Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-24
cHAlRLEY Rouss pMrrs

CHARLEY ROUSl5 ElMHFS. To the State Herald
 MT. Charles Broadway Rouss has sent out from l1is dry goods and notion store in New York the following sansimens: 'sBryan and his conefofnsrate political fu- sion will not be permitted by my pres ence Qat commencement of the University of VBrgbnJa) and silent acquiesence, hum- bla citizen .hough l be, to become the champion of Thomas Jeffefsen. MT. Bry- an would never have been naugu- rated and he and hfs followers would only have been remembered as the ipstiga- tors of policy which had threatened the DJle of the republic
 lit is hardly possible to say to what ex- tent the Irdg suffering masses of the country will in the future rise up In arms to inaugurate plurocraufc president whom they had defeated at tff5 polls. MT. Rouss and Col. Teddy Roosevelt, now as- sis amt secretary of the navy, are com mitaad to lead them, sword in hand. to do that thing. Beth m m have declared that if Bryan is elected the man not elected shall be put in office to save 'the life of the republic" Suppose we elect Bryan to test the valor of these embryo Cur tiuses?
 Since the year 1867, TWO full years af- ter Appomataox. we have seen the fol- lowing great features of revolution per petrated in our midst. to wit.
 Congress adop- ed amendments to The NGI1SIlLuIlp1b or In- OIuttu ot1ttS iuRl had been Cpcnly and fairly rejected Tn the processes prescribed by the Constb.u- tl3it ttself
 Congress abosizh= q the governments of ten States that had been directly or in- direc ly recognized by the supreme court als valid governments and sit up in their stead an absolCta military despotism with power unrestrained over life and property, all in the time of absolute p5ace.
 
 form of declaring the election of presi- dsEit and vice-president laid down by the Constitution and set up i.i1e sO-calied efec oral commission instead for the ex- press purpose of defeating the inaugural ton of TildeD and imposing Hayes upon the country, who had been defeated by Ehe legitimate vote, both popular and Federal ella
 Congress hss lsgisIaAsd ard is yet lesis- lating 70 reduce th inas1es in America to the status. of the peoIs in India and the serfs tn Russia, t1} by the surrender of the COTS atuuonal prerogative of con- gress to co1n money and transfer the sup ply and cCft rol as .he currency to pr.va te corporations; @ by fine creation of pri- vaie eorporetts u,s. such as she sugar trust and the I:s-earftins. tal railioad com panies, protected by the taxes and boun- tics tei the sacrifice of producers and con- sumers. The sugar trust~win sell, for ex- ample, to osnaHufactprer of candy who dlSO itthfaS '-hS 5i5 HS SUBdF lruSl com mands more than three-fourths of the trade in sugar and Dlin.sh;s all dealers who violate their commands by refusing to sell to them at all. The railroads are now preparing b buy from congress leg islatl7n tflst tends to overthrow rec mt dscrees of tine supreme court adverse to the feature CT oppression in their deal ings with the pubic W iihIn a week past the gas comraa.es of New York city have consolidated uhda- 6ne nlaLngeA- ment, and thus prepared to throw out of employmart hundreds of clerks, bool- keepers, etn. together wkth tht}usands- of work men, with no reductions in the price Of gas. and 'le0s is positive defiance of the law against consolidation.
 Congress mat iIi the Sprsng of this year, 1897, summoned lawfully by the president The lower house daily pre- sents to the amazed world it's contempt uoIs disregard of the summons by re- fusing to legislate Congress assembled can exercise bdg one lawful fpnct'Oit nd that is the duty to legis!ate. There IS nothing in our system that recognizes congress as possessed of any place in that system but the function of legisiat- ing. If the htrlse preserves its. 0rganisa. tion merely for the purpose .sf nI;,ifying the snmmonsrof the presideft- in every light of the law that created | a fea- ture of a governmental system IS now dissolved and revolution is upon us in full force. Neither bra uch of congress cdn duibusH NJiHOut lI1e. tHESe0I or the other. Yet the house remains week after week ard month following month prac- ticing a mean legerdema in for the sole purpose of subduing the country to a proposed statute. openly and confessedly the very acme of class legisla tion. There is no power but-in the sword to prevent usurpation by government. If congress refuses to legislate. if the president re- fuses to perform his duties, if the court refuses to sit and render decrees there would be nothing but complete revo- lution where MT. Reed now gives us but a partial one. A "partiaP' revolutioni Is the status possible? Will |eongress" be in session when the senate passes the tariff bill? The house exists fer the ex- press purpose alone of adjourning twics a week of seven days-three days once, four days next, three days being the constitutional limit. As matters now stand, the president could not summon a congress that would be corg ess If the present house does not like the senate tariff bill, it may with perfect consist ency decide to continue to adjourn twice a week until the senate accepts the Ding ley bill
 MT Rouss has made millions and owns millions. He is a distinguished example. of the effect of republican party, pluto. cratic legislation, and it is not remarka- ble that he should declare most vehe- mently against Bryan and democracy. The reign of the mugwump is abroad in the land. Grover Cleveland and Mark Hanna are bearing fruit. and the flavor thereof is gall and wormwood in the homes Of the people
 If we hold up the hands of our peer less young leader; if we banish our fears; if we spurn "co-operation"; if we march hand in hand with all who are for us and speed our lances into the vitals of all who are against us. then to us ''There is a light about to break, there is a
 day about to dawn,
 Men of thought and men of action clear the
 way"
 J. w. DuBOSE.
 Rirn1ingham