The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-10-30

TINS tax said Senator Borah is j.,
the christening OF it This tax yo,,if
nave been necessary within few
months at the rate we are poinp had
EUROPE been as peaceful as the De.
trlct OF Columbia.
No better. or filter il1nstr,t;o,, -,
the power through taxes to desire,
or the bungEng use OF the nov,e,
could be found than IS now heforf
US AT time when we are hoaStino
mat we are at peace with an IN
HSoIlu' including both our friends
NdlranZa and Villa, and at t;mf
Mheh the people OF our country are
inahy Oh them, out OF employment
mHeh Suslness is depressed, salaries
oelhg reduced, and worry and anx-
tcly are accompanying many man
- MS nome at night we are STEALING
aoout mere and there trying, like the
oincn5cIs Oh the French revolution.
10 ma something to tax. At time
et tne business world and the citi-
n are Curtailng all expenditures
rs ana looking YEARLY for re
~ our government is reveling in a
MOT OF extravaganza. | am reminded
OF some lines from one OF The nc
torlanS recountlng conditions inst he
Taxes ram into everything
ne minister who could invent
new tax was laudcd as a man OF
genius. The imposition Of
the tax was entirely arbitrary No
man could tell when or what his
tax would be next. There was no
principle in the assessment cx
sept 10 eXtort as much as posi-
Die. The taNgatherers would be
sent into distinct to collect one
year one million francs and per
maps the next year it would be
two millions.
we are not nearing a French Revo-
luton, but we have already an
preached the time when those who
can invent new tax are looked upon
as men of genius. We have ap-
preached a time when the imposition
OF the tax is entirely uncertain and
arbitrary, when the citizen does mot
know anything about what his burden
IS to be from one month to another.
we have reached the time when
there is no principle in the assess
ment, except to eXtOrt money and paw
ror our extravaganza.
1ndefensable and Intolerable.
Il look upon this whole scheme of
tins special tax as indefensable and
lntolerable and as the elimination of
series of months OF unwarranted
and lndetensable extravaganza in gov
ernmental expenditure, and if the
people OF the country had any means
or method by which to reject it or
protect themselves they would en-
ploy it at once.
Il am going, in the first place, to
To 1
was given us at the time when we
were about to pass into the hands
entirely of a new party, or rather a
new administration under party
which had long been out of power
1t was believed that if there could be
check in this extravaganza it would
occur Immediately afterwards and at
least for a time after the new broom
was invoked. But how powerful and
how strong this tendency is can be
shown in no better way than by call
ing attention to the situation as it
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. | shall take its own
standard, its own record, and the
facts furnished by its own standard,
its own record, and the facts fur
nished by its own people in order to
present the view of it which | pro-
pose to present The record is its
own, unchallenged and unimpeacha
BILE
When they announced their plat
form at Baltimore our friends used
this language:
We denounce the profigate
waste of the money wrung from
the people by oppressive taxa
ton through the lavish appro-
priations of recent Republican
congresses, which have kept taxes
high and reduced the purchasing
power of the peoples toll. We
demand a return to that simpllc-
ity and economy which behts
Democratic government and re-
duction 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, II they mad
no more than equaled the amount
which had been expended during the
immediate previous congresses, what
would be their position with refer
enCc 10 lnlS SUBJECT vi SAti a az sou
II would seem that they would still be
clearly within the inhibition and
within the anathema which they had b,,i
assessed upon their predecessor But
what is the situation? 1t is. no, 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 admlnlstra-
ton.
shameless waste approaches econ.
omv in the light of the record OF
these past 10 months. 5
Il read from a statement OF William
I BRYAN made at the Minnesota tair
in 1908. He said:
1.-The Democratic platform
makes Republican extravaganza
one of the issues of the present
campaign. The Republican plat,
form is silent on the subject and
naturally so; to have promised