The Kansas headlight. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1894-1894, 1894-09-14
DEMOCRATIC PERFIDY.
Both President and Congress Under t
Control of Trusts and Combines.

! bOtn ana congress Cnuer the
| Control of Trusts and Combines.
| The Congressional Record contains
some remarkable speeches inserted
under the leave to print" resolution
| adopted by the house. Each days
issue of the Record, says the Washing.
ton correspondent of the Monochrome
list, is burdened with oratOrv that did
not flow in the halls of congress and
some of it makes interesting reading.
| Tom l.. Johnson, the fearless street
railway king of Cleveland" as he is
called by some people, pays his re-
spects to the president as follows in
his leave to print"
Administration, house and senate, our con.
duct is all of a piece. We have not honestly
tried to reduce taxes as we said we would: we
have not honestly tried to abolish the trusts,
as we said we would. On the contrary, and
from the beginning, we have shown the most
tender SOlicitude for the welfare of trusts and
rings-the most solid disregard of our pledges
to the people. That we are to go back to our
constituents giving a stone where we had
promised bread; that, a result of our declar-
'atlon that we would abolish trusts we are TO
gorge them with additional millions wrung by
our actions from workingmen and toiling
women many of whom are almost literally
starving; that party brought into power in
overwhelming victory has been so soon covered
with shame is due, primarily, to Mr.. Cleveland
ana, Secondar1ly, to the ways and means COM
mlttee of this house, which, I doubt not acted
from first to last in full sympathy with him
And IN saying this am only saying what de.
clared in my speech of January 10, a speech
which would ask those who have a copy of it
to read again.
But herei the story in brief: Mr. Cleveland
seems never to have comprehended what he
inn Tod To ID H.rr.I,, a.
OF US and seems all along to have been more
afraid Of the radical democrats who elected him
than OF the protectiOnist democrats who DID
their best to beat him. Instead of calling con-
greSS together on the 4th Of March 1893, to re- I
peal the Mckinley act, break the backs of the |
trusts ana give the people at least revenue |
larlH as ne was urged TO do, he let the country /
suffer under the Mckinley act, while he devoted |
himself to task infinitely less important-a !
task IN which he is certainly not great polit- I
zeal SucceSS-that of peddling out offices. And /
When, after lapse Of almost seven months of !
invaluable time he called congress together at /
last ne committed the tactical mistake OF ig- /
norng the question on which the party as a (
Dody were united ana were thirSting for action
ana OF calling for the consideration Of the ques-
ton on which they We're hopelessIy divided
Then instead OF passing at once from the sill
yer question TO the tariff question we adj
lourned and did not take up the most important
OF all matters TO the country and to the party
until the regular session in December. when
partly by the friction caused by the silver fight
ana partly by the dissatisfaction Of giving ont
oI1ceS, the democratic touch in the house had I
oeen largely lost and there was decentralization .
where before there had been unanimitv. and
When the trust and local special interests in
favor OF protection lad had time to get in their
work. 0''
Abiding to the United States senate
and the chairman of the WAYS and
means committee. Mr.. johnson saws:
What It (the sen2te) has done is virtually to
put the bill which we sent il into its waste
basket and under the form Of proposing amend
inents to return to US an essentially new bill
aud that with P. impudcpt demand that ab9n.
don3ng the hi. hitch originated here. we must
iaAe the bill lat originated there. without
dottinE an 81 or crossing a ~ and accent il
rs our bill In this. senators. or at least thozr
"A0 assume 20 >pcak for them. not merely fss!rr
the constitutional functions ot the house h-.,
.aeF deny 20 rs even the poor privilege Of D-o- .
posing amendments 70 the bin which ORIGINATE,
win them and would reduce the popular branch
u congress. the house % repre- eutative@ Or .
me I altcd states. 10 the irunfn5u3ous roSftfor
d NTH wheel - the cgach-a BODY which il
permitted 20 talk bgt 10: 70 lcgfSlatc. Ana
democratic representatives are asked by >
democratic caucus 20 consent 10 this And r
-u5 in the irno-l0v. the chairman u the yravs
nd means committee has been asked ana has
consented 10 officially make the proposition 20
ne house To nv mind proper sense q his
'"I o13cial dignity and ~ the dignity and rrr
.;ltat.o1al rights Of The house would have led
IN FasleF 10 see the caucus in the flames =