Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-19
PL0WS IN POLITICS.
The Legislative Soil About Washing.
ton Hasn't Yielded Well.
ONLY 20 FARMERS IN CONGRESS
While There Are 30 Lawyers Who Can Out
Talk Them Every Time
PEN PICTURES OF THE STATESMEN

PEN PICTURES OF THE STATESMEN
| tcoRREsPoNpENce OF THE DISPATCH,
WASN'T NGToN, June 1.-THE revol
which brought this Congress to the front
was understood as being largely in the in.
terest of the plowman, the wheat-grower
the cotton-picker, the herdsmau. It was
announced that the farmer was demanding
attention; that the man who had callosities
on the inside of his fingers was about to
supersede the man who got his bread by the
sweat Of his ingenuity and had raised corns
on the convolutions of his brain by over.
working that organ. e
Well, what are the facts7
Why, the facts are that the lawyer is just
as dominant in this Congress as ever. There
are few more farmers than usual, but they
have no more influence on legislation than
they had in the Fifty-6rst Congress and
their voices are scarcely heard. As John
Davis, one of the ablest farmers in Con-
| gress, said to me yesterday: 1--WE scarcely
expect to get any of our important measures
through this session, but shall be satisfied
with an educational campaign. We are
going to make some speeches that will in.
fuence votes hereafter.
Making Themselves indispensable.
Another Congressman-farmer from the
West permits me to publish his plant thus:
The lawyers always rule the States
And all the rustic drudges;
They crowd the bar as advocates
And NIL the bench as judges;
And no man understands the laws
TIL after he has paid them-
For they are tangled up because
| 'g The cunning lawyers made theml
This is ''the farmers Congress" yet there
are only % members who really get their
living by agriculture, and there are 270
lawyers-about three-fourths OF the whole
and 20 more belong to one of the so-called
learned profe ssionA In the Tennessee dele
cation both Senators and all ten Congress-
men are lawyers Both Senators from vir-
ginia are lawyers and all the ten Congress-
men, except a parson and an editor. Both
Senators from Texas are also lawyers and
10 out of the II Congressmen-theo odd man
being "Parson Long" who thus indicates in
the Congressional directory that he is
virtually and sentimentally q Presbyterian
farmer. ,..5.. -
4 Turner's ccount Of Himself
John Benjamin Long. OF Rusk. wns born
in the county OF Nacosdoohes. September 8,
ls4S; his education 10 ordinary; has held no
ofdcial position Of any import: in 1884 he be.
came member OF the Order OF Patrons Of
Husbandry, and took an active interest in
advocating the cause Of progress among his
fellow laborers; is now Overseer Of the Texas
State Grange and President of the Texas
nofo
ton; has al ways been q Democrat; is q
Ruling Elder in the Cumberland PresDyte-
Iian Church: made the canvass and secured
the nomination for the Fifty-second Con-
gress over some Of the most prominent and
best men of the State; had no expressed op-
position after nomination; he received 12,-
9iSvotes. and 56 votes scattering.
Among the other clergymen are Senator
Kyle, of South Dakota (Congregationalist);
Mckinney, of New Hampshire (Baptist);
Virginia, who is ian itinerant preacher in
18 States.
Among the doctors are Gallinger, of New
Hampshire; Dockery, of Missouri; L. E
Atkinson; Of Pennsylvania, and Thomas
Dunn English, OF New jersey, far better
known as poet and author
The Merchants Ars Not Politicians.
It Is noticeable that there is only one
merchant in the House, but q number are
engaged in mercantile pursuits So lot
of the lawyers are chrome farmers-tillers
of the soil at long range. There are half
dozen bankers, too, who are fiat farmers
raising produce at q tremendous expense,
the horny bands with which they toll being
attached to somebody else's shoulders. One
of these is j. B. Taylor, of Ohio, the
wealthy banker and lawyer. In recent
speech on the floor he claimed fellowship
with the great body of farmers of this land,
when colloquy something like this took
places;
Thomas E. Watson (Ga. )-Mine is an
easy question:: Are you not the President of
. national bank?
Mr.. Taylor-I am President of two ma
tional banks, but do not see what that has
to do with this question.
Mr.. Watson-Now would like to ask
you if the profits from your farm enabled
from your banks enabled you to buy your
farm stock? Much laughter
Mr. Taylor-I have always had farm
since I was able to own one, and believe
in agriculture; and believe agriculture has
great, future in this country. do not
know of better investment in this country
than good farm Yon depreciate your own
business You cry down your own trade.
You destroy your own markets and dis
courage your OWL people. lneSe farmers
had better complain less and work more.
They had better talk less about mortgages
and more about their business
derry simpson Rushes Into History.
Mr. Jerry Simpson-The gentleman from
Ohio utters o sentiment that is very familiar
to us all, a sentiment that has been uttered
in every age by aristocrats who have lived
upon the toll Of the people. It is the state
ment that was uttered by Louis XVI and
his satellites when the laboring classes OF
France appealed to them for relief from op-
pressive laws "Work little harder; talk
less, I" that is the utterance Of the aristocrats
In every age. "Work more; talk less; leave
to US the conduct of government affairs, and |
We will see that you are taken care Of"
Some of the most extensive farmers and |
planters in this Congress are those who |
practice law as their chief interest This |
is tfue'o of Senator Gibson, Of Maryland-a |
man of so, who does not look his years
He dresses with natty care, wears his gray
ing hair jauntily parted in the middle, and |
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