Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-02-12

| farce and a crime, and the J1me Is
close at hand when injustice of all
sorts will be rampant and the very
doom of the Republic will be threat
ened. 1t would seem that nothing but
the desire to invite crime and injus
tice at the polls was actuating ma
jority in congress.
Soon after the result of the election
of 1892, when it became known that
both the administration and congress
were in democratic hands great alarm
was manifested in business circles.
and from that time to this matters
have been going from bad to worse.
That the alarm was not false or i'm
aginary may be seen by what the party
in power has attempted to do in the
first year of its rule.
Several thousand pensioners were
dropped from the pension rolls on the
assumed presumption that their claims
were fraudulent, this without sanction
of law, and, at defiance of the gener-
al public sentiment.
An effort has been made by the
President to force back upon the peo-
pie of the Sandwich Islands an igno-
rant, wicked and detestable woman,
who was discarded by the people of
her realm, and the offer of the Islands
themselves as a gift to this country
has been rejected. At this time the
party in congress is trying to white
wash the president in his illegal and
unfortunate interference.
The silver interests of the Western
States have suffered, in their beliefs,
by the silver legislation already done.
The House has passed SO called
mex that diminishes revenues, strikes
a heavy blow upon all manufacturing
and mining industries, at the same
time destroying the protective feat
ures of the Mckinley bill which was
created to protect the farmers inter
ests from the injury inflicted by for
eign free importations.
The laboring classes have been told
in the discussions of the tariff bill by
democratic orators that it was the ex-
pectation that wages would be cut.
The wage Garner helping thereby to
bear the burden Of democratic folly.
The only Federal authority over cleo
tions has been removed and matters
in national and congressional electors
will be allowed to go as you please,
shot guns, stuffed ballot boxes, count
outs, tissue ballots, murderers and all.
Such are some Of the results Of the
first years. effort to rule the country.
The absurd custom Of counting only
such members as record their votes
on questions before the U. S. House
of Representatives, in the making up
of quorums, is at this time making
the democrats great deal Of trouble.
1t will be remembered that a tremen-
dous hue and cry was made against
Speaker Tom Reed few years ago
when he took the ground that every
member present in the House should
be counted. He was charged with
great unfarnoSS ana CauoQ ''CZar
Reed" in contempt, but he went
straight ahead and legislation and the
majority ruled. Now the tables are
turned, the republicans are holding
the democrats right up to their for
mer practices and whenever it is
shown that the democrats lack quo
rum on their side of the House the
republicans refuse to vote, and quo
rum must be hunted up or legislation
stops. Reed was right, as common
sense declares and courts have decid-
ed, but it will take the moss back
Bourbon party some years longer to
discover the truth. By and by when
they come to know the good sense
and the necessity of doing as Reed
and the republicans did, they will de-
clare that they either discovered the
thing or have always favored it,
Senator Hoar in his address in the
senate on the Federal Election bill.
which the democrats have repealed
said
'Wherever," there is a crevice
in our protection of the freedom of