The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-31
Crediting Democrats With War Or
der Prosperity.


With a remarkable mixture of facts
and fancy and a marvellous disregard
for consistency, the Washington Post
declares that millions of dinner pals
that were empty under Republican
administration are now full and over
flowing under the Democratic Presi-
dent and after four years of Demo-
cratic control of federal legislation;
also that mo party ever in power in
this country has produced such pros
perity as now exists" Those two de-
clarations are made in an editorial
which declares that "the decision of
, the Allies to carry on the war has ad-
ded stimulus to war orders" that the
crest of the wave of orders has not
yet passed, that there will be fully two
millions more men on each side in
line of battle by next March, than
there were last March and that the
Allies will draw their supplies from
the United States.
Thus in the same article in which
the editorial assumes that the Demo-
cratic party has produced such pros
perity as now exists, it points to the
real cause for the partial return of
prosperity in some parts of the Unit
ed States. Its declaration that many
millions of dinner pals were empty
from 1907 until a Democratic admin
istration filled them will make boards
of Associated Charities and the man.
ayers of public bread lines in our
cities wonder why there was such an
enormous demand for their assistance
in 1918 and 1914, as compared with
the previous years when these many
millions of dinner pals were suppos>
ed to be empty.
And yet the Post is undoubtedly
correct in saying that mo party ever
in power in this country has produc-
ed such prosperity as now exists. "
Certainly the Democratic party has
not produced such prosperity as now
exists. Nor will the Republican
party claim that it has produced such
prosperity as this.
Under Republican economic policies
prosperity was distributed through
out the United States and was enjoyed
by every industry and all lines oil
enterprise. Such prosperity as now
exists is enjoyed primarily BY. the
benehciaries of war orders. and sec
ondarily by those who derive their
trade from war order enterprises and
, their employees. This is war or
. der prosperity, and such prosperity
i was not produced by any party. l.
: was produced by European monarch'
who prccipitated conflict unpre
, cendented in the history of the world
i 1t is unnecessary for any facts OF
8 arguments to be adduced to answer
: conclusively the assumption of thu
= Post that the Democratic party is en-
: titled to credit for the kind of pros
y peritv that exists today, for the Pos
says in the same article that business
: records that were thought impossible
: of attainment six months ago ar
;. made in the ordinary course of affair
r today"
3 Six months ago we had suffered tw,
= years of Democratic administration
= The first year and half of that ad
! ministration was characterized by in
4 dustrial depression throughout til
r. length and breadth of the Unite
- States. The outbreak of the Ell
ropean war cut off imports and Great
), ed a new demand for exports. thu
. saving American industry from ute
= destruction. Even so late as 81
+ months ago we could not fully realiz
v to what extent the European wa
:. would reestablish the industrial Ell
is terprises which had been demolishe
- nv Democratic economic policies.