Evening star., 1909-01-26
HITS STOCK GAMBLING
Senator Jeff Davis Assails
Evils of Money Power.
WARNS OF CIVIL WAR
Wishes Caesar Were in White House
to Deal With Crisis.
TREADING DANGEROUS GROUND
Arkansan Pictures Miseries of Un
employed-Declares Protection
Has Not Brought Prosperity.

speech deIVered Dy senator JeH DdFIS
in the Senate today.
When Mr.. Davis began to speak at
twenty minutes after 1 o'clock nearly all
of the republican senators and many Of
the democrats had already left the cham
her. number of others got up and
walked out after he was recognized by
the chair. During most of his speech
he spoke almost entirely to empty chairs.
The galleries were not we'll filled. and
this was in marked contrast to the
occasion of his first speech in the Senate
last December. i.
During the reading of the long title
of his bill to suppress pools. trusts. stock
gambling. etc, several senator's on both
sides of the chamber permitted them-
elves to smile very broadly.
Mr.. Davis advocated the passage Of a
bill introduced by him to penalize the
use of the mails. the telegraph or the
telephone for the purpose of conveying
gambling PROPOSITIONS between buyer and
seller
Advocating the passage of this meas
ure, Mr. Davis then denounced what he
declared to be evils of the money pow
err and incidentally touched upon the
policy of maintaining protective tariff
as a part of system which. he de-
clared. was for the suppression Of the
rights of the people.
Caesar Friend of Poor.
Picturing conditions in Rome at the
time of julius Caesar. he described the
death of Ceasar as the price of Caesar S
love and service for the poor. declaring:
Would to God we had Caesar In the
White House today
At the conclusion of his narrative of
the acts of the Roman emperor in secur-
ing laws to suppress usury and In obtain
ing legislation for the benefit of the poor
II Rome. followed by his tragic death
when surrounded by the treachery of the
money power twenty-three knife wounds
pierced his body" Senator Davis said:
This, sir. is a brief history Of Rome
ind its great reformer, illustrating the
terrible fate that lies in the path Of any
man who seeks to shake loose from the
throat Of this government these parasites
Of wealth, these stock gamblers. these
stock jobbers that attempt to control the
destinies of the government.
..'Ah, the money power may be pressing
the American people too far, In some
evil hour. in some unguarded moment, a
match may be touched to the fuse that
tent and dismay that is planted beneath
this republic. / shudder for the conse-
puences,
Instance Of Distress.
IT read little story in a New York
pdpcI EcCcHtlJ illustrating dVtiys j lI1uhs
the recklessness and wanton disregard Of
the peoples rights by the money power
of the government
1T is said that q beautiful Italian girl
with considerable property married one OF
her young heart had pictured him to be.
Soon she discovered that he was addicted
to that terrible vice. the liquor habit.
Their home soon became drunkard's 8
k<vvn h4n arfU
erty in all its hideous forms knocked at
their door, until finally she was compelled
to go out and earn living for her
drunken husband.
She was finally brought into court and
tried. and to the judge she said:
'.Jndge. he finally suggested that l
sell myself for his support. He pressed
me too far. judge. and killed him.
On Dangerous Ground.
''Ah. the money power of this govern
ment is treading upon dangerous ground.
They do not know. or else they do not
care. that the people are already ground
down with taxation and the weight of
government until their backs are almost
broken beneath it's load. They do not
seem to appreciate the fact that In his
power and strength old Man People may
rise and smite them.
Il would not be an alarmist, sir, but l
piSuiCl icIc duu ho~ tHdl uUtcSS cOuui.
tions change-that unless the Congress of
the United States turns q listening ear
to the lamentations Of an outraged pub
hc-that within ten years there may be
another Shenandoah valley. there may
be another Gettysburg; the red broom of
war may sweep this government as 1t
has never been swept before. And when
that day shall break in all it's fury. woe
to the crowd working the field of legis-
lation that have laid these grievous bur-
dens uoon the backs Of the crowd work
ing the field of human endeavor."
Speaking of the 'oligarchy of wealth
builded by legislation and legislation
alone" having reduced to almost serfdom
the senator continued:
This is dark picture. 1 know what
the result may be.
Brownsville Affair.
For the past twelve months the coun.
and learned argument as to whether OF
not the President of the United States
had the right to discharge lot of kinky.
headed niggers from the army. who, in a
drunken riot shot up a helpless and de.
fenseless people. And more recently we
have been urged to increase tho salary oi
all our public officials, that they might
more closely initiate royalty.
We stand today face to face with q
deficit In our public treasury of $50, con.
900. Our government is bankrupt: ye
we are appropriating the money of the
people at the rate of perhaps a million
dollars an hour
THE majority in Congress seem to b<
drunk on the wine of success They fid
die and dance and make merry whilt
Rome burns.
Il say to you, Mr.. President. that it i.
time We were calling halt, and that the
Congress of the United States legslat'
for a little while in the interest of ole
Man People
He is good old man, bowed and ben
with years; venerable. with long. flowing
beard. You have each met him. Simpl,
and confiding. trustful and hopeful. h,
looks 10 this Congress for some relief
And / ask the senators here to lend al
attentive ear TO his demands before it Il
everlastingy too late.
He declared that the panic of 1907 IVA:
organized on less than three acres o
ground in New York. where these tive
gigantic stock gambling institutions ply
their wicked vocations."
Evils of Protection.
Denouncing the levying of protectiv.
tariff he pictured New York city as
scene of poverty as proof that this tariff
does not bring prosperity even to those
who work i'm the shops of the protected
interests.
II ask you.'' he said. Ito go with me
10 the great cities and there inspect the
great army of unemployed as it marches
with sober, grim. threatening mien In
full review. CO with me to New York
if you nieaSe stand with me on ths