The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-07
Governor Colquit, of Texas, Declares
the Wilson Administration
a Failure
a Failure

The most severe arraignment OF the
Wilson administration comes from o.
b. Colquit, democratic governor OF the
great democratic state of Texas ana
who IS a candidate for United States
senator In recent speech at Hous-
ton. Texas, Governor Colquit said;
Wilson Administration Failure.
The Wilson administration has been
the greatest failure in the history OF
the presidency. The south Is a lanu
literally flowing with milk and honey;
II has made one of the biggest and
best crops In its history, and yet, pc
cause of the utter Incompetence OF the
men in charge of the government It's
business is Frustrated, its credit Is I'M
haired. and thousands of It's people
are starving.
The administration tariff law was
pledged to lower the cost of living, ana
1t has had the contrary effect. BY put
ting raw materials on the free list ant
keeping the protective tariff on manu-
featured goods, 1t has condemned Am
erican farmers by hundreds OF thous-
ands to peonage and has enabled the
manufacturers, getting their raw ma
terials cheaper, to charge higher prices
for their goods, which they have done.
Hides were free listed, and shoes have
gone higher This is true virtually
every similar item similarly treated In
THE administration tariff law. The
American working man pays more for
the finished product, and both are rob-
led to further enrich the protected
manufacturing trusts and combines.
The administrations foreign policy
/ IS been imbecile 1t has allowed
England to dictate conditions as to
cotton shipments to European coun-
tries that enabled the English spnners
to rob the American cotton growers Of
half the value Of their crop.
Submission to England.
England stopped American ship
ments until the English spinners had
bought their supply at 6h cents a
pound and stored it in Texas and 9TH
&. southern warehouses. Then Eng
4 land consented to declare cotton not
1ontraband, and France followed suit
day or two later Our government
weakly submitted to England's dicta :
ton, playing into the hands of the
English spinners and betraying the
American cotton growers as complete
/ ~ as if this country We're an English
vassal state.
If | had been president | would have
served notice on Englands premier
that our foreign trade in cotton and
other non -contraband commodities was
going forward with or without Eng
lands consent, and if necessary
would have sent American ironclads
to Englands door to enforce that no.
tice.
| The administrations repeal of the
Panama canal tolls exemption in viol-
alton of the partys national platform
was another weak surrender to Eng
land. If free tolls for American ships
had not been repealed hundreds of
American owned ships flying foreign
flag would have come under the AM
erican flag to get the benefit of ex-
emption and we would today have an
American merchant marine competent
to carry our goods to foreign markets.
We have no such merchant marine
and to supply it the Wilson admins
tration is proposing to spend the tax
payers money buying a subsidized ma
tional shipping service.
"Egregious Failure" in Mexico.
The Wilson Bryan management of
the Mexican affair has been an eyre
gious failure. They landed an AnlGri-
can army in Vera Cruz to force Hu4r-
ia to salute the flag, and have brought
lit back without getting the salute.
They now ask congress to appropriate
more than 100000 to pay the ex..
penses of that ridiculous expedition.
For What? What did 1t accomplish /:
1t set all Mexico aflame against the
Americans, not only in Mexico. bu. in
Texas, where all along the north bank
of the Rio Grande there are 10 Mexl-
cans for l American.
1t brought on a reign of terror all
along the Texas border, so that when
the federal government refused TO af-
ford protection for our people in their
own state, ! was forced to senl 1906
Texas troops down there - give it.
Mexican bandit gangs were crossing
the border into Texas, raiding and
terroriz.ng our scattered people. Wo-
men and children were huldled to-
gether III brick houses, menaced with
murder and worse. My desk was
flooded with kilograms from Chambers
of commerce, bankers. stockmen and
other responsible citizens, praying Cor
protection at points all along 1ur 1900
mile frontier.
The federal government had only 60
troopers at Brownsville to cover more
than two-thirds of that long border.
When | rushed the Texas state troops
down there, stationing a company at