Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-07-31

| W SuppOIN HIS Idlully WQll6 mas CTOp8
were ripening, his title was promptly
cancelled and the strictest interpreta-
tion of the law enforced.
I'm Canada they have q three-year
! homestead law, much more Mberally
administered The settler Ia encour-
aged, not discouraged.
Senator Borah champdoned and Be-
cured the passage of three-year
homestead law for American citizens.
For this the western settlers are
grateful to him. He was also author
of the bill providing Tor a $40, 0O0, 900
loan to the reclamation fund, where
by the irrigation of western lands
was FASTENED and homes for settlers
made possible in the arid regions.
1--WE want nation of home owners
Very few men are willmg to defend
the rights of their landlords. All men
will make sacrifices to defend their
own homes. Ut ds as true today as
when St Augustine said it: You
give your bread to feed the hungry.
but 1T were better that none hungered
and that you had none to give
1.-The government which is spend
ing its millions for warshdps, Its
millions for the army, it's mdllions for
public buildings, dts millions for dis
play, and will not find and make
homes upon and out of the public do
main for its home-hungry people, may
be a republic In. name said senator
Borah in the senete, but 1t Is I'M
true to the great principles upon
which Is founded republic In fact.
Put your faith in the common citizens,
give him the redgns of government;
make him the owner of his home;
let him grow to ful stature OF free
citizenship, and our institutions are
safe.'
Senator Borah is unaheraibly OPP
posed to the attempt to- regulate mon-
opolies. He believes that the at
tempt win ultimately result In the
regulation of the regulators The
evils of regulation may become worse
than the evils we rail against. Z
don't think you can any more regu-
late monopoly with safety than You
can regulate a cancer in the hu-
man SYSTEM he says. "The only way
is to cut DIT out
mo one, he thinks, has any reason
to complain of business getting too
large so long as 1T builds itself UP by
giving a superior quality OF goods, or
better service, or universal lower |
prices Ii it can command the mar
ket by benefiting the people, 1t will
never be too large; 1t can never be
do lrxyn nj
room for others He is not opposed |
to big units. Monopolies are built
up by chartered powers from the
government or the state, authorizing
them to do things that no corpora
tion ought to be permitted to do; by
buying up at exorbitant figures COM
peting institutions, and by driving
feeble competitors from the field.
Since the reign of Elizabeth, whose
letters patent ON foodstuffs included
everything but bread, every English-
speaking people has enforced laws
against these evils
Transportation In this country is
in the hands OF the interstate COM
merce commission. That commission
lis neither elected nor subject to re-
call by the people. We have now
placed the currency of the country in
the hands of a commission. It is
within the power of that commission
to initiate or contract the currency
practically at will. We have created
a trade commission, with power to
inquire as to what is fair and what
is unfair competition, and the federal
courts alone can review it's decisions.
We are now preparing to create
commission over our power sites
which will in future turn the wheels
of our Industries. These omcmisSions I
will be under control of 30 or 35 men,
who will be appointed, and experienc
shows that lit is practically impossible
to prevent their confirmation when
once nominated.
Senator Borah believes that the |
system of so-called regulation will In I
time prove to be fraud Its control
will be i'm the hands of coterie at I
Washington who will be nothing but
the satellites of the power they are /
appointed to control Ii
when the BIN for the creation o.
the commerce court was before the q
senate he opposed lit bitterly. He
said that, if the jurisdiction OF the n
great questions concerning transporta b
lion were taken ont of the hands OF +
he "a federal courts and placed ex- h
,lusively I'm the hands of five judges 7
sitting at Washington and entirely /,
'emoved from the people, inl less than n
rs years that court and dts environ :
nents would be the count and the en- I,
of the railroads; that the
through one method or an q
'ther, subtitle or open, would exercise u
very possible influence to nominate
he judges they wanted, and they Co,
would have only five to look after; I,
nd whether they succeeded dan hav- q,
ng the judges they wanted named or /,
ot, they would exercise every pos a.
lble influence to make them friendly ~
0 the railroad viewpoint. Ia
Within less than a year after the A
curt was created, one OF those
we judges was impeached. 1t was
iscovered that one OF the railroads ~
ad given him certain favorable con. =,
acts. The judge claimed that he ~
lought 1t was perfectly legitimate
he railroad WAS doing nothing for