The weekly tribune., 1892-03-19

tiOnS must pass away. | suppose, dOub-
ling and redoubling your incredible
achievements of the last twenty years,
your magnificent progress in productions
of the field, farm, forest an / mines be-
fore 1t becomes palpabe that war with
| its devastatiOns, its passions, its griefs,
may not, perhaps, have been all too high |
an insoluble political problem into solu-
BILE social problem. To compass that |
security of state rights which we're and
are generally along with the security OF
state rights which are sectional by
means of compromises which were not
coincident with the dividing lines be
tween federal powers, state powers and
powers reserved to the people. but which
nevertheless were conceived III the con
stitution and attempted in the laws, was
too much for domestic tranquility. Ana
the result. as | have said, was through
war. at last transmitting an lnsolublc
political problem into Il soluble social
problem. But that sectional disparity
! has now ceased. Sectional interference
has lost its only fulcrum.
| STATE RIGHTS SURVIVE
,Applauscl The late republican con
gress tried to put manaclcs on southern
limbs. lie then denounced the force bill
and continued: Il submit TO your candid
Judgment that every trouble, every dis
turbance that exists every disaster that
impends and every danger that Is feared
at this time throughout our whole land,
not merely in some parts OF 1t, is the on
rect and obvious consequence OF repuD-
ican legislation in disregard OF the
shirt and the letter Of our constitution
| r t,,n,;tx ,nlyr tu-n Urpnt
items of present and intolerable dis
turbance, though many others might be
named which are marked by egrcgious
violation of the letter and spirit of the
constitutions Not for one hour during
the last thirty years has the democratic
, party possessed, nor does it now possess,
the power to repeal or amend these and
- other laws, the fount and origin Of avery
present disturbance to the general
peace and prosperity a little
: while AGO the democratic
party had the senate. little while ago
2 the executive, for longer periods the
= house of representati,e but not for one
r moment during the thirty years has it
: had all three. SO that all these evil pro
I ducng laws have been absolutely beyond
!. our reach.
t Every disorder in our finance. every
! injustice in our taxation, Is not only the
!. consequence, direct and obvious OF re
e publican legislation, but of Legislation SO
r plainly outside the constitution, SO piain'
u " disregardful of its inhbitlons. or else
e of It's limitations that not one statesman
of any party prior to lS6o ever dreamed
d of advocating such transgressions. That
$ is not ALL nor the worst Three years
: ago the democratic party experienced a
c disastrous overthrow and lost the house
= Of representatives which. till then, 1t hac
IS controlled for many years. Both branches
s. of congress and the executive being ther
e in republican hands their power wal
1t complete to write new laws upon tht
n statute books and to do with the gov
} crnment and it's administration whatever
they would. What did they do Will
nc their unhindered power! Did they re
Is neal one of these unconstitutional laws
ii for which they had been pleading thu
y false excuse of war, its burdens, its ne
1t cessities: Let our worse than war taril
m taxation reply. Let the disorders OF on
ic currency make answer. No; they mrs
or cheated more power into their owl
to hands and then doubled its prostitution
ne lAppause. Their speaker IN the hous
nj by violent and unparliamentary proceed
Is. ure distended an actually small to
H. fraudulently large majority, all OF WHOM
r. followed him with doglike docilitl
ut Laughter. In the senate SIX new Re
III nublu.an senators were seated to repre-
sent a smaller population than their cen
al sus left uncounted IN the cll
ed of New York, and one stat
ne was defrauded of its democratl
II choice. Their object was not only
IL enact more and worse unconstltutloni
or legislation. but also to put that legIsii
ay ton beyond the peoples amendment &
lie repeal. This they did and their occupi
nd tlon within those intrcnchments and III
he occupation of the whole republican an
h: mugwump press has ever since been
nd rlapt political discussion on prrferrc
30 bills, which their president would vol
and their senate won't pass.
Il regret that some unwary democra
in congress and in the press thus rend
rn- assistance in taking oil public attentl'
tb from the unsurpassable monstrosltieS
-. their living laws, and assist the rcpnb
itf can party in hiding the scope OF tn
ed revolution it pursues,' :,
cb He denounced the force bill, the NJ
by Kinley bill and the Sherman SILVER bI
u.s. saying
10 THE REPUBLICAN COAGREnH
" also pdSseu tue oci'h"H ''N
VIZ. VS. which every republican monetary here
Nra is crowded that has kept our finances
in perpetual disorder for thirty yea
for tortured our merchants with uncertaln
ra. and fear and turned our foreign col
d, :" merce, our sales of wheat. our sales
cotton, into a daily gamble. 1t reviv
the most dangerous heresy which tn"
rot publican party once packed the bench
On the supreme court to get false judgme.
pe upon as constitutional. But what was
mt last and final tribute of their polite
rec hypocrisy legal virtue: Applaus
the Never once since they compelled this
ali. premc court to reverse its own rghteo
,icb ruling to fool history and put our pub
ons law to public shame, never since th'
iety have they cared enough to get hg ieav