The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-21
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USAyOYARD" HALLS YOUNG CON-
 GREssMAN SHIRLEY.
Rewiuner in Congress Who Put Bourke COckran, the Greatest OraaOr Of the Times, to FIight-H0sne
 Rule and the Republic.


 We are told in ancient and classic legend that Orpheus. one of the Argo- nauts, was a musician beyond compare and that when he struck his Tyre rocks and trees followed him, so entrances were they. Orpheus fell in love with Miss Eurydice and married her. put the moment the wedding was over snake came along and bit the bride, and she diad The story goes that she was transported to a disreuputable com munity called in classic speeches Hades. Orpheus was disconsolate anu sought her even there. It appears that tbere was A gentleman by the name or Sisyphus down there, and his task was to roll a big rock up hill and the rocA never reached the top, or approacneo IL; another person in that society was man of the name of Ixion, who had amused himself on earth by murdering a sister. His job in Hades was to pc chained to a wheel which perpetualy revolved. There were other gentlemen of more or less responsibility In tnls earthly life, who had been sent IneIe and were doing other ana VaFieIS e stunts, all very irksome. when OE nheus got there and touched his harp all Tonhet huslFed-all tasks ceased. Hecate was again the chaste Diana. again the modest Luna, Pluto turned Methodist. And all was joy in He'll
 I once heard very eloquent preacher of the Gospel of our Lord make re- mark like this: If the truth were once uttered in Hell the fires or that region would get to be an ice house Tn the twinkling of an eye
 There was some old-fashioned, gem uine Democracy spoken in Congress a week or two ago, and 1t Is strange to me that some miracle did not result- that the Hon. Sisyphus did not cease to roll the stone, that the Hon. Axlon did not stop going round and round and round, but above all the dslounu- laol inq things was that MT. Swager Sner- lev,s sneech did not cause the Demo- cratic contingent in Congress to turn Deruocratfc; yet 1t had an excellent er- feet and induced some Democrat sim ners to seriously consider the proprt- etv and the policy of going to the po- liticaI mourners' bench, asking the prayers of the elect and with sllsht hope of regeneration. ....
 Mr Sherley's theme was the Republic the American System. He pleaded for the ancient principles of the fathers He sounded a call to duty and to arms He demanded that the Democratic marty should again be Democrat. Ours | is the representative system. the most successful governmental policy yet Tn vented by mankind, and ours is dual | government. the mystery ana the oe- l spair of alien statesmen.
 If seems that there are some big | life insurance companies in New York | that have been embedding the moneys of their policy holders to buy Preslden- | tial elections, bribe State Legislatures and things like that.
 MT. Bourke Cochran. unrivalled as | an orator in my opinion since $. S. | Prentiss, and I have heard Beecher, Bryan, Ingersoll. Carpenter, Blaine, Breckinridge and some others, took the nosition that because these insurance l rascals were stealing hundreds of thousands, and even millions, of the savings of the people, the general gov ernment should take them in ward un- der the clause of the constitution which l guarantees a republican form or gov ernment to every State.
 | We tried that In the days of South | ern reconstruction, and If there was any infamy the United States did not sound and then dig up, 1t has escaped the memory and would elude the lm- | agination of any man. If you can take charge of an insurance company De- cluse somebody connected with it is a | sco1ndrel and put 1t into the guardian shin of the Federal establishment where Is the limit of Federal author ity?
 Then there are people who say the l Federal authority shall control the in- surance business because it Is inter- state commerce. That is another mon- strous heresy. If insurance Is inter- state commerce so Is the theatre busi- ness. so Is a savings bank. A dramatic company organized in New York plays in every State; savings bank doing business in New York, may loan money in Texas. Suppose the theatre com pany organizes a rotten show-hy no means an impossibility; or suppose a savings bank has a dishonest cashier and that is not only not impossible, but exceedingly probable-then the Fed
 eral establishment must step in' take