American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-02-25

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"In my opinion" wrote Senator
Borah, "the Republican party will re-
turn to power about II o'clock noon
on the 4th day of March, 1917, and ]
trust | will not be misunderstood
when l say it will return greatly
chastened and immensely strength
ened. It will find when it returns a
task commensurate with the efficiency
and power of its best days, and
take 1t that the supreme effort of Re-
publicans everywhere would be to see
that we are prepared for the work
which seems so certainly to be en-
trusted to us again.
"If the outlook proves accurate
we will find ourselves obliged in
the first instance to restore in
dustrial conditions to a measure
bic state Of prosperity and sta
bility. Men may dispute as to
the causes but no one can fairly
gainsay that our Industrial situa-
ton Is now one OF hesitancy, OF
extreme embarrassment and in
many portions of the country OF
utter decentralization. There are
at least three million working
men out Of employment.
IL had a view the other day of
a bread line in n of our great
cities. The scene and the study Of
the faces in the line Of march
were such as TO abide with a man
for a lifetime. They were not
faces marked by drink or by de-
g%eneracy, but the faces Of clean,
sell reliant American citizens
though touched with utter humiI-
iatiOn and encouragement.
MANY of the conditions which We
now experience l believe to be due tc
unwise and uneconomic policies
These conditions are aggravated also
by the ever growing and in many re.
spects the perfectly useless burdens Of
government.
eve are now utilizing all the diff
ferent forms of federal taxation. Our
expenditures increase about two mil.
lion dollars annually. We create not
hundreds but thousands of new offices
each year. 1t has come to be that II
some n sees what he conceives to
be an evil the only remedy at hand is
to create a new commission, shift re-
sponsibility and add an army of fed
eral employees.
"NO wonder therefore, that in
the midst Of peace we levy a war
tax of a hundred million dollars
and are now blinking at a deficit
Of a hundred million more. With
private incomes decreasing, with
profits falling, with dividends
being passed over, labor unem-
plOyed and with taxes increasing,
we will have enough TO consider
when power Is again assumed.
81 have said that in my opinion
many of these things are due to UNI
wise Legislation and unsound policies.
But we would be unfair to ourselves
and uncandid with the people If we
should contend that all these condi-
tons which confront us are due 10
legislation lately had or political poll
cies lately invoked. The causes which
have superinduced some of our most
serious conditions lie much deeper and
the remedy will have to be vastly
more comprehensive than the mere
changing of a tariff law or the dis
carding of prevailing policies. How
ever much these things may be essen
tial they are by no means the only
things to be done.
in one Of the great commemorative
of this union / learned from personal
investigation hat Notwithstanding the
guarantees of state and national con-
situations, in an Industrial crisis.
had been herded in groups of
fifty and a hundred. and at a time
when the courts were open. driven
before a military tribunal, tried with
out warrant or indictment, found
guilty without a jury and sentenced
by no court. Every principle upon
which a republican government is
founded was discarded and rejected
and utterly denied 70 American citi-
zens-and these things were most
earnestly defended by men of appar-
ent sanity and normal reason.
we have seen In another instance
breakdown OF a great common
in a class war as fierce and
as yer challenged atten-
ton in the poverty and class-ridden
sections Of the old world. These
but indicate a situation accen-
tuated more year by year and with
which some political party must come
to deal.
New Demands on Party.
Our party may return to power
and | believe It will. but no party
will long remain in power which has
not the initiative, the constructive
bent. and above all the courage to
recognize these conditions and In toll
erance and sober impartiality seek to
deal with them.
These are questions broad enough
and sufficiently tremendous to weld