The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-01-01

1t brought on 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 send 1900
Texas troops down there to give it.
Mexican bandit gangs were cross
ing the border into Texas, raiding and
terrorizing our scattered people. Wo-
men and children were huddled to-
gether in brick houses, always men
anced with murder and worse. My
desk was Hooded with kilograms from
chambers of commerce, bankers,
stockmen and other responsible citi-
zens praying for protection all along
our l200-mile frontier.
THE federal government had only
sixty 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 each of the principal Dor
der towns, instructed them not to
cross the river nor in any way to vio-
late the neutrality laws, but at all cost
to protect the lives and property of
Texas people.
Fake Antitrust Laws.
The administration antitrust
laws are barefaced fakes so far as pro-
tecting the people from trust oppres-
sion is concerned. These laws please
nobody so we'll as the Standard Oil,
the steel and other great trusts.
Il believe at first that the federal
reserve banking act was the admins
tration's one meritorious achieve
ment, but now bankers tell me it is
going to prove failure The control
of the system in practice appears to
rest in New York City instead of in
Washington.
Il am fully convinced the national
election of 1916 will end the demo-
cratic regime. The policies of the
ly failed either to curb monopolies or
democratic administration have Who'll
lower the cost of living for the peo-
pie, and they have materially con-
tributed to deprive millions of wage
earners of employment.
THE administration valorized $2O,.
100000 worth of corporate securities
owned in the north and east by a
treasury department order to nationa
banks to loan money on listed securi
ties at not less than the closing quota
tions of July, 1914, but the same ad
ministration when asked to allow the
people to use a quarter of billion
dollars of their collective credit fol
| two or three years to save them iron
losing $500,000000 on their cotton croF
regarded the valorization as violativt
of sound government.
Misery in South.
The president stood in the roae
and condemned the south, which made
more widespread misery than it ha:
known in three generations, He vim
Dictated an obsolete theory of politica
economy, but he mighty near ruineC
the country doing it.
! IL raised among my personal TRENDS
in Texas more than $4,000 Tor thu
Wilson campaign fund, and the only
favor | asked of him was that he ap
point men who would aid the Texas
state government to enforce the Law
along the Mexican border. 1t was m.
earnest desire to assist in making thu
democratic national administration thu
success. but wouldn't sacrifice thu
honor of my state nor the welfare o
her people to win the favor OF an.
administration,
"At no time have | failed 10 &c
courteous treatment from the leader
of the Mexican revolutionists. sym
pathizc with Americans who have pro
perty rights in Mexico that ought t
have been protected.