The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-25
The Most Pronigate OF Ameri.
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The Fifty first Congress closed al
noon on Wednesday, March 4th, and
there was a sigh of relief through,
out the whole land. Itwas the most
proaigate Congress of American
history. and, even when condemned
by the people by unexamplcd pop.
ular majorties, after it's first session
it continued its shameless profiigacy
until the moment of its death.
The people can hardly realize the
measure of profiigacy and jobbery
of the Congress that has just passed
into history. When it came into
power with Senate and President
in political harmony with it, the
Treasury was OVERLOOKING with sur.
plus revenues, and reduced taxes
and reduced revenues where the
hungry cry of the people.
When it closed it's blotted record
the surplus was scattered; the reve.
MUGS largely exceeded by expcndi-
lures; forced loan of s54, OOO, 600
of sacred trust funds will not save
the Treasury from bankruptcy with
in the next year; the expenditures
commanded by the Fifty first Con-
gress will change the condition oil
the Treasury from s1OO, OOO, 900 sur
plus to fully s1OO,OOO,OOO deficit
before the close of the next fiscal
year, ard the additional pension,
subsidy and other jobbing schemes
fastened upon looted Treasury by
positive law, saddle the people of
the nation with over one thousand
millions of new expenditures.
In addition to this bewildering
waste of public money, chiefly in the
interest of jobbers, largely increased
taxes have been imposed upon the
necessaries of our industries and
upon the common necessaries of life.
While the surplus has boon scatter.
ed and Treasury deficit of fully
500. 900, 900 a year made inevitable
to be met by increased taxes on the
people, the wanton, cruel additional
taxes levied on the necessaries of
life, reduce the value of the earn
ings of industry fully ten per cent.
by that percentage of increase on
articles of universal consumption.
That the people should condemn
such Congress with an emphasis
never before exhibited in popular
elections was only logical, and the
close of the Fifty first Congress
sends more men into retirement by
defeat at the polls than was ever
known or even approached in all the
political revolutions of the past,
The great North was rcvolutionized
by the mad recklessness of the Con-
gress just closed, and for the first
time since the successful organiza-
ton of the Republican party, the
Northern States sent a clear major
ity of Democrats to Congress and
reversed the Republican majority
of 4OO, 600 in 1883 into an anti-Re-
publican majority of 200. OOOin 1890.
No party in all the varied politi-
cal history of American politics ever
suffered such defeat when it held
every department of power, and no
Congress since the insane Demo
cratic Lecompton Congress of 1878
ever so insolentIy defied the people
after its entire policy and leader
ship had been overwhelmingly con
demned by the country.
The Fifty-first Congress now be-
longs to history and considerate
men of all parties rejoice to-day that
its work is ended. The one silver
lining to the impenetreble cloud
that shames its record, is the failure
of the party of power to consum-
mate it's GROWING wickedncss by
the passage OF the Force Election
bill. The few Republicans who
rescued our politics from chaos and
our business from paralysis by de-
feating the Force Revolutionists,
will be crystalized in the grateful
memories of the Republic; but
the midsummer madness of the
defeated party is exhibited in
the effort to exclude the bravest
and best of its men from party fell
lowship for a conspicuous patriotic
service. The Fifty first Congress
is dead, and the American people OF
every section of the Union will
give fervent thanks that it's death
is without the hope of resurrection.
Ii Cams Live Here.