The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02

lieved Of their pain. Usually men
suffering under an in%tolerable burden,
like men suffering from a bunion,
complain Of it at the time, but We v
heard nothing of the woe OF these
gentlemen who have been forced to
name these fourth-class postmasters
under an a~ntiquated spoils system
until after the power to appoint them
was gone, and then we are over
whelmed with ~jeremaids."
Say what you please, the boss OF
the wigwam for the past two years,
has been the Honorable Oscar Under
wood, representative from Alabama,
leader OF the house, and chairman Of
the ways and means committee. I'm
derwood says: I'VE will revise the
tariff from agate to zinc" Under
wood started the new revision the
night of election, and he ought to
have the job already to report by the
day the Wilson family moves to town.
Good old James Wilson, head of the
department of agriculture, has writ
ten his report, and he reviews the
great progress of agriculture. The
record Of sixteen years has been writ
ten," says the report. 1T begins with
a yearly farm production Of $4,000
600, 900 and ends with $9,532,00 900.
Sixteen years ago the farmer was a
joke OF the caricaturist; now he was
like the stone that was rejected by
the builder, and has become the head
stone of the corner" Just trust
"Tama Jim" to put one over for the
benefit OF the farm, even though it be
necessary to do it with a pi' ce Of
King Solomon's temple.
A good deal Is being heard about
limiting the term of the presidency to
a single term. The plank in the demo-
cratic platform is being kept promin-
emily in view in order that the sup
porters of Mr.. Wilson may always be
reminded of it. Among the supporters
of the single term are Mr.. Bryan,
Senator Cummins, Speaker Clark, and
the remaining hopefuls. Some Of the
New England states cut off part OF the
long waits when by common consent
it was agreed that its governors might
run twice, but that each term should
be for only a year. In Boston where
American manners are sorted with
precision equal to that of the styles"
that come from Paris, it is the heighth
of bad form" for a governor to be a
candidate the third year. But Sena-
tor Lodge, the modern minute man."
has not yet come to the rescue with
the proposal that the New England
way would serve to make the presi-
dency go around a little further.
Great Britian's spectacular anger
has caused it to put up to the Ameri-
can government it's most forceful pro-
tests against our monopoly of the free
shipping privileges Of the Panama
canal. The British insist that the
Hay-Paunceforte act has been violated
and il our English friends are to be
satisfied they must have equal ship
ping rights with the United States.
The attitude of Uncle Sam must be
provoking to the British, as the Amer
~ -rA-I,na ~ tn ~ tpltr0 thn attf
zen who declai ed that he was deaf in
one ear and could not hear out of the
other"
Senator Bristow Of Kansas, has be-
fore congress a measure to submit to
a vote OF the people, in the option of
the president, any measure which the
latter has recommended to congress,
and which that body has failed to act
upon. The senator explains that 1t
will enable the president ito appeal
from the dilatory or adverse congress
to the people upon questions Of vital
public concern" He also gives as an
argument in favor Of his resolution
that should 1t become a law the presi-
dent would not be compelled to &C.
cept legislation "as the best that
could be secured" or to make such an
excuse for signing any particular bill,
since he would be in a position to
speedily refer the question direct to
the referendum of the people.
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