Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-10-29
PRESIDENT WILSON'S OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE.

Mr.. Burke, in his Watertown speech, claimed that the Wilson
administration had fulfilled the democratic platform promises, fully
and completely.
IN regard to the tariff, Mr.. Burke asserted that Everybody add
mits that the protective tariff was responsible for the trusts that
= tariff for revenue was the democratic policy, and that the present
tariff was framed in strict accord with that policy; that 1T took the
burden of the tariff from the shoulders Of the people, and so forth.
If true, then all Of The trusts should have been destroyed and the
cost Of living materially reduced.
What trust has been destroyed, or injured? Secretary Redheld
has challenged proof that any industry in the nation has been injured
by the revision Of the tariff. What products had fallen off in price
The only fair test would be the market price before the Euro
pean war. The present tariff is a dual one; manufactured articles
protected from foreign competition, and farm products on the free
Not one commodity on the protected list had fallen in price, but
farm products We're on the toboggan slide until arrested by the war
Although the worlds crop Of wheat was slightly less than in
1913, the price of wheat had fallen fifteen cents per bnsheI and other
farm products materially so But food products manufactured out
CT farm products, being protected, did not follow ,
The present tariff has failed as a revenue tariff" 1t has failed
as a trust buster, and it has failed to raise a single burden from the
shoulders of the people. Agriculture was made the goat.
The second great achievement, according to MriBurke, lies IN the
Another thing, said Mr. Burke, the farmers can now borrow
money at a lower rate of interest, and also on their crops.
Evidently, since Mr. Burke's removal to Washington he has not
been in touch with farming conditions in the Dakotas: Any farmer
present could have told him that the rate Of interest had not fallen,
but that it is more difficult to borrow at all on farm products than 1t
has h"s+ been sn. for toG; years ar or, Ee d f1tgot to hsa ment f%et t nana the b f"rmsrs oo OF th tGe
staple crop-cotton-and that their representatives have been trying
10 hold up congress to insist on some measure OF relief.
the reserve board officials on the ground of the great responsibility
involved. He asserted that they have the absolute power to issue
currency when needed, and to Withdraw it when in their judgment it
is not needed. In fact, he conceded a perfect monopoly, which they
The second great achievement of the administration, then, has
accomplished as little for the people as the first, and it is in the title
rather than in the body of the law. #@ U.s.
The third great achievement of the administration was the en-
actment of the "Antitrust Law" which also must have been good
Tor It also received many republican votes, according to Mr.. Burke
Upon examination the law will be found to be perfectly harm
less. Let US quote a little democratic authority for our statement II
this regard.
Senator Reed (democrat) says Congressional Record, page
pretense to the public that we are offering a remedy when we are
offering no remedy that will efeetuate any good II is singular, but
The only penalty provided is that OF a fine. Was that IN accord
ance with the promise of the democratic party?
- oara+aryr Rrvon Said. ttt iS nsless IA attpmpt tO prevent com
small COMPARED with he sums made By the combinations. Imprison
ment, however, is punishment, aud the trust phagnates will become
scarce as soon as the penitentiary doors close upon a few OF the
Speaker Clark said If Il had my way, I would fill the peniten
tiaries and jals of the United statesSso full Of trust magnates tina
their arms and legs would stick out Of the windows !.
mony Of Senator Reed, Secretary Bryan and Speaker CLARK, is silly
Mr.. Burke gave the administration great credit for collecting
two per cent on bank deposits, but forgot to add that the government
at the same time was paying three per cent on the same amount Q
bonds, which would materially change the balance.
In no instance has the present democratic congress, in spirit o.
letter, enacted the administration measures as suggested by the
president. Too many O'Gormans, Fitzgeralds, Reeds and Under
All praise to President Wilson for his splendid peace policy, but
We. must not permit our feelings and sympathies in g foreign war t
We cannot afford to elect I'D. s johnson to the United States
senate, no. are we going to do 50, who has no declared ed, policies o.
public affairs, on the reflected popularity of President Wilson, whose
J : n csnens and : i NJ burke Il asserted nsaete not 3 one 81 which could hav,
been passed on its merits, and as devitaized could only have beer
passed through pressure Of the party caucus.
AS that party caucus is controlled by the democratic south, de
pending on Boss Murphy and the Tammany influence of the east,
United States senator Of the Ed. johnson type would simply aid Muir
ply In his stranglehold on the democratic caucus.
What President Wilson and the nation most need is more indie
Inendentthinking men as senators and representatives, who vii
treat measures upon their merits.
But in endorsing the Murphy-Tammany regime in New York
and Ed. S. johnson, the spokesman IN South Dakota, and toleratina
Sullivan in illinois, we are led TO wonder what next
JOHN rs LOST I'm THE SHUTTLE.
John Sutherland Of Pierre, the erstWhHe progressive, who woul
rather be fernist the government than to eat dapiaeks floating i
maple syrup, thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists b
sees the ghosts.
John won't be comforted. He AYERS that the progressiyes di
not endorse Richards for the goyernorship and that Richards refuse
Ito accept the endorsement anyway.
Somehow we don't grasp the sort Of logic that John sets fortl
We cant understand how Mr.. Richards could have refused to aeceI
d thing that was never Offered
John ~ reasoning IS on i par with that OF the lawyer who, IN +