Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-13
'BORAH' SPEECH
Idaho Junior Senator Delivers
Democratic Speech.
MACHINE IS DISAPPOINTED
Insurgent Republicans Cheer
for Democratic Doctrine.

was illustrated by the import
ing Of Senator Borah to Grange
vile Saturday following the
appearance of James Hawley in this
city Friday night. Rumor has it and
it is well founded rumor too, that
Borah, who is not at all in sympathy
with the present administration of
that party, was adverse to coming to
Idaho county and not until the great
est Of pressure was brought to bear
did he finally consent.
Borah was greeted by quite as large
a house as was present at the Hawley
meeting and while many of his remarks
met with hearty applause by the in
surgent members of his party the ma
chine in Grangeville was not overly
pleased with his talk and at the pre-
sent time is trying to shift the blame
from one to another for the bringing
in Of the man who delivered that
democratic speech
As an entertaining speaker, Sena-
tor Borah has no superior in the state
Of Idaho, and few in the Z. S. Care
full analysis will however reveal many
contradictions, and inconsistencies in
his Saturday evening speech. A more
scathing arrainment Of the republi-
can party than administered by Mr..
Borah has never been heard by a
Grangeville audience and still Mr..
Borah is supporting that party, he is
in perfect harmony with the tariff,
and taxatoin principles advocated by
the democratic party foom time i'm
memorial, he has just now awakened
to the fact that the people ought to
be taxed on what they own rather
than on what they consume, he failed
to mention however that for every
dollar that goes into the public trea-
sury by reason of protective tariff
thousands of dollars 60 into the pock
cts of the tariff eating trusts, and that
a very small portion Of the tariff paid
by the people finds its way into the
public treasury. Mr.. Borah and
every man ofeven ordinary intelli-
gence knows this to be fact
He made an eloquent plea for State
conservation Of the natural resources
as against National conservation, he
expressed the beliefe that revenues
derived from the rental of water power
should go to the State instead of to
the Natioal government, as is the case
in some of the Eastern states, and his
audience appeared to be in hearty sym
pathy with his views, at the same
Mr.. Borah we'll knows that the polio,
of National conservation, and contro
Of these resources is already Established
SO far as the republican party is con
cerned, and it matters not whether tn,
standpatters or the insurgents contro
the party, the result will be the same
and that control Of the natural re
sources the state under a republican
administration is q forlorne hope.
Mr.. Borah is strong believer il
the income tax, and referring to tn
income tax law. passed under tn
Cleveland administration, he rebuket
the Supreme Court Of the Us. 70
reversing itself by holdin the law un
constitutional, but he did not dwell
upon the fact that this law was passeo
by democratic Congress, signed b,
a democratic president, and tina
, every democrat on the Supreme Cour
bench voted to sustain its constitu
tionality, and that the infamy Of tina
decisoin, which he admits was at tn
dictation of the big financial interests
attaches to the republican member
of the Court only, and not to tn
democratic members.
Senator Borah admits that III
der continued republican rule thl
country has reached a condition, o.
/ the verge Of revolution, and says tina
unless some Of the cardinal principle
of the republican party are abandoned
and democratic principles substitute
therefor under the leadership Of tn
/ insurgents we will have revolution
and anarchy.
The truth is that Mr.. Roosevelt
has seen the handwriting on the wal
and has launched the insurgent NOV,
< ment in last desperate effort to say
the party in 1912. He has enlisted