Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-10-16

and clean street IS not only "A thing of beauty and a joy for
ever, but is an insurance Of public health, a matter Of life
and death to the people. Dust is said to be the mother of
consumption and the business streets of any city should
be kept as clean as the halls in our homes.
~ BURKE'S RETIREMENT.
CaptalJonrnal If all the newspapers in the state
had been so open i'll their endorsement of MI. Burke before
ne Withdrew as a candidate, the they have been since. he
might have had a unanimous support for any office, Mr.
burke is still a young man and a few years rest may make
1t necessary for the people of South Dakota to ask him
TO represent them in public office again. The Aurora Coun-
" standard IN speaking of his retirement, refers to this
phase OF the matter as follows:
1.-The retirement of CONGRESSMAN Burke will nossibI,
make more OF a stir in the political affairs of the state thai;
you'd you'd a similar action on the part Of any other man IN
aousn Dakota; Although not an old man, Mr.. Burke is a
~ ran IN puohc service and is a man of marked ability,
pt these two facts alone do not account for his place in tir
sentiments OF the people. During the past few years at
!!east, Mr.. Burke has not represented the ideas of y ma
loIlty OF the voters of South Dakota, yet he has won his
n ~ z Tor reelection and retained his popularity. The rea-
WIN a man anywhere and mention Congressman Burke the
finances are the one with whom you are talking will sav
something 9n1lg like this, 'Wel, there is one thing | like about
:. MARIE Bnrke-you always know where to find him That's
y; no ,tltchlng' was ever required to keen Mr. Burke
Were we're ne mad promised to stay. He was never uncertain,
not IN ms line. This quality of traightforwardnes has
done even more than his ability to keep him in the public
st Nv Wh y others OF his political faith were being voted
OUT. Mr. Burke Is young for retirement from nublic Iifa~.
= q years old--and it is not likely that, with his health
resslheu' u WIZ be an active force in public affairs for
STERLING FLOPS AGAIN.
Senator Thomas Sterling who was elected to the United
question when he joined Senator Crawford and lined up for
the Payne-Aldrich tariff schedules and against the down
ward revision which is being accomplished through the pas
sage OF the Underwood bill. By voting against downward
revision, In order to protect the beet sugar industry which
is non-existent in this state, he reversed the position he
took in the last compaign and put himself at once on the
defensive with the really progressive people of the state.
Now he joins Senator Crawford in opposing the pend
ing bill to reform the banking and currency laws Of tho
country. In q speech made last week at his home town in
Vermlllion, Senator Sterling, as reported in the press, made
y clear that he Is against currency reform, as Senator
Cfa " ORG Is, and that he is lining up with the big bankers
q wall street against the people.
Senator Sterling feels, = the report says, that it is
2 fearful responsibility to place in the hands Of one man,
the president, to appoint the seven men who will have con.
troll OF the nations wealth and that it would be very diff
ncult 70 keep this commission free from undue political in
fuence.''
And what is the senator's remedyg He holds tbat tho
power 70 control the money supply is too great to give to
ne people, through their president and so he would leave
g with q Few bankers! 1t is in fact a great power, and that
Is the reason that the real progressives are opposed "a
leaving II IN the hands Of the few men who now control the
p 90 q the Big banks Of the country. Some one must con-
sf - tne central bank. The balance of power must be either
with the people or with the bankers and it il little short of
s shppf sing shat our two senators who shout increasingly
apout peing n progressive in South Dakota should line M
y. Washington against the people and with the Biz inter.
estss on 81 vital proposition like this.
sh.. 3 e o onr view that the control Of the money supply
s nala nola g trusted to the bankers any more than we
snonld trust 70 them the control Of transpor tation facilities.
looz country g saw how banker control Of the money worked ii
M $3.50 Ut l year Whlcn was g year OF natural prosperity
Ine great bankers brought on d financial panic almost over
nlgn I:o So help out the steel trust. Millions suffered that
l 4 n,g l Trust 3 might gain. It IS indeed 81 a fearful response
s ptss ~. 1nis newspaper believes that it is in safer hands
W. sn .ne e people than with i small clique. 81 big bankers
8SS AS OTHER SEE HIM.
@Ihere area good many South Dakotans who believe the
state foam de no better than to send Coe I. Crawford back
to- the senate for another six years, and it appears South
Dakotans aren't alone ia that opinion, for ellison Gardner,
Waslaingtoncorrespon dentt 81 the 81, Paul Daily News, and