Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-12-26

lated in its closing session under the
ban Of most emphatic rejection.
II the laundering Of the Congress IS
/ TO be measured by the force and sweep
Of the condemnation IL has provoked.
/ Mr.. Reeds Congress has not only sur
passed Mr.. Keifer'S, but has achieved
/ for itself 4 pre-eminence in laundering
/ unapprOached by its fifty predecessors.
The recent campaign was not fought
on any obscure or minor issue, but
upon the question on which, aS Mr..
Burke truly said, all the great contests
OF freedom have boon waged-the QueS-
ton of taxing. History is in the main
a record ofthe successful attempts OF a
class among every people TO get control
Of the government that they may use
the taxing power for their own aggran-
I diZemcnt.
THE EEVOLUTIONERY HOUSE.
IL isone OF the safeguards OF our free
dom that an evil principle introduced
into our political system works out its
own extreme and dangerous maniieSta-
ton and brings its own train OF abuses
all tending 10 arouse attention and 10
kindle Indignation. The protective
principle not only gave an extreme and
dangerous manifestation Of itself in the
Mckinley bill, but il was the evil spirit
that tempted or compelled the Fifty
First Congress To a career which inSure>
for 20 q sinister name In our legislative
history. Look for one momeut NJ some
OF its doings. In It's haste % exact new
tribute from the people il refused 20
await the orderly and traditional course
Of legislation, overthrow the
rules Of parliamentary procedure,
framed and sanctioned by all
past experience and announced its read
mess for action by the eXultant procla-
nation that the House OF Representa-
tiveS was no longer dchbcrative body,
and As the most striking proof IL could
offer Of this fact, &c rushed through the
House a general tariff bin increasing
taxes, with hundred pages not cOnSid-
esed and hundreds of proposed amend
ments voted on and desncd 10 give TO
an appeals for time 10 consider them no
other answer than this is Republican
bill and will be passed by Republican
votes.
~ NNUANfU lAN wv u NANA 'tAA ga ieN N"H
revolutionary way and facilitated the
work by vacating the seats OF duly
chosen members in nearly every case
men could be found TO contest them.
With equal reckleSSueSS 10 threw open
the doors Of the American Union 10 rot
ten boroughS, balancing the Senate by
the votos OF three States whose COM
bined population is less than my own
Congressional district. Nor was IL sat
iSiied with this catalogue OF miSdcedS.
Looking TO the remote future and fore
seeing the reSentmcntS % an outraged
people IL devised its browning infamy-
the force bill-whose real purpose is to
s.rip the people Of the power 10 resist
It's exactiOnS, and to turn popular cleo
tionS into sham battles that accomplish
nothing.
Such is the incomplete record Of the
miSdeedS Of the present Congress. Who
that reviews them can maryc, At the
tremendous exhibition of the popular
anger i'm November? And il It's con-
demnatiOn was not greater than its
ofIenSe. what is the plain duty OF that
Congress which the people have com
missiOncd To succeed IL?
The Fifty-secoud Congress will enter
upon its laborS with one lesson that none
Of its members can mistake, and that
lesson is that It's shortest road 10 ire
tricvable bankruptcy will be 10 follow
the footsteps Of its predecessor. and its
SurcSt road TO popular approval will be
10 present as clear 4 contrast As possible
TO the temper, the methods and legiSla-
ton Of that predecessor. In this one
lesson il will find no small part OF that
Justice. temperance and foresight which
we invoke for it tonight.
IL has been favorite saying with our
opponents that the American people de-
mand of Congress the transaction OF
business business being too often the
name Of class or private iObbery. That
may De true, but it does not follow that
they will demand or will tolerate the
transaction OF business by bureaucratic
or revolutionary methods. Indeed. the
methods of tranSacting public business
is the very definition Of free government.
An governments must levy taxes. but II
measures all the way from deSpotiSm TO
freedom whether taxes are levied by ar
bitrary decree or through the free and
deliberate action OF the representatives
OF the people who pay them.
n then protection brings in lis train
Ia corrupted ballot, q perpetual lobby,
an unnumbercd brood Of bountieS and
subsidies. paternal government deS-
potic methods of legislation and the
B ultimate overthrow OF free elections,
must we not look 20 the rescue OF our
system of taxation from private con
troll and its dedication TO public uses as
I the beginning and only sure basis oil
Ievery reform that looks 10 the overthrow
/ OF these dangers TO free government.
/ But deeply and sincerely rs VI may
; believe all this, there is 4 wise states
manship. learned in the school of cS-
perieuce, that bids IL Ina legisaiinS To
remember that only temperate reform
IS permanent. having in Il the principle
Of growth. Looking. therefore, to the
Fiftv-second Congress a. holding the
key to ignOmiuOious defeat OF stable
victory i'm lS92, We can invoke Tor II no
higher prudence nor more reSiStlcSS
yirtuS than that IL be Just, temperate
and far-secing." Those who shall main
tain the peoples cause IN the people,
branch OF that Congress may be him
lcrcd by their own multitude, nut
among those old and new members will
be not few who can claim, with the
old reformers. that they have qualified
themselves for joining in the work oil
harvest by having done to the best Of
their ability the duties OF the seed-tlme.