The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-06-10
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
Plans and Controls
From Our Exchanges

Plans and Controls
Farmers are still puzzled over the
economic thoughts and actions Of
some of the nations leaders on the
question of crop control, crop
switching, and various other pro-
duction and market operation con-
trolls designed to advance farm
prices and at the same time letting
down the bars for increased I'M
ports from foreign countries that
have cheaper money, lower labor
costs and lower standards Of liv-
ing.
They are also wondering how
they are going to be able to con-
tinue to buy manufactured pro-
ducts on a market that Is protect
ing both labor and materials which
go into the manufactured products
and sell their products on a mar
ket that has lost considerable Of
the even limited protection that it
had in the past.
Somewhere both ends must
meet-temporary prosperity can
be artificially maintained but over
the long pull agriculture must fur
nish the basic prosperity and buy
ing power. The house Of any ma
tional prosperity that Is built with
out the proper sustaining forces
Of sound agricultural foundation
will topple again and may be an
even greater wreck than it has
been many times in the past
Land OI4akes News.
In looking over the 1887 session
laws, nearly 500 passed at the last
session, one Is convinced democra-
cy would be safer If there were
some way to make laws fewer and
simpler, that people might follow
their government without that feel
ing Of losing touch with the world
Of sanity.-Brainerd Tribune.
Carter Glass, senator from Vir-
ginia, an ardent and lifelong DEM
ocrat, but also a free and indie
pendent American, said In radio
broadcast recently: with men Of
undisguised radical type cam
paigning the country, and freely
applying their wretched oppro-
biums to the supreme court, those
who resist the shocking movement
are impertinently reproached with
organized propaganda" chal-
lenge any proponent of this pack
ing contrivance to examine the
thousands upon thousands Of per-
sonal letters and kilograms sent to
me and find in them anything but
Individual indignation at the pro-
posal to make an Executive puppet
Of our supreme judicial tribunal.
For myself I think we should
right now have organized propa-
ganda" in the sense that the men
and women of America who value
the liberties they have enjoyed for
$50 years should, with unexampled
spontaneity, exercise their constitu-
tional right of petition, and with
all the earnestness Of their souls
protest to Congress against this at
tempt to replace representative
government with an autocracy."-
Fairfax Standard.
Right now when the nonresident
fishermen are coming into the state
in large numbers to enjoy the ad-
vantages which nature so literally
bestowed on Minnesota, there Is
considerable dissatisfaction ex-
pressed over the increase of a dol
lar in the nonresident license fee.
The editor of the Eveleth Clarion
suggests that many Of the argu-
ments against the increased cost
could be easily overcome by "for-
getting to take that extra quart
along on the trip."-The Park Rap
ids Enterprise.
Shipstead and Supreme Court
CONSERVATION and confusion have
been thrown into the ranks Of the
FarmerLabor party in Minnesota
by long delayed announcement
from United States Senator Hen
rik Shipstead, that he Is opposed
to the Presidents plan for packing
the supreme court.
Illness prevented Senator Ship
stead from taking his seat in con-
gress the first four months Of the
present session. During that time
he maintained his usual silence on
national issues. Recently, on re-
turning to Washington, he an
nounced that he will not support
the Presidents plan.
In doing this, he directly opposes
most Of his partys leaders in Min
nesota, several Of whom rushed in
to print as soon as the court-pack-
ing plan was publicly announced.
All this raises a question in Min
nesota politics. Whom are the
FarmerLaborites going to follow,
the senior senator or the shotgun
politicians, who explode at every
press Of the finger?
The issue Is clearly definedl Min
nesota Farmer-Laborites must fol-
low Shipstead or repudiate him.
Brown County Journal.
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