The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-11-02
and nine months"

and nine months"
Contrasted to this he quoted Pro-
fessor Wilson as follows: "The usual
standard of the laborer in our day is
to give as little as he may for his
wages"
"The class formed by the labor or
ganizations and tho leaders is for
midable enemy to equality and better
ment of opportunity"
Labor unions drag the highest
man to the lowest level"
Mr.. Brown also arraigned President
Wilson for his Mexican and foreign
policy and scored the democratic par
ty for the enactment of the Under
wood tariff law.
One of the most interesting speeches
of the week was delivered by Prof.
M. Simpson of the department of Eng
lish Of Whitman college. Prof. Simp-
son spoke Monday evening. He pre-
faced his remarks by saying that four
years ago he was an enthusiastic
supporter of Mr.. Wilson. He said he
had read the writings of Woodrow
Wilson and thought he recognized in
him a great new leader of public
thought and action, great champion
of governmental reform. He then, one
by one, cited the shattering of his
ideals by the acts of Mr.. Wilson after
he became president.
!. The first blow TO his faith in the
president was on the question Of pro-
hibition. The professor said that soon
after Wilson's election he (the pro-
fessor) was engaged by the anti-sa-
i loon league to assist IN conducting a
prohibition campaign in Michigan.
One Of the arguments used by the
vets" in this campaign was to quote
the president as opposed to national
or statewide prohibition. In the hope
that he might disprove the truth OF
these quotations Professor Simpson
wrote President Wilson asking him il
he has been correctly quoted by the
saloon forces. He received reply
, from the presidents secretary saying
that the president was in favor of To-
! cal option, but opposed to national o1
state prohibition. He said, too, that
! when President Wilson was called up
on to take stand in the Hobsol
q amendment to the constitution he op
posed it by resurrecting the doctrin'
q of states rights which he supposet
. had been dead and buried since tn
!, civil war.
: Professor Simpson then told of tn
other ideals that had teen shattere
: by the enactment Of the underwood
), tariff law, the presidents "pernicious
. meddling in Mexico, his failure to pro
. tect the lives and property in foreig
! lands and on the high seas and hi
compromise of the principal of FIRE
and untrammeled government in ure
= ing the passage of the Adamson law.
= Professor Simpson was followed b
Major C. o. Bates, of Tacoma, wh
is undoubtedly the most pointed an
- uncompromising speaker who, hs
- visited the city during the campaigl
= He took his text from an enlarge
reproduction of a cartoon which al
. peared recently in democratic p'
per in which appeared the question
!, "What would you have done, M
]. Hughes? 2" is asked concerning tt
- workingman's compensation act, Il
= :, Federal Reserve Banking law, u
- non-partisan tariff commission, tt
y child labor law and the rural credi
:. law.
He showed that Mr.. Hughes,
= governor of New York had given d
= :, answer by having enacted workin
= mems compensation and child lab
rs rs laws and that the non-partisan tar
nv commission, the federal bank and t
farm loan act were the results of !
' publican agitation and that the prt
90 ent acts had been modelled close
,e' after bills drafted during the ADM
e istrations of Presidents Roosevelt a
10 Taft. He dwelt at considerable lene
upon President Wilson's changed
90 titude and his weak and undecisl
Nv M manner of handling our foreign
lations.
- AS a fellow townsman and 10
acquaintance of Governor Lister
i condemned the states chief execut
:" for his extravagances, his false
~ titude on the prohibition questl
@ his laundering appointments and
=. - obligating himself to the states
~ ployees by permitting them to
-. his campaign expenses.
.od M. E. Carley, of Carley, was in X
-. newick the first of the week on
NOV to Alfalfa, where he last w