Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-03-31

The formal report of Senator
Borah's New York speech on the in
come tax before did not contain some
amusing and interesting sidelights
that are presented in the New York
Suns account, a portion of which
follows:
The speakers for the amendment
were Lawson Purdy and Senator
Borah of Idaho, and those opposing
it were William Guthrie and Austen
G. Fox. 1t was good solid meat, in
the argumentative sense, that was
put before the 500 for two hours,
but Senator Borah interjected a little
fun at the beginning of his speech by
coming back at Mr.. Guthrie for some
pretty harsh things the New York
lawyer had said about Idaho.
Mr.. Guthrie had said, among other
things, that of all the great sums
the national government had spent,
money of the whole people, on Idaho,
not cent had Idaho paid back, and
that whereas when New York wanted
money to build docks she went down
into her own pocket for it, Idaho and
the states of the west when they
wanted such great public improve
ments, called upon congress for the
money. And he had added:
In 189S-99, a time of war, New
York paid into the governments
revenue $6S,0OO,OOO. How much did
Idaho pay? Not dollar. And it
was the same way with the other
western states that now are clamoring
for us to take down the bars and
let them vote away our money. Of
internal revenue for 1899 New York
paid s28,OOO.OOO and Idaho $1O1,-
OOO,"
When Senator BOrah took the ros-
trum he said that before beginning
a speech it seemed wise to clear away
little underbrush. and he proceeded
to remark:
"Mr. Guthrie says that when you
here in New York want money you
go into your own pockets for it,.
Well, in the name of justice, where
else should you go? You've got it
all. (Hurrahs) | want to tell you,
also, that the money the national
government put into the forest re-
serve that has taken one-third of
our state away from us was put there
against our wishes and by the votes
of the east. You're trying now to
make the Idaho reserve pay for the
contemplated Appalachian reserve,
and I'd be rather glad to see you get
a little of the reserve medicine. We
can't go into one-third of our state
without asking asking the permission
of the national government and a
uniformed and turbaned attendant
guardian. And ! might tell you in
an aside that into that Idaho forest
reserve you could put the whole of
New York state and lose it, Good
Good You're all right, Borah!)
And as for getting money from
the federal government-well, when
ever a man gets an acre of arid land
that has been reclaimed out in Idaho
he pays every cent back to the gov
ernment before he gets a clear title
But when you go to congress and
get appropriations to clear out your
willow creeks here in New York
where a duck couldn't float one month
in year, you don't pay back g
dollar of it. Good people as you are
you have a suspicion of man from
west of the Alleghanies. (No, noi
! don't mean that you suspect hin
of being dishonest-if you did you't
probably expect to find him living
here in New York" CLaughter)
Politics by direct reference came
into the discussion twice. once il
Senator Borah's speech and once il
Mr.. Guthrie's. Senator Borah. in ex
pressing his liking for the good peo
pie of New York and his admiration
for Governor Hughes, said that h,
hoped some time to have the honoi
to bring an Idaho delegation to vote
for Governor Hughes for the presi
dency of the nation. His Statement
was applauded.
Mr.. Guthrie's reference to politics
came when he was talking of Sena
tor Aldrich's statement that as Z
business man he could run the govern