or may
not happen, that the statesmen only
know that they are sure to get through
but not knowing just when, keeps
them in a state of tremendous anxiety.
Sad to relate, most of the accustomed
summer vacations and coveted jun
kets, hold no alluring attractions, and
every man who has to run again Is
just dying to get back home. The
political cyclones that have been
sweeping the country since last March
have torn down more fences than ever
at least since the days when good
Abraham Lincoln used to go out with
his axe and split rails to keep the old
fences in order, and supply new ma
terial to encircle fresh reservation.
But the bl Oken fences Of 1912 are
made of wire, and every time a politi-
clan attempts to pull on these wire
fences he gets stuck with the barb.
n,. ,lov t;p,o th,nn, uyorlyAI ~,
the good old way a mail sack Of
personal letters to leaders in the
districts, and a dray load of seeds
that seldom grew, were all that was
necessary to hold the public pulse
down to even beats until October,
when a red hot campaign Of a few
weeks would do all the rest. But, oh
Mabel, amt it awful this year-just
think of 1t, there's not a congressman
any where except down below the
black belt" but what has to face con-
ditions at home that are making him
sweat even harder than the hot
weather of Washington; and every
one of them are anxious to depart
from the nations lawmaking center
in order that they may spend every
possible moment from now until cleo
ton in their districts working out
their individual salvation along per-
sonal lines, rather than by the usual
formula of sticking together boys,
just for the sake of the dear old
| party"
The democratic claim that the pro-
tective tariff encourages trusts and
they could not I'll der that party's
policy of free trade or low tariff has
the present session of congress
through the revelation that one of the
most unsavory Of all the trusts is an
advocate of free trade for the very
good reason that such a policy will
benefit it's own pocket. Additional in
formation is to the effect that another
trust has built up an iron clad monOp-
oily in a product that has been on the
free list for many years. In an in
vestigation which a democratic com.
mittee carried on for several months,
representatives Of the sugar trust, as
we'll as those of the so-called indie.
pendent refiners, testified that they
were in favor Of free sugar because it
would do away with the competition
of the beet sugar producers in the
United States. This competition they
admitted is becoming more trouble
some" to them all the time. At these
same hearings, conducted under dem
ocratic auspices, it was brought out
that the competition of the domestic
beet sugar industry brought down the
price of sugar to the consumer for a
good part of every season, and that
the surest way TO insure cheaper
sugar TO the public vas by encourag-
ing the development of the beet sugar
industry in the United States through
maintenance of the present tariff. In
spite of these facts and with the re-
cord Of the sugar trust and its desire
for free sugar before them, the demo
cratic leaders of the house jammed
through a free sugar bill and showed
that they knew what its effects would
be by declaring in the report which
accompanied the bill that "the indus
trial position OF refining requires prim
ary consideration" Aside from this
alliance of the democratic statesmen
with the sugar refners, it Is pointed