The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-07-06
Discomfort FOsTERED
BY The WILSON REGIME
Riddlck, of Montana, Says False Prom.
lses Have Led TO False Views
annd Threats Of Violence.

Washington. Nationwide discon-
tent, the increase of radcalism and
even socialism, the strikes and threats
Of violence, the uniting of hundreds OF
thousands of farmers of great Western
states into organizations for self pro-
lection and redress, are unmistakable
evidence of dissatisfaction that exist
the nation over, dissatisfaction with
governmental affairs as conducted I'M
der the autocratic policies of Woodrow
Wilson and his Democratic admins.
tratlon."
This is the declaration Of Represent
tatiye Cary w. Riddick, of Montana
one of the ardent Republican friends
Of the farmer in Congress In a speech
he arraigns in ringing terms the false
promises of the Wilson administration.
He continues:
Things do not just happen in this
world. There is cause for the high
cost of living. There is cause for the
decreased production and general
shortage of things we ned. There is a
reason for the general demoralized
condition of affairs in the Nation.
There is reason for the radical ex-
pressions from producers in city and
country and the organized expressions
of unrest. charge that President Will
son and his Democratic administration
are directly responsible for these evils,
and my observation is that the people
of the Nation well recognize that fact,
and will repudiate him and his autoc-
racy and willfulness and false prom
ises and unsound theories when they
vote at the coming election.
Nearly eight years ago President
Wilson and his party came into com
plete control of the executive and leg
islative branches of Government on
the claim that the country was in the
hands of plutocrats and profteers.
They said that by laws curbing monop-
oily and introducing the new freedom"
and by bringing the Government to
that simplicity and economy BETTING
democratic government that they
would life the burden of high living
costs and high governmental cost from
the backs of the American people.
THAT was the beginning of an ad-
ministration of false promises.
During the first year of complete
control of the country conditions went
from good bad Attire year and half
hundreds of thousands of men were
out of work, prices for farm products
had dropped, and the Nation was rap
idly facing panic. Then came the
World War that temporarily saved the
situation in this country.
Then followed an era of more
camouflage and false promises that
cost this Nation, In the blood and lives
of our sons and in money treasure
more than can ever beestimated. The
unpreparedness with which we enter
ed the war was the sole fault of the
President.
During the early period of the wal
the President declared to the world
that the American people we're toe
proud too fight and that the causes OF
the war were no concern to us, that
he was unable to discern any differ
ence between the purposes of the two
sets of belligerents, that it was our
duty to be neutral even in ouI
thoughts, and that we might hope to
have peace without victory, and that
America must lead her own life and
keep clear Of European entanglements
when Members of Congress sug-
gested the need of making some prep
aration for a war that was known to be
inevitable by those upon the inside OF
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