U.S.A. POLITICS.

Grey River Argus, 8 July 1922, Page 5

U.S.A. POLITICS.

BCRAH HELD UP AS EXEMPLAR! WASHINGTON, July 6. Tn a most impressive speech to an overflowing chamber, Senator Borah warned Congress that the Government ’s pending legislation, in his opinion, tended to ever-greater expenditure. “Every item on the Republican programme,’’ he declared, “seeks to increase, instead of lowering, the national burden, and the people’s faith in the Government is being destroyed. Tho men responsible for this are guilty of the most heinous crime of which men can be guilty.” Senator Borah read into the Senatorial Record portions of Lord Inchcape’s (British) report on the English conditions. He then asked Congress “to sec the lesson therein for Amcri-

Senator Borah added: “The Tariff, the Ship Subidy Bill, and the Soldiers’ Bonus, have dragged the nation upon a road over which no nation yet has ever beaten a successful retreat.”