Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-16
JENKINS ROLLS
HIS HEARERS
Our Congressman Gives Vent to His
Injured Feelings.-HasN NO Use
for Preachers or Reformers

Chippewa Falls addressed large audi
ence at the court house in this city last
Friday evening. The night was oppress-
lively warm and the crowd of $50 or 400
were scattered out over the lawn. The
Glen Flora and Ladysmith bands dis
coursed music before and after the
speaking.
K. S. Reeves opened the meeting
with few remarks, in which he re-
ferred to the policy prevalent in New
England of keeping representatives in
congress indefinitely. Our congressman
is serving his seventh term and he ex-
pressed the belief that he should be re-
turned.
The NewsBudget regrets that it is
unable to give its readers a verbatim
report of the speech. Had we antici-
pated it would have been of so radical
nature, we would have had it reported
by stenographcr and printed it in full.
Among other things, he called atter-
ton to his high position in congress as
chairman of the judiciary committee,
position belonging not to himself, but
to the people of his district. 1t mat
tered little to him personally if he were
wiped off the map-someone else would
take up his arduous work of legislating
for ninety millions of people. If the
voters turned him down the loss will be
theirs, not his. AS head of the most
important committee in congress he
carries the biggest load of any man in
the country. While discharging his
duty at Washington he had been mali
ciously assailed at home and would
answer some of the false statements.
A man to accomplish anything in con-
gress must have standing, which can
only be attained by long service-a new
man must begin at the foot of the lad
der;-he had served with twenty COVER
nors, and by dint of energy had reached
the leading place in the House, outside
the speaker. He is the only member
of the Judiciary committee not college
graduate. He had been maligned by
men who call themselves Christians,
but who will be made to scortch when
God gets hold of them. He has no in
terest in legislation other than to dis
charge the duty incumbent upon the
position which has been filled by Web
ster, Calhoun, Blaine, Buchanan and
Reed. The constitution limits the pow
ers OF congress. He had received num-
erous communications from temperance
workers; he will not submit to that class.
The national government has nothing
to do with the temperance movement.
The states can legislate as they see fit.
Should congress legislate against the
interstate commerce of liquor the great
vineyards of California and the millions
invested in the liquor industry would be
lost. These hypocritical, nonsensical
would-be reformers are talking only for
what revenue there is in it for them.
Such a measure as they propose would
be a violation of our treaties with for
eign countries and might result in war.
lie dom want to meet these fanatics
He ridiculed Lenroot's S idea of govern
ment aid for road building. Congress
has no power to build roads and no
money if it had power There are no
post roads today-the railroads car
ry the mail. The revision of the tariff
would be dangerous undertaking and if
it is to be revised it should be
done by experienced men. There
are no trusts, and the corpora
tions are under the control of the states.
The address was marked by vindic-
tive vituperation, so bitter and so
sweeping that it first surprised and
then disgusted his hearers and caused
them to forget anything meritorious he
may have said.
His statement that God Almighty
would not use preacher for ''rat bait"
showed plainly our congressman's dis
respect for everything good and pure
and was palpable pardering for the
applause of the lower strata of society,
whose solid vote he is counting on for
reelection. Cat Bruce the next night he
made statement calling in question
the morality of the preachers and wo-
men of the church,
AS in his former campaigns the pro-
noun of the first person was very MOTTO
ible. A small boy who gave close at
tention to the speech, when asked what
he thought of our congressman, emitted
the exclamation: Gee; he's the whole
thing down at Washington, isn't he!'
Mrs Max Anime of SartnlI MINI