Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-10-25
CONTEMPTIBLE LYING.
What the Organ Has to Say of
Reed and Ges,.
sartons Things which 8 EST IDfd Not
Do-The Ridiculous Ciai ms Made In
HIS Behaif-Bsogling when Not
Pernicious.

Pernicious.
Inc linton in referring to Speaker
Reeds appearance st Moline tonight
drops into its usual method Of lying. It
seems it cannot record sin gle fact with.
out lacking to it lie for the purpose of
winning temporary success. or course,
no sensible person pays any attention to
1t. because they understand too we'll its
purpose, but there are some who do not
80 understand it-people who have no
time to study political questions, even
when they relate to their home affairs.
The bssely partisan organ SAYS the
democratic papers would u AXE it appear
that Reed would not recognize Gest 10 the
house. the democratic papers merely
reported what Gest had often told-tha,
he could not do anything for his constit.
uents in Washington because Speaker
Heed wons3 pay no attention to him. The
words of Gest were that he
couldn't catch the speakers
eye" But that did not prevent
Gest, the Union says, from getting in his
work on the canal. on river improve
ments, the labor bill. arsenal sppropria.
tons, the visduct and the water pool.
These assertions are made while the ps
per that makes them knows it is utter.pp
one of the most contemplate lies. 1t
might as well have said that Gest paws
the presidents salary. And this stuff /,
foistednpon the people day after day.
The shortest way of getting at the mat
ter is to state the truth. Gest had moths
ing to do with the Hennep in canal except
TO give his vote in favor o it, and if Cap
tain Robinson-his boss 10 this city-hs d
asked him to vote against il Gest would
have promptly done so. The river and
hsrbor bill Gest had nothing to do with
either-nothing. nothing, absolutely
nothing, The labor bi ! he blundered
in from The time he started
TO do anything with it until he ceased.
1t wasn't much, to be sure, but it was
enough TO show how hoit.sighted and
clumsy he is at everything pertaining to
legislation. The last session of congress
never intended to do any hing in the in-
terests of labor. Il gave more attention
to robbing the people by the passage of
an outrageous tariff law and by an en-
deavor TO get a law passed-known as
the Force bill-by which the elections
would be taken out of the hands of the
people and placed in those of few I'M
sctupulous persons who could return to
congress any one they pleased. Both OF
these measures G est is heartily in favor
OF. He tells the people he voted TO
have them taxed in order that the east
ern manufacturers may aid to IL cir mills
lions, and be does it, he says. in the hope
that somehow, in some way which he
does not understand. that good may
come OF 1t. when the esent generation
shall be no more. He is either too stupid
to grasp simple question of arithmetic
or else he blindly folio we'd the word of
the patty bosses. 1t matters not which,
except in the former case he might he
Pitied for observation-disclosures, while in the
latter he should be despised for the heed
less way in which he permitted the rob
berry of the peop..
Just as the session was drawing to a
close the labor bill were taken up. 1t
was never intended they should reach the
senate. There was not time to consider
them if they had Reed never intended
them TO go further than the house. and
they never will. Their passage in the
house was for campaign purposes that
the shouttrs might be able to scsmper
over the country. as Reed is doing now,
and point to what they had done for
labor. Are the people not sickening
of all this duplcity and shameful
conduct on the part of those they
send 10 consressS And yet Reed
them they shout be thankful that the
government has taxed them so highly.
The masses are psiien- and suffer long,
but surely partisan faith cannot continue
to be used as weapon 10y which the peo-
pie can cut their own Il roats
The arsenal bill was passed In the reg
ular appropriation bill. and it is Just
possible Gest may have known nothing
of its passage until he read II in the
newspapers He was not consulted con-
corning it. And after all that has been
recently published to the world, and
proven by the facts presented, the Union
mentions again the name of Gest as aid>
ing in the construction of the viaduci-
Gest who o pposed it from the very first,
opposed it at every step. lied and bungled
and made ell sorts of contemplate ex
cuses concerning it. And when finally he
introduced bill which wss acceptable to
the people here. it was only after his
boss-Csptain Robinso had ceased his
opposition by the pressure of public
opinion. Such is the work the people
have to thank Gest for performing.
And it is so with everything he has
touched.
No. no. Reed does lot come here for
his love of Gest. He comes here to sup.
port his own tyrannical methods in con
| g.ess. He comes here to save himself
from defeat in the house. He has the
love of Reeds success deep in his heart.
He makes an effort TO save himself by be.
lifting and bulldozine his hearers.
Gest is only cog in the wheel. and q
very small cog at that
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