New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-24
a BITING GONTRA ST.
Ex-SPEAKER REEDcoNTRASTS
TWO CONGRESSES.
ADead Level Of Inact ZION Character
ICES the Democratic Congress
---Achievements Of the
Fifty-First Congress-.

ElIIy.rITSI congress-.
Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed makes
a scathing ARA; gnment of the present
Democratic Congress. IN his article on
Two Congresses Contrasted, !" in the.
August number OF the North American
Review. He says:
hen the House Of Represents tiyess
of the Fifty second Congress met, it
met as a mob, and kept up that inter
esting form Of organization ever since.
OF course, the Republican leaders
could have driven the enemy into
compact shape, covered them with re-
proaches, forced them to train, and
otherwise have made an army OF them.
Then there would have been much
glory wonsby the said leaders among
the. unthiIikinlge,, butt the exhibition
would have been. lost to the world Of
Democracy, as it really is a hope
less assortment OF discordant diff
ferences, as incapable of positive
action as it is capable OF infinite
clamor.
He speaks of the cause for surprise
at the election Of Mr. Crisp for Speak
Ell. instead OF Mr.. Mills, then. SIP
posed to be the embodiment Of Dem
ocracy, but the determinat ion Of the
leaders that the party should enter
the next contest remembered by
principles pushed Mr.. Mills to the
wall. " OF the continuance of this
policy OF non-committaiism' by the
appointment OF Mr.. Springer as chair
man OF the Ways and Means Com
mittee, he says:
While Mr.. Springer has at all times
formed and expressed great variety
OF opinions on a great variety of sub
Jects, he has never been, by his friends
or his enemies, regarded as in the
least degree bigoted. History has
justified the confidence which the
Democracy have in Mr.. Springer. He
has been Q Democrat. The party can
contemplate his work of this session
With the calm certainty that there is
no intellect so subtle, no mind SO
broad, no sympathy so delicate as to
detect therein the slightest trace of
principle OF economic science or a sys-
tenn OF revenue, and the Democracy
certainly do enter the next campaign
unembarrassed by their Immediate
past, and with great power OF being
natural; that is, OF being all things to
all men,
The history Of this Congress, he
THINKS, will present all the dead level
GA Dutch landscape.
THE only picturesque object which
will break the sky line will be Mr.. Hell
man draped as a statue. OF Economy,
standing on the railroad crowned
summit OF the LaWrenceburg embank.
ment trying IN vain with a spy-glass
to lind any trace of the river the en-
bankment was intended to confine.
Indiana, however, and the appropri-
alton will be in FULL view,
When this house met great hopes
were entertained that strict economy
would reign. The man whose repu-.
tation was the highest was placed at
the head Of the Committee on Appro-
priations, and the great duty OF re.
ducing to an honest level all the ex-
penditures of the government were ell
tered upon. Mr.. Holman, the great
high priest OF the new dispensation,
disappeared from mortal view for
many days, and finally reappeared
with calm, stately, and beautiful
seli-denylng resolution proclaiming
| the principles Of honesty, lust as
though they had been newly discover
ed, and were, for the first time
IN the history OF the world, to
! be put into practice. It was
a solemn moment. Everybody felt
| that the high-water mark OF human
Write had been reached, and, under
the aWe-inspiring impressions OF that
day, they were treated asseoffers who
suggested that after high water came
the ebb. | hate, to tell thesequel; but,
! alas, the scotfers were righo. Never
| since that hour have the Democracy
| looked SO grand, gloomy, and peculiar
as onathat Pentecostal day when the
HOLMAN proclamation OF economic
virtue was administered to them, and
/ they resolved how bad others had
been, and how good they themselves
| would be. 1t. is sad to be obliged to
add that now, after the results have
| been reached, we find that the squan-
derIngg Republicans appropriated 63
millions at the first session OF the
Billion Congress-, while the econo-
mic Democrats have appropriated
over 500 millions at the first session
OF a Congress that certainly can never
be called n Nickel Congress" Would
1T be in the nature OF insult to the fall
en- to propose to the Honorable Mr..
Holman of Indiana assum in the rule
OF three2 II the expenditure Of 463
millions made US OF the Fifty-hrst
Congress ''rascals, " what precise
epithet would do justice to those who
have app opriateI 500 millions? It
really begins to look as if this country
was too big to be measured in some
half bushels
After reviewing the conditions cor.
fronting the Fifty-frst Congress-. the
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