Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-10-23
LGUGKS ON WILSON.

So LILO AI1oHI5 III Ce Gdt Dy puDLSUlIB Il statement attack
ing the new tariff bill as an injury to the farmers, and al
the same time, III the same article, giving high praise te
senator La Toilette who voted fer this very self same bill
being SO anxious to do so that he became one of two repub
mean senators to cast his vote for the Underwood measure
In his article Mr.. Loucks criticises the Underwood bill
because it puts the products of the farmer on the free LIST
put he does not say how downward revision was ever to be
accomplished If only the reduction was to be made on the
other fellows products. Mr.. Loucks notes the shipment of
cattle from Canada to this country, and notes it with deem
regret, but he has no word in behalf f of the man who is today
unable to have beefsteak on his table because the price IS
SO hlgh. Inc president of the national butchers associa
recently declared that it would not be long before beef
Wouid be such a luxury that it would entirely disappear ex-
cept from the tables of the rich. He put the probable price
IN the future at 81 a pound. And still orr progrcssivn
friend at Watertown criticises an administration which is
trying to releVe this situation. Only a few years ago there
was one beef crltter on the hoof for every two persons in
Ims country. Now there is only one on the hoof for every
thfee, The actual number of cattle is decreasing while orr
population is increasing. The American farmer cannot
supply the domestic demand, Is it better to have the price
" pMe'lEso nlSh that people cannot afford to eat it that what
eattle our farmers do raise may bring a long price, or is it
n1 possible that the man who has to buy has still a few
gu that are to be considered?
LA Toilette has demonstrated that he undors+ord,
oui needs says MT. Loucks in this statement. ''He is Il
constructive statesman of the highest order. 1t would be
pase mgfatltude for the farmers of the northwest to desert
"a gillette now,' says Mr.. Loucks. And still Senator Ia
nonette voted for the tariff bill which Mr. Loucks de-
Our friend from Watertown seems also to nave been
caught mapping on the currency matter. He asks: "Will
some farmer who was directly benefited by the issue of
emergency currency this year please send me a card? Did
a single bank III South Dakota benefit by it," This is the
hrst mtlmatlon we have had that any emergency currency
was issued this year. 1t was our impression that when the
big bankers of New York started to frame up a panic. in
order to punish the Wilson administration for the enact
ment of the lowest tariff in rs years, the secretary of the
treasury SAID that 1T necessary he would issue half a billion
OF emergency currency. 1t is also our reading of the news
that TINS Simple announcement was sufficient to cause the
big bankers to drop their plan of bringing on a panic, and
that At was not necessary to issue a dollar of emergency
currency. That being SO, it is altogether likely that none
of it got to the South Dakota banks, but who can estimate
the benefit to the bankers and farmers and business men of
AGnfh MiYAkDTA " this prnnnf abortion r an, nrDhrpNpSo
panief
In his article on the tariff, which we admit is a great
disappointment to this newspaper, Mr.. Loueks declares
that every true representative of agriculture should fight
every step OF the way for equality of opportunity But
why not equality Of opportunity for the wage workers and
the consumer as well as for the producerY Is equality OF
opportunity to be reserved for the producer alone? If
50, Why did the progressives of this state demand a down
ward revision Of the tariff Did they expect that the tariff
could be reduced on what we have to buy but retained on
all that We have to self TIE so they must have made a poor
Job Of It IN counting noses, the country over, for there are
a good many consumers throughout the country, from end
to end, when one comes to make the count.
7 ~. Loaeks i going to agree with Mr.. Crawford on
national issues is he going to make his fght9
JAILING THE LOAN SHARK.
David II. Tolman, millionaire loan shark, has been
landed behind bars. He must serve SIX months for exact
ing 200 per cent interest. True the fortune he has piled
mp by proving on the necessities of the poor remains. The
law dd not reach him until he had driven thousands Of bor-
roWers to- the verge of despair. And then it merely slap
-nedahnn on The wrist -Whan the jail aaers efeea, in another
place, under another name, lie can live in luxury off the
proceeds @ bus greed; enter s society and be respected.
gu may wonder how any man would want to win
wealth as ne has gained it. That, however, isn't the inn.
presslve thing IN Tolman's ease; for greed isn't uncommon,
stance.
Il q that, IN 9 country Astounding in natural wealth and
supposed to be the theater Of the worlds best opportunities,
there should exist thousands of men and women pressed So
close to# the line Of poverty that to meet Immediate needs,
they would pawn their fortunes to sharks Of the Tolman
species.
Everybody IS now ready to heave a rock at Tolman.
And ne deserves At; we enter no plea for mercy IN his be-
nail: But remember, he's only d symptom. The trouble
isn't that there are loan sharks to prey on folks III need.
itlssthe human adjustments which produce these cruel ex-
trenaes.
Putting the ToInans hi jail won, make life much easier
for fhe folks with whom they have been doing business.
lolnaan traded rntlllessly in poverty, to be sire but
he didna make the poverty. Though he BE eliminated. fhe
poverty VIII remain