The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-12-29
President a Failure

49, WAAu(
as follows:
The Wilson Administration has beer
the greatest failure in the history of th,
Presidency. The South is a land liter
ally flowing with milk and honey; it hal
made one of the biggest and best crop
in its history, and yet, because of the ut
ter incompetence of the men in charge
of the Government, it's business is pros
trated, it's credit is impaired, and thous
ands of it's people are starving.
The Administrations tariff law was
pledged to lower the cost of living, an6
it has had the contrary effect. By put
ting raw materials on the free list and
keeping the protective tariff IN manu-.
featured goods, it has condemned Ameri-
can farmers by hundreds OF thousands
to peonage and has enabled the manu-.
f~acture, getting their raw materials
cheaper, to charge higher prices for their
goods, which they have done. Hides
were free-listed, and shoes have gone
higher. This is true of virtually every
single item similarly treated in the Ad-
ministration tariff law. The American
workingman pays more for the finished
product, and both are robbed to further
enrich the protected manufacturing
trusts and combines.
The Administrations foreign policy
has been imbecile. 1t has allowed Eng
| 10 n Il IN 1sofofo oanl,4sanc - - o1ffx.o
shipments to European countries that
enabled the English spinners to rob the
American cotton growers of half the
value of their crop.
England stopped American shipments
until the English spinners had bought
their supply at 81 cents a pound and
stored it in Texas and other Southern
warehouses. Then England consented
to declare cotton not contraband, and
France followed suit a day or to later.
Our Government weakly submitted to
Epgland's ~dictation, playing into the
hands of the English spinners and be-
traying the American cotton growers as
completely,as if this country were an
English vassal state.
The Administrations repeal of the
Panama Canal tolls exemption in viola
ton of the party's national platform was
another weak surrender to England. If
free tolls for American ships had not
been repealed hundreds of American
owned ships flying a foreign flag would
have come under the American flag to
get the benefit Of exemption and we
would today have an American mer-
chant marine competent to carry our
goods to foreign markets. We have no
such merchant marine, and to supply it
the Wilson Administration is proposing
to spend the taxpayers money buying a
subsidized national shipping service.
The Wilson-Bryan management of the
Mexican affair has been an egregious
failure. They landed an American army
in Vera Cruz to force Huerta to salute
the flag, and have brought it back with
out getting the salute. They now ask
Congress to appropriate more than $500,
y w RAy AN OARNAA6~o Va oAAA
expedition. For what? What did it ac-
complish? 1t set all Mexico afiame
against the Americans, not only in Mex
leo, but in Texas, where all along the
north bank of the Rio Grande there are
ten Mexicans to one American.
1t brought on a reign of terror all
along the Texas border, SO that when the
Federal Government refused to afford
protection for our people in their own
State, l wa forced to send 1900 Texas
troops down there to give it. Mexican
bandit gangs were crossing the border
intoTexas, raiding and terrorizing our
scattered people. Women and children
were huddled together in brick houses,
menaced with murder and worse. My
desk was flooded with kilograms from
Chambers of Commerce, bankers, stock
men and other responsible citizens, pray
ing for protection at points all along our
1200-mile frontier.
Wilson and Bryan have stood by, en-
couraging n gang of bandits after an
other, while people were being butchered
all over Mexico, while the vast Ameri
can interests in that country were being
confiscated and shot to pieces, and to.
| day the Mexican chaos is worse than at
any time since Madero was assassinated
Villa is the dictator of the country, and
/ understand that all he wants is to be
chief of police of the city of Mexico, with
control OF the gambling concessions in
the City Of Mexico and Juarez.
Our Government has kept England
and Germany from restoring order in
Mexico, and has itself done nothing but
contribute to the disorder andlawlessness
by its vacillating watching and wait
ing policy-if it can be called a policy
The property interests of Mexico and the
big American ~exploiters of Mexican re
sources have got control OF the situation
absolutely, and these same interests
have got the ear of our Government al
Washington.
The Administrators antitrust laws
are barefaced fakes, SO far as protecting
the people from trust oppression is con
cerned. These laws please nobody elst
so we'll as they do the Standard Oil, the
Steel and other great trusts.
1 believed at first that the Federal re
serve banking act was the Administra
tons one meritorious achievement, bui
national bankers tell me it is going t.
prove a failure. The control OF the sys
tenn, in practice, appears to rest in New
York city, instead of in Washington.
lam fully convinced the national cleo
ton of 1916 will end the Democratic re
gime. The policies of the Democratic
national Administration have wholly
failed either to curb monopolies or t.
lower the cost of living for the people
and they have materially contributed t.
deprive millions of wage earners of EN-
ployment. The Administration valor
lied $40, OO0, 600, 900 worth of corporal,
securities owned in the North and Easi
by a Treasury Department order to ma
tional banks to loan money on listed Sc
curities at not less than the closing quo
~tations of July 80, 1914.
But the same Administration, wher
asked to allow the people to use a quarteI
of a billion dollars of their collectiv,
credit for two OF three years to save then
from losing $500, O0O, 900 on their cottor
crop, regarded valorization as violatiy'
Of sound government.
The President stood in the road ant
condemned the south, which made him