The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-01-04
Legislature Opens
Regular Session
E. 0. Frescoln Made Speaker;
Governors Address Full
of Interest to Farmers
and Taxpayers.

Tuesday saw the opening of the reg
ular biennial sixty day session of the
legislature Of South Dakota at Pierre
when the members of both houses
were sworn in, organized and then
gathered in joint session to hear Gov
II w. II. McMaster's inaugural ad-
dress as he began his second term as
governor Of this state. A large bou-
quet of roses we're presented to Miss
Gladys Pyle Of Beadle county, the first
woman legislator, amid vociferous ap-
plause.
f. 0. Frescoln of Trip county, was
unanimously nominated for speaker of
the house by the republicans, the other
candidates having previously with
drawn their names In the senate c..
S. Amsden, veteran senator from Grant
county, was for the fifth time nominal
ed president pro tempore.
The governor in his address dwelt
largely on the difficulties of the farm
ers and placed powerful arguments in,
to the hands of the Legislature in favor
OF the farmers cause.
The governor called attention to
home consumption Of South Dakota
products and invited the Legislature to
consider setting aside m week Of the
year to be known as home consump-
ton week" Among the subjects taken
up in the inaugural address were CO.
operative marketing, intermediate
credits, cost Of production, highways,
urging compliance with the federal
laws with reference to maintenance Of
federal aid highways, drainage and
flood control, Richards primary law,
urging less time be given between con
vention dates and the primary e,ec-
ton, changes in laws on remova. of
county officers, state repositories, bond
issues, the bank guaranty act, trans
portation, car shortages, soldiers bon
us, cement plant, efficiency survey, a
tOmobile thefts, the use Of peyote
among Indians, segregation Of boys
and girls al the state training school,
transfer Of younger prisone 3 from the
penitentiary to the training school, and
recommending provision for compensa-
ton of the mothers Of soldiers who
died in France.
His speech in part follows
IF factories have been subsidized, il
all lines Of industry have been subsi-
died, if a subsidy has been asked for
the shipping industry, it is time thai
we ask that justice be melted out to
agriculture.
1T requires no great amount Of OBJ
%servation to come to the conclusion
hat a well balanced nation in order
to reach it's maximum material devei-
opment, must encourage impartially
ali lines and all classes Of industry.
There a be no dispute or question
hat encouragement to these various
industries has wrought for their sue
grown to greet prosperity and devel-
opment by simply letting the laws Of
progress and the laws of supply and
demand and %unguided human effort
shape it's destinies.
when we say that a particular in
dustry has been built up through pro-
lection and encouragement, what do
we mean by that? We mean this:
that in this country when duties We're
placed upon the importation Of shoes,
we permitted our factories to sell their
products in this country at a profit
over and above the expenses of man
price of those goods upon the worlds
market, and this for the purpose Of
building up home industries and mar
ket, and that excess profit was a direct
The same applied to the clothing
industry, the steel industry, and prac-
tically every industrial concern that
has grown, developed and prospered
tax in the way Of a protective tariff,
or a tax levied by a corporation upon
the people, not through any govern,
mental agencies, but through it's own
power to regulate and control prices,
every n of these industries, | say, is
supported by a tax upon consumption
which is paid by every citizen in the
United States.
Industries such as the shoe, wooden
steel, were supported by a protective
tariff, which was a direct tax upon
consumption. The packing industry
and the International Harvester com
pany, partly through a protective tar
i'll and partly through their inability
to fix prices, maintain their prosperity
through a tax levied IN the people. All
industry such as the Standard Oil
through monopolistic control, fixes its
prices, which is a direct tax on the
people.
IF, then, all of these industries, in
Guiding those that have been protected
directly by government agencies OF
those which have been able to protect
themselves through their power to con
troll prices, to the end that all shall
have a reasonable margin Of profit
and all the nation has been taxed an(
is being taxed In order that these In
dustries may enjoy a reasonable de