Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-22
Democratic Governor ROaStS
The National Administration

0. B. Colquitt, democratic governor
of Texas, in recently published in
terview, has unsparingly criticised
the administration of President Wood
row Wilson. Governor Colquitt
charges that the administration is
weak, and as result the entire south,
a country of natural richness, is para
lized industrially, and that thousands
of people of that section are in dis
tress. The governor says in part
1.-THE Wilson administration has
been the greatest failure in the his
tory of the presidency. The south is
land literally flowing with milk and
honey, it has made one of the biggest
and best crops in its hitsory, and yet
because of the utter incompetency of
the men in charge of the government
its business is Frustrated, its credit is
impaired, and thousands of it's people
are starving.
"The administration s tariff law
was pledged to lower the cost of liv-
ing and it has had the contrary effect.
By putting raw material on the free
list and keeping the protective tariff
on manufactured goods, it has con-
demned American farmers by hun
dreds of thousands to peonage and has
enabled the manufacturers, getting
their raw material cheaper, to charge
higher prices for their goods, which
they have done.
''Hides were freelisted 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 material, the American
working man pays more for the finish
ed products and both are robbed to
further enrich the protected manufac-
turing trusts and combines.
BRITISH DICTATION.
"The administration s foreign pol
icy has been imbecile. 1t has allow.
ed England to dictate conditions as t.
cotton shipments to European coun'
tries that enabled England spinners t,
rob the American cotton growers O.
half the value of their crops. Eng
land stopped American shipments un
til the English spinners had bough
their supply at six and half cents
pound and stored it in Texas and othe
southern warehouses.
"Then England consented to declar
cotton not contraband of war an
France followed suit day or tw
later. Our government weakly sub
mitted to England's dictation, play
ing into the hands of the Englis
spinners and betraying the America
cotton growers as completely as
this country were an English vasss
state.
''If had been president / woul
have served notice on England's pre-
mier that our foreign trade in cotto
, and other non-contraband commoditie
, was going forward with or witho,
England's consent, and if necessary
! would have sent American ironclat
to England's door to enforce th
: notice.
PLATFORM VIOLATION
1.-THE administration s repeal of tt
Panama canal toll exemption law
violation of the party's national pla
: form was another weak surrender
y England. If free tolls for Americ'
: ships had not been repealed hundre
9 of American-owned ships flying fc
g eign flag would have come under t
a American flag to get the benefit
g the exemption and we would tod
g have an American merchant mari
a competent to carry our goods to fl
p eign markets. We have no such me
:. chant marine and to supply it the w
l. son administration is proposing
N spend money, axpayers' money, br
l. ing subsidized national shipping S,
ie vice.
ie 1.-THE WilsonBryan management
"a the Mexican affair has been failu
E. TIey landed an army in Vera Cruz
{. force Huerta to salute the flag 8
AZ have brought it back without getti
lie tho col,,to Thau povu ock cnnry.