The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-03-07
Close of Congress.

Close OF congress.
The fifty first Congress has come to on end.
Its history is written. Its record ismonstrous
It is one of prohigacy, corruption, extrava-
gance, usurpation and revolution. The conn
try barely escaped a condition that would have
made the danger imminent of being plunged
into the horrors of bloodshed and anarchy.
1t is appalling to think how narrow the escape
has been One step more-the force bill
and the die would have been cast, the conflict
inevitable. The Democratic party, UMPIRE
pared to surrender the right Of free ballot
and TO accept the fact Of subverted govern
ment, would have resisted by every means
known to the constitution or likely to bring
relief 1t has left to the country the legacy
of a war tariff absorbing the money of the
people. In two years it has squandered the
surplus of hundred millions of dollars,
and left a deficit in the treasury. 1t has
entaied upon the country burden IN
the way of pensions greater than the world
ever saw. 1t has fostered trusts and monop-
olies that grind the faces of the poor. 1t has
inaugurated state of things grievousy bur
densome TO the masses, from which there is
no hope of relief but in political revolution
so complete as to turn out the dominant party
entirely, placing every branch of the govern
ment in the hands of its opponents. Nothing
short of this will bring full relief 10 the tax
ridden people of this country.
1t was fit that such body should close its
existence by singing John Brown body lies
a Wondering in the grave His record is a
reeking offence to the nostrils Of every patriot.
No less a stencil is the unsayory record of the
lifty.frst Congress, which closed with such a
song, which was sung by the Democrats in
derison of their political opponents
Below we add few comments of leading
Journals upon the results of the session just
closed. They all agree in the utterance ol
their anathemas.
THE SESSION OVER.
The Fifty first Congress adjourned ut L
O'Clock today. leaving behind IT the most re
markable. because the most deplorable, record
ever made by an American deliberative body
II mas had two dominant features, partisanshiI
for nc consideration whatever. The result Is
A tariff bill that is absorbing the last dollars
of the producers; pension bills that have eaten
nm the surplus and will drain the treasury;
appropriations for buildings, claims and JOBS
that have sweled the aggregate to the enor-
nous sum of over $500, 100000. This Is the
record. The attempts to seize the ballot
boxes of the states in the interest OF party,
and to loan the sword and the purse OF the
nation to the same party, are familiar TO all
as we'll as the names of the brave aud wise
men in the Senate who held patriotism above
partsanship and at the last moment refused
10 establish fatal precedent even Tor party
perpetuation or personal advancement. Now
that this session is over 1t will be well Tor the
neonle of the country to carefully review II
and consider well the risks they have run.
Judging by the experience of the past two
wears. what would have been the condition OF
affairs il the Republicans had been successful
ut the fall election? What would have been
the condition at the end of the next two years?
Let the thoughtful and intelligent take the
record TO heart, see what they have escaped
and resolve upon their duty for the future.
baltimore ECeRiAg NerS.
TWO YEARS OF REPUBLICAN RULE.
When the Republicans took the reius oi
government two years ago there was surplus
of a hundred millions in the Treasury, ana II
was steadily growing. Revenues exceeded
expenditures. The problem that confronted
the craftsmanship of the nation was what to
do with the surplus; how to check its increases;
how to lessen the national revenues. What
do we see today? The surplus vanished. eX-
penditures swollen beyond revenues, alarming
appropriations that must either bankrupt the
Treasury or subject the people to the most
oppressive war taxation. That is the result
Of two years Republican misrule, of rioions
extravaganza. The peoples money has been
thrown away by hundreds OF millions. The
Treasury has been plundered. Such reckless
and inexcusable appropriations have never
been made by any other Congress IN time OF
peace. The enormity ofthis offence has only
10 be realized to create universal cOnsterna-
ton and Indignation. 1t is enough to damn
aud hurl from power any party guilty. OF 1t.
Fortunate is it for the country that this riotous
reign has come to an end.-N Y. Herald
CORRUPTION AND ENTRAvAGANCE.
The Fifty.iirst Congress dies like the Forty
third-branded with corruption and extrava-
gance. For two years before-irom 1881 to
lSS3-since 1875 the Republican party held
the House It's corruptions killed IFS majority
then as they killed Il before and as they have
killed it now. In sixteen years it has been
twice tried. The trial has been trightfully
expensive to the people and has shown that
the organization is still as bad and rotten as
it was in 1875, when it yielded up its hold over
the popular branch OF Congress amid the
fumes of champagne and the cheers OF the
punderers-N J.. World.