, 1879-07-28
, TAXING JUDGMENT WITHOUT TRIAL.

TAXING JUDGMENT WITHOUT TRIAL.
blr. 1IExpR1cK b. WRIGHT, member Of
Congross from Pennsylvania, lad himself
appointed Ohnirman Of pesambulating com.
mittec to inquire into md investigate Tho
CAUSES Of Tic alleged and nssr1rned business
depression md Rtaguation throughout tho
land. IN tho course Of tho investigation
this itincsnnt body haa reached Chicago.
With an arrogance md IN fmpudonco por-
fcotly characteristic, this, investigator
rushed of on Saturday night to Conimu.
nist-aat-t1ades-union moeting, and in M
elaborate hhranguo mn ounced that ho know
nil about the matter; TINT it was useless to |
Investigate rs 10 tho causes. beoauso ho nj |
roa1y know whnt those CAUSES woro that he |
hns always known them, mud that it is su-
perauous to inquiro4s to what remedy was
advisable, because ho had already in Con-
gress proposed the remedies, md intended
to renew his bills.
This is tho gentleman who got mp this In.
yeetigating Committee. He had this Commit
too appointed to inquire at a cost Of thou.
aanls Of dollars for travelling and hotol bills,
reporting aud printing, aud ho now has
tho unblushing impudonco to declnro that,
oven before be hns heard n word Of evidence,
Ills mind is maie up, not only as to the
"cause," but tho remedy, and this remedy
is his own quack nostrum, on which he has
boon trying to catch' some cheap notorioty.
An impartial Judge Is ho to Investigate and
report results.
Right hero, At tho very thrcshol ID of tho
inquiry as to the CAUSES Of "bnsinoss stag-
natfon," they arc mot by tho visible, striking,
md overwhelming evidence that thero ia no
such stagnation; that whatever depression
there may havo been in tho past, whatevor
idlo men md closed workshops there woro
in tho years gono by, nothing Of tho kind
now exists. Tho Committee is mot by tho
faet that thero ia scarcely n mechanic or
laboror In oil Chicago, willing to work, who
canuot find employment at wages, measured
by purchasing power, more remuneratiys than
have been paid for tho last ton years. And
Alr: Wa1our, in bis haranguo at the Satur-
tlny night Flint and Communist meeting, felt
tbe forco of this fact in opposition to his
scheme Of subsidies, and 10 avoided it by
declaring that :" tbs present prosperity Of
Chicago teas only &rasmot,ic." uo seems to
regret. that business is not stagnant, md
wishes that labor .wero unemployed, and
TINT lestitution and starvation existed lore,
in order that he might prescribo his quack
nostrnm of Government bonntiea for "poor
mon" and unlimited Issues Of irrodcemablo
scrip for the public.
II this Committee hRvc had tAoir eyes md
earn open they ,nnst lave observed how gcn-
erul il tho "apasm Of prosperity" from tho
Atlantic coast to this city. All Now England,
New York, and New jersey resountla with
tho hum Of busy industry; tho minors pick
and shovel are employed tlay and night in
naccs aud tho forges, the mills ind tho work
shops havo not beon 20 bnsy in tho memory
of nnn all ovor Ohio, md Indiana, and
Michigan tho miner md the furnace.man,
tho salt-nakcr mud l,mbor1nAn, tho me-
= chanio and the laboror, wero never in moro
demand, commanding wages proportionato
to tho value Of tho goods produced. Whnt
this Committee SEQ mud lud. in Chicago is
but what is going on all over tho Northwest.
Kansas, Colorado, Dakota,-tho whole
country ia toeming with vast production, the
result Of employed and compensated labor.
Every mill is running by lay md by night.
FURNACES md rolling.miln nro under contract
for months ahend oycry city and town il
engaged In Getivo industry every car OF
ovary railroad, every steamer, barge, sailing
vessel, and canal-bont iR loatlutl to its capnci
) ty; every warehouse Is filed oyery dwell
ling occupied no willing hnnd of'industr1
need bo idle; tho whole poorlo when tho.
, work arc pcaccfui md prosperous, undisturb
: I'd goyo by tho croaking Of tho professioua
demagoguo, who advocates poverty aud pan
; porism wh1o passing Lis hut for ponnioa t
"ray his expenses"
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I TIE PANAMA ,sHlP-CANAL vs.. CoLFA1
t Wo would 10 disposed 10 lot tho ex-Vict
:, President havo tho laat wort1 In regard to til
: paaa1na ,Canal, hut tAo basis of his objcctio