The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-04-11
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Lovers Of Their Country Need Not
Long for Their Return.
SHORE InteIIectunI Giants in United
states senate To-day Than Ever
before - The Case
Proved.
rspee1al Waghington netter.l
HAD only been here two day

Especial Washington letter.
CGT HAD only been mere two days,
when it became very apparent
to me that the statehood bill
would not be passed" said Mr.. Frank
! H. Greer, of Guthrie, Okla.
"You cannot imagine the feVerish
expectation with which all of our peo-
pie have been reading the press dis
patches concerning the legislative sit
uation on that matter of statehood. 1t
has been talked Of in church and Sun
day school, as well as in public schools
n all public places. Our little chill
dren know that our people are anxious
for their rights of citizenship, and are
taught what it all means to US.
IL lave been greatly impressed with
the United States senate" continued
this obseryant business man of b
southwest. ''The more Ihave seen OF
that body the more of an optimist |
have become, and / do not long for
the good old days Of which so many
modern pessimists speak; and speak.
thoughtlessly as well as imperiously
and dogmatically.
Ever since the organization Of the
federal government the senate has
been composed of great men. Of every
decade we may emphatically say:
There were giants in those days. But
that Should not carry with it the i'm
plication that there are no giants in
these DAYS also. Glance over them with
hastE memory, and take up the men
whose names stand out like promon-
torie5. John quincy Adams, in the
housed of representatives., ~hammering
away continuously and diligently until
: he secuged recognition of the right of
petitionS
John. j, Calhoun was the brightest
intellect on his day on one thing, the
right of SECESSION; the extreme con-
clusion of t&e doctrine Of state SOW
e~reignty. III was a specialist. Daniel
Webster is eminent both as an orator
and a cong t~utional lawyer, another
speci2list Henry Clay you think of
as thR{y COMPROMISED, another
-specfaEg Justin S. Morrill,, the pro-
moter on tariff act of the civil war,
a specially! John A. Logan, the
mouthpiec9pf the veterans of the
union armi another specialist. Sen
ator Doolitls, of Wisconsin, famous
as opponent reconstruction, another
specialist.
''There ar cores of others, all great
men, but the names come up first in
memory. Aw look at our modern
senate. WI are the specialists? 1
cannot see IA one. They are all big,
broad-mind pen; scholars, orators,
lawyers, col Iutional lawyers, inter
national lay Listen to them in
7-b,+a and INlr
gors overvN d Of Investigation and
-cbs S,Alists are not broad
I,en howan{ Feat they may be in
49, particJN@elds.
sT do not 1--we there ever was in
~ senate Greater orator than
\ S~Hooner. Of tosonsin, nor a better
\ ~aosoner, Sftr Depew, of New
ToTk. is one dlmost pleasing speak
aver see1 be senate or on any
o+Form or Pq forum. These meI
Paaok readily1l subjects, and theil
o~r,diances ar9ynIy entertained, bu'
instructed
..Orr stated bill has been defeat
IA Nv Seaatd feridge, of Indiana
~ muyt gim the need of prais
H. biuwneha ; men in the senat
H. msntihs He is an orator Q
Aoo+ notvF, a e of the most reaP
N+as he ate has ever knoFFl
i~sfenedand yet always D&nI
Has a I3 worker, andy NJ