The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-08-06

homestead law, much more LIBERAL,
administered. The settler is encour
aged, not discouraged.
Spending for the Home
Senator Borah championed and Sc
cured the passage of a three-yea
Homestead law for American citizens
For this the western settlers ar
grateful to HIN. He was also tn,
author of the bill providing for {
twenty-million-dollar loan to the rec
lamation fund, whl4coy the irrigation
of western lands was fastened ant
homes for settlers made possible IL
the arid regions.
We want a nation of home owners
Very few men are willing to defenC
the rights of their landlords. AL
men will make sacrifices to defen(
their own homes. 1t is as true toda,
as when st. Augustine said it: "Yor
give your bread to feed the hungry
but it were better that none hungeret
and that you had none to give
THE government which is spend
ing its millions of warships, it's mil
lions for the army, its millions fol
public buildings, is millions for dis
play, and will not find and make
homes upon and out of the public
domain for its home-hungry people
may be republic in name,'' said Sen
ator Borah in the senate, 'but it is
untrue to the great principles upon
which is founded a republic in fact.
Put your faith in the common citizen
give him the reins of government;
make him the owner of his home;
let him grow to full statute of free
citizenship, and our institutions are
safe"
Senator Borah is unalterably OPP
posed to the attempt to regulate
monopolies. He believes hat attempt
will ultimately result in the regula-
ton of the regulators. The evils of
regulation may become worse than
the evils We rail against. II don't
think you can any more regulate a
monopoly with safety than you can
regulate cancer in the human sys-
tenn" he says. 1.-The only way is to
cut it out"
As to Big Business
No one, he thinks, has any reason
to complain of business getting too
large so long as it builds itself up by
giving a superior quality of goods, or
a better service, or universal lower
prices. If it can command the market
by benefiting the people, it will never
be too large; it can never be danger
Gus. There will always be room for
others. He is not opposed to big
units. Monopolies are built up by
chartered powers from the govern
ment or the state, authorizing them
to do things that no corporation
ought to be permitted to do; by buy
ing up at exorbitant figures Compel
Ing institutions, and by driving feeble
from the field. Since the
reign of Elizabeth, whose letters pat
emit on foodstuffs included everything
but bread, every English-speaking
people has enforced laws against
.hese evils.
Transportation in this country is
in the hands of the interstate COM
nerce commission. That commission
IS neither elected nor subject to re-
,all by the people. We have now
placed the currency of the country in
he hands of that commission to in
late or contract the currency practi-
ally at will We have created a
.rade commission, with power to in
luire as to what is fair and what is
Unfair competition, and the federal
ourts alone can review it's decisions.
We are now preparing to create a
commission over our power sites
which will in future turn the wheels
# our industries. These commissions
will be under the control of 80 or
IS men, who will be appointed, and
experience shows that is practically |
impossible to prevent their confirma-
ion when once nominated.
Senator Borah believes that the
ystem of so-called regulation will in
ime prove to be fraud. It's control
yill be in the hands of coterie at
Washington who will be nothing but
he satellites of the power they are
ppointed to control.
When the bill for the creation of
le commerce court was before the
enate he opposed it bitterly He
lid that, If the jurisdiction Of the
reat questions concerning transpor-
ltion were taken out of the hands
the "a federal courts and placed
in the hands of five judges
ting at Washington and entirely re-
owed from the people, in less than