The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-10-16


getting for his little cottages in the
heart of the city. He says people now
pay me more rent than they used to for
those because they are in greater demand.
The free, open spaces i'll the country.cost
car rides every day, and the workman
has to give them up. He has to
DROP THE FRESH AIR,
And come into the heart of the city.
He was talking about it as a mere ill.,
weston in cottages. was listeing to him
having. in mind this great audience, and
knowing that that fact alone would
speak Volumes to any intelligent soul.
The Democratic party is now in power.
1t has the House of Representatives by
one hundred majority, and they are so
astonished at it that the other day when
they actually voted us down they pro-
claimed it in startling headlines all over
their big newspapers all over the country,
that they carried the House of Represen-
tatives Laughter). But I notice that
they have not vet carried the Senate,
cratic nlajoriy in the Senate of the United
States, and the sole duty which they
have thus far performed to their country
is the confirming of the officeholders APP
pointed by President Cleveland. Called
together in extraordinary session for the
purpose of removing from the statute
book what those brave people
CALL A COWARDLY MAkESHIFT.
They have been in session for two
mortal months and the cowardly make
shift still adorns.the statute books. and
those brave men are now sitting UP nights
Qaughter) trying to achieve successful
financial policy for suffering people.
You will bear witness that we Republic
cans have not thwarted their purpose,
that there has been no vexatious opposl-
tion, no effort on our part except to do
suffering and PROSTATE people. Cap
ause.) Our attitude in the House of
representatives has been disclosed blythe
Democracy. They have been in possession
ever since. The matter now rests with
the Senate, of which a majority is Demo-
cratic.
THE RESPONSIBILITY is THEIRS,
No one else's. sometimes wonder. if
the American people have any real con-
ception of the real situation which is
daily depicted before their eyes. Here
are forty -fvesSenators in favor of propo-
sition-or they say they are--and there are
thirty-fve, more or less, who are against
it. How do they propose to settle lt-by
the law of majority? By their own
individual opinions? By following the
advice of the people of the United States,
whose representatives. they are? Think of
It'll There are eighty-five of them in all,
most of them venerable, with years,
some of the venerable withwisdom. And
yet at this very moment these represent
atives of the political system of the
greatest nation on the face OF the earth
are about to sit up all night, have now
begun that work; are advanced to 10
O'Clock in that great pursuit. And what
do they intend to do-convince each other?
Not the least in the world. Do they
intend to reason with each other? Not
at all. They intend to try whether forty
five have more physical endurance than
the thirty-five (Applause). One
would suppose that some system or test
of muscles might be adopted, or possibly
something that would
TEST THE LUNG POWER.
Perhaps the machine would not endure
on that stroke. Now just think of it
one minute. Eighty-dve of the wisest
men of the United States, since that is
the plan on which they are got up, are
at this minute engaged in seeing how
they will decide the question of the re-
peal of financial act by determining
viii ole can sit the other out. Cap
plause. And you, the American people,
with patience that seems admirable, are
looking at them; that is the scene that
presents itself; that is the spectacle that
is produced.
Now don't misunderstood me; these
fellows are in the minority, but they are
in the majority of the fight. In ali civil
lized communities / believe that the
majority controls, but the minority here
proposes to sit still, unless you fellows
come to us, and tire you out, or we won't
do this thing. This minority represents
their people, and they are expected to
hold out by mere physical WEAKNESS, or
give up what they deem to be the rights
of their people. Now what has been the
action of the Republican party in this
natter Both sides of them, both the sill
yer men and the repeal men, have soffered
in full Senate of the United States to
that body to decide the end
had majority of the vote. And the
Democratic Senate has deliberately
refused to take that power which the
Republican party has offered them.
Being the responsible body OF the people
they have
IN A MOST COWARDLY FASHION
Refused to accept the responsibility
which the people .of the United Estates
have endowed them with. ask any
member of the Democratic party who
has done me the honor to listen to me
here tonight, whether that attitude is
one of which he is proud. Think of it,
q minority opposes the lawful
execution of the Senate in what they call
parliamentary language. Nevertheless it
is some progress, it is something if a man
can do piece of work, naturally to have
him do it in some fashion, however
roughsit be. 1t is better to be poor
carpenter and do something than man
who can do anything and do nothing. But
they say that the President is going to
coerce them. That the President is an
Andrew jackson. That he is Thomas
Jefferson and several other persons, all
of whom, however, are dead. Applause
This SO far is the result of the Democratic
policy; absolutely nothing whatever.
Well, there is one department. in which
they have done something they have done