New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-03
CONGRESSES CoNTRAsTED.
Tom Reed, With Cunning Sarcasm, Rakes
0vsr the Record Of the Present Session.

He Shows Clearly That the Great Demo
cratic Majority Have Done Abso-
lutely Nothing
Hrs Holman's Virtue Referred to in Sen
fences Full Of Singing Rebuke.
Ia the North American Review for
this month there will appear an article
blythe Hon. Thomas B. Reed, IN which
heseontrasts the work Of the two CON
gressesthe F'ifty-first and Fifty second.
Among other things he says
II Whenever an army is like the army Of
AerSes. essentially barbaric, it matters
NOT how far the ranks stretch across the.
field of vision, or how far off the hori-
IONS edge, they pass glittering out Of
sight. They are useless alike for con
quest or for slaughter. The numbers,
only emphasize the failure. They hasten
ats downfall, and serve only to astonish
chi ldren in story books that so many
could be conquered by So. few Wherev-
self discipline OF unity of purpose is lack
ing, numbers may be one Of the ele-.
srnents Of disaster. No army can fight
the enemy if it must at the same time
sfightsitself.
When the House Of Representatives of
the Fifty second CONGRESS met, it met as
sa9.aob, and q. has kept up that interesting
form Of organization ever since. OF
course, the Republican leaders could
/ have driven the enemy into compact
shape, covered them with reproacles,
forced them to train, and otherwise have
niade an army of them. Then there
would have been much glory won by
the said leaders among the nnthinking,
IAt the exhibition would have been lost
tb the world of Democracy, as it really
Ma hopeless assortment of discordant
differences, as incapable of positive ac-
bon as it is capable Of infinite clamor.
Tlle Democracy in the House, with a
force Of three to one, have not onlysdone
Taothing with anything else; not only
Ell;tve theysdone nothing, blltsat the very
beginning they established a system OF
|r,lles winch made tia foregone conclu-
sion that not only had the leaders. : abdi-
Estated, but they We're determined that no.
Ebo9ly else should dreign. Given a Won
Ederful power by the people, u power
(which might have enabled them to carry
sstet any plan for the relief of what they
scalled the doWn-trodden people, they
deliberately put the veto into the hands
Ehf one third, and in most cases into the
Ehands Of less, and relapsed into imbecil-
ity. Not one measure above the dignity
Eof rye straw will mark the annals of
the House of Representatives of the
ri Fifty # second congress In history it
will present all the dead level of a
Dutch landscape with all its windmills;
but without a trace of its beauty and
fertility The only picturesque object
which will break the sky line will be
Mr.. Holman oraped as a statue Of econ
omy, standing on the railroad -crow ned
summit of the LaWrenceblrg embank-
ment trying in vain with a spy-gglass TO
find any trace of the river the embank-
ment was intended to confine Indiana,
however, and the appropriation will be
in full view.
When this house met great hopes were
entertained that strict economy would
reign. The man whose reputation was
the hest was placed at the head of
the committee on appropriations, and
the great duty of reducing to an honest
level all the expenditures Of the govern
ment was entered upon. Mr.. Holman,
the great high priest of the new dispen-
ssation, disappeared from mortal view
for many days, and finally reappeared
with a calm; stately, and beautiful self
denying resolution proclaiming the prin-
iciples Of honesty, just as though they
had been newly discovered, and were,
for the first time in the history of the
world, to be put in practice. Il was "a
solemn moment. Everybody felt that
the high-water mark Of human virtue
had been reached, and. under the awe
inspiring impressions Of that day, they
were treated. as scoffers who suggested
that after high water came the ebb. /
hate to tell the sequel; but, alas, the
scoffers were right. Never since that
hour have the Democracy looked so
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