Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-09-11
borah Strikes Most
Telling Blows Upon
the Administration
Senator from Idaho Deals in Vigorous Manner
with Democratic Campaign Claims and APP
peas for Election of Men Who Will
Help Maine in Senate and House

100000 Of these were arranged for by
special act of Congress.
Senator Borah then read two pages
| from the expenditures of Congress for
agricultural purposes, showing that in
the South many thousands of dollars
have been expended in Investigations
of several varieties Of insects, diseases
of plants and crops, and one of the
expenditures was 100000 to teach the
people of Louisiana how to raise
horses and cattle He asked the farm
ers present how many appropriations
had been made for them of this sort
and got no answer.
He then spoke of a total of about
| $4,000 which have been appropriated
ty the present administration for the
rivers Of South Carolina alone, al
though, he said, Il did not realize that
the people Of that state were in such
great danger from the amount Of
rivers which they seem to have"
He added that there was no need Of
Col Roosevelt going to South Amer
lea to discover a river, but that he
wouldn't have found many in South
Carolina. He said that these appro-
priations constituted plain, unadorned
craft" and that such conditions could
' not possibly exist except by the eau
Gus method Of passing measures be
hind closed DOORS" This system Is
more dangerous to us than any for
eign foe against whom we build ma
.-ies," he said, and went on to Snow
that the total tax paid by the 10
Southern states which he named, for
income. corporation and Internal rev.
enue, was the sum Of $1,337.500, while
for 10 Northern states Of about the
same relative size the tax for these
three things amounted to s1a,393.7
for the same period Of time. and he
said, though you put the most able
man in the State Of Maine in Con-
gress, he cannot aid you under the
present system"
If the European War was averted
by the federal reserve banking law
Senator Borah showed clearly that
this law was not formulated and did
not go into effect until the crisis at
the beginning Of the war was all over
for the war began about the first OF
August, 1914, the board which formed
the federal reserve banking law did
not meet until Oct. 20, and the bill was
not put into effect until Dec. Is Of the
same year In speaking Of the Next
i, can situation, Senator Borah mention
ed the plank In the Democratic party
platform which pledged protection to
American rights and property, both al
| ND a
borders, and said that he heartily ap-
proved of the plank, but was not en-
tirely satisfied with the way in which
it was carried out. "Huerta," said the
speaker, was in control of IS per cent
Of the population Of Mexico, and his
army was able to handle the situation
twenty-six of the great powers had al.
ready recognized him as the logica,
president Of that country, and no Am
molested under his administration, but
Wilson refused to recognize him." He
went on to show the manner in which
President Wilson used the United
States army and navy to drive Huerta
who had the situation well in hand
out of his own country, and still did
not declare war.
Suppose we had gone into Ger
man or a French port and done as we
did at Vera Cruz, would that not have
been war;" asked Senator Borah. III
I go out and knock down a cripple on
the street, and go off and leave him
writhing in his gore, it may not have
been a fight, but it is not my fault II
was not a fight" he declared, then
told of President Wilson's assuming
the right to say who should be presl.
dent Of Mexican territory, and his will
ingness to take the hand of Villa, thai
bandit and assassin, with the blood Of
Americans on his hands. I'VE Wen'
to Vera Cruz" stated Senator Borah
mot to enforce a salute Of the Amert'
can flag, but simply and solely to drive
out Huerta. He could not fire a sa'
lutte of q guns. Why? The old In
dian did not have 81 guns. Could W.
say who should be the ruler Of Serbia
or Rumania?" asked the speaker, ant
he quoted Secretary Lane Of Presiden
Wilson's own cabinet as saying IN
written article that our going to Vers
Cruz was for the purpose of driving
out the Mexican president, Huerta.
1t was the consensus of opinion
among those who heard Senator Bo
rah's speech that If all Of the Demo
cratic voters of the city could have
been present at City hall Saturday
evening there would be few votes cas-
for the Wilson administration today
for this speaker had the goods, facts
and figures both, he went straight t.
the point without the use Of ''wease
words" or sidestepping of any issues
and his address will long be though
of as one of the finest ever heard ir
Augusta, appealing as 1t did to al
thinking citizens who have the wei
fare of the country at heart.
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