Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-07-12
moNopoL1sTs AND THE GOVERNMENT.

We fear that our friend Of the Wallace Scout fails to. compre-
the position of The Saturday News with reference to a recent
upon a paragraph taken from the Scouts columns
The chief point sought to be made is that carping criticism isl
practically valueIess in furnishing a solution of problems that in
systems which usage has recognized as legitimate.
which Morgan & Co. is supposed to be allowed for handling Amer
lean business for our European al,es-th h buying OF supplies and
Ordinarily we expect our local bankers to receive reasonable
remuneration for attending to our business outside OF their regular
Upon the same principle we pay our lawyers and our doctors
and our farm hands and our domestic t servants f4 eaa+s I9 %aa Tact TT th str% our
MS Of the obligation to recompense HIM for the services he renders
If this point is clear, let IS proceed to the next, and in this con
nection We take pleasure in reproducing from the Scout an extract
il So sriIlngly Illustrates our point. Mr.. Wilson said, among other
things. if the Scout has correctly quoted him, and we assume that
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This is a critical period in our comtry,,s history, and we think
we are justified in pursuing the subject a little farther, since 1T IS
the truth that we are all supposed to be seeking and since the sta
Mr.. Wilson has been at the head Of governmental, affairs for
over four years, and the fact .t that conditions a5itlo1 h have tSa not lot; been m mater Ter
contemporary, is attested by its complaint y.
1t indicates one Of two things: either the conditions which Mr..
Wilson then denounced are now accepted by him as right and proper
and for the best interests of the country, or that he has reached the
conclusion that his structures Were without foundation in fact.
There IS ANOTHER lot r a 4he4 at w. II Is rue ~" bp om Meo IS No. Mr. VIII ~
There Is yet anOtnef, bI we reJecl lHd doo," o .he' 70 '"O
Mr.. Wilson still thinks as he thought in 1912 but finds himself pow
cress to andy a remedy. -,
If Mr.. Wilson was right ina 1912. and if those conditions OF which
he h complained inc still prevail rva 2.t the inference IN efar e IS ro,1 t4at NE wbi ;nd h tnos Sc i ne.
pressed the people as to cause unity of action on their part m select
ling the national legislators.
But if we accept this horn of the dilemma, we should remember
that the national administration has dictated the principal leglsla-
ton Of the past four years.
Therefore, we get back to the proposition that, II we wish TO
make progress in efeeting changes in systems that w we consider
ton of an adequate remedy is the allessential element IN working
out reforms.
But we should reflect that we are scarcely justified in assuming
that a man of considerable wealth, measured IN tins worlds goods
lis not as patriotic and EbertyIoWng as another OF lesser means.
1t depends upon the man, be he rich or poor, great or small