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would provide growing people the money
they need for more prosperous business, The
mining camps, the great pioneers of civiliza-
ti0n in the far West, deserved also all the
encouragement they could have consistent
with sound currency and genuine bimetal-
lism. On that subject the Republicans had
promised that all the silver dollars should be
furnished which could be kept equal with
gold. such bill. fulfilling that promise to
tne uttermost, now adorns our statute books
as a tribute to the wise conservatism of the
republican majority of the House. Already
SILVER seems to be climbing to par with
safety to all the interests of the country.
Inere was also another promise to be kept
made long ago and often renewed. For
years the Republican party have declared
most rignteously that there could not be in a
republic duty more sacred than the duty of
upnolding the right of every citizen to parti-
cipate In government. Who has forgotten
the ringing words of that great soldier, SO
soon 70 he among the unforgotten brave on
made up their minds that they will have a
fair count?
The Right OF Suffrage.
The House of Representatives, true to its
duty. has passed bill which, when 1t be-
comes law will give to the people of the
United States the SURFACES of millions. 1t
enables votes to be cast and to be counted
as cast.
What an enormous hubbut has been raised
about that simple bill; There has been
nothing like it since Walter Scott described
the uprising of the virtuous people of AL
satia on the approach of a sheriff. What is
this bill on which so many interesting cpl
thets have been rained 1t is a simple propo-
sitiOn to have United States supervisors to
see that United States elections of United
officers shall be honestly conducted: that all
honest votes shall be cast and honestly
counted as cast. If there be any man in this
country who opposes this bill there will not
who proclaimed the divine origin of slavery.
That the Democrats now denounce with
violent epithets Republican measure Is no
new fact In their history. So prosecuted
they the saints. When Abraham Lincoln
proclaimed that this land could not be per-
manenty half free and half slave, the DEM
ocracy Of my younger days all declared
that he said so because he wanted his sister
to marry negro. SO when the Republicans
of our day proclaim that in a republic one
million OF voters can never be permanently
disfranchised. the Democrat of our day
shouts Negro domination" and "bayonets."
i need net. however, explain or defend the
elections bull. The distinguished author of
that bill, Mr.. Lodge, has left nothing for me
to say. since he has himself told you the true
story Of its meaning:
Wehaye organized the territory of Okla
homa and made beginning of bringing into
the Union that rich and exhaustless region
which has been hitherto but the home OF the
savage on his way to civilization.
In spite OF the most bitter opposition of
the Democracy we have admitted into the
Union two great states, each of them more
vast than the whole of New England, and
the states now stretch In one unbroken line
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Only four
more states are needed to fill with civilized
government that vast and trackless void
which swarming with hostile savages, with
wild beasts and roaming herds of buffalo,
was as UNKNOWN in Wil to our forefathers as the
hills OF the Mountains of the Moon.
But the time of the House and its energies
have not been spent In matters which relate
to party alone. Fully believing that duty to
ones country demands that what platforms
proclaim and campaigns are fought for are
worthy Of fnllfllment the House of Repre-
sentatives has realized that parties owe other
duties to the country than those Of partisan
ship; and those other duties also have been
wortniiy iulhi,ed: Inc country owes to its
Tardy justice is Injustice. Standing in the
presence of the first constituency ever
represented count high among the honors of
my life that l helped in some measure to
secure for the people of Cumberland county
the right to try their causes in three months
when before they could not be tried in three
years. The Supreme Court of the United
States Is SO thronged with cases that four
years must 60 by before ultimate justice can
be rendered. The bill which the discussions
Of years have shown to be the best to relieve
that court and to further justice was among
the earliest to pass the House.
The bankruptcy bill has long demanded a
hearing The hearing the House has grant
ed, not spurred on by partizanlneed or pur-
pose, but by that sense of duty which should
distinguish the great and general court of
this nation. Railroads and steamboats, have
brought us SO close together that no state
lines can divide trade or limit credit. When
the trade and credit are thus spread over the
whole country collections of debts and dis.
| tribution of assets ought to have the same
uniformity. This is just to the creditor. The
| same justice demands that the discharge of
the honest debtor shall cover as broad a
field as the operations he has been engaged
In. For many years bankruptcy bill has
been slowly perfecting itself, and that bill
has been passed by the House of Representa-
| tiyes.
| like food products of the great West have
been forbidden entrance into many foreign
| countries under claim or pretence of disease
and adulteration. The House of Represen.
tatives has passed a bill for the inspection
Of meat and other food products, forbidding
the importation of adulterated food from
| abroad, and putting into the hands of the
| President power of retaliation if our food
| products be unJustly rejected abroad. For
| eign nations have an undoubted right to pro-
but hereafter they will not be able at the
same breath to talk free trade for their own
communities and defend prohibition against
| 0nrs.
s The e House Of Representatives, after a
l26 to 80, more than four to
one, that whoever sells pure
lard may label it as such and whoever sells a
compound of lard and other things shall call
1t compound, to the end that people may
know what they are buying Whether these
bills were wise or unwise, they certainly had
great majorities back of them, and were
therefore entitled to be presented for faction.
The whole wisdom of this country consists
| In the fact that the majority rules.
In Labor's Interest.
Notwithstanding the fact that by far the
greater number of journals which represent
organized labor are against the Republican
party; Notwithstanding the fact that their
committee on legislation departed declaring,
some of them, that no legislation could be
had from the Republican House, 1t remains
| fact that every bill which they presented,
without exception, has been taken up, con-
sldefed' S debated. and, with proper amend
arising out Of the first eight hour law, a dis
pute in which this district isl interested,
| which had been before Congress long before
my day, has by this House been sent for judi
clal determination to the Court OF Claims !,
anc,if the Senate shall agree that vexed ques-
| tion will be settled by court of law and the
men interested will receive their just dues,
or know that they never had any.
The House of Representatives has, more
over, not confined itself to measures which
have been long before the people. 1t has
met new and hidden emergencies with a
readiness which can safely challenge the ad-
miration Of the people.
When that unexpected decision OF the Su-
preme c. urt, which has received the popu-
lar name of the "Original package" decision
was announced, men stood aghast at its lar
reaching possibilities 1t seemed as II the
power of the state to control the temperance
question had been stricken with paralysis,
but Congress, with commendable promptness
met the emergency and restored to the states
their control over the subject of the sale OF
intoxicants. The Senate deserves much
credit for its prompt action.
When 1t became apparent not only that
the Louisiana lottery had again taken pos
session Of that state, but that in other c0un-
tries and along the border other companies
nae been formed to prey upon the ignorant
ana gnwary, the House took action at once
ana py ferbidding the use of the mails to
nay out the designs of the nefarious bust
this nas zone its part to give fatal blow to
| gnl6Sne az neast of prey which has been en-
| Goiiarss II, ,, us nav millions of hard earned
loser. o'u Ill De spared by the
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