The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-24
THE ORGANS ARE MAD.
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Editorials ons physical Endurance"
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failed because } fTmness and deter
minatiOn of majority were not
equal to the tae~ Get for them Had all
the professed friends of repeal been
willing to do all that they could, it
might not have failed it certainly
would not have failed so soon. But at
best the advantage under all probable
conditions was on the side of the
minority, and had it been otherwise
the spectacle Of a continuous session,
even if the result had been victory for
the majority, was a disgraceful and
scandalous one.
The majority has the right to act. If
it is united it can find means to act far
more dignified, more logical, more in
the spirit Of representative govern
ment, than submitting it's members to
the Chinese torture of sleeplessness.
The first that suggests itself is the one
advocated by the Exchange of Mem
pbis, that the Vice President, in the
chair, should decline to re cognize any
Senator for any purpose except a mo
ton that the vote on the repeal bill be
taken. A second means,--and one
which would relieve the Vice President
|. OF the responsibility and put the ma.
jOrity clearly in possession of it's rights,
is that motion should be made to
proceed to vote on the repeal bill with
out debate. Any one can make that
motion. If the Vice President enter
tains it, the minority can, if any one
of them chooses, appeal from the de
cision of the chair. The majority can
! lay the repeal upon the table and take
the vote on the bill. Should the Vice
| President rule that the motion is not
in order, the ma j0rity can appeal from
that ruling, can overrule it, and take
the vote that will pass the bill. Either
proceeding is one that the great body
of the people would hail with delight.
The last described one is nearly within
the rights of the majority. 1t is not
prohibited even by any rule of the
Senate, and if it were, the rules are for
the regulation of action, not for the
suppression of action. The majority
would simply be carrying out the will
Of the people in an orderly, deliberate,
lawful manner.
Can a majority be had for this simple
policy7 We do not know. No one can
know until the test is applied. It is
only too plain that in the ranks of the
professed friends of repeal there are
some whose friendship has not yet
gone hey ond professions and perhaps
it will never go further. We have no
desire now to discuss the motives of
these men. II they are Republicans,
they fail to serve their country as they
ought. If they are Democrats, they
fail in that and also in common pOliti-
cal sagacity, for this is the crisis Of
their party's fortunes, and nothing but
unconditional repeal. nothing snort of
that nothing less than that, can save
the party from certain peril and prob
able disaster. But two things are GER
tain. One is that the people will stand
by those who stand by unconditional
repeal, the other is that the chief rep
sentative of the people-the President
Of the United States-will, in their
name, accept nothing but what the
people Justly and imperatively demand.
In these conditions there is a duty for
business men to do-a plain and urgent
duty. We have pointed out how the
majority can take its rights. The
business men of every city should now
demand that these rights be taken. In
every city of the Union there should be
a meeting of business men such as was
held at Cooper Union in the spring of
1891. when Grover Cleveland wrote his
manly and decisive letter against the
free. independent, and unlimited coin
age Of silver. The emergency is far
more serious than it was then. The
issue is just as definite. The way in
which to direct the Senate is plain.
The merchants of the country, worn
with anxiety and doubt and care, seem
benumbed. Indifferent they cannot
be. for the immediate and ultimate
loss they must suffer is enormous.
They must shake off their weariness
and make plain to their servants at
Washington what the needs and wishes
of the country are. We speak dello-
erateIy and with perfect conviction
when we say that the settlement of
this momentous question is in their
hands. The Senate can act. 1t Will
act if the force of public opinion COM