The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-10-27
Borah Attacks Wilson Policy
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was at the time the party went into
power, the standard which it set up
for itself, and the record which it
has made since. l shall take its own
standard, its own record, and the
facts furnished by it's own standard,
it's own record and the facts fur
nished by it's own people in order to
present the view of it which | pro-
pose to present The record is its
own, unchallenged and unimpeachable.
When they announced their plat
form at Baltimore our friends used
this language:
We denounce the profligate waste
Of the money Wrung from the people
by oppressive taxation through the Law
ish appropriations of recent Repub-
lican congresses, which have kept
taxes high and reduced the purchas-
ing power of the peoples toll, We
demand return to that simplicity
and economy which BELTS a Demo-
cratic government and reduction in
the number of useless offices, the
salaries of which drain the substance
of the people.
If our friends had no more than
approached the amount of expendi-
lures which had preceded their in
auguration into power if they had
no more than equaled the amount
which had been expended during the
! immediate previous congresses, what
would be their position with refer
| nee to this subject of extravaganza? ?
1t would seem that they would still
be clearly within the inhibition and
within the anathema which they had
assessed upon their predecessor. But
what is the situation? 1t is not that
it has been equaled, and thereby is
| subject to their own charge of extrav-
agance, but it has far exceeded dur
ing the last Is months that of the
previous congresses or the previous
months of the previous administra-
| ton.
That which they denounced as
| shameless waste approaches economy
| in the light of the record of these
past Is months.
| read from a statement of William
Bryan made at the Minnesota fair
in 1908. He said:
The Democratic platform makes
Republican extravaganza one of the
ssues of the present campaign. The
Republican platform is silent on the
subject and naturally so; to have
promised economy would have been
mockery and to have defended the
appropriations made by the last con-
gress would have been impossible.
AT that time the appropriations
amounted to five hundred million Now
they amount to almost a billion two
hundred million. Mr.. Bryan also said
Why is it that the Republican party
is so much more extravagant than the
Democratic party in the expenditure
of the public money? There are two
reasons: First, because the Repub-
lican leaders are more intimately as
ISOLATED with the tax eaters than the
taxpayers
I am wondering if that situation
has been in any degree reversed. 1
am reminded of a cartoon which I
saw about the time the Democratic
party went into power. 1t represent
ed coon leaving the Republican tree
and making his way as fast as he
could for the Democratic tree. That
coon was supposed to be the special
interests, or the tax eater. Whether
9 has solidly and securely locked
himself in the branches of that UNI
brageous tree or not l do not know
tut person could almost convict the
party upon the statement of the dis
tinguished leader of the Democratic
party himself.
Extravaganza Only Begun.
But this extravaganza has just be-
gun. We are inaugurating with mar
Vicious speed and remarkable incon-
siderateness a system of government
which will devolve upon the people
of this country burden of taxation
the like of which the people have
never for a moment contemplated
We propose now, sir, to have an ex-
pert, a special agent, an investigator
to accompany every citizen and to
oversee every business and every line
of industrial activity. The present
thus being presented to the people
may be what they want, but ! warn
them now it will be costly beyond
anything they have contemplated
Such system fattens by what il
feeds upon. 1t creates government.
al class always complaining of toe
much service and too little pay; ii
invents jobs and fosters all forms of
waste and expenditures We have to-
day in the federal service near $780, |
900 employees, and we have laid the |
basis for $4,000 more at this session. !
Let us read a portion of the platform
again:
We demand return to that sim |
plicity and economy which befits
Democratic government and reduc-
ton in the number of useless offices,
the salaries of which drain the sub
stance of the people
/ would be interested to know what
office has been abolished, what num-
Der of salaries have been disposed |
Of, and wherein the principle of econ
omy has been invoked in this system
of creating offices and providing sal
aries which drain the substance of
the people.
There have been more offices Gre
ated and more salaries provided for
in the last IS months than during any
three years in the history of this
government; and. in my opinion, we I