The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-11-02

United States. 1t Is a measure
which effects every man, woman
o and child In this country. IL pass
: ell the last Congress by an over
: whelming majority, and was veto
VI ed by the President. 1t came into
/ this Congress and passed the
:. House with an Overwhelming ma
/, jOrity. It came into the Senate.
and there IL lay unmolested for
months. Some of us came to the
conclusion that the bill should
have a hearing. We realized that
when this war is over that the
labOring men of this country will
be brought I'm direct competition
o with the millions of men who re-
turn from the armies and enter
q into the fields of industry. either
In Europe or immigrate to this
country. When the millions of
men return from these armies
they will find their homes destroy
ed. their old friendships broken.
and they will naturally seek for
, new fields and they will turn their
attention to the great Republic of
the West.
When the war broke out In Eu-
rope 500 thousand working men
left this country and went back
to Europe. 1t will be nothing
exceptional at all for million.
or two million, or even three mil
lion of the dissatisfied Europeans
to return to this country at the
close of the war to bid for the
i places now held by American
working men. There is not any
! thing OF more Importance to Ia
boring men of this country than
that strict immigration bill be
put upon the statute books of the
United States. (Applause.)
There is another thing: The debt in
Europe in the belligerent nations has
run up to about fifty or sixty billions
of dollars. 1t will likely, before this
war concludes, run up to seventy-five
billions or one hundred billions, an al
most incomprehensible and superhu-
man burden resting upon the great
struggling millions. The working man
will understand this. They may not be
sufficiently able as financiers to see or
understand how much 1t is, or work
out schemes by which 1t can be salts
fed and liquidated, but they will see
there this great incomprehensible bur-
den resting upon them and their child
rem and their children's children for
generations to come. They will under
stand 1t. and. take my word for 1t, you
will find upon the American shore
within six months after this war closes
not only hundreds of thousands of
these men. but you will find in time
iiiiiiiou' VI lntll tIOWQlHS INTO lHlS
country to take the place of the Am
erican laborer, or bid him down in his
wage.
Voice from the audience: You are
right.)
(Applause.)
And therefore some of us came to
the conclusion that there was no rea-
son why that bill should not be passed
by the Senate.
CHILDREN AND PARENTS.
You remember that we passed what
Is known as the child labor bill, and
our good friends upon the opposite
side have taken great deal of credit
for the passage of that child labor bill
was in favor of it, but suppose my
friends, that you take the child out of
the work shop; suppose that you take
the child out of the factory, and send
1t home to a mother and father whose
job has been taken away by a foreign
er or foreign competitor have you
served that child's interests? Have
you been protecting the labor and the
job of the father and mother so that
they could educate the child? If not.
you haven't served it by taking it out
of the factory. You have rather turn
ed 1t loose upon the street to become
a vagrant, and enter into crime, and
while I sympathiZe with the child who
may be working in the factory under
civil WHICH may arrest us Qe-t
velopment and destroys its womanhood I
or manhood. as between the child
working in the factory and the child
turned loose upon the streets and fore
ed into vagrancy. my more profound {
is with the latter and there
fore, said that will offer this bill as '
an amendment to the child labor bill
What happened? They put into oper-
alton their secret caucus. That immi- {
grafton bill never could have been kill
ed in the open. Out of 96 Senators in I
hat body. SO of them were in favor I
If this immigration bill. Had 1t been
permitted to come to vote, 1t would
either be law today. and the laboring
Americans would be protected. or it
would have been vetoed, and in my
Judgment passed over the veto. Cap
)leause.)
But they took 1t into caucus. upon
whose record the sun never shines
whose vote no mans knows concern
ng any particular individual. where
'efore the sun. and while they would
lot have voted against it in the open
hey took it into caucus. and killed it.
nd by resolution resolved it should
lot be considered at this session
Iere. my friends. is the unfairness of
our caucus system, and though touch
ng the welfare of every man who
al lis HIS DlcdQ ny TIE sweat Ol nlSI !
row, this bill was killed in the secret
ecesses of the caucus. take the
berty of saying, regardless of who 1t
its or hurts, whether Republican or
Democrat. a representative who has
OF the courage and conviction to take
is position in the open upon any ques-
on is too cowardly to represent
eople in the Senate of the United
tates. (Applause.)
WASTE OF PUBLIC FUNDS.
Now. my friends, one more plank;
ne more plank which has been full
lied. kept. and then I will pass on to
Their subjects. I'VE denounce the
rofigate waste of the money wrung
'om the people by oppressive taxa
on through the lavish appropriations
recent Republican Congresses,
hich have kept taxes high and re-
nced the purchasing power of the
copies toll" 1t reads like the ten
I'VE demand a re-
i'm to that simplicity and economy
hich BELTS democratic government
nd reduction in the number of use
IS offices. the salaries of which drain
e substance of the people,
Now VIII YOU permit me to read
rain from the Presidents speech at
ladow Lawn. He says: 1.-THE Re-
a Al To-