Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-06-22

greatly reduced. Under the normal
conditions which prevailed prior to the
war. 1T was clearly demonstrated that
this act deprived the American pro-
Queer and the American wage Garner of
that protection which entitled them to
meet their foreign competitors, and but
for the adventurous conditions created
by the war would long since have
paralyzed all forms Of American indus
try and deprived American labor of its
just reward.
1T has not in the least reduced the
cost of living, which has constantly adj
vanced from the date of it's enactment.
Welfare of u people demands its re-
peal and the substitution of a measure
which in peace as we'll as in war will
produce ample revenue and give
reasonable protection to all forms of
American production in mine. forest,
field and factory.
I'VE favor the creation of a tariff
commission with complete power to
gather and compile information for the
use of congress in all matters relating
to the tariff.
Business Regulation.
"The republican party has long be-
heved in the rigid supervision AND strict
regulation Of the transportation and
great corporations of the country. 1t
has put its creeds into its deeds, and
all really effective laws regulating the
railroads and the great industrial cor
porations are the work of republican
congresses and presidents. For this
policy of regulation and supervision.
the democrats, in a stumbling and
piecemeal way, are undertaking to in
volve the government in business which
should be LETT within the sphere of pri-
yate enterprise and in direct COMPETE
ton with it's own citizens. a policy
which is sure to result in waste, great
expense to the taxpayer and in an in
ferior product.
THE republican party firmly believes
that all who violate the laws in regula-
ton of business should be individually
punished. But prosecution is very diff
ferent from persecution. and business
success, no matter how honestly at
tanned, is apparently regarded by the
democratic party as in itself a crime.
Such doctrines and beliefs choke en-
terprise and stifle prosperity. The re-
publican party believes in encouraging
American business as ii believes in and
will seek to advance all American in
%terestS.
Rural Credits.
wv favor an effective system of
rural credits as opposed to the inef-
fective law proposed by the present
democratic administration.
Rural Free Delivery.
w favor the extension of the rural
free delivery system and condemn the
democratic administration for cuTtail-
ing and crippling it.
Merchant Marine.
an view of the policies adopted by
all the maritime nations to encourage
their shipping interests and in order
to enable us to compete with them for
the ocean carrying trade, we favor the
payment to ships engaged in the for
eign trade of liberal compensation for
services actually rendered in CARRYING
the mails, and sue further legisla-
ton as viii develop an adequate rner-
chant marine and give us ships which
NAV be requisitioned by the govern
ment in time of national emergency.
w are utterly opposed to the gov
eminent ownership of vessels as pro-
posed by the democratic patty, be-
cause government ownership. While eff
fectiVely preventing the development of
the American merchant marine by pri-
waite capital. will be entirely unable to
provide for the vast volume OF Ameri-
can freights and will leave us more
helpless than ever in the hard grip of
foreign syndicates.
TRANSPORTATION.
Interstate and intrastate transporta-
ton have become so interviewer that
the attempt to apply two, and often
several. sets of laws to its regulation
has produced conflicts of authority,
embarrassment and opposition and in
| convenience and expense to the public.