The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
COME, LET US REASON
TOGETHER SOME MORE

III Tic NIIGT IdZtrtt OF last WECK, the DEn1OCTdI-
ic Committee, to put it mildly, made some gross exag-
gerations, for instance, the FIRST and SECOND
ALLEGATIONS are claims for credit for the law
providing for the direct election of the United States
Senators, and the Parcels Post. If each of these
were Democratic measures, then William II. Taft,
himself, was a Democrat, as they were passed under
his administration. After having claimed these two
measures, it is quite natural that the Democratic
party should claim all credit for the Federal Reserve
System, without stating that the fundamental bank
ing principles, on which this Federal Reserve System
was based, were taken from the report of the None
tary Commission, a Republican Report.
National Rural Credits Law is too cumbersome
to be of any use to South Dakota voters. No ten men
will Join together in the obligation. but vote for the
Rural Credits Amendment to our own Constitution,
which can be made useful to us.
Democratic Committee fail to describe how the
Wilson administration has ignored the Civil Service
System.
EXPENDITURES N ECONOMY: The Gaz-
ettei shows that the state tax in the year 1915 was
higher than it was in 1905. They do not show that
the value of the property had increased at a greater
rate than the increase in tax. State. county, school,
and township taxes have all increased. 1t has been a
time OF building up III all the departments Of govern
ment. More people are taken care of in the state
charitable institutions and are better taken care of.
New buildings have been built in the state schools and
many more young people are attending them and
they are getting better instruction than ever have
been. 1t is the same way with the townships. Good
roads, better paid teachers have increased taxes. The
total township taxes in Hand County in 1905 were
SI34OI; in 1915, S3I,So6: the school taxes in 1905
were S34436; in 1918 $4,000.
THE REPUBLICAN, ADMINISTRATION in
this state in the past four years has reduced the state
The state tax in Hand County in 1911 was
S2S,547Q4 in 1915 reduced to 23,27oyo6. On the first
piece of land described in the Gazette is:
John Hins, SW of 26-IoO-O6. in 1917, 1854, in
1915, $500.
The state tax per capita is lower in South Dakota
than in North Dakota, Nebraska. Iowa, or Minnesota
he state of South Dakota is red1cino ifs exDendj-
lures, and will they be reduced further by electing
the Democratic party in this state?
-Four years ago Woodrow Wilson was pledged
to economy, yet the appropriations made by Congress
in the last session exceeded by $Iooyoooyooo the last
appropriations of the Republicans, which they
had SO unsparingly condemned. Where was the
money expended? S., I0S,ooospent on Texas rivers
and harborS, $4,000 on the BrazOS river. Suppose
this party which has been out of office so long, should
get control in this state, would it do the same as it has
in the National Government.
FREE TRADE AND PROSPERITY: Is our
prosperity sound or are we merely making capital
of the poverty of the people across the sea. The
Underwood Tariff law went into effect October :,
1913. 1t left rice protected, placed wheat on free list,
tobacco protected, corn free. Comparing June 4, 1912
before tariff, with June 4, 1914, after the new tariff
wheat changed twenty cents per bushel, from SLIPS
to 1894 corn from May, 1912 to May, 1914, from
SO to So.
We have generally believed that no country
could import corn into the United States, but during
the nine months before the European war broke out,
I~I,S43,I66 bushels of corn came into this country
from Argentine. 1t costs II cents to carry corn from
Omaha to New York, but between three and four
cents by shipboard from Argentine to New York.
After the war the South Dakota farmers will want
their wheat and corn protected.
The ADMANSON EIGHT HOUR LAW: Had
this law been passed at the dictation of a governor of
a state. we would have been quick to claim that it was
for political expediency. We connot think that the
president of the United States would crowd through
such legislation before election, just to catch votes.
We will not condemn it on that ground, but is it not
an injustice for farmers, who average ST. AZ per day
to pay additional freight rates for the purpose of in
creasing the wage of the trainmen, who now receive
between six and seven dollars a day.
The Democratic Committee calls attention to the
fact again that we are a nation at peace. China is
always at peace except when Japan invades her ter
ritory, but America owes more to civilization than
does China.
The Republicans do not want war, but only ask