The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-01

length on the relations OF the teueTAl power 70
that Of the States.
In conclusion, he said addressing himself d.
reClly TO the Democratic side OF the HouseE MY
friends, have already appealed TO you on this
question OF resistance to the United States You
are here the leaders, the representative men OF
the opiniona OF your section, Communities are
acted upon In masses, and we all know how often
IN this worlds history reason is dethrOned by
feeling and pAss:on usurps the province of rea-
son, But you are better educated you are better
Informed, you are better instructed you deal
more with the outside world than the people OF
your districts, Ought you NOT to be leaders, not
followers, OF their ideas2 Ought they not 10 take
instruction from you, and ought you not to 81
teach and control them that not only individual
men but organized masses shall learn to look 10
Justice as right and to strive for right You have
among you statesmen who, In other times and
other duties, have made these halls vocal with
the advocacy Of great rights you have orators In
whose blood the warm currents of youth su flow
with manliness and power men whose life seem
to have been touched with the rod Of HeImeS
whose voice In the hustings and hall rings out
like silver carton. You have soldiers as brave
as ever Wallace led men who have commanded
armies greater than those with which Napoleon
swept the continent Of Europe on fields more
deadly than those Oh which were decided the des-
tnies OF nations; you have statesmen At 10 stand
by any one of the governments Of the world. win
you not listen to the voice Of peacei Wall you not
understand that you are needlessly forcing upon
us this proposuon2 Not the question whether or
not the laws OF the United States has any reaoe"
which II may and can maintain. Now | ask you
to pause on the threshold of this question and en-
deavor 10 take away your own minds from the
impress OF natural association and natural feel.
ings. You may be opposed, men may revile you;
regard them not, 1t is but the scream Of the vu
ture which you scare nom his prey, You may,
some of you, be called upon to sacrifice yourselves
Remember that the highest Offering Of citizen to
bis country, or soldiefto his cause, is not always
valOr but is sometimes sacrifice. Remember that
when the earth gaped in the forum 1t was not
fruits nor wine, nor gold nor precious stones nor
the Offering Of forest or fool nor the gladiator
slave nor rude barbarian; not the client or freed
men; no, not even the child nor wife that could
avert the threatened danger, but the Roman citi
zen himself patriciau, soldier, knight, clad with
the regalia and armed with the weapons OF the
highest type of citizen, soldier and leader,
Mr.. Chairman, Tepeat my proposition that the
United States is government OF limited powers,
delegated to it by the Constitution, but limited
only in number and not in quality. The powers
OF the government are the supreme law Of the land
when organized in the form of Jaw by he Nation.
al legislature aud when they are so organized
they must be enforced by all the powers OF govern
ment or the government itself will fall to pieces
and be destroyed, and remain only derision to
the enemies Of free government throughout the
world Applause and hearty congratulations from |
Republican members of the HOusel
Mr. Finley, In reply TO Mr. RObeson, contended |
that the members Of Congress- were State aud not
United States officers, and strengthened his posi-
ion by quoting from decision OF the Supreme
Court wherein 1t was expressly decided that Sen.
ators were officers of the State and not Of the Fed
eIal Government. 1t had been surprise to some
of the gentlemen that his colleague (Garheld) had
come to the front the first speaker in this ques
ton, but 1t was no surprise to him. because that
gentleman had coined an argument for his party |
as an excuse for opposition to the repeal. That
argument had been taxed up by the newspapers
of the country and the lesser lights on the floor of
the House. What was that argument2 Was it |
that the law was just and should remain on the
statute books2 No; for the gentleman Garfield |
had said that the law should be repealed Was it |
that the repeal was on an appropriation bill Mo-
because hundreds of riders had been put on ap.
preparation bills before. Bat 1t was that the Dem.
ocratc party in putting the repeal on an appro.
prialion bill was melaclng the President and
threatening to "stsrv3 the government to death' |
He quoted from remarks made by Mr.. Garfield
seventeen years ago to the effect that 1t was revO.
lationary for a minority however large to deny |
to the maj )rity the right to put riders on appro
pGiation bills, and now the same gentleman de.
cared it revolutionary for majority to place
riders on appropriation bills.
Recess
The same subject was con sldered in the evening
session.
Adjourned till tomorrow.