Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-05
4 FEW REMARKS ON THE DEMOCRATIC RECORD

These are lively times in the House Of Repre-
sentatiyes. And not all the lvelineSs is caused
BY the war situation, either.
The Republican minority in the house is hay
ing its first joyous period for two Years. Re-
publican defeat carried considerable gloom to
the comparatively few party members who
gained seats in the present Congress, but with
rising tide of protest against Democratic adj
ADMINISTRATION, the Il. @. p orators are now ''tak.
ing a fall" out Of the Democrats in an emphatic
and satisfactory manner.
The Congressional Record therefore contains
some excellent reading nowadays. For instance,
on May 10 minor rule came up fer discus
sion Many Of the Republicans opposed the
rule. In the course of debate Representative
III II. Campbell of Kansas directed a few pass
ing remarks at the Democratic side, as follows
The manner in which YOU do business while bad,
Is not as bad as the result of the business you do.
You have been in mower now year months
and fifteen days, and your record reads like an
obituary
You have paralyzed and FRUSTRATED industries of
every kind; YOU have reduced wages and the en-
ployment Of labor; you have made business and
enterprise Of every kind uncertain and hazardous;
you have reduced the value of the industrial and
transportation properties Of the country over s1Os
0p00O0000; you have cut the value of farm property
one-fourth Men engaged in the productive enter
pflses OF our own country stand idle while others
rsassd in similar enterprises il foreign countries
products of other countries in the market which
they have supplied during the entire period of our
countrys history II would be impossible to exag-
gerate the demoralized conditions into which YOU
have thrown our domestic affairs go
Our condition at home is discouragng and de-
pressing TO laborng and business in every
section of our country.
You have humiliated and made us ridiculous in
the face Of the world by your foreign policy-or
perhaps, should say by your want OF foreign
policy. #GE
You are surfendering our right to control our
own affairs in Panama to England and other ma
tons that may claim any rights there You aM
giving to Colombia greater rights in the of the
Panama canal than assert for the people Of our
own country. and giving that country $25,000,000
as gratuity, and besides making abject apology
for taking the steps that made the construction of
the canal possible,
Over night you plunged the country into war
with victoriano Huerta, an unrecognzed assassin
il Mexico. matter of mere punctilio because of
the difference in the offer of salute of i've guns
and the demand OF salute of twenty-one.
Oh. of course you individuals not less
concerned about the common welfare than those who
disagree with You in politics You not less pa. =
triotic than others. You simply incompetent to
manage the affairs Of nation great as T.
Your policies, while attractive in theory, can not
he made to work out in practice " .. p
There has not been such deplorabe condition.
in our country since you were in full sixteen
years ago III -:..-
There is not as much big business assan
there was when you began. If you keep on there
will be none TO complain OF.
But the lamentabe and ,dscouraging situation
that eonfronts the country today is the fact that
there yet remains two years nine months and fifteen
days before the people can rid themselves OF the
latest exhibition of Democratic incompetency in the
management of government 1t seems a long
time. H.
However the people will give you the customary
two years notice to move the third day of No
vember next by electing Republican house of
representatives.
This is only Il sample of the thorns being
thrust into Democratic sides.