Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-11
DISEASE SYMPTOMS.
Congressman Jerry Simpson Says
the Country is Unhealthy.
Ms Comments on csuy ard Labor Trogsles
Senator Allen on cenuserums.

WAsHI-cT9T, Ags.i n - r F1eia; -
jerry siE:poon, atlar c ing .s.se Il fater-
Hlittc3t scver. - enc. r.C-e' al5!s To hold
down his g,.t I'D ...s - H. few ru-
marks ON tic var IA %4,-fJ Carolina end
pcnnsylvaalI considered In connection
With tho pEcgcnt cona4 itlon taI otcrnG1 dss-
tiny II thiueg In rc.a--al, His naturally
dark conntenagcc hes, however, taken On
aaatnrniuc hue. aad li5 talk, though sharp
% ever, has p.its ca6cd to h. funny.
Jerry simpsons Views.
lie ieok8 oa al these fights ard strikes,
Coxcy' > army ead the rest u IL e. merely
symptoms ard aays; The fart to b. not
cd Il that tiicro H. 70 much sympathy
Gr.ong tho people for this gang that IS fol-
lowing Coxcy Vow, IL ti.ia country were
IN . healthy condition or even in cond
fion half ~ good 10 it ought 10 be and cas-
fly could be, the country paopic wou!d
never think 81 feeding such Rnng a. thaJ.
lie couldn't get Up aach gang in tho iirFt
place, but 80 where you will through t.Ic
.ouHtry Bfyg, and you viii hear the people
saying: iGt the poor fellows tramp II they
HE. We know that we arc not making
anything, and maybe they can gaia some
thing ~ trampiuR on.
Another thing should be noticed: \
few years. ago IL used 10 to sid t.i.e, Il
though tho lal.oFars In the cities might
strike and riot, yet tho country people
were sound and would turn out in sup
port Of the law. That Is all played out
now. Sor how little interest the farmers
cf Pennsylvania take in that fighting in
the coke region. lt's the same everywhere
YDu viii get no militia from the country
To do any shooting. Tho farmers are will
ing to stand back and lct the strikers ard
tho capitalists fight 1t out in their own
way The minute any man proposes a
moderate reform there IL great cry OF
communist, socialist stirring up the
p0Dr against the rich, and all that sort Of
thing. Dan Voorhees, speech was no
sooner printed than that cry was heard all
OYER the country. All tho same tho labor
err go on raising the devil, and tho CAPT
talista go ON insisting that there must ho
no pCacoablo reform" And with these
words the feeble and bilious looking states.
man sighed aud took another quinino cap
sulc.
silver Men Aggravated.
His remarks about The railroad and com.
mcrp committees, which were entirely too
long To- qroIc. seem in fair way to bc
verified. for after throwing ont promise
of combining the proposed bills into ono
the committee On railroads now want tu
take the Boataor resolution and make 10
all over. The prophecy OF Mr., Simpson
nFrred with that of senator Cullom made
cnrly In the session. fact worthy of spc
cial note, as 10 ~ probably the only point
on which those statesmen agree. The sen.
NtOr said ma soon as tho committees were
a . -
done during this congress. and no matter
how near the committees might seem to
get 20 decided action correspondents might
rely on it that all railroads would continue
us they are, SO far as this congress was con.
ccrncd Tho latest proposition. and one
which senator's think will Ike under discus.
sion some time, Is for the gaycrnmvut to
snli its claims IN tho Union aud Central
Paciilc for lump sum.
|, required no great wisdom TO for2sce
that tho veto of the Bland scignioragC hill
would 0gEr2yatN the silver men, that it
could not I've passed over the veto, chat thy
second defeat would aggrayatc them still
more, and that they would talk worry loud
and make angry threats of radical Gct0n.
What the other fellows did not expect.
however, was tbat tho silver men wouid
~ Ia Wort, quietly end rcaolutCly 10 rucun
strUct their lines fer another battle hefuu
the people. Aud VT Il laoi,s just now ~
IL that wcrc 10 he the outcome Thcrp is.
So far as known. o Very sharp difference OF
opinion, Tie great Etaivrity ~ fer fight
Ing tho hattie out within party lines, hut
very considerable minority are fer de-
clarine onculr against thu president and
entering ~ Once upon % campaign ~ com
htnC thC ttt4't and south. Meanwhile II is
u T.. - ..l,-
Sciatc frr'a the country TO hasten action
on the AriH hill have fallen Oft wonderful
ly, anl thu number 01 lobbyists ysurking
for changes in the tariff has Of late rapid
~ grown lCss, OF course two conclusions
arr drawn--oac that the people arr now
satisfied that the bill ia doomed, and the
either that they arr satisfied il will pass
substantially rs reported to the senate and
have arranged their business and gone 20
work on thar tslSis $50 that rs IL may. the
fact Is that thcy have pretty much quit
bonbariinv tho senate on tho subject.
\ Wide Range of Opinion.
After q evod deal Of pounding two or
thc'c senators have given a sort Of opinion
~ 10 the time of the hill in their house.
MIR voorhees, sttll hopes that it viii bc.
come law carly in June, and Mr. Sher
inan thinks IL will hc ont of the senate as
early as the lSt Of October. They allow
themselves u deal ot range. These an, the
cNtpmcs Other senators, 81 far as they
will eNpu,ss themselves range over the
whole perigd between these two dates,
Senator N.fon dccs not Sex any imperative
rsSon why they should ever step the dc
l0te ii no rlle is adopted. for by the timo
they get ar1und the senate those who spoke
FIRST can have fresh spcsches ready. and
thus, like I'cnnyson's hrook, 40 on for
ever, as this will accomplish their main
object of defeating nil INFORM legislation
whatever McElbcrs of the house are even
foocc scattering in their views Mr.. VII.
son writes that III Is regaiang strength
rapidly and will h able to take charge OF
the bill when IL i returned to the house
o@rly in tho SUMMER Mr.. Bro0kshire says
CoScy's army has driven the tariff out OF
his mind. nn1 he wants an order made
for MorSo Of Massachusetts, and Blair o.
New HaMpshirc tn meet said army at she
District boundary and make speeches 20
1t, John Alien says: Don't ask cepun-
drums | have SYN 81 many promising
sc'scaes como suddenly TO naught tthe
southern confeicracr. fer inStancel tha; /