The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-10-10
NORRIS DECLARES
AGAINST WAR
Nebraska Senator Says Prepared
ness Not Needed
CHARGES MANY VIOLATIONS OF
PLEDGES BY DEMOCRATS.
Declares That Underwood Tariff Is
Bad Measure Mexican Policy of
Wilson Is Denounced.

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Declaring that there were and had
been neither danger nor occasion for
war, that the preparedness campaign
was the result of unwarranted popular
excitement; that not only should
Huerta not have been recognized but
that President Wilson made the most
serious error of his official life in de-
manding from an old butcher a salute
to the flag when such salute from such
a source would have dishOnored it,
United States Senator George W. Nor
ris of Nebraska, at the Lavering last
night denounced the Democratic ad-
ministration for the maintenance of
caucus rule, for the violation of the
one term plank, the civil service plank
and failure to carry out its pledges to
pass and enforce effective antitrust
legislation and protect American life
and property in Mexico and on the
border.
After a clear preliminary statement
of the relation of the individual voter
to the government, Senator Norris de-
clared that the Democrats violated the
fundamentals of good government by
he asserted enabled the power which
dispense patronage to control legis-
lation through a minority. He assert
ed that President Wilson did control
legislation by such means and that
whether the measures thus secured
were good or bad the principle was
wrong.
He said that President Wilson and
his party redeemed the tariff pledge
which he declared was unfortunte, and
drew a sad picture of the financial
ruin which he asserted was rapidly
overtaking this country in conse-
quence when the war in Europe saved
the situation.
He said that the Democratic party
could not claim credit for the present
prosperity unless willing to also as
sumo the responsibility for the war
abroad from which crime he would
acquit them. He said that a tariff just
sufficient to cover difference in the
cost of production between this coun-
try and abroad would not allow the
creation of a tariff wall behind which
trusts could be formed to rob the
people, but said that he would admit
that the wall might be too high and
that trusts might be formed behind it.
He quoted figures to indicate that un-
der the first ten months of the Under
wood tariff, imports increased and ex-
ports decreased, attributing this to the
low tariff, declaring it to be bad
thing. IF you buy more than you sell
you will become to bankrupt" he said.
He said that the Democratic party
had denounced the Republicans for
failure to prosecute certain trust mag
mates, notably the managers of the
Standard Oil company and the tobacco
trust, but that they in turn failed to
prosecute them. He moreover declar-
ed that the Clayton antitrust bill con-
tanned no teeth and simply admonish-
ed trust magnates not to do wrong
This failure to provide proper penal
ties he said was the result of presiden-
tial interference. The Republicans he
said had been derelict in their duty, in
this respect previously, but the Demo-
Gratis who denouced them for such
failure to do their duty, were them
selves more derelect than any other.
He denounced the party in
power for failure to carry out the
promise to pass a law for government
al supervision of the issuance of rail-
road securities and. .censured President
Wilson for the effort of Attorney Gen
eral McReynolds to stop an investiga-
tion of the New Haven railroad scan
dal by the interstate commerce COM
mission. He asserted that conditions
such as existed in the New Haven sys-
tenn affected everybody as the con-
sumer pays the freight He denounced
the Democrats for extravagant appro-
priations, after they had censured the
Republicans for appropriations that
were much smaller, and referred to
creeks in North Carolina in which he
said it was proposed to sink artesian
wells to get water to make them navi-
gable. He said that the Republicans
had sinned in this respect but not as
badly as the Democrats.
The speaker made no reference to
the relation of the administration to
the European war except to say the
attitude of the executive was vacillat-
ing, in that he had at the beginning of
the war said that no armed vessels
should be considered as merchant
ships and two months later had an
nounced that merchant ships belong
ing to belligerents might carry guns.
He said that there was no danger of
war and that the preparedness move
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