The clarion., 1885-01-28
Senator George On Interstate Com
merce
GRENADA, January 20. 1885,


EDITOR CLARION: The speech of SEN
ator George in the Senate of the United
States, Oh the Interstate Commerce bill,
should be read by intelligent aud
thoughtful men all over the country,
out especially by the farming portion of
every Sta.e, from Lake Superior to the
| Gnif of Mexico, from the Atlantic to
the Pacific oceans. 1t will give them
informa lou IN which they are deeply
Intereste- and no where else have we
seen II plainly tabuiated, SO forcibly
expressed, nor so logically proven.
! Wniie at least majority of our farmers
are readers, they are often better versed
I IA partizan politics, than in great ques-
tIohs OF the carriage and cost of trans
| portatlon from their homes TO our great
commercial centers by railroads and
steamboats,. This simple question in
| sOlVes So many others growing out of il,
The average iarmer has shrunk from it,
. entirety beyond his jurisdiction OF
tctlou, II not of thought. As g class,
-ney nave ieebly complained or relently
suffered, IopIngthat "a time would come,
when the whole matter In its details and
veFliicatiOn>, would De thoroughly soft,
ned uy able and honest men before AL
competent tnbuIfai. That period is now,
aud The whole matter and subject is
before Congress in at least two bills; one
from the Senate and the other from the
House. The proposition has passed be-
yOnd the views OF the local press in op-
position, and the farmers of State in |
supervision. Between the two bills and |
the two houses of Congress, II is to be !
noped that some general law Will pass to |
ueet, as tar aS Practical, the complaints
igaIHst the arbitrary rates and unequal |
determinations made by these greatest |
Ut all corporations. Ii other Senators |
viii follow our distinguished George, |
With the same earuesIness of spirit, |
clearness OF facts, correctness CT figures |
und deductions of reason, the people at |
iarge, will have enough literature on
Interstate Commerce" to supply them |
with ali that 1t Is necessary tor intelli-
gent action, when the subject, in any
,orm, comes before them.
TINS is not the first time by many,
that senator George has had the courage
Of his convictions, TO speak out what he
believes the duty of Congress on ma
lional Legislation He seems to be
amongst those progressive Democrats,
VINO dO not believe the Federal consti
tuition Made out of chilled iron, that
can be neither hammered nor fused, or
extended nor contracted in its limita-
tions of power. lie has caught the
spi-it of the age, the impulse of his
country's onward destiny; and does not
propose to stand upon the declarations
and assumptions or facts of bygone
age. The Senator does not propose to
90 to the tombs of Hamilton, Adams,
Madison or Jefferson, and invoke their
shades, before he intersects the Federal
but believes it was made
for him, to fathom its deeps and shall
lows, as we'll as the fathers. such states
men we need now to meet the growing
wants of our great country in its finan
cial, commercial, agricultural and edu-
interests. We respect consist
eEcy, when it is founded upon the
analysis OF common sense, but when it
is so cons istent as to say, that the house
Is seventeen feet high, because l said so
On the impulse of the moment or by a
simple tdprus kingue, we must be allowed
TO say that sort of consistent statesman
ship belongs TO the mass-lock of for
mer age rather than the progressive
leadership of this. | recognize Senator
j. L GEORGE as power in the United
States Senate chamber, and his friends
here are proud of him. The speech of the
Senator TO which We have alluded will
DO great good wherever ii is read and in
form should be inserted in the
llnaHacs every where for its informa-
tiofIs, facts and conclusions.
Yours, J. J. w.