The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-25
MANUFACTURERS
TO Be RESTRICTED
IN ABOUT THE SAME MANNER AS
IN THE PURE FOOD
LAW
SELLING ACORHs ARKANSAS INDUSTRY
General Sherwood Says a $54, 00,0O0
Lie Has Travelled Over the
Country.

Brookings Register Bureau, Washington, DC.
(By j. E. Jones)
1t will be remembered that at the
time Of the passage of the Sherwood
dollar a day" pension bill that a great
cry was made throughout the country,
to the effect that the added cost
would be seventy-fve million dollars
a year; and so well grounded was this
belief that it was published in some
of the leading magazines and period
icals of the day. Now General Sher-
wood is taking occasion to remind
the prophets hat they were wrong. He
says that in advocating the passage
of his bill that he stated on the floor
of congress that the increase of pen
sions would not be mare than 1000
600 a year. The old general is some
times very emphatic In his remarks,
and here is what he thinks Of the dis
crepancy between the prophets and
the statistics compiled by the govern
ment itself. THAT $54, 600, 900 dollar
lie has travelled from Cape Cod to San
Francisco Bay, and from Put-in-Bay,
in Lake Erie, to Gulfport, on the great
gulf, for over a year, and this is the
first opportunity l have had to con-
tradict it and to show by the official
record Of the Pension Office that the
bill has carried less than $21,O00 900,
verifying within about $185,000 the
estimate that the committee on pen.
sions made at the time the bill was
passed"
That the trusts are having bad
dreams is apparent. One of the big
gest appropriations eve made for an
investigation of any kind will be asked
in order that the Bureau Of Corpora
lions, of which Joseph E. Davies Is
the head, may solve the trust problem.
The president has a way of dividing
responsibility in big matters; and
while Mr.. Davies will conduct this ex-
haustive investigation, Representative
Clayton of Alabama is keeping in close
touch with the White House and has
already prepared several bills which
are to be considered as party meas.
ures. It is known that there is to be
a thorough overhauling Of the anti
trust laws, yet it seems probable that
only two or three bills will be passed
this winter, and that the rest of the
program will be put over until the
completion of the investigation by the
Commissioner of Corporations and
other government agents. 1t is semi
officially declared that the president
is not opposed to big business, but
that he wants to remove by law the
restrictions now imposed by big bust
ness on little business in order that
both may be included in laws fair to
ALL"
That the "get together" ambitions
of some of the republican leaders do
not meet with the approval of former
President Taft has been emphasized
by the reference to the progressive
movement as the result of "hysteria"
and self intoxication." With express
ident Roosevelt declaring from the
mouth Of South American jungles
that they must adopt our policies, If
there is to be any getting-together," it
is clear that the two champions of last
years campaigns are not doing any
thing wonderful in the way Of promot-
ing harmony.
The first shipment has been made of
Maine Holsters to the Puget Sound
region in furtherance Of the plan
which is ardently supported by Secre-
tary of Commerce Redfeld; and a sys.
tematic campaign has been opened to
establish the eastern lobster on the
Pacific coast. A number of previous
attempts along this same line have
been made, but the present plan diff.
fers from its predecessors in that
there has been a special selection of
waters in which it is hoped the spawn
will multiply.
More than 100000 horsepower has
been developed from streams on ma
tional forests under government reg
ulation. This represents the output
under conditions of lowest stream
flow.
According to Miss Alice Paul, chair
man of the congressional commit
tee of the National Woman's Suf-
frage Association in Washington. the