The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-04-04
TINE oNsAf CONGRESS.
The Popular OptnIaa Of the DEPARTED
body rs Expressed by Many People.

alien buccaneers and pirates, as i
promised, it went into partne shiI
with them, broke all its pledges al,
repudiated all its principles 1t Ia.
immensely increased the already a.,
most in.olerable burdens Of she peo-
pie, and added to the horrors Of
want and misery. If this is III,
chance it wanted, the people are.
not likely to give it another in yea :
to come-Current Voice.
Nowhere else was the knowledge
that the useless and disappointing
flfty-third Congress had az burned
received with such evidences of sat
lsfaction ard such wild iubilation
as on the floor of the New York
Stock Exchange. Seldom has such
a scene Of wild eXultation hem wit
messed there. Gray headed and so
Der old men Joined with their Young
er compa mons in shouting and dane
ing like a lot of young Comanches
Tin horns and shrill whisti S added
to the din. Groans, Wells, cheers,
and whistles made d paude-
monlum Imposs bic to des cribe. The
most striking feature about the eel
ebratlon was the unan'mity With
which the brokers INDUCED IN it
Not good word for the late Con-
gress could be hearI among them
Saturday Globe.
Dead :: Yes, it's dead, this 53rJ
Congress; and the American people
will ever hold it In vivid memory.
The homeless farmer who lost h;s
roottree and his acres in the ire
mendous drop of cotton or wheat in
1898 or 4 will remember the 53rd
Congressional will curse it.
The bankrupt merchant, frantic
over the loss Of the Accommodations of
a liftime of toll, will ever remember
the 53rd Congressman will curse
it.
The countless unemployed, drift
ing from street to street, from town
to town, and from woe to woe, bit
terly recalling the days when there
was enterprise to plan work and
money to pay for it, will remember
the 53rd Congressional will curse
it.
And in years yet to come, the tax
payer bending beneath the load of
Cleveland Rothschild taxes, and find
ing it harder every year to get tn.
dollar to satisfy the gold Standard
tax, will remember the 53rd Con-
gress-and Will curse its hideous
record Of guilt.-People's Party Pa
per.
The New York Sun prints this:
A ''Democrat sick at the stomach"
living IN the once great party strong
hold of Queen county, Long Island,
sends us a question which we will
respectfully pass on for general con-
sideratinn:
'Did all the id fools south of
Mason and Dixon's line get into
this Congress-"
While nearly everybody is cursing
Cleveland and Congress, we proph-
cts stand by and say, eve told you
So" 1t is human nature to shift
and hence Congress
"lays it all on Cleveland" and Cleve-
land wantedl ito clay it on the other
fellow" but the people are not to be
fcoled.-People's Party Paper.
A billion dollar Congress is an
evil of itself, but when it acts in
conjunction with a picayune admin
istration and depleted treasury the
burden is doubly wearisome.-New
York Times.
In his opening prayer at the Acad-
envy of Music Sunday afternoon
last, the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
gave thanks that the 53rd Congress
had at last adjourned. Although
DR.. Talmage Was apparently sincere
in his offering of thanks, there was
a general litter all over the big hall
and one outburst of laughter.
"We thank Thee, 0 God" he said,
"that Congress his at last departed
and pray that you will forgive them
for what damage they have done.
Ard We ask Thee to nelp us straight
Gu our present financial difficulties y
DR.. Talmage delivered a sermon
from the text, "Man d d eat angels
food" New York Press.
No wonder this administra ion
doesn't want the people to see the
monthly statistics of exports and
imports. These cold, PLAIN figures
with their revelation of the swif'
shrlnkage of the sale of Ameri IAN
products abroad constitute the most
tremendous indictment of the Vii,
son bill thai has vet been drawn up
N Y. Advertiser.
When President Cleveland was in
augrated two years ago, Duffy Broth
ers, silk manufacturers, of this vii
lage, muzzled their factory whistle
and it has not been blown since, tn
working people going TO and from
their work without its melodioui
sound. The whistle will be blowr
again IN 1897 with the Inauguration
of good old tines.-(Fort Plain q
" Free Press.)
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