The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1895-03-02
Farewell Fifty Fourth Congress.

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will terminate the existence of the 54th
Congress of the United States. There
have been other turbulent congresses,
but no other ever went into retire.
ment with as much satisfaction to the
people as will the present one. tt
began its labors at called session
Assem- bled to repeal law to which the
goldbugs alleged all the financial trou-
bles in the country we're due, and those
same goldbugs brought about panic
more direful in it's consequences than
any which, in the history of the coun-
try, had ever preceded it to accom-
plish their purpose. The history OF
the two years during which the present
administration has had the control Of
the country, has been record of wrong
done to the masses and of the agran-
disement of trusts, bankers, monopolists
and money kings such as has never
been made before. More industries
have been strangled, more enterprises
suspended, more railroad and msnufac-
turing corporations gone into liquida-
tion, and there are more smokeless
chimneys and idle machinery, more
strikes and labor troubles, more armies
of idle men, more want and misery in
the land than ever before.
Who, aside from the Rothohilds, Bel
monts, Morgans and the great interest
gatherers and bankers, managers of
sugar, whisky and oil trusts and other
great leeches sucking the life blood
from the body polite has pro6ted by
this condition of affairs?
For thirty years the country had
been steadily reducing its debts; but
now in times of profound peace and
abundance, we ore confronted with
conditions under which the nation has
become borrower at rate of interest
which would scarcely be demanded
from the smallest and poorest govern
ment in Europe and rapidly empty
ing treasury is replenished only by the
secretary making secret and before un-
heard of contracts with the greatest
shylocks of the world.
But the record of our shame and dis
grace does not end with our financial
misdoings. One of the fret acts of our
puffed-up and conceited executive was
to send an obscure blundersr to haul
down the American flag, floating as
smybol of sympathy and protection in
the capital of young republic which
had received the recognition of our own |
government and other great powers
after just emerging from the reign of
half civilized and repulsiYe qneen.
How much longer under such an ad-
ministration, with such congress ION
its hands," would it take this great,
enlightened, free and progressive people
to become the serfs of the money kings
of the world? But there is no need of
asking this question, That time will
never come, although the people may
have to be ground down still further
before they will learn the causes which
are producing the effect. We only
hope they may learn it soon enough to
make the ballot box the means of cor
recting the troubles. There will be
reform whether it come through silent
ballots or by other means to be deplored.
Goodbye, 54th congressl We wish
we were saying farewell to the execu-
tive, Cleveland, Gresham, Carlisle and
Hoke Smith as we'll. You are secure
from ever sinking into obscurity. "The
youth who fred the Ephesian
dome outlives in frame etc.n and Nero
and his fiddle are still mentioned in
song and story.