The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-25

Throughout the country. Miss Paul
says that President Wilson has alien
ated the equal %suffragists of America
b. refusal to take up their cause, and
she believes the women should turn
the millions Of votes of women" and
their influence with male votes against
the democratic party in the next cleo
tion, unless that party changes its
mind on the question of suffrage. Miss
Paul states hat the progressives, So
c~ialists and prohibition parties are in
favor Of equal suffrage.
That the government will restrict
manufactures in the same way that
has been accomplished by the pure
food laws, is indicated by the hearings
held by COMMITTEES of congress on bills
to bar from Interstate Commerce mis-
branded adulterated articles Of every
description. Representative Campbell
Of Kansas, who is one of the most
alert and skilled of the legislators in
tOh, uCCldlC6 IudI III ulduu-
fucturer has the right to fitch from
the public on an article which is not
what it purports to be-" He further
declares that "a reputable manufac-
turer would not put his name on an
adulterated product" Mr.. Campbell
has produced for his colleagues in
congress a quantity Of shoes which
he says are not made of pure leather.
Other articles of merchandise have
likewise been brought forward show
ing the need for this legislation.
1t is real refreshing in these days
when pension legislation passes the
house Of representatives with only
twenty-five or thirty dissenting votes,
to note the nature of the opposition.
AS an illustration the article of Rep.
resentative Galloway Of Texas, Is in
point. In a speech in the house of
representatives he said: 81 remember
that when the river and harbor bill
was up and we were making a fight
against that, claiming that it was a
pork barrel bill, the gentleman from
Wyoming, who thinks that the house
would never yield to a political pres
sure, assaulted the river and harbor
bill, and said that it was a bill worked
out to grease the bearings of the ma
chinery in the respective districts.
Does the gentleman think that the
house would yield to the influence of
a pork barrel on the river and harbor
bill and would not be Influenced by a
pork barrel bill for the pension dis
tribution?"
According to Representative Tread
way Of Massachusetts, his state is
supporting an educational plan along
vocational agricultural lines and the
work has been very successful. Mr..
Treadway expresses the sentiment of
Massachusetts as favorable to further
extensions of this work, but he be-
lieves that it should be done by the
states, and that the part of the govern
ment should be confined to federal
aid.
The members of the presidents
cabinet and many distinguished states
men, claimed that they had the time
of their lives at the Caraboa dinner,
until President Wilson showed his
anger I'VE the fun poked at his Phil
ippine policy. And when the head of
the nation arose in splendid wrath the
songs that had been sung for fourteen
years lost their punch" President
Wilson's health prevented his attend
ance at the Gridiron dinner, when his
administration was the subject of
caricature and good-natured jests on
the part of the newspaper men Of the
Capital. And now critics Of the presi-
dent are unkindly charging that he
takes these affairs too seriously and
that even az president it would not
hurt him to take a joke" along with
the rest Of his government chiefs.
The gathering and selling of acorns
is a new industry, in Arkansas, to
supply eastern nursery firms with ma
terial for forest planting.