The Republican journal., 1915-01-07
The Wilson Administration

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Mexican management failure. antitrust
laws fakes. He predicts end Of party re-
CINE in 1916. Declares Foreign Policy
Is Imbecie
ByO b. CoLQuIrT Governor of Texas.
Houston. Tex, Dec, 26 The Wilson
administration has been the greatest
failure in the history of the presidency.
The South is land literally flowing with
milk and honey. 1t har made one OF the
biggest and best crops in its history, and
yet, because of the utter inc Impotence
of the men in charge of the government,
it's business is Frustrated, its credit is
impaired and thousands of its people are
starving.
The administration tariff law was
pledged to lower the cost of living, and
it has had the contrary effect. By put.
ting raw materials on the free list and
keeping the protective tariff on manu-
featured goods, 1t has condemned Amer
lean farmers by hundreds of thousands
to peonage and has enabled the manu-
facturers, getting their raw material
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 administration tariff law. The
American farmer gets less for his raw
materials, the American working man
pays more for the finished product and
both are robbed to further enrich the
protected manufacturing trusts and com
bines.
FOREIGN POLICY 'IMBECILE.
The administration foreign policy
has been imbecie. 1t has allowed Eng
land to dictate conditions as to cotton
shipments to European countries that
enable the English spinners to rob the
American cotton growers OF halt the
value of their crop.
England stopped American shipments
until the English spinners had bought
their supply at 6 q cents a pound and
stored it in Texas and other southern
warehouses. Then England consented
to declare cotton not contraband and
France followed suit day or two later.
Our government weakly submitted to
England dictation, playing into the
hands of the English spinners and betray-
ing the American cotton growers as com
fish vassal State.
l L ndu DG6tl IeSlGellt, Woulu nave
served notice on England's premier that
our foreign trade in cotton and other
non -contraband commodities was going
forward with or without England's con-
sent, and if necessary, | would have
sent American ironclads to England S
door to enforce that notice.
The administration repeal of the
Panama canal tolls exemption in viola
ton of the party's platform was another
weak surrender to England. If free tolls
for American ships had not been repeal
ed, hundreds of American owned ships
flying foreign flag would have come
under the American flag to get the bene-
fit OF exemption and we would today
have an American merchant marine com
petent to carry our goods to foreign mar
kets. We have no such merchant ma
rine, and to supply it the Wilson admin
istration is proposing to spend the tax
payers money buying subsidized ma
tional shipping service.
MEXICAN MANAGEMENT A FAILURE.
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
Oul RellllJS tuV now ooh
Congress to appropriate over five hun
bred thousand dollars to pay the ex-
penses of that ridiculous expedition.
For what? What did it accompl sh?
1t set all Mexico af1ame against the
American, not only in Mexico but in
Texas, where all along the north bank
of the Rio Grande there are 10 MeXicans
for one American. 1t brought on a
reign of terror all along the Texas bor-
der, so that when the Federal govern
ment refused to afford protection for
our people In their own State, | was
forced to send 1900 Texas troops down
there to give it.
Mexican bandit gangs were crossing
the border into Texas, raiding and ter
rorizing our scattered people. Women
and children were huddled together in
brick houses, menaced with murder and
worse. My desk was flooded with tele-
grams from chambers of commerce,
bankers, stockmen and other responsible
citizens, praying for protection at points
all along our 1900 mile frontier.
The Federal government had only so
troopers at Brownsville to cover more
than two-thirds of that long border
When | rushed the Texas State troops
down there, stationng a company at
each of the principal border towns, l in
Structed them not to cross the river nor
in any way to violate the neutrality law,
but at all costs to protect the lives and
property of Texas people.
KEPT STATE TROOPS THERE.
Secretary of War Garrison telegraph
ed me that he thought it unwise to have
two military forces occupying the same
territory under separate commanders
and suggested that l withdraw the St tie
troops. wired him that l would with
draw the Texas troops when he sent an
equal number Of United States regulars
G take their places. And l kept our
men there until he did send an equal
number of regulars to replace them, at
every place where our men were station
ed.
understand they had everything pre-
pared at Washington to have me indicted
by federal grand jury and put in fed
eral prison, on the assumption that
meant to invade Mexico-a palpable alb
surdity, which only men utterly ig-
norant of the situation would have en-
tertained. 1t is a fact, which the coun-
try does not know, that when our Texas
troops arrived in Brownsville, the Mexi-
can commander at Matamoras across
the river offered to surrender that city
to the commander of the troop of United
States cavalrymen. The commander at
MatamoraS evidently believed tho Tayas