Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-02
HIS PARTY
A CAMERON of Al

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States senate as a republican,
though he was not the choice OF
the administration or stand pat
elements. He voted against the
administration on the tariff bill,
and rcpudiated all allegiance to the
republican party in the future in
an angry speech in the senate. He
declared that the manufacturing in
terests of the east had gotten ex-
cessive tariff protection while the
long staple cotton growers of
Arizona had been denied protec-
ton. The Liberian loan, which is
designed at once to catch negro
votes in certain northern states and
to offer spectators the oppor-
tunity to cash at par the Liberian
obligations they purchased, &C
cording to Senator Borah, at 10
and 20 cents on the dollar, was
also attacked by Senator Cameron
during his angry outburst in the
senate.
THAT bill authorizing the Lii
berian loan) was foisted upon this
body, seeking authority to loan to
Liberia, a republic having less
than $4,000 civilized inhabitants,
$4,000, 100000 based upon what
they termed a moral obligation"
he said. The two propositions
side by side present a contradic"
tory picture. 1t is proposed, on
the one hand, to give 100000
outright to a foreign, uncivilized
country-for that is what it will
amount to-while. on the other
hand, the same leaders deal a death
blow on long staple cotton to more
people in Arizona than are in the
foreign country" Senator Cam
eron then pointed out that cotton
may be grown in Liberia, and
added: rs it not a sorry day
when we sit here and sanction the
giving of millions of American
dollars, paid by cotton raisers IN
Arizona and elsewhere, to Liberia
to develop a foreign competitive
industry that will drive the toilers
of our country, engaged in the
same industry, deeper and deeper
into ruin?"
Turning from the Liberian loan
to it's chief pilot in the senate
Senator Curtis (rep. Kans.), Sen
ator Cameron took revenge for the
charge made a few days ago by
the former, that settlers on federal
land in the west and southwest had
defaulted in. their agreements
with the government.
knowing and fully appreciat-
ing the awful calamity which IN
this event awaits my constituents,
thousands of them, l call to your
attention the statement made on
this floor the other day by the
senior Senator from Kansas (Cur-
tis) wherein he said that the
people of my state and the west
had been derelict, without excuse
in ON instances, in the payment
to the government of their debts.
In the presence of their attempted
crucifixion today l ask you to re-
fleet what a burning statement
that was when read by these peo-
pie heretofore encouraged and as
sisted by this government in Gre
ating a great industry out of the
waste lands of Arizona, California
and other western states. l de-
nounce that statement as wholly
uncalled for and say it is an in
suit to my state. l do not for
get the pledge in our great party
platform for reclamation; nor do
7 forget the death blow recently
given these promises by the am
leaders who are managing legisla-
ton in this chamber. Our people
are not forgetful of such pledges,
and they will not forget in this
case"
Senator Cameron in these refer
ences apparently had in mind the
defeat of the Smith, cNary bill,
which was added as an amendment
to the soldiers bonus bill but re-
iected by the republican conferees
and relegated to the legislative
limbo. This bill provided for the
appropriation of S35o,ooo,oo0 for
the reclamation of arid land in
various western states-about IA
in all. The republican platform
of 1920 promised a liberal policy"
with regard to the reclamation OF
these arid lands, but along with
many other republican pledges this
has been repudiated.
Senator Cameron's candidacy for
the senate was opposed by the