American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-04-11
uRRAKING POLITICAL MOORINGs.

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Az M time siyere the Civil war has
.here been such a breaking away o
lHe-long political affiliations as now
Yhere promises to be a veallignment,
ard will be unless there Is a change IN
me attitude OF the present national
administration. The following from
n s. Senator Joseph w. Baily OF Tex
"a Ia only one of many straws Whicn
show the drift:
"I have been a Democrat all my
Hre-a collar Democrat, II you please
and have v scratched a party
ticket: but those who now control the
Democratic party have OF
N Democratic principe
after another In such rapid and pc
wiidering succession that they haVs
left ia nothing except the name.
.'Slnce Thomas Jefferson founded IL
and frat gave immortal utterance 10
its creed, the Democratic party mas
always insisted that every state
shouid exclusively control the local
affairs of It's own people; but q Demo
cratic Congress inundated that time
honored doctrine.
'For more than q century the DEM
ocratic party has opposed the creation
of useless offices; but In the last Blk
years Democratic Congress have Gre
ated more offices--and more useless
offices-than were ever created In the
same length of time since this repnD-
lie was organized.
"Our fathers dreaded the extension
OF federal power to a point where
100. 900 employees would be required,
but we have added bureau to bureau
and function to function, until more
than 500 900 are now permanently
employed, and we are complacently
proposing to add the 5000 900 more
who are employed by the railroad, toll
egraph and telephone companies.
'For more than a century the Dem
ocratic party preached and practlcec
in all public expenditures
but. despising our traditions and gu
teachings, a Democratic Congress
ever before we engaged In he euro
pean war, had spent more money thar
any Congress which had ever before
assembled In the history of the repub
lie.
.'Our fathers were wise enough Il
know that extravaganza breeds cor
ruptlon-that an extrayagent govern
ment can no more escape becoming
corrupt government than a spend
thrift can escape becoming a bankrup
and our children will some day real
ize that truth IN bitter experience.
Gwen within the last three month
Democratic cabinet officials hav
asked for appropriations aggregatin
the stupendous sum of S15, 1000, 900, 00
for the fiscal year-a year of peace
beginning on July !, 1919, and END
ing June 30, 1920.
'That is more than three times a
much as the fedora! government sper
during the entire war between tn
states. Four years Of war with an es
penditures of 81, 900, 600, 000l One yea
of peace with an expenditure OF $l5
900, 900, 900; Can II be possible that tt
American people will submit to tn
appalling waste?
For more than n century the Den
ocratic party has protested itself tn
advocate of low taxes, and until r,
cent years we made the law squaI
with that profession but In this tin
Congress levies taxes us II they WEI
not a burden upon the people, an
answer our complaints with a threI
of further taxation,
"For more than a century the Den
nSfhlit purity mas tulNllitu hpbH US
reverence the Constisution of OF
country, and to respect Is wholeson
limitations, but in this time men cal
ing themselves Democrats, and hole
ing high positions, deride the Const
tuition as an obsolete scrap of pap,
and scott at It's most sacred guaraI
tees.
TN know, and you know, that tn
republic can not he preserved II n
Constitution which created Il is d.
stroyed and We a give no bette
proof of u patriotism than by d,
Tending the Constitution which estal
lished, and which alone can save, on
free institutions,
For a century the Democrat
party has taught us, and We hay
taught u children, that liberty
the o precious possession of me
more 10 be desired than wealth. {
distinction, or power-and our cor
ception OF liberty has not been merel
that our country should not be sui
Jeet TO the will of n foreign nation.
"rhe liberty which we have bee
tnught To cherish, the liberty who
We have thought. worth fighting Il
and worth dying for, Is the Jibert
of the individual-the right Of ever
man to do for himself and with h.
" whatever he pleases SO long q