The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-27
Arkansas Senator Makes
 Speech.
FUTURE FULL OF DISASTER
Deplores Speculation and Predicts
 Great War.
'Unless Congress Does Some Legislat-
 ang Fer cola Man People" He Thinks Government - May go To Pieces.

Washington, D. C., Jan. 2s.-The evils attending gambling in the pro ducts of the soil by the sale of fu- lures on stock exchanges was the sub 1ect of a passionate speech delivered by Senator Jeff Davis in the United States Senate today.
 Mir. Davis advocated the passage of . bill introduced by him to penalize the use of the mails. the telegraph or the telephone for the purpose of con- veying gambling propositions between buyer and seller.
 After advocating the passage of this measure Mir. Davis denounced what he declared to be evils of the touched upon the policy of maintain ing a protective tarifr as a part of g system which he declared was for the suppression of the rights of the people. Picturing. conditions In Rome at the time of Julius Caesar he described the death of Caeser as the price of Caesars love and service for the poor declaring.
 "Wouid to God we had Caesar in the White House today"
 Evil of Money Power.
 ! At the conclugion- of his narrative Of the acts of the Roman Emperor In securing laws to suppress usury and in obtaining legislation for the benefit of the poor of Rome followed by. hIs
 
 ;the treachery of money power twenty three knife wounds pierced his body.' 2 Senator Davis said: This sir, is a brief history of Rome and its great reformer. illustrating the lterrible fate that lies in the path of iany man who seeks to shake loose (from the throat of this Government these parasites of wealth, these stock gamblers. these stock jobbers that at- tempt to control the destinies of the Government, ] "Ah. the doney power may be press ang the American people too far. Tn some evil hour, in some unguarded moment a match may be. toushed to the fuse that connects with the hidden mine of discomfort and sdismay that is planted beneath this Republic, and ahuJder for the consequences.
 4 q read a little story in New York paper recently, illustrating aptly, think, the recklessness and wantor disregard of the peoples rights by the money power of the. Government It Is said that a. beautiful Italian girl with considerable property mar. 'ried one of her countFymen, believing that he was all that her young hear Ehad pictured him. to be. Soon she dis \Icovered that he was addicted to thu terrible vice. the liquor habit. Then ihome soon became @ firunkard's home 
 lin all it's hideous forms knocked a hkheir door, until finally she was com E6elled Co go out and earn atlivtng fol finer drunken husbana. She was final fly brought into court and tried. ant tto the judge she said: .. z" Judge, he finally suggested that sell myself for his support; he pressed me too far. Judge; and killed him
 Gu Dangerous Ground.
 "Ah, the money power of this Gov ernment Is treading upon dangerou ground They do not know. or els' they do not care, that the people ar. already ground doyn with taxation an' the weight of Government until thei hacks are almost broken beneath it load. They do not seem to appreciate the fact that in his power and strengh old Man People may rise and smigh them. would not be an. a4armisf sir. I predict here and now that unless conditions change, that unless tn Congress of the United States turns 1 listening ear to the lamentations O an outraged public, that within tel years there may be another Shenan uoah Valley, there may be anotne Gettysburg; the ed rbroom or war ma! heen swept before. and when that ra' shall break in all it's fury woe to tn crowd working the field of Legislation That have laid these grievous burden e,non the backs of the crowd working fhe field of human endeavor
 SnealSing of the "oligarchy o wea1th builded by legislation and leg SvIation alone" having reduced to al -n.ost serfdom the laborers of portion of the country the Senator continued ~rhis is a dark picture. I know wna tbe result may be. For the past tWeiV nnor,ths the country has been resAle -.,sty,. an exhaustive and learner arg MHen to whether or not the Presi IA+ o1 the United States had the rfgh
 sS.oharge A lot of kinky-heade 'I.-vers from the army Who, m S-T1ken riot, shot up helpless an 5aSenseless people. Ana more Ieoeu. tn 1y rve have been urged to lncLe .sa A salary rht more closely initiate roy alty. ,-.
 Government is Bankrupt
 ..and today face to face wit
 e,t in our public treasury o a,ro nno o00. Our government. IS panh x~t vet we are approprlatihB LII n,ssv of the people at the rate . aarbans a million dollars an hour, 1n @noioritv in Congress seem to pc u1 ai run s, on the wine of success nS ,,,bii nA dance and make merry Whll Rome burns. .,,. 4A. cav to you, MT. President, tha q. ts time we were calling a halt. am that the Congress of the United state teeislate for little while in the in teTest of old Man People He IS
 rnoT old man, bowed and bent wit sors venerable, with long, flowin Sesrd' You have each met him. sim .,Io and confiding, trustful and hope FuI he looks to this Congress fo aorna & relief, and I ask the Senator Sere to lend an attentive ear to hi demands before 1t is everlastingly to
 Ha declared that the panic of 190 s.,,ras organized on less than thre acres of ground in New York. wher thess two gigantic stock gambling in stitutions ply their wicked vacations.
 DenOuncins eSS the ,eey'Hs Ns% or Yorn gr01et eIt es a scene of poverty as proof tha this tarifr does not bring prosperit even to those who work in the shop of the protected interests.