The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-11
citizens from voting

/ citizens from voting
Taking up the matter of education,
| DR.. Shaw advocates the appointment
! of a commission with power TO invest
igate various educational systems
and to elaborate from them a system
OF education which would develop he
whole nature of the child and make
il into a useful and intelligent citizen
with a reasonable knowledge Of the
duties and obligations of citizenship.
This can never be done so long as
vast numbers OF children are not pro-
vided with educational advantages in
our great cities, because of the lack
of schoolhouse facilities. 1t should
be impossible to point to a single
child in this nation denied education
al advantages for the lack of an ade-
quate number of teachers.
81 would urge that the present laws
in regard to public health should be
| applied to the supervision of food and
supplies in general, and to the manu-
featuring of garments under health
full conditions, and | would urge that
there should extend to the authorities
the power, when in their judgment
the public health demands it, to di-
rect the purchase and distribution Of
food to the public at cost, on the
ground hat it is better to preserve
the health of the community than TO
restore it after hardships and famine
have undermined it.
Yet, some new legislation is nec-
essary, and l would urge the passage
of a law establishing a parcels post.
This system of distribution has al
ready been organized in other more
progressive countries, and is a
req sonable and cheap method of
bringing various commodities, espec-
tally of a perishable nature, quickly
from producer to consumer. To de-
lay this form Of legislation longer, in
the face of the great need of the day,
shows a weakness on the part of the
national government in considering
the needs of the people, while it pro-
tects the interests of great corpor-
atoms which grow rich at the ex-
pense of the public"
DR.. Shaw goes on to urge that the
railroads take over the work done by
the express companies and says that
as president of the United States she
would encourage the growing senti-
ment that banks should regard staple
farm products as adequate for loans,
and thus avoid the forced sale of
farm products in the fall to specu-
lators who generally borrow capital
and manipulate the markets to the
disadvantage of both producer and
consumer.
81 would recommend that the gov
eminent, either by direct loan, or by
making it possible for national bank
ers to lend money for agricultural de-
velopment, should encourage the pro-
Queer. This is only an expansion of
what the government is doing at pres
ent in new lands, when it develops
large irrigation plants and then sells
land to reimburse itself; and in the
same way counties, towns, and vii
lagos might borrow money and loan
it to farmers for agricultural develop
ment. 1t is useless to cry Back to
the Farm unless farming is looked
upon as are other important indus
tries, and is adequately protected and
aided in it's development. We can
readily see what it would mean to
New York or to any other city, if the
farmer stopped shipping to it. A day
would cut off its milk, five days would
cut off all provisions and a week
would mean famine"
Among other plans in her platform
would be, writes DR.. Shaw, federal
control of railways, telegraphs, tele-
phones and other public utilities,
such as water power and water sup
plies. Then the pure food laws would
come in for drastic Strengthening, as
we'll as the child labor laws, the laws
Of quarantine and a uniform marriage
and divorce law.
DR.. Shaw takes a fling at the tariff
and concludes by declaring that 1.-THE
public has been too long compelled to
pay for the protection Of a few eter-
nally infantile industries, while the
cost of living for the poor is continu-
ally increasing.
81 would advocate the prohibition