The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-10-29
BoRAH TELLS SOME PLAIN FACTS.

In a speech in the senate this month
Senator Borah plainly set forth the
fact in forcible language, that the DEM
ocratic war tax socalled, in which a
demand Is made for an extra $105, 900, 900
from the people. Is being raised under
an absolute Misrepresentation of facts,
and that the need of 1t is to meet
Democratic extravaganza pure and
simple. instead of expenses caused by
the war, as the term "war tax i'm
plies. After quoting at length from
world leaders such as Gladstone, Sam
uel ]. Tilden, and others, to show what
disastrous results are certain to come
from extortonate taxation, Mr.. Borah
says:
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 Carranza and Villa, and at
time when the people of our country
are, many of them, out of employment,
when business Is depressed, salaries be-
Ing reduced. and worry and anxiety are
accompanying 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 something to
tax. AT time when the business
world and the citizen are curtailing all
expenditures possible and looking wear
diy for relief, government is revel-
dng in riot of extravaganza.
There can be no better evidence of
the reckless extravaganza of this gov
eminent than that which we have be-
fore at this time. No only do pres
ent conditions accentuate our tendency
to spend without regard to those who
pay, but 1t discloses a most remarkable
exhibition of party duplioity. / am go
ing to call attention to the standard
which the Democratic parry set up for
itself and pledged itself to live up to
when 1t asked the people to entrust the
government TO its care and keeping.
shall take its own standard, its own
record. and the facts furnished by its
own people to make the case which l
propose to present-the record Is its
own unchallenged and unimpeaehable.
When they announced their platform at
Baltimore our Democratic friends used
this language:
We denounce the profligate waste
of the money wrung from the peo-
pie by oppressive taxation through
the lavish appropriations of recent
republican congresses, which have
Kept taxes high and reduced the pur-
CHASING power of the peoples toll
we demand return to that sim
plicity and economy which BELTS a
democratic government and a reduc-
ton In the number of useless offices,
the salaries of which drain the sub
stance of the people
If our friends had no more than an
preached the amount of expenditures
which had preceded their Inauguration
INTO power. IL they had no more than
equaled the amount which had been ex-
pended during the immediate previous
congresses. what would be their posi-
ton with reference to this subject of
extravaganza? They would be self-con-
victed OF the same offense which they
call "profligate waste" But what is the
situation?
1t is not that the record has been
equaled, and thereby subjects them to
their own charge of extravagance. but IL
has far exceeded during the last eighteen
months that of the previous congresses
or the previous months of the previous
administration. That which they de-
nounced as shameless waste approaches
economy in the tight of the record of
these past eighteen months. With this
stern denunciation fresh upon the lips
of Democracy we find an about us the
indisputable evidence of her insdncerity
and her want OF candor.
The present premier (Mr Bryan), in
his speech made at the Minneapolis fair
In 1908, said:
The Democratic platform makes
Republican extravaganza one OF the