The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-01-10
GOOD.

GOOD.
We have enjoyed reading no mans
.spsech il the present Congress more
shan that Of Hon. o. M. Ken,i popu'
list representative from Nebraska.
4 From IT We have gotten more true in
syardness, OF the working Of Congress
than from any other source. Whilst
Mr.. Kens remedy for financial evils is
frse coinage Of silver and its equal dis
tribution in meeting the obligations OF
the government, it is pleasure to see
how he roasts the Republicans in his
sneech On recent financial matters
pu blished in the Congressional Record
81 Jan. 3rd from which we take the
following extracts
s.rhe root Of the evil does not start
in tariff laws, but in bad financial laws
and nolicies, for which both parties are
RESPONSIBLE. The Republicans are re.
snnnsible for all Of the bad financial
y laws plac0u uUOu tnC ceoSaeS SoSANS 80
the last thirty years.
what right has Mr.. Payne, a life
long Republican, to criticise the Presl-
don't for issuing these bonds? Does
rot Mr.. Payne know that the law OF
1875 is Rspu blican law, and that M.
Cleveland is simply carrying out this
law as Interpreted by the Republicans
- while Sherman was Secretary OF the
Treas ary--to the effect that It was the
policy Of this Government to redeem
all Of it's coin obligations 10 gold alone?
These are facts SO plain that every man
with intelligence enough to vote know
them to be true, yet Mr.. Payne and his
colleagues on the foor and throughout
the country are believing like the
!. hnlls If Bashan about the President is
suing DO DIS. IT he is doing it by law.
1t is the Republican law which is at
\ fault.
II the Republicans mean that all obi
cations shall be redee med in gold. why
\ were they not honest enough to bring
"a ia bill here providing for gold bonds
lHStGaQ Oh COLI UOHuS5 VHy ILLS ouD
terfnge? Why this juggling with
words? If coin means gold alone, why
not say so outright? oh, what peril
dy! Still trying to fool the people BY
y fighting Grover Cleveland, who has be-
come unpopular because he, in an open
y and bold way, carried out the law you
enacted even to your own interpreta'
ton thereof. The only difference be-
tween you and the Administration 49,
Won have been doing and are still seek
ing to do In covert manner what Mr..
Cleveland has done open and above
board.
just 70 long as this Government
maintains the insane policy of redeem
ing these coin obligations in gold alone,
it has got TO keep up the equally insane
policy of perpetually issuing bonds.
President Cleveland insists on the re-
tirement of the greenbacks as the only
effectual way in which to protect the
gold reserve, and submit that II this
fools policy Of boarding hundred
million of gold in the Treasury to re-
deem outstanding Treasury notes is to
be kept up the President is right, and
Inc only StuSlotc 1HluS W w 10 w Pus
Them where they can not continually
be presented TO take gold out.
our National Congress is not only a
f,st class despotic oligarchy but gil
gantic fraud in many respects. Near
" all Legislation is done by committees
and
at will be seen that the little State
of Maine, the State of Massachusetts,
and the State Of Iowa have more pow
er in. directing the business of the
House of the American Congress than
practically all of the other States in
the Union. This Is an offspring of the
rule that members must be advanced
according to their seniority on the CON-
mittees, and the people of these favor
ed states have seen fit to return theirs
for = great many years. Under this un
representative rule the little State of
Maine. with less than 10000 inhabit-
ants, has Mr.. Dingley, chairman Of the
Committee on Ways and Means; Mr..
Roufelle. chairman of the Committee
ON Naval affairs; Mr.. Milliken, chair.
man az the Committee on Public Build
iuus and Grounds; and the Speaker,
who also has the first place on the Com
mitfee ON Rules. This little State has
four Representatives in the House and i
four chsirmanships and the Speaker
shin. being far more than have all the
states froiu Colorado to California. In
elusive. and, yet California has nearly
twice the population and about four
times the area and wealth.
The population of Iowa is about so
10000, aud she has eleven Representa-
YES. There are seven good places to
scredit Of the State. as follows; Hem
son. chairman OF fhc COMMITTEES on
Judiciary. who also has the second
On the lnmmlllen on Lnles next