Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-04-19

the House might as well send a bas,,-
wood man. A modern Robert Inger-
soil, if he depended on his oratorical
powers, would be unknown in the
House today. Debate has ceased vir-
tually in the national House of Repre-
sentativeS. 1t has become labratory
and not forum. A deaf and dunn
leader of the House is much more
probable now than IAN orator such as
Brutus is
Theoretically Congressman gets
$4,000 year. But scores of Congress-
men make their wives their secre
taries, and by saving their mileage
by riding on passes and outstanding
their stationery allowance, manage to
get $500 year. BY living as sim
| ply as possible. without being nigarG-
| ly. a Congressman and his wife car
get along and save a little money on
this. But they cannot even go into
the outer fringe Of what is called off
cial society. They must not expect II
dine out frequently or entertain ever.
their visiting constituents. And there
| is no doubt social influence in Con
gress. and the members who saves
anything from his salary must be con
tent to sacrifice some Of his prestige
| il he has none to sacrifice. and NJ
| reasonable hope Of any. he is justified
in saving what money he can save. It
| will do no good to raise the Congress
| mans salary for that would mere
raise the standard Of living. Nothing
can help the unknown member He
is the man with the five talents. NJ
system of government was ever do
vised and no scheme e living can n
adopted which is based on consider
atiCn for the inc0mnetPnts. And yet
they are in the vast and hopeless MT
joritv. And in the House Of Repro
sentatiyes. where the majority is SUP
posed to rule. if doesn't.
The majority accommodates itse.
to the minority-that knows how tc
get things done. In other days thu
minority was called the nobility
lords and dukes and what not: now
if the members Of the minority arr
on cur side we call them leaders. ant
if they are on the other side we cal
them bosses.
The national Congress is represe'l
tative Every social and economic
, condition that the fathers feared /:
: here: great wealth. deep poverty
greed. tethered by elastic legal rec
tape. a shoddv aristocracy lacking oc
~ noble titles, free land gone and tn,
, struggle for sheer creature cOmfort
5 growing keener-nO goblin from ii;
nightmare of the Conscript Father
! of the republic is absent from the re
:, atty of today. And yet here sits til
. representative part of the America
{ Congress, a sturdy, hard-headed Sc
E of Average Americans. going abOu
= from day to day. working under
cloture rule which theoretically miSh
5 permit few men to lead the whol
; body astry into the currents of COZ
i temporary license and iniquity. an
a the product of the representative bod
:. is wholesome and fair. and more san
! and equitable and righteous on tn
r whole and in the long run than the er
S actmcnts of any other legislative bod
that ever set in the world.
Persons who have hankerins fO
z physical problems and things tina
|. make the head ache might find it pre-
>. fitable to figure out how in the PR
: cess of political crystalliation natur
Il rejects the impurities and draws tt
e gether by almost divine prescienc
those things that are clean and {
u good report, and make them the u
5 innate legal expression of the Amer
a can spirit The man who shall fin
Z and proclaim the law that makes fo
1t righteousness in the trend of Amer
e can affairs will be known among me
e as a great scientist. In other da!
y such a man would have been ven
IL rated as prophet.-A. A. White
n the Saturday Evening Post.
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