The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-09-18

ed statements showing their cam
paien expenses. We compelled rail-
roads TO build connecting tracts at
junction points. We provided for the
assessment and taxation separately
of terminals, structures, real estate,
siding and switching tracks of rail-
way companies, situated within in
~corporated cities and towns. We re-
organized and permanently establish
led the state fair. We established a
Irvine plant in the ~penitentiary. We
provided for an entertainment of the
cash value of the property of railway
companies situated within the state;
also for the erection of the new state
capitol and for the commission form
of government in cities.
Under the law requiring the pro-
perry of railroads in cities and towns
TO be assessed and taxed separately,
the railroads for the first time were
required to pay their share of school
and city taxes.
Changes i'm Railroads.
"ln the city of Huron for 1906, be-
fore that law was passed. the Chicago
and North western and the Great Nor
them paid only ~$1,462.57 city and
school axes. For 1907. after the law
went into effect, they Icid $6,016.09
city and school taxes in the city OF
Huron; in 1908, S10,427.77; in 1909,
$13,995.57. In the city of Pierre, be-
fore this law was passed, the Chicago
and North western for the year 1905
paid for city and school taxes only
$S74.0O. For 1907, after the law took
effect, it paid $3,625.45 school and
city taxes; for 1908, $~7,055.33; for
1909, ~$8,140.77. These are given as
illustrations. In all the cities and
towns-SiouX Falls, Mitchell, Aber.
deem, Deadwood, Lead, and so on
the railroads were compelled to bear
their share of the tax burden with
the people. Let me pause here long
enough to ask this question: Did any
of those stalwart politicians, who are
now demanding that | be dismissed
place for some one of their choosing
in order hal we may have 'har.
mony-ever lift so much as a finger
to aid this reform movement, or to
secure the passage of one of these
laws l have just named?
Bolt Used by Opponents.
after I had won the nomination
for the Senate in 1908, they tried tc
organize a bolt to defeat my election
and held a state conference at Nit.
chell for that purpose at the time
the convention me there in July OF
that year. Last year, when defeated
in the primaries and at the conven-
ton, they bolted and tried to defeat
the ticket at the polls. They have con
sistently followed the policy of rule
or ruin. They will try it, again this
year and next, but that will finish
them. The time has arrived to put
an end to this sort Of thing, once fol
all. What they attempted in 1907
they repeated in 1918 in the dishon
orable plot to defeat Senator Sterling
after he had won the nomination fol
United States Senator fairly and hon
orably under the provisions of thu
primary law.
These men are afraid hat | an
not a real progressive republican.
am willing hat you shall ask III,
progressive republican associates il
the senate about that. Inquire of La
Toilette, Cnmmins, Bristow, Borah
Gronna, P%oindeXter. Norris. Clapp
Sterling, Bourne, Kenyon, Sherman
amy and all of them if you choos,
and if these associates with whom
! have worked during the past fiy,
years say / am not a loyal progress
Give republican worker in the United
States Senate, I will withdraw from
the race. Now that is fair. Their testi
of men who are willing to hear falls
witness for political ends.
What the Republican Party Must
Stand for.
The republican party in South Da
kota is. facing a situation in whicl
: it must become wholly and unequiv
ocally progressive and thus contin
lie in power, or surrender to the stal
wart and standpatter and be over
whelmed by defeat. There is no mid
die ground. 1t must take and main
, tain a position which will be in ha1
mony with the spirit of the times. /
, must stand for the protection OF
, American industry only so far as tina
protection promotes the general wei
fare of all the people, as showi
1 by the report of "A non-partisan ea
l pert tariff commission; for a syster
{ of banking and currency which wi,
+ serve all on terms of equality
the farmer and merchant, as we'll a
the banker and broker; for the &C
: operation of the federal with tn
, several state governments in til
building and maintenance of a sy.
tenn of public roads which will lie!
sen the burden of transportatio
from the farm to the market place
: for the taking over of the bushes
of the express companies by the fec
eral government, thereby lessenin
the cost of transportation; for tn
Z enfranchisement of women; for til
control and complete regulation {
: industrial combinations engaged j
interstate commerce by an admini
n ~trative board acting as the Interstat
n Commerce Commission now dea
with the railroads; for the abolish
ment of child labor; for the fixin
: of a minimum wage for women; Il
the adjustment of secret lobb,
S for the destruction of special priv
e eye; for the correction of abuses
the courts and a more direct an
simple method of dealing with d
%linquent federal judges. These pc
a icies are genuinely progressive. 1 a