The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-03

ing schools should be rigidly applied
If growing school costs are to be
halted. Let US have good school
buildings with good equipment and
pay good salaries that are suffic,
icntly high to attract the best teach
ers so that they can be retained"
The governor spent some time
explaining the great need of a good
school teacher, and took the lives
OF Senator kellogg, Knute Nelson
and himself as examples of the Oh.
time school teacher, who was fal
under paid for what Service was
rendered. He advised that II a
school building has been contem.
plated for erection to wait until
the soaring. building material prices
when ysu- can afford IL he told til
people. Admitting that the prices
might never <reach their former
level, due to the higher standard
OF living, Governor Preus said that
the prices would be coming down
somewhat in the near future.
How Taxes Were Cut
Friends you have to thank the
finance committee Of the state leg
islature. of which Senaor Widel is
q member, for cutting down your
direct taxes to a large extent. But
bear in mind that the state officials
get very little of what you pay in
taxes. II you want TO know where
the money Is spent, ask your school
board, your city official and county
commissioners.
THE remedy for. economy lies in
rigid economy in each unit of gov
ernment-an the school district in
the township, in the city and in the
state alike-and In the hating for
In those activities of government
calling for heavy tax ievies. Let
bond issues for improvements only
after the most thorough considera.
ton. Let not the tax burden be-
come so heavy so as to Cypress the
people. High taxes are not an evil.
In some cases ii emphasizes pros
perity. It Is only when the high
taxes Cypress the people that they
are bad and must be remedied."
Closing his speech, Governor
Preus made mention of the dis
astrous~ condition of foreign coun-
tries which the Nonpartisans
would want to make it like" Look
about you and see whether you
would want to live under any flag
but that one, pointing at an Amer
lean flag hanging in the hall Let
us thank God that we are citizens
under the stars and stripes"
: Bowen On Eseh -cummins Act
Ivan Bowen, was next introduced
stated he wanted to discuss Just
one subject and that was the Esch-
Cummins law. He explained, that
the law or act was made for the
purpose of returning the railroads
to the owners after the federal
government had taken them away
during the war. Touching on the
So called guarantee provision OF
the act, he stated that 1t was pro-
vision where the federal govern
nent paid the railroads and loss
sustained during the first six
months of their return to private
ownership. - - =
People, he stated, had miscon-
strued the guarantee provision of
the act, in thinking that the federal
government was still paying for
the losses Of the railroad whereas it
was but for a period Of six months,
The valuation act prepared by
Senator Robert LaFollette. was
law which. caused the high freight
rates and not the guarantee clause of
the Esch Cummins act. he stated, Y
Mr.. Boman took exception to the
late speech of Senator LaFoilette
in Bismarck, N. D., in which he up
held his war career, and denounced
the administration for its war rec.
ord. He stated that the young men
of the country, had fought over
seas and now they are back here
and men like LaFollette won't let
the war rest.
Congressman Frank Clague was
the last speaker of the evening, and
as he has no opposition in the COM
ing election, he talked about the
passage of the late tariff. The re-
cent Fordney McCumber tariff law!
he said was the lowest tariff, with
one exception and that was the I'm
derwood tariff.