American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-01-21

mere are speeches. and speeches,
and at Indianapolis the president made
OF them. If not both. Reading it,
one knows hardly whether to laugh
or cry, but If continued to the end the
dispassionate reader is Liable TO be
laughing until he cries.
The taffy with which he opened his
address would have had a better flaw
or had the pronoun | been less IRE
quent, but no matter about that.
1t is when he tells how much he
loves the memory of General Jackson
because he was a fighter, and VIZ think
of the difference between the way that
Jackson would have done some things
md the way they have been done. that
we begin to smile. That smile broad
ems into a real laugh when we read
that the Republican party has not
then remember that the most earnest
work of the present administration
has been to cause to crystalize into
law the assassination Of the .)rotec-
NV q "hfth ~ n % y
John C. Calhoun, for a brief time,
drew the state of South Carolina out
of the union to accomplish, and which
was embalmed in the Confederate con-
~stitution four and fifty years ago.
Again, despite the lack of new ideas,
how has the great republic Jared dur
ing the past thirty years, and how does
the situation as they left 1t compare
with that at present? And during that
time what was the Democratic minor
ity in congress doing to help.
Again, when as "a historian" he
babe his audience take notice that
when the United States forgets its ar
dor for mankind a Democrat is elect
ed president, We are a little uncertain
as to the historians" meaning. Does
he mean that the people at such a tfme
have grown reckless and do not give a
continental what happens? Or that
whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth?
Or that the Lord keeps In mind that
the country canno stand n democratic
administration, or a visitation of the
seyenteen-year locusts, oftener than
about once in seventeen years."
And what about Theodore? Is he to
have no credit when Democrats meet
70 chant their paeons of victory? When
the president says the past was nee
essary to the present" that becomes
almost a plagiarism. 1t is exactly what
Joseph told Pharaoh was necessary to
provide against the coming lean years.
Again when the president said that
"the Republican party was a covert
and refuge for those who are afraid"
and then in a lofty strophic told them
he was tired of remaining in Washing
ton and saying sweet things and had,
therefore come to Indianapolis to cell
citrate Jackson day in the real Jackson
spirit. then 1t is, sure enough, to
laugh. AS old Hickory" would have
Said, 1T Is by the Eternal"
The presidents tribute to the indie
pendent voter will not bear analysis.
There are a few really Independent
voters, there is a mighty host which
is in the aggregate, a passion-tossed
mob, with the same order of mind that
a mob has when 1t want to hang a
suspected man of whose guilt or in
nocence they know nothing.
To tell his party that 1t must work
to catch this vote is probably what he
means by one of the new ideas"
After what those sterling, progress
i've patriots, Roosevelt, Perkins. Pin
chot, etc. did in 1912, and tried to do
in 1914. the term Progressive has lost
much chaste.
When the president assures us that
there is no money stringency, that is
again to laugh.
When he say "the Democratic party
is on trial, he at last gets down to a
most serious fact. IL is, and on the
curb its stock is being sold short ev-
cry day.
When he tells OF the program that
he and his obedient hackers in on
gross have carried through and exults
over 1t. then the dispassionate reader
thinks of the results and begins to
cry.
When he tells of the extortionate
ocean freight rates. why does he not
give the simple reason for them?
namely, that the Democratic party
stood like a stone wall. refusing to &C
cept the only meant through which a
merchant marine could be maintained.
and so when a great war came and all
the merchant ships save England's
we're driven from the sea, she was left
to make her own rates. Had ordinary
common sense been exercised there
would now be 10000 men employed
on our ships. In building them and
supplying the material to build them
out OF. Would that not be better than
a great Federal bureau to help the n