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Copyright, Champlain Studio, N.T". /( AMERICAN PROBLEMS A Selection of Speeches and Prophecies by WILLIAM BORAH E. EDITED BY HORACE GREEN NEW YORK DUFFIELD & COMPANY 1924 CL. # JL_ Copyright, 1924, by Duffield & Company Printed in U. S. A. CONTENTS WHY HAS HAMILTON NO STATUE? I January 11, 1911 1 II THE BONUS BILL. July 14, 1921 8 III .THE BONUS AND THE DISABLED SOL- DIERS. February 13, 1922 16 IV TAXATION FOR THE BONUS. July 6, 1922 18 V LINCOLN THE ORATOR. November 9, 1911 31 VI THE NEED FOR RESTRICTED IMMI- GRATION. 1916 43 VII FREE SPEECH. April 19, 1917 Jl VIII AMERICANISM. February 21, 1919 . . . C&Z IX LEAGUE OF NATIONS. November 19, 1919^105 X THE VERSAILLES TREATY. September 26,^ 1921 03p XI DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE RESOLU-" TION. April 14, 1921 143 XII THE ISSUE OF THE WAR. March 18, 1918 144 XIII PUBLIC DEBT. February 17, 1921 .... 161 XIV MILITARISM. February 17, 1921 163 XV RECALL OF JUDGES. August 7, 1911 . . . 166 XVI THE ALTERNATIVE. August 19, 1914 ... 181 XVII RESOLUTION IN REGARD TO RUSSIA. April 20, 1922 188 XVIII RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA, SPEECH IN SENATE. February 21, 1922 189 XIX RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA, SPEECH IN SENATE. May 31, 1922 241 XX POLITICAL PRISONERS. March 11, 1923 . 277 XXI PROPOSAL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE. January 30, 1923 306 XXII SHALL THE CONSTITUTION BE NULLI- FIED? October 15, 1923 307 PREFACE There are several reasons why the name of William E. Borah has taken root with the American people. One of them may be sum- med up in the word "independence." Not the least of them is the confidence, deepening- year by year, that Mr. Borah is little affected by the political consequence of his utterance on this or that public question. Yet his viewpoint on — a great number of questions whether or not — we agree with him at the time seems to have become, sooner or later, the viewpoint of a majority of the people. Witness his fight against the Versailles Treaty, the fight against the League of Nations, in which he was a pioneer; his stand for restricted immigration and for the release of political prisoners; his still undecided fight against the soldier bonus; his fight for the limitation of naval armament. Indeed it is generally accepted that Mr. Borah was the originator of the famous Washington Disarmament Conference. In the Senate the galleries are packed and his colleagues on both sides of the aisle listen with professional ad- miration when Borah takes the floor. Without — PREFACE the Idaho senator's powerful personality and delivery the written word is robbed of much power. The speeches are, for some tastes, too much in the vein of old-fashioned oratory therefore is the substance often overlooked. Because they are for the most part buried in the Congressional Record and because there is in them much of permanent value, their presentation in book form is undertaken as a worthwhile record ofpolitical sentiment.. This is done with the senator's approval. Within his own party Mr. Borah is an out- standing figure in spite of the fact that he has repeatedly refused to be bound by the organ- ization program. Yet he has never bolted, probably never will bolt, and presumably does not desire, or aspire, to be an active presidential candi—date. Right or wrong he is a necessary tonic a progressive within the party; some- times a radical, but always within the Consitu- tion. HORACE GREEN. AMERICAN PROBLEMS WILLIAM BORAH E. WHY HAS HAMILTON NO STATUE? (Address delivered at a meeting of the Hamilton Memorial Society, Washington, D. C, January 11, 1910.) One must be inexcusably ignorant of his country's history not to know, and blindly par- tizan not to be willing to admit, that this Gov- ernment of ours was the work of no single in- dividual. Each carried to the work his own material, but when the task was finished and the impressive edifice stood forth, scarcely a piece in the whole mighty structure appeared in its original form. Out of concession and com- promise, of clashing judgments and conflict- ing views, came the finished fabric which has excited the wonder and challenged the admira- tion of all the civilized people of the earth. How fortunate for us that by this process, all was done that was done. The confidence and faith, the doubts and fears of all those men are interwoven into this heritage of ours. I am glad that the advices of those who urged a strong government did not in all their fulness Eventually, May 16, 1923, the Frazer Statue of Hamilton was erected and unveiled on the Treasury Building steps in Washington. 1
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