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

These are lively times in the House Of Repre-
sscntativeS. And not all the livelinPss 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 q. d. =. orators are now ''tak-
ing 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
SIGN. Many Of the Republicans opposed the
rule. In the course of debate Representative
i. 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 bad the result of the business YOU do
You have been In mower one wear two months
and fifteen days, and your record reads like
obituary. ~s H.. -4#~
You have paralyzed and FRUSTRATED industries of
every kind; yoH have reduced wages and the
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 $10-
Oo0OO0e00 you have cut the value Of farm property
onetourth Men engaged in the productive enter
prfses Of our own country stand idle while others
are supplying our market The farmers find the
products Of other countries in the market which
they have supplied during the entire period of our
conntrys history. Il would be impossible to exag-
gerate the denloralized conditions into which YOU
have thrown our domestic affairs.
Our condition at home is dscouraging and de-
pressing 70 laboring men and business men in every
section of country. s zf4 .E#t.
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. 81. IS. D.
You are suErendering our right to control our
own affairs in Panama to England and other
tons that may claim any rights there You
giving to Colombia greater rights in the of the
Panama canal than you assert for the people Of
own country, and giving that country $25,O00000
as gratuity. and besides making an abject apology
for taking the steps that made the construction of
the canal possible.
over night you plunged the country into war
with Victorano Huerta, an unrecognized assassin
in Mexico matter of mere punctio. because of
the difference in the offer of salute of five guns
and the demand of salute Of twenty-one
Oh, Of course, you as individuals are not less
concerned about the common welfare than those who
disagree with In politics. You not less pa
triotic than others You are simply incompetent to
manage the affairs of a nation great
Your policies while attractive in theory can not
be made to work out in practice.
There has not been such deplorable condition.
In our country since you were in full power sixteen
years ago. ~.
There is not as much big business to assai as
there when you began. If you keep on there
q will be none to complain of.
But the lamentable and discouraging situation
that confronts 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 ncompetency in the
management of government. 1t seems lons
time.
However. the people will give you the customary
two years notice the third day of No
yember next, by electng a Republican house of
Representatives
This is only sample of the thornS being
thrust into Democratic sides
--
81 Territorial Forester Ralph HCsmer has done