Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-08-18
lionsY 1t really begins to look as if
this country was too big to be measured
in some half bushels"

in some half bushels"
After reviewing the conditions con-
fronting the Fifty Second Congress, the
accumulation of the work of six years
that preceding Democratic Congresses
had done done, and necessity that it
should be done, Mr.. Reed remarks, with
pardonable exultation, that the House,
"amid shouts and outcries which al
ready seem strange and incomprehensi-
BILE, broke down the barriers of custom
and re.establish the right of the major
ity to rule. This was its greatest achieve
ment, for which it will have a name in
history.
"Having thus assumed the reins of
power, the majority became responsible
for what was done. They became re-
sponsible for the Act of 1890, relating
to the purchase Of silver. Whether
that act, isolated from all the circum-
stances of 1890, was absolutely wise is
more than I know. That it then and
there saved this country from the free
coinage for which every Democratic
leader was then clamoring, and on
which they are now 80 silent, / do
know. If time shall show that it ought
to be repealed, that will in no wise
initiate against the wisdom of passing
it in 1890. They became responsible for
the refunding of the direct tax, just
measure, which, among other things,
saved from bankruptcy the State of
Kentucky, most, if not all, of whose
representatives voted against it.
''They became responsible for that
latest revision of the tariff, which is
just now rising so high above the SLAM
ders which two years ago poured upon
it as if the foundation of the great deep
had broken up. Free sugar, larger ex-
ports, and larger imports are fully JUS
tifying the bill, and increased manu-
featuring results will soon add their
quota to the returning prosperity of the
country.
''They became responsible also for
the meat and cattle inspection, which
took away from foreign nations their
last excuse for refusing to receive our
food products, and enabled our able
Secretary of Agriculture and our foreign
ministers to restore to us in some meas
ure the markets of the world for such
products.
''They became responsible for the de-
struction of the Louisiana Lottery.
They redeemed the honor of the United
States by making provision to pay it's
honest debts. They opened up to actual
settlement many million acres of pro-
ductive lands, and gave suitable form
of Government to vast areas of the ter
ritory of the United States.
"They became responsible for pension
laws which the Democratic House has
not dared to assail, and which, however
much they may be covertly complained
of, were but the assurance of the nation
that the soldiers of the war and their
dependents hight be forever sure that
the bounty of the nation, which it was
honorable for them to receive, should
stand between them and that taint of
dishonor which, whether justly or un-
justly, has always attached itself to
local and parochial charity.
''But is not necessary to again enum-
crate the acts passed by the Fifty First
Congress. The catalogue already given
of duties pressing upon the Congress at
its commencement is also catalogue
of duties done. The House of Repre-
sentatives of the Fifty First Congress
met every responsibility without excep'
ton, and gave the judgment of the rep
resentatives of the people upon all the
questions which the people put before
Them"