The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-25
.CUMM|NS IS OUT
. FOR PROHIBITION
Iowa Senator, Possible G. o. P.
Candidate For President,
Says He FaVors National
"Dry" Law.

Washington, d. c.. Feb. Ex-senator
Albert b. Cummins has announced
that he favors national prohibition,
thus becoming the first Of the repub-
lean presidential aspirants to make
m important utterance concerning an
issue.
The interview with Senator Cum
Minis places him before the public on
The platform he will adopt II he ac-
lively enters the lists as candidate
,or the republican nomination in 1916.
THE saloon must CO." said he. so
briefly must be the rule of conduct for
the future" ....
There are q dozen men in public
life who gaze fondly on the nomina-
lion possibility of the republican
party, and have already placed them
selves definitely on record as favor
ng prohibition, but the temperance
forces are casting about for a strong
nan. They want one who has some
thing to recommend him other than
q leaning toward prohibition. Senator
Cummins was conceded to be a candi-
date to be reckoned with long before
his views on the wet" and dry is
sue was publicly announced.
Problems Of Nation.
Discussing the problems of the ma
ton, considered collectively, in answer
to a question, Senator Cummins said;
This Is too comprehensive a question to
oe answered within the limits of an inter
view, even II were at all competent to
answer It Nearly all the old problems
are still with US for 1t rarely happens that
problem OF government Is finally solved.
In addition TO the old ones new difhculties
are constantly rising.
II the general purpose of government is
to do justice among the people ana TO see
TO it that every human being as the best
ma a r
able living, to hold safely and quietly en-
Joy what he fairly earns. to repress the
strong and to sustain the weak, we can
easily agree upon the vital problems OF
and to work them out in actual legislation
Is the duty before us. r....
New Tariff Needed.
As they appear to me now they involve:
First--A new tariff law which will put
an end to the unfair competition OF for
eign countries by imposing duties which
are high enough to allow our producers 10
enter and hold our markets. realizing a
fair profit upon the sale of their cOmnodi-
ties, and low enough to prevent the exac-
ton OF undue prices without Inviting riv-
airy from abroad, The establishment OF
a permanent independent tariff board to
gather and promulgate the information es-
sential for intelligent legislation upon the
second--A careful and continuous super
vision Of the field OF industry IN order t 10
In business Is preserved. This does not
mean that business Is to be done In a
small way or by email units. 1t means
that big business must stop, short OF mo-
nopoly; that 1t must halt in Its growth
before IL reaches the point OF suppress
sion of effective competition: Fear must
be removed from the minds OF honest
men, and the dishonest operator must De
driven from commerce.
Third-Excessive hours OF labor must
cease, II we would maintain our standard
of citizenship and the working man must
know that the law Is his friend and pro
tector, not his enemy and despoiler Child
labor must be abolished, for IL We cannot
give our young people chance to be-
come strong physically, mentally, and
morally the end OF its republic Is not Tar
away.
Fourth--The saloon must CO. Sobriety
must be the rule of conduct for the fu-
ture.
Fifth-The small borrower must have
his opportunities widened. We have
reached a time when the agricultural out
the farmer, whether owner or center,
more and better facilities for production.
Sixth-We must unlock the west; nor
TO the mere promoter and monopolist, put
TO the settler and improver. Conservation
in its best sense can be attained without
denying TO the people of the western
states the opportunity 70 grow.
Seventh believe in reducing the arna-
ment of the world, but, until this Is ac-
complished, the United States must be
kept strorg enough so that every other
nation will know that we can and will
resist unjust demands and enforce our
honorable rights. We ought not to pause
q. moment In our effort to enlarge the
found some plan for the enforcement of
the Judgments Of arbitral tribunals which
rall into action other powers than those
of the two nations directly concerned.