The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-08
Southern Leader Of Democrats
Says Administration Is Great
est Failure In History
NOTHING DONE THAT Ii
CAN BE COMMENDED
Foreign Policy Declared lmbeci-
lie; Tariff Law Condemned;
Party Platform Violated

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Democratic harmony appears to be
vanishing az rapidly on the mainland as
II did IN HRwaii when once the jobs
commenced TO be filed Even the Solid
South Is cracking in places beside,
Louisiana. sts ! NJ e II I
The latest and most yitrioiic critic
Of the administration, its fiscal policy
Z and It's ideas Of diplomacy, Is Governor
Colqlitt Of Texas, who, in a signed
Stgtement issued the day after Christ
mas, goes to the length Of declar1ne
. that nothing that President Wilson has
done deserves any praise whateve..
The Wilson administration has been
the greatest failure IN the history, Of
the Presidency,n says the Texas GOV
efpor fThe South is a land literally
< flowing with milk and honey, II has
made one Of the biggest and best crops
IN It's history and yet because of the
utter ineoiiipetency of the men "
charge Of the government its business
h prostratedy its credit is impaired ant
thousands Of its people are starving.
\ Tatfif Legislation Fails
Z; The administration & tariff law wa,
pledged 70 lower the cost Of living and
IL has had the contrary effect. By put
ting raw material on me free list and
keeping the protective tariff on
manufactured goods 1t has con
demned american farmers by hun,
dreds Of thousands to peonage and has
enabled K the manufacturers, getting
their. raw material cheaper, to charge
higher prices for their goods, which
they have done. esll< g3
Hides were free listed and shoes
3 have gone higher. This Is true Of vir:
italy every single item similarly
treated in the administration tariff law
The American farmer gets less for his
raw materials, the American WORKING
man pays more for the finished product
and both are robbed 10 further enrich
the protected manufacturing trusts and
combines, g,t.@,l "..rt 20
Iritish Dfctatioii Allowed g.. n
t.The administration Is foreign policy
has been iuibocile. IT has allowed Eng
land to dictate conditions as TO cotton
shipments to European countries tnal
enabled English spihnefs TO rob the
sAmaEieaHs.c0tton growers Of half the
value of their crop. England stopped
American shipments until the English
spipners had bought their supply at six
and a half cents a pound and stored IL
in Texas and other Southern wa,s
houses. re
~ Then England consented to declare
cotton not eontraband and France fol-
lowed suit a day or. two later, Our
government weakly submitted to Eng
lands dictation, playing into the hands
Of the English spinners and bctraying
the American cotton growers as com
: llletely as II this country We're an Eng.
fish yassal state. XII WA @E.s q
"lf had been President Iwould have
served notice =, on England Is premier
that our foreign trade in cotton and
other noncphtrahand commodities was
going forward with or, without Eng
land 3 consent and IL necessary / woul+
have sent American ironclads to Eng
ihnd door to enforce that notice.
Platform violation BIZ H.. 4 s....,#t..
IS q The Administration 3 repeal Of the
Panama Canal toll exemption law in
violation Of the party's national plat.
form was another weak surrender to
j England. II free tolls for, american
ships had not been repealed hundSeds
Of American4owned ships flying Q. Tor,
eign flag would have come hndcr the
American flag to get the benefit of the
exemption 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 II the Wilson administration
isipFoppsipg to,spend money, taxpayers'
money, buying n subsidized national
shipping service.
1.-THE Wilson Bryan management Vi
the Mexican affair has been failure.
D ~ M AZ Na.,-sa (t.r.a ~,
force Huerta to salute the flag and
have brought ii back without getting
the salute They now ask Congress TO
appropriate 100000 to pay the eA
penses of that ridiculous expedition.
For what ? What did 1t accomplish 4
1t set all Mexico aaame against the
Americans, not only in Mexico, but in
Texas, where all along the north bank
of the Rio Grande, there are ten Mexi.
cans for one American, II brought OF
o. reign of terror all along the Texas
border, SO that when the federal gov;
4 efnment refused TO afford protection for
our people In their own state I was
forced TO send 1900 Texas troops dow1
there TO give II. {! II a.,g,fs
Mexican bandit gangs were, GROSS,
ing the border into Texas, TaidIng and
teTrorizing our scattered people. w Onion
and children were huddled together in
brick houses, always menaeed with mps,
der and worse. Ny desk was flooded
with kilograms from chambers Of conf
meree, bankers, stockmen and other rel
sponsiblo citizens praying for protect
tion all along our l2O0-mile frontier,
1.-THE federal government had only
sixty troopers atyBrowpsviIle to cover
more than two thirds Of that long bort
der. When i rushed the Texas stut0
troops down there, statiohing COM
pany Ut each Of the principal border
towns, l Instructed them not to cross
the riyer nor in any way to violate tho
neutrality laws, hut al all cost to pTp.
test the lives and property of Texas
people, - 5.1 ~.
C;srItsoh's Telegram ~
Secretary OF War Garrison teis
graphed TO me that he thought It un,
wise TO have two military forces oc