Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-11-03
GRAVE QUESTIONS
CONFRONT VOTERS
Action Next Tuesday May
Have Far Reaching Effect
In Time to Come--Mal
Mean Peace or War.

Only a few more days until
election and, while the larger
part of the voters of the country
have undoubtedly made up their
minds as to how they intend tt
vote for state and county candi-
dates, it may be well to call
again to mind some of the grave
matters concerning the nation
and the future welfare and pros
perity of her people and give
them serious thought before cast
ing our ballots next Tuesday for
the candidates for president.
While the great drift of popu-
lar support throughout the coun-
try has been going to Woodrow
Wilson and has been growing
stronger as time passes, as is ev-
idenced by the numerous straw
ballots taken in all parts of the
country and by the many repor is
of old time republicans who have
publicly announced their inten-
tion of supporting the president
for reelection, there are others
who find serious fault with the
president and condemn him for
various reasons. One of these
complaints is against his stand
on the munitions question, the
objection having been raised that
our nation should have remained
strictly neutral and that NUM-
tions of war should not have
been sold to the warning nations.
There are sound reasons for not
holding with this contention; and
Mr.. Hughes in his speech at Co.
lumbus, Indiana, on Tuesday of
this week, when asked whether
he, if elected, would favor or op-
pose the placing of an embargo
on munition shipments or the
passage of a "war resolution"
warning Americans not to travel
on merchant vessels of beligger-
ents, stated:
Il am in favor of the mainte-
nance of every right, including
the right of travel and the right
of shipment. "
From this statement it would
seem that those opposing Wilson
on these questions can expect no
better treatment at the hands of
Mr.. Hughes.
Among the important matters,
however, which the citizens of
our country should carefully con-
slider before going to the polls is
the success or failure of the
many excellent laws enacted by
the present administration dur
ing the past four years. Among
these measures are the federal
reserve banking law, the income
and inheritance tax law, the
child labor law, and that greatest
of all measures the rural credits
law. The first will do away
with all future money panics; the
last will save the farmers of our
nation a hundred and fifty mill
ions of dollars each year in in
terest alone, besides insuring
them money in future at not to
exceed Al per cent and on loans
of from five to thirty-fve years.
These laws are all for the benefit
of the farmer and laboring class
of our people and not for the rich
element. They are still in their
infancy and some of them have
not yet been placed in active op.
Grafton, yet all are considered by
the bright minds of our country
to be important, beneficial acts
of constructive legislation. II
President Wilson is returned tc
Office again next Tuesday, within
the next four years these laws
will all have been placed in op
GRAFTON and will have become
known throughout the land. Il
they are found satisfactory the
people will not allow them to bt