People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-25
Is ROUNDLY DAMNED.
OPINIONS OF THE FIFTY-THIRp
CONGRESS.
The Most Consumate Set OF Politicl
Jackasses Ever Convened on the Face
Of the Earth-Populists and Repub-
licans Condemn Them.

| observed. we nave no disposition 10
add to its denunciation. We might
single out members who especially de-
serve reprobation, and there are 9TH
ers who have stood out strongly as
statesmen and patriots in the hour of
trial. 1t need not have failed in deal
ing with the tariff; the responsibility
mere is with few men, who refused to
subordinate their selfishness to their
party's welfare. 1t was a foredoomed
failure in treating the currency.-Bos-
ton Herald Rep.).
With a legacy of Republican misru!o
confronting it at the very start it was
the duty of the Fifty-third congress
by wise craftsmanship to increase the
revenues, restore financial confidence.
decrease expenditures and enlarge
rather than restrict the markets for
American products. In all these things
1t has signally failed, and that in the
face Of light and knowledge. -Philadel-
phia Times Pop.).
The country has been saved from
much bad legislation by the confusion
IN the Democratic ranks. Like the men
OF Sodom, their eyes seem to have been
blinded while they were trying to find
the door to Lots house to bring dis
aster upon them. Let the Republicans
take warning from the great failure
They are better organized and better
disciplined. 49, Minneapolis Journal
Rep)
In its last hours the Fifty-third con-
gress has more than sustained its
evil reputation. A few extravagant
jobs escaped, but they are not many.
There was very little restraint from
any quarter upon the prohigate dis
regard for the condition which was
needed was that of the lobby urging
greater inroads on the treasury.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch Rep).
At last the Fifty-third congress has
expired by limitation, and it will have
no more influence over the business
and political situation. It has been
unequal to the task Of improving those
conditions, because it did not appre-
ciate the gravity of the emergency.
There has been too much of politics in
1t and too little of patriotism.-Mil-
waukee Journal POp).
The Fifty-third congress was elected
in hope. 1t has ended in disappoint-
ment. 1t was confronted with great
opportunities. 1t failed to improve
them. The whirlwind OF popular wrath
which swept away the Democratic
majority last fall finds an echo in the
sigh of relief that greets its disap-
pearance from the scene.-New York
World (Pop.-Dem.).
1t has spent more time in actual ses-
sion than any of its predecessors in re-
cent years. 1t has been more roundly
condemned than any of its predeces-
sors Of any period. 1t has had many
and grave faults. But it would be I'M
just to allude to them without adding
that it has shown some striking and
sterling virtues.-Kansas City Times
Pop).
Men say it was the worst congress
ever known. At least there is a fair
prospect that no other like it will be
be seen for many years to come. Even
the free trade fanatics, with all their
want Of practical sense, will hardly
vote for another such congress as the
one which buries itself in dishonor TO-
day.-New York Tribune Rep.).
If the people of the United States
had chance to vote on the proposition
they would make the 4th of March a
national holiday forever, in grateful
commemoration of the fact that on the
4th Of March, Ammo Domini Eighteen
Hundred and Ninety-five, the Fifty
third congress passed out of existence.
Courier Journal Pop).
The adjournment of congress will be
an unmixed blessing. The country is
anxious to push forward toward re-
cuperation, and so long as congress was
in session nothing could be done for
fear of some egregrious folly that might
retard prosperity Chattanooga Times
Pop).
The eliminating culpability and re-
proach Of the Fifty-third congress is
not that 1t failed-since that was in
evitable-but that it invested that fail
ure, when it might have been pathetic
or heroic, with the characteristics of
a monumental farce.-Scranton Trib-
une Rep).
1t is possible that in the years to
come we may have a congress that will
be more incompetent and wrong-head-
ed than the Fifty-third, but God save
the United States of America il such
a dispensation for its sins should befall
it.-Buffalo Commercial Rep.).
The Maxim Gnn.