The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-09-14
THE PEOPLE. TIiE POLITICIANS
AND THE rLrToCN,aCN.

! MHflL ANU 81 tli Y iNif'ltT ~ "t'ff'N
i this question We do not believe
representative government is fail-
{ ure We do not think that the re-
public is mistake. No form Of gov
eminent is better than ours. There
lis nothing the matter with our in
| stitutions The trouble Is with hu-
man nature. our representatives and
! senators are to blame and the peo-
lple themselves are 10 blame-the
/ former because they forget the peo-
/ pie. the latter because they do not
make themselves remembered.
| There is no doubt about the dis
| content of the people. 1t is apparent
! in the press and in common talk In
| all our cities and throughout the
country so great is the murmur that
/ the president has heard and heark-
ened A Taft to the rescue. He pur-
iposes TO take a grand tour this
month, going up and down the Unit
! ed States, endeavoring TO pour oil
upon the troubled waters, using gen
iality for the crouch, extending the
glad hand to those who are sore and
phophesying smooth things to
rough house.
A genius for mathematics, accord
ling to the Fitchburg Sentinel, has
| been ciphering on congress. He has
! figured it out that during the sum
mer session, which was of doubtful
value to the country, and which
! cost us a pretty penny if it is totaled
| have moved 10000 acres of grass
for lame farmers.
This humorous critic continues by
suggesting that congress could have
cut 5000 cords of stovewood for
grieving widows. They could have
| loaded. hauled and moved away 90
| 600 tons of timothy hay. They could
have hoed 10000 acres of corn.
They could have hilled 100000
| hills of potatoes They could have
| split and laid up 100 miles of fenc-
! ing. They could have gathered and
! prepared five tons of dried apples.
| They could have whitewashed 100
miles of picket fence. They could
| have prepared the ground and plant
ed the seed for enough turnips to
supply all the orphan asylums in
America. They could have visited
every IDIOT and lunatic asylum twice
over, spending three days on each
could have put in three months
sentence in county jail and been
restored to society and respectable
jty."
In conclusion, he tells us, con-
gress could have stolen the Yellow
stone Park twenty-seven times over,
lcouId have burglarized 10000
houses, stolen zoe cows, and
touched" 500 banks.
This is a good country said the
Hon. Leslie NJ Shaw in recent
speech and we are a good people.
our standards were never so high,
Iour ideals were never as lofty, our
Iservice was never as good and our
prospects were never more bright,
than in this blessed year OF grace
1909" There is no doubt about our
country being good, and our people
land our standards ideals and pros
jpects are all right. 1t is congress
! I.1
ont to revise the tariff downward
t and revises it upward. We are prom
, ised trust reform at the regular SEES
, sion in the fall, and we are going to
| get federal license bill that will
help the high politicians while the
trusts will be permitted to help
themselves. The Sherman antitrust
law is a good law and an effective
one. but it is not enforced. AS
scalp taker of the trusts Attorney
General Wickersham is a mighty
moor Indian; he has the tomahawk
but he holds it like squaw. Attor-
!, iney General Davidson, in Texas
showed the way, but Wickersham Is
not from Missouri; he doesn't want
to be shown.
But. while the people are discon-
tented, they are themselves TO
blame. In Texas we vote right, but
the majority Of the people elect a
republican president and a republi-
can congress, who seem to believe
that Wall street Is Olympus and the
New York Stock Exchange the Tenn
pie of Jupiter and that the consti-
tuition of the united States begins,
eve, the interests instead OF
1--WE. the people. Houston Chron-
icle
,Tla ORR, m hler who knows all the