Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-09-25
TO ALI: VOTERS

All voters must register before November l.
o. 1on must register personally, and decIar" Your party
athllatlOn. to BE- allowed to vote at the primary election next
March.
This is to be done by signing the poll book, etc, kept
by the town or village clerk or city auditor.
The recognized parties are republican, dcmocratic,
prohibition and socialist. No faction in any party is con
sidcred.
No one not duly registered can vote at the primary
election. No swearing in Of votes is allowed.
At the regular election following the primary a person
may vote for any candidate or with any party he chooses,
irrespective Of the party he declared for at the primary:
No pay his been provided clerks to call on the voters
ana have them registered and the voters must attend to this
duty themselves.
1t IS easier, anyway, for each voter to call on the clerk
or aduitor, than for the clerk to call on all the voters.
Don't shirk your duty because you may not like the
law. we have 1t and it must be obeyed.
DO your duty and register and do it today.
The new tariff bill cuts the rates OF the existing law
by about 90 per cent. This is keeping a promise to the
people. If the people did not want this done, they should
not have voted for it. We believe they wanted it done. and
we take not the slightest stock in the predictions of the
evils to follow. Certainly wit hall the political parties prom
lslng downward revision, it was about time that at least
one OF them delivered the goods.
CAN UNDERSTAND,
The people as a rule wish to be fair with the railroad
companies. They fully appreciate the fact that the en-
ployes are bringing to bear a constant pressure for in
creased wages, that the wage expense is the chief item
III the cost of operation and that wages and freight rates
bear a close relation to each other.
The companies present undisputed facts to show the
large increase IN wages that has taken place in recent
years. They also show that the charges for public service
are less now than they were when wages were very much
lower. ~
Consequently, the fair-minded man is inclined to think
the railroads are right in their appeal to the Interstate
Commerce Commission to raise rates enough to make up
ior T. 1"crease IL their wage expense.
But there are constantly appearing another set of facts
t4at LEAD people to think that possibly it isn't necessary
after all to permit the roads raising rates in order to en-
sure them a fair return on their investment.
Recent disclosures with reference to the New York,
New Haven, Hartford road are apt to arouse public sls-
plclon' President Mellen was forced to resign because of
some Improbable side investments that he made for the
company. lie proved not to have been a successful man
ager. just the same they paid him the enormous salary
OF $o4,ooo a year and in accepting his resignation as presi-
gent the company keeps him on the pay roll for five years
Tor a total compensation of 100000 without having anv
particular thing to do. The directors engage Howard ri
llott to head their company and value his services at
100000 a year. "
Such compensation will strike the public as being ex-
t1faVasant and unnecessary and creates a suspicion that
ae Pasron IS top heavy all the way down to the common
mployees-Webster World.
WILL BE SAFE AS CARS.
Lieut.. Love Of the i. S. army was killed recently while
operating an %aeroplane. This makes II officers of the
United States killed since 1908 and brings the worlds total
OF fatal aeroolplane accidents up to 333. These fatalities
nave little effect on the study Of the art bf Hyinp. New
Vlct1fas Vii come forward cheerfully to contribute toward
the -or1nest OF the air, Man will surely win. The ner-
centase OF accidents IS rapidly becoming less. 1t will be
lnou a short time till people will take an aereal trip with as
little thought of danger as they have now in BOARDING. :
train for the city. Webster World.
rs TOO D~ESPONDENT
Judge Sherwood in declining a congressional nomina-
ton offered him by Stitz Way Of Watertown, explains that
ne pemoe g e being + control Of congress, might take adj
vantage OF the constitutional provision prohibiting Judges
from running for Office in South Dakota. and exclude him
from congress, even if he should run and be elected. The
aesltancy of Judge Sherwood, lie honestly 5dua n HE do,,hts
ct his constitutional right to- run for congress. does him
credit, but the News fears he takes too respondent ! view
q the situation when he accepts as a foregone conclusion
tnat congress will be democratic.
The congress Judge Sherwood would have been alactad
.o, lI ne had consented to run and had been elected. would