The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-01-15
Flags Secretary Daniels; De-
fends Heavily Burdened Tax
s''' Payers Of America
ASKS IF CHALLENGE TO
FRANCE AND ENGLAND
Would Spend 5000, 900, 600
More of Peoples Money;
Warns of Bolshevism
BY L. G. Martin. q

Omitted Press Correspondent =
4 Washington, Jan. 15.--Attacking.
Secretary Daniels biggest navy
program, Senator Borah Of Idaho,
in the senate yesterday, warned that
"this shameless orgy Of expenditures
may force the people to cry out with
the voice Of revolution against the
madness that is grinding them to
powder" %s&l . s
He charged that while in theory
the government has great plans Tor
universal peace and brotherhood,
nevertheless in practice 1t still, ap-
parently, is following the rule OF
kings and autocrats--to frlghten the
people and rob them through taxa
ton"
The political influences" now
epidemic In Russia may infect Amer
lea, "if more attention is not paid TO
those who must pay the taxes"
Borah said. II serve notice now that
those who undertake to.put through
this naval program will have to fighs,
every step of the way" he asserted.
Ss Asks II chslisn6s y: s. ". sss-ss''s. -. ~
I II cannot understand the demand
for warships at this time. They are
instruments of war. Are we chat-
longing or throwing doubt upon the
friendship Of France and Engiandf
Japan is powerful, but our relatlons sae !
are friendlier with Japan than sior q
decade. &9e- =, Z !stsszf:s.,,
"After the war is over, with our
enemies defeated and all the great
naval powers lfriendliar than ever
before, we propose 0 spend $6OO,-
900 900 in theE Enext three years on
powerful fighting machine. Is this
not direct challenge 10. ths good
faith Of our allies? or. does II not
throw doubt on the sincerity OF our
own professions? -
. * Injustice - People.
"Aboye all, is it not q signal act
Of Injustice TO- the people OF this
country, who have paid taxes and
stinted and denied themselves IN the
war crisis? a.. -....
els the American taxpayer to have
no more place in this program than z
coddled peon? Are we going on with
this shameless orgy of expenditures
until the people are forced to cry out
with the voice Of revolution against
the madness that is grinding them
to powder? The next war Will not
be between governments nor nations,
but between the governments ana
people. The French and Russian
revolutions are the legitimate out"
growth of injustice and oppression
There has not been a crime COM
mitted In Russia In the last SIX
months that did not have Its parent
in the oppression of the bloody
Romanoffs. We cannot shoot or Kill
that kind OF q movement. You nave
10 feed the Russians on something
besides bullets. That is what the
Romanoffs fed the Russians. America
should adopt a different plan. !
know we are very strong, well poised.
liberty loving people. but we are not
immune.
People's Money Wasted.
1.-THE shameless waste OF the peo-
n,e,s earnings. uncon onscionable extor-
tion from their savings will under
mine the noblest institution. Even
the structure reared by our fathers
will not stand the strain indefinitely.
"The people have patiently borne
the burdens OF war. But the sex-
penditures from now on must %
based on reason and distributed with
economy -.
Senator Borah quoted reports o.
children starving In New YORK. Hait
the story was not told, he said, add
ing he had reports from another city
showing 100, 900 children to be Under
clothed and under fed. t,...@
Seeds of Bolshevism.
"These are the seeds of bolshe-
yism." said Borah How quickly
this political influenza will spread
when once hatched in hives of misery
and starvation no one can tell. Now
is the time to take notice to consider
the people who have, to pay the
taxes" 3.