The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-10-27
BORAn ATTACKS
WILSON POLICY
SCathingIy Scores the Democratic
War Tax
APPEALS TO VOTERS TO ELECT A
REPUBLICAN CONGRESS-
Would Have Idaho Voters Return Men
Who VIII Protect IdahO's Indus
tries.

tries.
WASHINGTON - But for Demo-
cratic extravaganza and the folly of
the Democratic revision of the tariff
there would be no occasion today for
imposing a so-called war tax" upon
the people Of the United States. In
order to overcome the deficiency In
the treasury of more than $1OO,OO0,O0O
according to Senator Borah; and
the Idaho senator, in denouncing
the war tax bill does not hesitate to
make plain that the tax is not
"war-tax" but purely Democratic
deficiency tax, that might readily
have been avoided had the Democrats
developed ability to conduct the gov
ernment in business like way.
The speech of Senator Borah in OPP
position to the war tax is regarded as
being one of the most lucid express
sions of Democratic extravaganza yet
made in congress.
'The only thing in the world that
the war in Europe had to do with this
tax" declared Senator Borah, is in
the christening of it. This tax would
have been necessary within a few
months at the rate we are going had
Europe been as peaceful as the Dis
trict of Columbia"
Senator Borah's utterances consti-
tute ringing appeal for the election
of members of the senate and house
next month who are Republicans and
who Do not approve "all the policies
of Woodrow Wilson," His earnest de-
sire that Republicans be returned
from his own state is evidenced in all
his utterances and actions.
Senator Borah in his speech said
of the war tax
No better or filter illustration of
the power through taxes to destroy
or the bungling use of the power
could be found than is now before us.
At time when we are boasting that
we are at peace with all the world,
including both our friends Carran-
"a and Villa, and at time when
the people of our country are, many of
them out of employment, when busi-
ness is depressed, salaries being re-
duced, and work and anxiety are ac-
companying many a man to his home
at night, we are stealing about here
and there trying, like the fomenters
of the French Revolution, to find some
thing to tax At a time when the
business world and the citizens are
curtailing all expenditures possible,
and looking YEARLY for relief, our
government is reveling in riot of ex-
travagance. | am reminded of some
lines from one of the historians re-
counting the conditions just before the
Frenevh Revolution:
Taxes ran into everything. The
minister who could invent new tax
was lauded as man of genius.
The imposition of the tax was entirely
arbitrary. No man could tell what
his tax would be next. There was no
principle in the assessment except to
extort as much as possible. The tax
gatherers would be sent into one dis
trict to collect one year a million and
perhaps the next year it would be two
million.
We are not nearing French revolu-
ton but we have already approached
the time when those who can invent
a new tax are looked upon as men OF
genius. We have approached the time
when the imposition of the tax is en-
tirely uncertain and arbitrary, wher
tuO ClLlLcH uOCS AOJ hAOW ally CAlHs
about what his tax is to be from one
month to another. We have reached
the time when there is no principle
In the assessment except to extort
money and pay for our extravaganza
Indefensible and BFtolerable.
/ look upon this whole scheme Of
this special tax as indefensible ani
intolerable and as the elimination o
a series of months of unwarrantet
and indefensible extravaganza in gov
ernment expenditure, and il the peo
pie of the country had any means OF
method by which to reject it or pro
tect themselves they would employ Il
at once.
l am going, in the first place, tt
call attention to the standard, which
was given us at the time when w
were about to pass in the hands en-
tirely of new party, or rather new
administration under a party which
had long been out OF power It wal
believed that II there could be checl
in this extravaganza 1t would occur
Immediately afterwards and at leas
for time after the new broom wa
was invoked. But how powerful an,
how strong this tendency is can b.
shown in no BETTER way than by call
ing attention to the situation as l