Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-03
R|CDY RESIDENT
ENDORSES HUGHES
FOR PRESIDENCY
G. w. Morrison Tells Why
He Cannot Support Viii
son-Writes to Chairman
of Hughes Alliance.

One Of the best arguments against
the re- election of President Woodrow
Wilson comes from C. w. Morrison of
Rigby in letter form to Chairman Clip
son of the Hughes Alliance, who re-
leased it for publication. 1t is as fol-
lows:
Rigby, Idaho,
October 2S 1916.
''Mr. ]. H. GIBSON.
Boise Idaho.
my Dear Mr.. Gibson:
Your letter of the 21st inst, is re-
thoroughly disguised with the Demo-
cratic administration in both it's do
nestle and foreign policies.
The Democratic party has violated
Its moral, as well as it's legal, obliga-
ton to the American people 1t has ut
terly failed to keep its promises and to
live up to its platform pledges of 1912.
For instance, it promised the American
people that if it would be put in power,
1t would be in favor of the American
coastwise ships going through the
Panama canal free of charge. Instead
of standing by it's promises and duties,
II violated them and disgracefully sur
rendered American rights to England
Again, it failed to make good i;c pro-
mise to observe the merit system in
making public appointments. In addi-
ton, it did not reduce the high cost Of
living as it had promised to do. Fur
thermore, it pledged its candidate to
one term Of office, has 1t lived up to this
promise? No. by no means. Today, it is
running the same candidate that it
pledged in 1912 to a single term.
These, together with all the other
promises which it has broken-and they
have been many-prove the fact that
the Democratic party has been guilty of
,nsincerity and that its Platform pledges
are nothing more than scraps OF
paper.
FIRST AGAINST PREPAREDNESS
Its leader has been upon both sides
of every great issue that has confronted
the American nation. At first, he was
the chief obstacle to preparedness.
After our bad and weak military condi-
tons were exposed by Rear Admiral
Fiske and Representative Gardner. aft
er the press and the American people
attacked Wilson. his advocates and
and took notice, he changed his mind.
He led the big preparedness parade in
Washington, and at st. Louis, in speak
ing of the navy, he said, And it ought,
in my judgment, to be incomparably the
greatest navy in the world
THE presidents domestic policies
have been a menace and detriment to
the progress Of our country. His mob
ilization blunders were disgra ceful, and
exposed to the world our national UNI
fitness for war. His Philippine policy
will, If continued, cause the same chaos
and anarchy in the Philippine islands
as now prevails in Mexico. On June 80
1914, there were in this country 2,442,-
765 foreign born illiterates; yet, Mr.
Wilson objected to the clause in the
immigration bill, requiring an educa-
tional qualification Of all foreigners de-
string to land in america.
THE two most widely discussed laws
that were passed by the last congress
AMI pronounced by prominent Demo
Gratis to be the best ever passed for the
farmers and labor are little more thar
Jokes The one, is the farm loan act
the other, is the Adamson bill. The for
mer is not practical and is not as bene-
fetal to the farmers as the admirers OF
the act claim. The farmer, in the lone
run, is not helped or benefited any
more by securing a loan from a nationa
farm loan association than he is by Sc
curing a loan from priv tie bank or in.
surance company. He can not secure
loan, under the said act, for more thar
so per centum of the appraised value OF
the land mortgaged and 20 per cent Of
the appraised valuJ of the per-
manent, insured improvements thereon
The interest charged for the said LOAF
may be as high as six per cent per an.
num- In addition, he must subscribe fol
shares of stock in the association to al
amount equal to five per cent of tn,
face value Of the loan. This stock is liza.
BILE for all contracts, debts, and en-
gagements of the association. The ex
pense of getting out the necessary pa
pers and abstracts is just the same o.
in any other loan. The money borrowe,
by the farmers must be used to bu!
land for agriculture purposes or to i'm
prove the farm upon which the loan /
made. The farmer can not even use I'll
money to move his crops. think that
have pointed out enough of the feature
of the farm loan act to show that it /
not practical anG does not benefit tn
farmer any more than any other loaniu
institution.
THE Adamson bill is not an eight -hou