The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-02-20

llle packers Tree rein Tor another
10 or 20 years of lawlessness
, Moreover, the very fact that the
federal trade commission is to be
deprived of this great field OF
control over industry will dis
credit the commission in the eye
OF the public unfamiliar with the
situation, and that it will result
In next depriving the commits
sion of its authority over the
coal industry and perhaps the
steel and other basic industries,
Congress will have been embold-
ened to kill the federal trade
commission by starvation.
The Communist Cases
Secretary of labor Wilson is
about to decide the issue, put up
to him during the past week, as
to whether the Communist par
ty is an illegel organization, UNI
der the recent amendments to
the immigration act. The ques-
ton was raised by lawyers for
some of the thousands of MEM
bers of the party who were seiz-
ed and thrown into Jail early
this month-many of them be-
ing held without warrants.
If the secretary decides that
the Communists are not ipso
facto criminals, then an attempt
will probably be made by the re-
pressionist element in congress
to pass a new law to bring about
their suppression. If, on the 9TH
er hand, he decides that they are
criminals because of the fact of
their membership in the associa-
ton, they will doubtless appeal
from this ruling to the federal
courts. Procedure in the courts.
will be slow and will perhaps
drag without final decree UNI
til the 1920 elections are past.
Admits Ignorance
Representative Newton of
Minneapolis, attempting to inter
rupt Representative Browne of
Wisconsin, who was assailing
the Graham sedition bill in a
speech on the floor, challenged
the statement that some por-
tions of the Declaration of indie
pendence would be unavailable
under this bill.
Take the part of the Declar-
ation," said Browne, where it
states that whenever any form
/ OF government is destructive of
these ends it is the right of the
people to alter or abolish it. Also
that clause in the Declaration of
Independence which states that
when long abuses and usurpa :
tions evince a design to reduce
them under absolute despotisn.
it is their right, it is Their duty,
to throw off such government
To which the superintendent
Newton replied: 81 have not
read the Graham bill"
Browne suggested that New
ton had better read the bill be-
fore trying to defend it. Newton
denied that he was defending it,
but he proceeded to say that he
had run down a report that por-
tions of the Constitution could
mot be mailed, under sedition
bill, and the report was untrue.
Browne concluded his speech
with these lines from Joseph
Story:
"Here shall the press the peo-
pies rights maintain,
Unawed by influence and UNI
bribed by gain;
Here patriot truths her glorious
precepts draw,
Pledged to religion, liberty and
law"
Navy Medals
Our navy is bound to have
more or less trouble over the dis
tribution of medals for meritor-
ious service-no distribution,
in fact, could please all. But the
public would hear nothing of the
disagreements were not certain
powerful interests anxious to
discredit Secretary Daniels
For several years he has been adj
vocating that the public keep
certain oil lands on the public do
main to guarantee a ready sup
r Y Of fuel oil at all times at a re-
? onable urice.
: great excitement was rails
ed when liquor was banished
from. the navy for the same rea-
son. With unusual efforts being
made now to rob the public do
main, Daniels position becomes
obnoxious to the interests. What