The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-22

problems as now CONFRONT LneS6
localities.
Monopoly Investigation Underway
The government has finally
launched its investigation CT mono
poles and I hope it will be a bona
fide one and not merely put on to
Influence the coming election. There
are several monopolies that should
be investigated but one that needs
1t most Is the farm machinery
trust. Millions Of our farmers would
be interested to learn the reason
for the doubling of prices in farm
machinery the past two decades.
Back at the turn CT the century a
,7-foot binder could be bought for
Approximately IT'S bushels of wheat.
Today it takes over 400 bushels to
buy the same machine and SO 1t is
with nearly everything else the
farmer must buy.
| grant that good share Of the
increase has been caused by greatly
Increased production costs, such as
material, labor and taxes but 1t
hardly seems possible that these
items are sufficient to account for
the increase.
Thirty odd years ago automobiles
cost two and three times more than
they do now. Then they were crude
and undependable but as. the quail
lily improved the price was reduced
and today a car that is well-nigh
perfect can be bought for less than
a thousand dollars. We are all in
terested to learn why the price of
farm machinery keeps going up
and the price of automobiles down.
There must be a reason and we
would like to know it.
Voters Rebuke Roosevelt
Politically things are not going
so well for Mr.. Roosevelt. Last
week the Democratic voters of
Maryland and Georgia went to the
polls and renominated two Senators
whom he had vigorously denounc-
ed and for whose defeat he had
asked. In Maryland Senator Mil
lard Tydings was renominated by
substantial majority over Con-
gresham ID. J. Lewis, who had the
Presidents blessing, and in Georgia,
which is the Presidents adopted"
state. his man Camp received but
70, 1874 votes against 243,717 cast fer
his two opponents. Senator George,
whose defeat the President had re-
quested, ended UP with vote Of
|141,742 while Ex-Governor TIA l.
madge, an out-and-out anti-New
Dealer, garnered 101,975. Again
have the American people demon
strated that they cannot be dictat-
ed to by king, prince, potentate, or
president, neither can their votes
be bought with WPA or PWA
largesses.
The Presidents purge has fallen
flat, as we expected, and the net
result Of his efforts to secure the
election of another rubber stamp
Congress is that he will not control
the next Democratic convention,
either for himself or some satellite;
also that his stranglehold on Con-
gress has been definitely broken.
From now on that body will do
more of it's own thinking.
Must Regret
A few days ago the State depart
|ment disclosed how France reject
led German proposal, made in 1922
that European powers agree to take
Ia popular vote before going to war.
At that time Germany proposed
that the United States take the lead
in bringing about such an agree
|ment. Under it, France, Great
Britain, Germany, and Italy would
promise not to resort to war against
each other without a plebiscite.
When the proposal was submitted
to France it was rejected because
she took the position that Germany
could not be relied uponi Chief
Justice Hughes, who was then
Secretary of State, asked France
to reconsider her rejection which
was done but without changing her
attitude. The plan submitted by
Germany would have operated for
thirty years and had it been adopt
ed it would have been in effect dur
ing the present crisis.
That brings me back to the Lud-
low Resolution that was considered
by Congress last winter. The Lud-
low Resolution Droposed an amend.