Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-22

to appropriate $500, 900 to pay the ex-
penses Of that ridiculous expedition.
For what? What did it accomplish?
ut set all Mexico afame against
the Americans, not only in Mexico
but in Texas, where, all along the
north bank Of the Rio Grande there
are ten Mexicans to one American.
1t brought on 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 was forced to send
1900 Texas troops down there to give
it.
Mexican bandit gangs were cross
ing the border into Texas, raiding and
terrorzing our scattered people. Wo-
men and children were huddled to-
gether in brick houses, always men,
aced with murder and worse. MY
desk was flooded with kilograms from
f, chambers of commerce, bankers,
stockmen and other responsible citi.
zens praying for protection all along
our 1200-mi frontier.
'.The federal government had only
sixty troopers at Brownsville to cover
more than two-thirds of that long bor-
der. When rushed the Texas state
troops down there, stationing COM
pany at each of the principal border
towns, instructed them not to cross
the river nor in any way to violate
the neutrality laws, but at all cost to
protect the lives and property of
Texas people.
FAKE ANTITRUST LAWS.
"The administration anti-trust
laws are barefaced fakes 30 far as
protecting the people from trust op-
preston is concerned. These laws
please nobody so we'll as the Standard
Oil, the steel and other great trusts.
81 believed at first that the federal
reserve banking act was the admins
tration's one meritorious achieve
ment, but now bankers tell me it is
going to prove failure. The con.
troll of the system in practice appears
! to rest in New York City instead of
in Washington.
~ am fully convinced the national
election of 1916 will end the demo-
cratic regeme. The policies of the
: democratic administration have wholly
failed either to curb monopolies or
lower the cost of living for the peo
! pie, and they have materially contri-
: buted to deprive millions of wage
earners of employment.
''The administration valorized $20,
!, 600, 900 worth Of corporate securities
:, owned in the north and east by a
. treasury department order to national
: banks to loan money on listed securi-
ties at not less than the closing quota
! tions of July, 1914, but the same ad-
ministration when asked to allow the
= people to use a quarter of billion
: dollars of their collective credit for
= two or three years to save them from
7 losing $500, OOO,O0O on their cotton
!, crop regarded the valorization as vio-
- lative of sound government.
" MISERY IN SOUTH.
''The president stood in the road
and condemned the south, which made
lie more widespread misery than it has
in known in three generations. He vim
t. dicated an obsolete theory of politica
to economy, but he mighty near ruined
an the country doing it.
ds 81 raised among my persona
r friends in Texas more than $1,000
he for the Wilson campaign fund, ant
of only favor asked of him was that h,
ay appoint men who would aid the Texa
ne state government to enforce the lay
r. along the Mexican border. 1t wa
r. my earnest desire to assist in making
IL the democratic national administra
to tion a success, but wouldn't sacri
~ flee the honor of my state nor the wei
,r- fare of her people to win the favor Q
any administration.
of SAT no time have failed to ge
re. courteous treatment from the leader
to of the Mexican revolutionists.
nd sympathize with Americans who hay
ng property rights in Mexico that ougf
ess to have been protected.