The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-03-04
Congressman Humphrey on the Presi'
dents indianapolis Speech.

the people in the democratic party
They say that there is lack of con-
fidence in the country. Is it strange
that the people of the country should
lose their confidence when the demo
cratic party comes into power? AL
ways when that party has been in
control depression, panic and poverty
have followed. Are the people to
blame for not believing that this Is a
mere coincidence? Can the people be
expected to forget that when the dem
ocratlc party was in power 20 years
ago it wrote a free trade Wilson tariff
law upon the statute books then just
as it has written Wilson free trade
law upon the statute books during this
administration? Are the people ex-
pected to forget that under the former
Wilson bill our shops and factories,
our mills and mines. began to close,
that there were fear and uncertainty
everywhere. that the country was filled
with tramps and beggars and soup
houses, that the balance Of trade was
against us, that our treasury became
empty, that bonds were issued, and
that want and poverty were universal?
Can the people be expected to forget
that prosperity was not restored until
the system of protection was restored?
Many Imaginary Blessings.
Remembering these things and see
ing exactly the same things happening
now in exactly the same way under
this Wilson law that happened under
the former Wilson law, is it any Won
der that the people have no confidence
in business conditions? Is experience
to be no guide? Shall the past teach
us nothing? Are these facts of his
tory and experience to be overcome by
simply changing our minds?
Are the American people ready to
believe that in imagination alone rests
prosperity? We are willing to admit
that no other administration has
brought to this country so many imag-
mary blessings and so few real ones
as the one we now 'psychologically'
enjoy and physically endure.
"The learned academic doctors who
direct the destiny of this democratic
administration would have you believe
that the most unsubstantial things in
all this dreamy world of ours are facts
IF imagination could produce pros
perity the White House. the depart
ment of state, and the department of
commerce is a combination that would
deluge the world with milk and honey
and grape juice
Democratic Wisdom.
Thousands of men in this nation
today are facing banruptcy in spite of
every endeavor. Thousands have al
ready failed notwithstanding every
human effort and have seen the saw
ings Of life of toll swept away.
Thousands of men have been compell-
ed to close their mills and factories.
Thousands have been compelled to re-
duce wages and are running their
plants on short time. Millions of
workmen have been forced into I'M
willing idleness and are now looking
for work, looking for an opportunity to
earn their daily bread, hungry, ragged
and cold. All these are asking for re-
lief, pleading for help. And when
they are told by these self-annointed
prophets of democracy, of free trade
and the new freedom with such SER
enc certainty, with such display of alb
solute infalllbility with such show Of
impatience, with such solemn and sub
lime self-assurance that all this is but
that all this is but a
state Of mind but a disordered dream
If a depraved mentality, then certainly
-hese expert specialists in diagnosis of
fistempered delusions, these delightful
treamers and fantastic performers,
hese mythical producers Of imaginary
these voluptuous visionar-
es, these men so wondrous self-wise
'hould answer to those in suffering and
distress throughout the country today
he questions propounded by the pro-
'het of old: What knowest thou that
know not? What UNDERSTANDABLE thou
which is not in us? Hast thou heard
he secret of God and dost thou re-
train wisdom to thyself?'"
POEM THAT LIVES.
A poem of eight lines written hv thu