New-York tribune., 1919-06-25
Senator Poindexter Saws
Republican Rule Is Need
ed to Save Country From
National Disintegration
Weakness in Mexico
Believes Oppressive Taxes
Should Be Abolished and
Bolshevism Crus h e d

The Democratic Administration has
plunged the United States into an era
of national disintegration, according to
Sepator Miles Poindexter, of Washing
ton, who spoke last night before the
18th Assembly District Republican
Club at 1O41 Madison Avenue.
"The Administration has abandoned
our citizens in Mexico to murder and
robbery" the Senator said. "The Re-
publican party should elect a Presi-
dent who will fulfil the responsibilities
we have assumed in Mexico and reas-
sert American honor and self-respect,
so that our citizens, lawfully in the
country, will not be forced to ransom
their lives with money.
CANCELLATION and Weakness"
"After six years of Democratic vacil-
lation and weakness in dealing with
Mexico, the suggestion now made in
some quarters that Great Britain should
be invited to restore order in Mexico
should be denounced as false to our
fundamental policies, and Republican
Congress should restore order in Mex
leo and adjust on correct principles it's
international obligations.
"The act of the Democratic Congress
and President internationalizing the
Panama Canal should be repealed and
that waterway restored again as the
property of the people of the United
States, to be used in such a way as
them, with foreign nations on the same
footing among themselves, as provided
by treaty
"The promise of the Democratic Ad-
mlnistration to haul down the Ameri-
can flag in the Philippine Islands
should be repudiated and a Republican
President and Congress should make
it clear that the blessings of liberty,
which the people Of those islands have
enjoyed under American rule, will be
preserved and the mutual advantage of
trade and industrial development un-
der the protection of American law
retained for our people. The proposal,
while abandoning our responsibilities
in the Philippines to assume the gov
ernment of CQnstatntinople and Ar
menia, should be repudiated
Would Lift Tax Burden
"The extraordinary powers vested
in the Executive during the emergency
Of the war should be repealed at once
and government should be restored to
normal basis.
1.-THE direct and oppressive extraordi-
nary taxes, retarding business and in
creaslng the high cost of living, should
be reduced and repealed as rapidly as
possible. In order to do this the ex-
penditures of the government should
be restored to normal basis, waste
and lnetticiency eliminated, war
bureaus. abolished and tariff bill, so
framed as to obtain a larger share of
revenue from import duties, to pro-
tect industry, maintain wages and
especially to protect and encourage the
new industries established during the
war, should be enacted without delay.
Ut should be the first care of a Re-
publican administration to stamp out
of the country the propaganda of an
archy and revolution. The alien advo-
Gates of enforced communism and con-
tiscation should be returned at once
and without exception to the country
whence they came, and their aiders
and aabettors in this country, the So
called 'parlor Bolshevists' who con-
tribute money to the revolutionary
cause, and the officials of the govern
ment, Of high and low degree. who
have encouraged Bolshevist activities.
should be exposed and punished.
Would Crush Bolshevism
"The new doctrine of International
ism, advocated alike by the Kaiser
and his Socialist followers, and by
the anarchists and Bolshevists of Rus
sia and America, should be combated
as fatal to our institutions. The effort
OF the 1nternationalists to 'join our
fortunes with the fortunes of men
eVerVWhere and to form a ITc;+od
States of the World, should be opposed
as wholly inconsistent with American
independence and menace to lib
erty''