The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1912-10-24

ence they got back to the origina, =.
trine and when we met In Cbicago
June they said the products of 49,
farm, and of the mine, should rao.,u
the same measure of protection as 49,
products Of American labor.
Now. who was right upon that or.
tion at the time 1t was before the sss
ate? 1t had been a republican dol
trine before; it has been announss,
as a republican doctrine again.
posed it, not simply because IT wy ~
republican doctrine--the free trade -
Canada--but I opposed it becausn
thought it conflicted with the intaras.i
of the people of the northwest ana
don't care whether it is In a nlat,o.
or where it is, I am utterly. ahso,rta
ly, and forever opposed to the doota,e-
OF putting one class of people in ..,e
country upon the free list and ano,has
class upon the protected list. Tba, ~
one thing which / would like 70 ~.
my friend tell the people of this cor..'
whether they are In favor of # u,
anybody make a campaign in this coua
ty upon that proposition of putting ~.
farmer of Idaho county In comnet,,,as
with the farmer of Canada? win a
candidate for the United States son..'
running against me, either in Tho 49,.
or In the open, come before the No.
pie of this county and say that mo-,
in the wrong and that he is in ,ouos
Of that free trade with CANADA pnt
that is the advantage of running no.
hind the people instead of runnins IL
front of them. (Applause)
Now, they have also said in this conn
| ty that Borah talks one way very n,ca-
| ly and votes another way. Editor,o,
page OF the Free Press" U.apsh,a.
and applause) The paper is too bigb
even when 1t is free" Uaughter,
am going to show you that nv frierd
here is so utterly reckless that he CON
victs himself before this communitv III
wonder If my old lawyer friend. Judpa
Vineyard, Is In the room. If he Is he could
convict this man of libel upon what he
says here by simply presenting Exhibit
"a" Gaughter) / am going to show
| you. Hear what he says: Some time
within the next few weeks Senator Bor-
ah will speak in Grangevlle This ia
itself 1t not startling, but when II ia
known that he comes under the aus
pieces of the republican central commit
tee Of Idaho county there is just cause
for demand on the part of the real
republicans"-he being one of them. Of
course-"of this locality to know lust
what sort of Republicans have charge
of the local campaign that a full-flede
| ed bull mooser and gentleman who
/ has boited both Taft and the national
platform is to be brought into their
| bailiwick to teach them what true re-
publicanism Isl CLaughter) The in
terest which my friend manifests in
| the republican party is touching In
the extreme. He Is advising the re-
publicans to get wise as to what I am
A Daniel come to Judgment Now l
am going to show you how utterly I'M
| reliable he Is. Senator Borah is
handsome man." daughter and ap-
J plause) Would you believe that man
on oath? (Cheers and laughter) ian
eloquent orator, and has nice way Of
| getting around his constituents, but
as leader of the republican party of
Idaho he is no more entitled to such
! recognition than would be Chairman
Gypson of the bull moose party or G.
| H. Martin, the bull moose candidate for
| governor, or democrat, as far as
| that Is concerned" I thought that
was what he would get to after awhile
CLaughter.) Then they go on to say
among other nice things that ] talk
one way and vote another way. OF
course, you know I am talking to
mixed audience and i have got to be
careful about my language. l am 60
ing to read you a statement from
democrat of national reputation, and
the labor leader Of the United States
I hesitate to do 1t and yet / feel that
you must have 1t. This is a statement
which was issued by Samuel Gompers
a few days ago in discussing different
candidates for senator. He says: "As
proof Of Senator Borah's work and worth
/ give herewith his record upon all
measures which have come before the
United States senate since he was elect
ed, January is. 1907. in which the in
terests OF labor have been involved, so
that you may be accurately advised
with regard to the kind and character
Of service rendered by him. 1t is as
follows Now, remember, am CIV
ing you two democratic opinions
(Laughter) I have got hundreds and
hundreds OF democratic friends In this
county; I don't know that they are
going to vote for me, but they are my
friends and l want to deal fairly with
|
OF It; from a democratic standpoint,
the republicans have been advised ana
now I am going to talk to the demo
Gratis little while on the side. on
April g. 1908. he voted for the Employ
ers' Liability bill; On May 6, 1soS' NJ
voted for the Child Labor bill In inc
District OF Columbia; On July s, lsus'
he voted for an amendment to the con-
stitution of the United States, granting
power to congress to lay and collect al
income tax"
l think i will have to speak awhi.
on that before go ahead. wan.
to discuss that income tax question JUS,
a little while because it is matter y
vast importance. We have IN tn's
country a system of taxation wnlcn
reaches always the low man; System
of taxation which exempts from taAo'
or exempts from the burdens OF gov
eminent the great and wealthy comp',es
of this country and puts over upon wv
men of limited means and the COMM"
people of the country the entire ON.
den of taxation. Mr.. Gompers Is Gu
rect In his statement that have peen
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