Evening star., 1936-03-20

sons are today unemployed In this
country. that millions are living on the
bare necessities of life, Borah said.
I'VE must descend into the homes Of
these people"
Problems Must Be Solved.
"Unless we solve the problems found
in these American homes and restore
prosperity and happiness to the Amer
ican people, venture to say there is
no way by which you can preserve
the Constitution Of the United States.
And the fault which I find with
these conservative gentlemen who
speak of me as a radical is that they
never get down to the people who are
suffering in the United States.
They may be entirely sincere; do
not doubt that. According TO their
education they are. But the Repub-
lican party was born to serve human
ity and it must return to that service
in order to secure power and If it
doesn't return to that service, it Is
not worthy of power"
Borah turned for a moment TO the
issue which has been raised against
him here and in other States-that
he is against the Wagner-CoStigan
anti-lynching bill. He insisted that
he had opposed the bill solely because
he believed is unconstitutional. He
denounced the crime of lynching. He
would be glad, he said, to do anything
I'VE have the power to do to wipe out
the crime of lynching."
There is a large colored population
in Ohio and the Borah opposition
has declared that it intends to or
ganize the colored voters against him,
using his vote against the anti-lynch-
ing bill as a lever.
QUESTIONABLE to Taft Studied.
While Borah has not yet decided
to do so, it is understood that he
and his friends are considering send
ing a QUESTIONABLE to Taft, asking
if he considers the Wagner -Costigan
anti-lynching bill constitutional. Taft,
a lawyer, they figure, would have to
take the same stand that Borah has
taken, or else dodge the issue.
Taking up the question of Govern
ment expenditures, "of taxation, in
other words, the menacing growth
of bureaucracy" Borah said that
every revolution for the last 800
years Of any moment has resulted
from overtaxation."
I'VE have a tax problem in this
country" he continued, which is
taxing the people almost beyond en-
durance. It's taxing them out of
their homes, out of their business
and out of their vocations and re-
sulting in a state of Generalization
upon the part of business and upon
the part of the people generally.
And I do not believe there is any
domestic question today that is Of
more concern to the American people
than this question of the expenditures
of Government Of the excessive taxa
tion which Is constantly increasing
year by year. Now there is only one
way to reduce taxes, and that's to re-
duce Government expenditures. And
there is only one way to reduce Gov
ernment expenditures and that is to
reduce governmental activity. In 9TH
er words. If we cannot find a method
by which to limit or reduce govern
mental activity there's no hope in the
matter of the reduction of taxes. If
the citizens want the Government to
attend to their business which they
should attend to themselves, you may
be assured that by the time it's at
tended to it will cost you four times
what it would If you would attend to
it yourself"
Borah said that In 1918 the taxes,
Federal. State and local, were $685.
000, 900, and in 1885 they had grown
to a total of s12, 500. 900. 900. or prac-