The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-10-03
CONGRESS DONE AND GONE.
(New York Herald }

relief to the countTy.
Coming into power with SO many as
surances of achieyment and reform,
what has it done?
We have Pension bill. Under the
pressure of the pension sharks the best
organized lobby ever known in Washing
ington-over fifty and perhaps a hun
dred millions have been added to the an
nual taxation. In profound peace, with
nothing to disturb the nations prosper
ity, with shred of an army and rem
nant of navy, we are paying more for
pensions alone than Germany with her
armaments, which master continent.
The war ended twenty five years ago,
and yet we suffer the financial burdens
of the war. History has no precedent
for This cruel wrong. The tariff barons
would have it, and the truculent Repub-
lican majority humbly records tne de
cree.
Tin is taxed TO enable company Of
Eugli3h capitalists TO float & tin mine on
the London market. This is the tin
business in a nutshell l-simply Lom
! bard street iob, looking to money N
! English pockets. Iron IS taxed that Mr.
CARNEGIE may give libraries to Scottish
! towns. The tax on wool meaus the hand
Of the government III the pocket OF every
laborer who would buy his wife blanket
or shawl. BY our fiscal policy we have
managed to array every nation against
the United States. We may despise the
coalition and defy the world. Bat is it
wisel We rob our laborerS to gain some
| fancied advantage over the iaborerS IN
other lands. But do we gain it? Under
the laws of supply and demand, the laws
| Of commerce, as ineXorable as those
which govern the solar system, the pol
| icy of selfiShneSs to other peoples will
react upon ourselves. Nations no more
than men succeed in building themselves
up 10y pulling others down.
Congress has passed River and Har-
Dor bill larger than ever known. And
when we add the sums paid for public
buildings, every crossroads asking a
Jail and a postoffice, we can understand
the sweep and breadth Of these schemes
upon the Treasury.
But have we no administration to
check and lead legislation Are there
no other but Legislative powers IN the
Republic? Oh, yes; we have a mild,
weak Executive, with no more inhue nee
upon the making of laws than TOAD
on a sstone. On the solemn question as
to whether the postoffico should 60 to
the village politician who gave tbs
lamps for the election parades or the oae
| l,o fun boI oil h-1r
question of turning out twenty-five
Thousand pOStmasters because Mr.
CLEVELAND left them doing their duty
we have an immense administration
none so great since TYLER. But upor
public policy, upon issues affecting The
national welfare, the administration ha
lived in condition Of meek surrende
to Congress 1t Is al automatic contri
, vance, No such wondrous piece o
, machinery since the famous automatol
chess player.
, There was time-aud that, too, il
the dynasty of Republican Presidents
when the Executive was noF an auto
5 maton, affirming in meekness the de
crees cf reckless majority and signin,
whatever papers Congress might send t
the White House. We have seen
LINCOLN return MASON and SLIDELL, an
enforce a policy of Cancellation in spit
: of the furious protests of the ablest me
In his party We have seen GRANT strik
with his mailed hand the wretched doc
J trine of initiation, and save the credit c
a the nation from the fanaticism of hi
d warmest supporters. We have see
u ARTHUR veto extravagsnt Legislation
u Those were days of Executive authority
The Senate is now governed by MFPHI
TOPHELEs BARUM INGALLS,, whose or
conspicuous speech III this session We
an argument in favor of paying the We
erans ten thousand millions of dollar
s. in the way of pensions. The House
e ruled by R)beSpierre Ia black sash an
n flannel shirt, who has destroyed tt
value of representative institutions b
confining legislation to his recordir
10 clerks. MR.. REED could give lessons
i Cromwell. The English usurper chase
4 the members of Parliament out of Il
House with bayonuts. Our modes
usurper quietly ignores the House, al
directs The clerks to record his decree
These are serious matters. The He
aid has no wish to be unjast 10 M
ol hARRlSON, MIX 1NGAlIAS OF hIR hEE
V, They have many engaging qualities, a
N honorable men, and we have in the Pr'
ident a character of singular probit
re piety and domestic charm. But th
en- are the slaves of a policy, the outcome
"a. that dreadful war, coarse, sordid, $
ne fish policy, which BODIES no good to
nd Union. It is incredible that they shot
not see it, that Mr.. HARRISON, at lea
should not divine the drea iful lleld
events, and assert himself as the leat
of the Republican party and Preside
of the United States. No governme
Ter not even our staggering young Repl
N lie, teeming with wealth and bursti
!, w. with energy and pride, can endure
ne reckless policy of the Congress now
lai the present done and gone-a Congr
al of plunder, audacity and corruption.
NJ These are stern, harsh words-pl1
der, audacity and corruption to
lightly applied to any legislative bo
They are true, and must stand. Plum
in these pension bills, corruption to
e. highest water mark in this dreadful
iff, audacity in the attempt by a fo
po- bill because the tariff barons and pens
lay sharks needed time to loot the treasu
-. | P1,f fbo opirit raiopc oo6 will have