Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 6, 1916, Page 3

e i } f { ASY e { } e —— - LCONTEST FOR Cmous pow deliberative body in the world” exercise during the next four years. jority in both legislative branches. Particularly s such a majority es- sential in the senate, because it is the senate which has the final say-so in legislation. It Wilson 18 elected tomorrow and a Republican majority installed in the senate, it would ad- mittedly change all Democratic plans. Similarly, it Hughes is elected, and not provided with a working major- ity in the senate and lower house, the Republicans would certainly be unable to make the tariff changes - SENATE SEATS HOT AND HEAVY Democratic Administration Now Has a Majority of Sixteen in the Senate. which they desire. The Republican campaign mana- gers have centered their hopes on W STATES ARE &CT SENATORS alection of ten new Republican sena- tors, which would give the G. 0. P. a working majority in the upper house ot four votes. The Democrats have simply been working through- out the campaign to hold to as many of their majority as possible. The senatorial fight naturally has centered in the states where the suc- All Plans or Legislation Will De- pend on the Make-up of Senate. (By United Press) Washington, Nov. t.—The senate| coss ol the national tieket is in most of the United States, home of cour-| doubt-——such commonwealths as New tesy, the greatest free debating forum | York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Cali- in the world, the “stop gap" on hurry | fornia and Washington. Maine in up legislation devised by our fore- fathers of the revolutionary days, | place of the one now representing the will be on trial tomorrow. Down East state. In Indiana the Just at present—and until March | senatorial battle has been scarcely 4 at least —the Democratic adminis- | less vigorous than the presidential tration has a majority of sixteen in battle—John Worth Kern, Democrat, the senate’'s membership of 96. | and incumbent, is opposed to Harry In their scramble for votes tor the|S. New for the long term, and James “tional tickets neither of the two | E. Watson, Republican, is opposed to -at parties is overlooking the en-| Thomas Tagsgart, incumbent and which this “greatest | Democrat. Ohio has a hot fight on, senator- September chose two Republicans' in will | | tally speaking, between Senator Atlee ! Pomerene, Democerat, and Myron T. Ot the 48 states represented in the 4 In New York senate, will choose senators to- | Herrick, Republican. morrow—and in two sta and Maine, there will be a complete senatorial choice, for two candidates each No matter which gains power in the White Hou Democratic or Republican —all plans tor legislation will depend on the William F. McCombs is opposing for-| mer Representative William M. Cal- der, who had the distinetion four | vears ago of being the only Repub- | lican retained from New York state| in the Democratic sweep, [llinois does not elect a senator this | makeup of the senate . . vear, neither does Kansas, lowa, ! Has Final Say-so. Kentucky, Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, | Re 1 Nominee Hughes has Louistana, New Hampshire, North | emph all through his strenu- | Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South | ous camp. gard his the people that he will not re- n oas a victory unles him a Republican Carolina or South Dakota. | Some of the contests which pre- | liminary statements from one side or | HUMANITY --- AND YOUR VOTE N this great crisis of our country I am more interested in measures than in men, Tam not interested in parties at all. But measures can only be 4@ into force through the men in office. We must therefore make a choice A the man and men whe will put the measures in force. 47 3 In the first place we should guard against Wzll Street influences again se- F JI curing the control of our Gevernment. They have been rooted out during the last four years, and they are working hard to get back. The eight-hour day should be extended to all our industries where pos- sible. Women should be given the rights which in justice belong to them. For years the argument has had some force with me that women should be discouraged from working in factories and stores, and hence, they have been discriminated against in wages, but I have slowly come to the settled. con- viction that this practice has been unfair, because equal work deserves equal pay.. Hence, all women in our employment who do equal work shall receive equal pay. i I regard war as the greatest curse of mankind—that it has done more to retard the progress of the race and its material well-being than any other single cause. We want to see war abolished and we believe it can be done, and we must try to choose the man for the head of cur Nation who will do the most for these ends. ALTHOUGH NOMINALLY A REPUBLICAN ALL MY LIFE, I AM FOR WILSON, AND URGE MY FELLOW CITIZENS TO STAND FOR HIM, BE- CAUSE OF HIS POSITION ON THESE AND OTHER GREAT QUESTIONS, BECAUSE HE HAS KEPT US OUT OF WAR AND HAS DONE MUCH TO BRING ABOUT THE REMARKABLE PROSPERITY WHICH WE ENJOY, (.' BECAUSE WALL STRET IS AGAINST HIM. It fi - e is entitled to be rewarded for his great service to mankind, and the only way we can reward him is by giving him the opportunity to be of still gredter service. The greatest reward for doing a good thing is the privilege to do more, that is why Mr. Wilson wants to be re-elected; in other words, to be paid for what he has done by the privilege of doing more. I have much admiration for Mr. Hughes personally, but he is surrounded influenced and advised by nearly all the evil influences of selfishness and greed which I feel have retarded our progress for so long. I fear his election would restore the old crowd to power and put back the cause of humanity for fifty years. In my mind, the most undesirable citizen in the world is the man who will buy another man's vote, and the next most undesirable is the man who will sell his vote—because he not only injuries himself and his family, but the "K;Qmmnm'ty at large. § g i AM FOR MR. WILSON BECAUSE WITH A WORLD AT WAR HE HAS KEPT US OUT OF WAR. ALL OTHER GREAT NATIONS ARE BEING CONSUMED AND DESTROYED BUT WE HAVE PEACE WITH HONOR, AND OUR BOYS AT HOME. SPECIAL INTERESTS ARE DEMAND- ING WAR, AND THE PRESIDENT IS BEING CRITICISED WITH MANY WORDS, BUT STRIPPED OF ALL UNNECESSARY WORDS THEIR REAL COMPLAINT IS THAT HE HAS NOT PLUNGED THE COUNTRY INTO WAR FOR THEIR PROFIT. There has been much talk of the attitude of the so-called “hyphenates.” To my mind these are merely sentimental Americans, men and women, who, like myself, have a feeling of love for the place of their birth. My observa- “‘on has shown that among the best Americans are these citizens. ———"To all these let me say: I know from many conversations with Mr, Wil- 20 his absolute neutrality among all the nations at war, his intense devo- tion to peace, his deep desire to serve all the peoples of all those countries impartially. Any single act apparently against any one of these countries, is made only in pursuance of his duty as President of the United States and lis duty to mankind. 1 know positively that he bears no ill will to Germany or to England, or Trance, or Austria, or any of those countries at war, but he does under- s, Indiana | forwer Democeratic national chairman | the other indicate may be olose, or | Kansas City has made a powerful in which there is partioular interest | fight to gain the seat of Senator include: James A, Reed. . CALIFORNIA—Hiram W, John-| NEW JERSEY—Joseph 8, Freling- son, former governor, and four years | huysen of Raritan is opposing James ago Roosevelt's running mate on the| B, Martine, Democrat, and incum- Progressive ticket, now a full fledged | bent in one of the hottest campalgns Republican, i8 opposing George 8.|the president’s home state has ever Patton, Demoorat, known, CONNECTICUT—Senator George NORTH DAKOTA—United States P. McLean, Republican, is being op- | Treasurer John Burke, Democrat, posed by Homer 8. Cummings, former | hopes to oust Porter J. McCumber, national committeeman, Democrat. |incumbent, trom his place. INDIANA—James E. Watson, Re- PENNSYLVANIA — Republicans publican, and former “‘whip" of the|count certain' on election of Philan- house and right hand man to “Uncle|der C. Knox, former senator from Jog” Cannon in the old days of the|the Keystone state, former secretary Big Four In the house of represen-|Of state and former attorney general. tatives, is making tur fly tn his race | He i8 opposed by Ellis L. Orvis. agalnst “Tom"” Taggart, whom Re- publicans brand as Democratic boss of the Hoosler state. Harry 8. New, who as chairman of the commlittee on arrangements of the 1912 Repub- lican convention, was credited with having & good deal to do with the progress of the Republican steam roller, Is fighting it out with John W. Kern, now majority leader in the senate. MARYLAND—David J. Lewls, for- mer representative, father of the par- cel post law and advocate of govern- ment ownership of telephones and tolegraphs, a Democrat, is aligned against J. Erwin France, well known business man, h ACHUSETTS—The Bay state | has witnessed a picturesque campaign between two violently dissimilar as- pirants for the toga—Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican, a historian, grave, dignified and beared and John E. Fitzgerald—otherwise ‘“‘Honey Fitz.” Fitzgerald first came into the public eye through his ability to sing “Sweet Adeline” as a vote getter, that time being during his campaign as a mayoralty candidate in Boston. He made a record in the mayor's chalr and although he doesn’t sing on the stump now, Democrats claim he will figure big in the vote tomorrow. MINNESOTA—Frank B. Kellogg, formerly Taft's “trust buster” and the man who trailed the Standard Oil trust to its lair, is the Republiéan senatorial candidate against D. W. Lawler. Both are from St. Paul. MISSOURI-—Walter 8. Dickey S SO S 0 S 0 0 N O N DAIRY LORE. % Calves intended for the dairy should not be made as fat as veals, and they should not be al- lowed to become stunted. They should be thrifty and growing all the time. All windows and ventilators in the dalry barn should be put in order now. The cows should have a chance to go to shelter now when they naturally seek it. A thorough chilling now will dis- qualify a herd for profit during the whole winter. The best and most profitable cows are the first to suffer from exposure to cold, because they are the most highly and sensi- tively organized. Efticlency counts as much in handling a dairy herd as in any business. I_E&Efifiifififiiiiiilifiiiil& RERBRRRRACTZZERRRERREERARREREER® & & " 699 O O O U T A O O AN O N O 0K Thought Reading. “Can 1 see you apart for a moment?” “You mean nlone, don't your “Exa~tly I want the loan of a Aver." of every meal By HENRY FORD stand and is opposing that invisible government, that unseen hand which caused this war. I believe those same selfish forces that caused the war are opposing the President’s re-election. I AM FOR WILSON because he caused to be passed a large number of wise and humane laws, most of which had been promised by the politicians of both parties for many years without fulfllment. No one class has been {avored, no one disregarded. He has served the United States as a whole. Among these laws are: THE FEDERAL RESERVE LAW, which wrested from Wall Street its monopoly of finance, released credit, forbade usury and dispelled the fear of money panics which hung over every business. It has done away with the concentration of money in the hands of a few men in Wall Street, and distributed it among twelve Government controlled reserve banks throughout the country. The passage of this law alone, from the view- point of the honest business man, should entitle Woodrow Wilson to re- election. I say to you from experience and not from guess work, that the eight- hour day will help both employers and employees. We have had the eight- hour day in force in the Ford factory for nearly three years and it has been a complete success from every point of view. . I AM FOR WILSON because he favors the eight-hour day. The Presi- dent has declared that he is in favor of the eight-hour day in all kinds of business, except a very few in which it is impracticable, as for intance, farming. The President has been criticised for the passage of the Adamson eight- hour law, which applies to railroads, but that law averted the wholesale ruin which a universal railway strike would have brought. A strike had been ordered. It meant the closing of factories, violence and the enforced idleness of millions of persons and the loss of millions of dollars. Neither side to the struggle took into consideration the one hundred million people who would have to bear the burden. Every business man in the country was trembling with fear, The President acted as the representative of all the people and the strike was prevented and the principle of an eight-hour day endorsed.—Seventy-four Republican Congressmen voted the bill and no word of protest came from the Republican candidate, although the law was under consideration for several days. Mr. Wilson showed great wisdom and courage in preventing this strike, which would have paralyzed the nation. The Commission which has been appointed to study the effect of this law will, I hope, report that with increased efficiency the railroads will not need higher rates. But in any case this action is, I believe and hope, the first step towards the government ownership and operation of railroads, THE RURAL CREDITS LAW, under which the farmer is enabled to bor- row long time loans on small payments, at low rates of interest; and it promises an annual saving of $150,000,000 to farmers who were formerly the hopeless victims of land sharks. These rural oredit banks are mow being established by the Commission in various parts of the country. THE CHILD LABOR LAW, which prevents employment of young chil- dren in factories and stops the coining of dividends out of the lives of little children. There is no factory and no institution that can possibly give any oare equal to a mother’s care, A WISE WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION LAW, providing compensation to those injured while in the service of the goyernment, which measure will lead to “safety first.” THE LAW CREATING THE NON-PARTISAN TARIFF COMMISSION, ., PAID ADVERTISEMENT—This advertisement is inserted in behalf of the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson for President of the United States by the Dem ccratic C: ‘ THE AMERICAN WORKING 2 MAN SHALL NOT QUFFER The Republican Party stands for the principle of protection Wo must apply that principle fairly, without abuses, in as sci- entific & manner as possible; and Congress should be alded by the investigations of an ex- pert body. We stand for the safe-guarding of our ecomomic i independence, for the develop: ment of American Industry, for ¥ the maintenance of American standards of living. We propose that In the competitive struggle H that {s about to come the Amer- {can working-man shall not suf- ter.—From Mr. Hughes' speech X of acceptance. “"Any time you want real ies use Calumet Baking owder! My mother uses it— she’s tried all others —she’s learned her lesson —now she sticks to Calumet. ‘“ Unequalled for making tender, wholesome, light bak- ings, Wonderfu‘ leavening and raising qualities—uniform results. Mother says Calumet is the most economical 10 buy = most eco- womical to use. Try it of once. Received Highest Awards New Conk Busk Froe— “] Might Just As Well Be Dead” How Many Hundreds of Thou- u_;_l:c ofh %::nlv-l.“s.flu S 8ip in Pund Con t t Thing 'f' y? an:r{ ou? Not sick enough to go to bed but not well enough to take any pleas- ure out of life. Tired at the least thing—limbs feel heavy as lead—no relish for food—dull, heavy head- aches, sick feeling all over your y. The least little thing tires me out. Try using Hollister's Rocky Moun- tain Herb Tea (or Tablets) for a few weeks and watch the improve- ment. It will get the accumulated polsons out of your system, tone up your stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys and every vital organ. It will make your blood pure and rich and fill you full of energy, life and vitality. Get a package today from your druggist but be sure to get the genuine “Hollister's.” Price 35c a package. KX KR XXX EKXKKKKKE % Subscribe for the Pioneer. & KX XK KK XK KKK XK KKK For sale by THE CITY DRUG STORE ‘Take advantage of a want ad. ounty Committee, Bemidji, Minn., for which they are to pay $25.00. which will go into effect very soon, and which has taken the tariff out of politics and placed it in the hands of a commission of different parties, so that tariffs can be altered as conditions change. THE GOOD ROADS LAW, which provides $75,000,000 for improving highways throughout the United States under adequate safeguards, which will facilitate transportation. This will help the country feed the city. The farmer will be greatly benefitted by not being compelled to waste ; his energies on bad roads. Fruits and vegetables today are rotting on the 4 farms from lack of good roads. THE INCOME TAX LAW AND THE INHERITANCE TAX LAW, which readjust the burdens of taxation, compelling the wealthy to bear a fair share of the load which has hitherto rested all to heavily on the backs of the poor. THE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION LAW, which provides an annual appropriation for the direct education of the farmer, in order that the farms of the land may be worked with greater efficiency and upon a sound and scientific basis and produce larger crops for the benefit of all our people. THE ALASKAN RAILWAY LAW, which provided a railroad built and operated by the government, and which has opened up the resources of that great territory in the interests of the PEOPLE, not for the benefit of the few. THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION LAW, which creates a nonparti- son Board to arbitrate commercial disputes, to prevent unfair competition and to stand as a barrier between the consumer and extortion. THE GRAIN ANTI-GAMBLING LAW, which provides better grain stor- age facilities, and enables the farmer to obtain certificates on which loans may be secured. He is thus enabled to borrow on the products of his labor —and is not compelled to sell during unfavorable times. THE SAFETY-AT-SEA LAW, through the passage of which ships now carry more life-saving equipment, and the general living conditions of sail- ors at sea have been improved. THE COTTON FUTURES LAW, which prevents gambling in cotton in stock exchanges and establishes standards for cotton. I hope the President will find some way to pass a law to prevent all speculation in stocks. THE CLAYTON ANTI-TRUST LAW, which does away with interlocking directorates, prevents railway looting, ends the abuse of the injunction, and declares the great truth that a “Man’s labor is not a commodity but a part of his life.” THE ABOVE RECORD OF PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION in the interest of all the people and not of the few, far excels any ever before known in our history. THOMAS A. EDISON SAYS THAT PRESIDENT WILSON AND COL- LEAGUES IN CONGRESS, BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS, HAVE ENACTED MORE LAWS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INDUSTRI- 0US PEOPLE IN THE PAST THREE YEARS THAN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS IN ALL THE TIME IT WAS IN POWER; and it is because of these laws and his leadership in interest of all the people that the Presi- dent is being fought by the special interests, by every master of .Wall Street, every monopolist, every munition maker, every man with a interest to serve. No business man should oppose Wilson beoause Wilson is the greatest friend honest business ever had in the White House. GREAT PROSPERITY COVERS THE LAND AS NEVER LE- GITIMATE ENTERPRISE IS ASSURED A PROPER uwm ARE NO BREAD LINES, AND EVERYBODY IS EMPLOYED THAT WANTS TO BE. OUR PEOPLE ARE CONTENTED, PROSPEROUS AND HAPPY. . WHY SHOULD WE MAKE A CHANGE? In order to carry out his work President Wilson will need the 000 of a Congress thoroughly in accord with his own far-seeing policy. It is our men, irrespective of him, plain duty as voters to send back to Congress the right party, to asaist the President in the great tasks that face