Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-05-23
he concerns already doing business

prisonment remeay-one of punish
ment rather than preYention-apply
only to newly organized concerns.
Mr.. Dillon would also compell CON
Germs chartered under state laws to
take cut a federal charter as we'll,
w.licn would make them ali subject
to- the same regulation. The speak
CT stated that he did not believe
that trast made goods needed pro-
lection when they We're selling for
SO much higher prices in United
States than abroad. He would re
wise the tariff schedule by schedule,
oasing the estimate upon cost of
production at home and abroad He
also advocates doing away with log
ROLLING methods, and is for tariff
board. He would reform the Judi
ciary, doing away with needless de.
lays and technicalities which make
1t impossible for any but the rich
to get square deal. He would
also take from the Judiciary the
self-assumed power of legislation,
which has been stolen from The peo-
pie. He favors doing away with
life terms for federal Judges, max
ing all terms short ones which is
the creation of a Federal board of
health which would make the lives
OF human beings at least as sacred
as those of the hogs and cattle
Hundreds of thousands of lives
could be saved every year through
THE work of such board. If elect
ed he will fight for such board
He also declared that he would
fight for compulsory workingmenis'
insurance, compelling employees to
COX out for the future, and en-
ployers to treat their men as we'll
as they do their machinery. On the
question of conservation, he would
keep the natural rescurc cod
! slti cosol-wiittlpiil the borders Of the
pcsal of coal lands to the 'sinter-
ests-' He expressed himself in
favor OF a ''dollar day pension
BILL giving to old soldiers their dues.
and doing away with the private
pension business by which one sold
her with a political pull has oppor-
tunity CT getting better treatment
| ahan amoher one as deserving but
without the pull. To provide funds
lUl' tilis federal board of health and
Ii 9 Pensions he would do away
siuh many of the unnecessary ex-
penditures, making especial mem
! ti1I ot the enormous SUMS spent
heeaiessty every year to the rail-
1oad's for rent of cars and carry
amg the mail, and the millions of
dollars spent ANNUALLY to keep up
The navy. He expressed himself as
opposed TO the Aldrich money scheme
oy which all money is centralized
4ttc Wall Street We're panics origi-
nate which spread throughout the
prosperous west. He paused here
ong enough to ask his audience
Why Bnanson, himself a banker, did
not have anything to say regarding
mis- position ON the Aldnich scheme,
aI-d this lead up to a fair showing
CT his opponent's s record when that
gentleman had an opportunity to
make good as a progressive and
made such a miserable failure. AS
most OF this record, taken from the
Senate Journal and other reliable
sources. has been published in the
Press-Leader it will not be repeated.
Mr.. DiTon read this record as we'll
as his own progressive record from
the original sources and made a
most favorable impression on every
voter i'm the audience. There was
nothing at all obnoxious in his state
ments regarding Mn Branson-just
a straightforward reading of the re-
cofd, which the speaker invited the
audience to examine In issuing this
invitation the speaker struck a
happy vein when he declared: ssCut
out one of the musical numbers to-
night and take the time to con
slider this record''
In closing, the speaker declared
that he was for LaFollette because
of his constructive, progressive
craftsmanship. and second to LaFoil-
cite he favored Mr.. Roosevelt. AS
final reminder of the failure of
his opponent to hit the real issues
at stake, CT to explain his own ac-
dion in the state senate, Mr.. Dillon
read the following questions which
he has been asking Mr.. Branson
since the beginning of the campaign,
| and which he has failed to answer:
l. Why was no railroad legisla-
tlion, I'M the interest of the people,
passed i'm the legislative sessions of
1903 and 1905, while you were