The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-10-19
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GRESSliEN.

Congressman Culberson has report
ed at headquarters in Washington
that the farmers who raise cotton are
being fieeced because of the deadlock
i'm E. @ senate. This is pot just the
way that Mr.. Culberson reported it,
but this is the true and the only true
translation of his report. He tries to
shield the senate by putting the
blame on designing rascals who are,
according to his silver theories, using
the base inaction of the senate for al
most as base purpose. But the
point of Compressor n Culberson's re-
port is THE: He has left his high
station at Washington and has been
down among his people in Texas and
has had his eyes opened to the way
in which they are suffering, to
the way they are being abused by
somebody. OF course it is not the
senate that is keeping all questions OF
finance in hot water, stopping, by
their inaction, the wheels of business
and depressing the prices of every
thing, including Mr.. Culberson's
poor farmers cotton. Of course 1t ID
not the senate that is to blame. That
body is pursuing just the same ignls
fatuus for which he voted In the
house when he was so beautifully
overwhelmed. Doubtless were he in
the senate he would be seen with
hand locked in Brother Coke's pull
ing with the Interpreters, and great
cotton growing Texas would be in the
delectable position of having both OF
her United States senators fighting a
majority of Democrats in congress
and the nations Democratic presi-
dent.
Oh, for more sincerity in politics !!
Mr.. Culberson correctly reported the
condition OF pitiable loss going on in
Texas and the South, but why did he
hunt for an excuse for it and pass by
the one plainly appearing to every
one on the surface? In the case of a
great malady do you hunt for the first
cause or do you treat some one effect
as the cause? If there can be found
those who would take advantage of a
monetary crisis to fleece those whom
necessity forces into the market-shall
you put all the blame on them, or do you
not the rather most severely condemn
those who are responsible for the
crisis? 1t is a notorious fact that the
assinine course of the senate Is doing
more to disrupt business, break honest
business men and bring our govern.
ment into disrepute than anything
that has happened since the civil war
Does it lie in the mouth OF any man,
then, in congress, but more especially
OF one who is in sympathy with the
obstructionist minority in the senate
to attribute base motives to any in
the business world, much less to at
tempt to saddle on anyone the blame
that rests fairly and squarely on the
shoulders OF congress? 1t would be
we'll for all congressman to leave
Washington for while and to min
gle with their people. On their re-
turn to what should be the business
headquarters of the nation they would
report the same condition OF impend-
ing ruin that Mr.. Culberson discovered
but we think if tho senate properly
applied the discovery its minority
would either melt into nothingness or
common sense would sweep it out of
the road to a common sense decision.
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