Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-07-13
SENATOR BORAH SPEAKS OUT.

denouncing the ship subsidy, soldier
bonus and other policies Of the Ad-
minstration, and charging an era Of
recklessness in spending of public
funds.
Senator Borah, who drew TO the Sen
ate chamber more than the average
attendance OF Senators and a few
members Of the House, first inveigh-
ed against the proposed cloture rule
| on the tariff bill. The people OF this
| country, he said, are in no hurry to
have Congress legislate in the way it
is now going. After the tariff, he
| said, were to come soldier bonus, ship
subsidy, the Liberian loan, the legisla-
ton for "a additional federal judges
and other measures, all imposing up
on the country. His speech was largely
an Indictment of his own party.
"A nation whose citizenship has been
drugged and debauched by bonuses,
gratuites and subsidies" he exclaim-
ed, "has entered upon a road over
which no nation has ever yet beat
successful retreat. The sole source OF
power in free government is the faith
Of citizen in his government. When
you have destroyed that faith you have
left nothing upon which to build, and
the men, public men, who aid in de-
strOying it, are guilty of the most
| hidcous offense Of which men can be
guilty under free institutions.
as there any doubt that there is a
political revolution on in this coun-
try? We may not feel it in all its
effects here in Washington, but it has
reached here. The people are resent
full of the fact that the promises to
| lift their burdens have not been kept
Business men are actually borrowing
money to pay their taxes. have ex-
amined the lists in ten of the great
agricultural States and thousands of
farms are for sale for taxes. While
this condition confronts us and there
is discomfort, we propose without hes
itation to lay additional burdens of
S4,00O,o00,00O to S6,OOOOOO,OOO in
taxes"
The Idaho Senator asserted it would
be suicidal for the Republican party to
insist on cloture of debate on the tariff
bill. That bill, he said, is now holding
back still more indefensibe legislation.
The people were not displeased with
the slow progress made in levying ad-
ditional burdens, he said, land are in
no hurry to have US legiSlate"
Senator Borah continued
"What are our friends proposing to
do withsn a short time after they pass
the pending tariff bill? What is the
next thing to be taken tip? The next
propositions is the bonus which will
impose an Indebtedness or an obi
CATION upon this country of from S4,-
000,000,OOO to S6,O00,OOO,OOO. That
will be the arst hasg step that VIC
take after having got through with the
tariff bill. If there were a different
program confronting us, there might
be some cause for haste, but in view
of what confronts us, | doubt very
much if there is any considerable ex
citement in the country to have us
move along with our programs.
After we have disposed of the bonus
what is our next point upon the pro-
gram? The ship subsidy bill. Do
Senators think the people of the coun-
try are in great haste to have the
debris cleared away, If may call the
tariff bill that, for a new proposition
which will take from the Treasury from
S50,OO0,0Oo to S6O,OOO,OOO, and some
say as high as S3OO,OOO,OOO? | do
not think that the people are in any
great haste to have us pass that kind
of a measure.
Then after We pass the ship sub
sidy bill, we propose to take UP the
bill for the creation of "a federal
judges which will be another drain
upon the federal treasury. To create
"a additional federal judges at this
time is intolerable and insxcusable, and
is an additional unnecessary burden
upon the people of this country. At
ter we have passed the federal judges
bill, comes what is called the Liber-
ian loan bill. We propose to go into
the Treasury of the United States,
despite its condition, and loan Liberia
S5,0OO,OO0 at time when the people
of the United States are bled white.
are absolutely without money to meet
the enterprises and at time when