The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-11-02
Big AUDIENCE HEARS
Sen. CHAMBERLAIN

The largest political audience OF the
year, composed of many Republicans.
was assembled here Thursday night to
hear United States Senator George Z.
Chamberlain. who spoke in behalf of
the campaign of Woodrow Wilson for
reelection to the presidency.
Delegations we're present from all
sections of the valley, and contingent
of Democratic leaders from The GALES
was here.
Accompanied by Bert E. Haney and
Ralph and George Watson, Senator
Chamberlain arrived here about $50
from Portland. A banquet was tend.
cred the senator at the Mount Hood
hotel by local Democrats.
Senator Chamberlain address for
the most part was taken up with a dis
cussion of the legislation OF the Wilson
administrator. He prefaced the body
Of bis talk with words of congratula-
tion to Hood River apple growers,
whose product and progress, he said.
had won them a worldwide reputation.
Senator Chamberlain then declared
that the present campaign was one fof
the most vital confronting the Ameri-
can people. Democracy. he said. is on
trial.
"The most vital issue." he said, sis
whether American people shall be free
people, or whether they shall be bound
hand and foot and delivered to Wall
street."
president Wilson," continued Sena-
to Chamber lain, ''comes before you
with record of performance. He is
an intellectual man, who, l think,
knows more about government than
any other man in America, a man
whose private life is without flaw.
have nothing unkind to say about MIR.
Hughes. His record shows that he has
been earnest in his endeavors and his
duty as he has seen it. But Hughes
has worked in a much narrower sphere
than President Wilson. And shall we
discharge a man who has been tried
and found true and take up a new man
and his promises?
Every appeal that President Wilson
has made to the American people has
been toward greater and broader
public life. He has never had an un-
kind word to say of his critics. despite
IUc ocNcTc dttdChb tndt HdNc UCCD
made against him."
In reviewing the acts of the Wilson
administration, Senator CHAMBERLAIN de-
cIared that despite the criticism that
had been directed against every meas
ure, no amendments had ever been
suggested.
"They tell u.s." said Senator Cham.
berlain. "that a financial IpanicScap
only take place during the administra-
ton of Democrat. Let US 60 back
over the record. he pointed out the
panic of 1873 and that of 1907.
''In 1884," he said, at is true that
the panic occurred during Democratic
administration. but it came on so
quickly that Democratic administra.
ton was not able to enact laws to pre-.
vent. The laws in force were passed
by Republican administration"
Senator Chamberlain then cited the
absorption of the Tennessee Coal &
Iron Co. during 1907.
Zone of those distinguished gentle
men who is doing so much to defeat
Wilson and who is calling him coward
ly because of the Adamson bill, was
pTeSiucHt tHcu anu ouIEcuucLcu W uc-
mands. not in the interest of the toll.
ing masses, but of Wall street. j.
Pierpont Morgan and associates called
at the White House, and, according to
recent article by Norman Hapgood,
told President Roosevelt that they gave
him just 20 minutes to concede to their
demands IS to the absorption of the
competitive company, an act in viola
tiOn of the laws of the country, or they
would plunge the country into panic
that would bankrupt it. The Tennes-
see Coal & Iron Co. was absorbed.
Senator Chamberlain then took up at
length the federal reserve act. the
rural credits act. the child labor law.
the parcel post. the shipping bill, the
federal road bill and the Adamson bill.
He said:
when my distinguished friend, Sen
ator Fulton, was here recently he told
you that he had been talking with a
man who had been doing some figuring
and who declared that il the Adamson
bill went into effect it would cost you
10 cents more per box to ship your ap-
pies to eastern markets. They say
that figures don't lie, but liars figure.
The fact is that no one knows just
what effect the1 Adamson bill will
have. 1t may result in saving to the
railroads and it may result in loss.
Experts have been provided by a Sec
ton of the bill to make study of it
and report. Personally. do not think
it will increase the freight rates, but |
do not know any more about 1t than
did Senator Fulton.
"But did my friend, Charlie Fulton,
tell you what would have happened if
the great railroad strike had come
about? | didn't hear anything of any
mention of this. This great strike
would have caused almost a total loss
of your great fruit crop.
president Wilson was volunteer
mediator between the railway employ
es and employers. There was no se-
cret about anything that transpired.
In the house of representatives 70 or 80
Republicans voted sfor the Adamson
bill. In the senate only one Republi-
can, Senator La Toilette, supported it.
Uncle Joe Cannon voted for it in the
House. What do you think of that?
Yet not single amendment or objec-
tion was offered by those reaetionary
Republicans opposing it."
Senator Chamberlain then took up
the foreign relations of the United
States with other nations during the
great European war. He declared that
the President had handled the affairs
in exactly the same manner as other
presidents on former occasions. through