Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-03-31
that HOUSE SCRAP
WAKING UP OF CONGRESS AN
UNDISGUISED BLESSING.
Public Mind of Growing Belief that
the Hook Worm Had Seized Con-
greSS. People We're too Long In.
suited by Cannon Tyranny.

A scrap like that in the House of
Representatives has many compen-
sations in the public mind. The
country had about concluded that
the hook worm had taken possess
sion of Congress, or that the Sleep
ing sickness had become epidemic in
Washington. The country had al
reason for this belief. 1t had a good
many 1t will do no harm to men
tion few of them
1. The Panama canal is being
hurried to completion, but were it
ready for business today, we would
have no ships to pass through it,
save few war ships, and they
would have to take along some chart
cred foreign ships to supply them
with coal, and Congress does not
seem to be doing anything to restore
to the country it's lost merchant ma
rine.
2. BY our legislation of 1878 and
1893 we have closed quite half the
ports and people of the world against
our exports and by the same legis-
lation we made it possible for the
Orient to supply us with iron, steel
rails, cotton and wooden cloths and
a multitude of other articles, at one
tenth what our own artisans can sup
ply those things for. and when these
facts have been laid before Congress,
the sleeping sickness had seemed to
suddenly sieZe the whole body of both
houses, and the only response which
the President has seemed able to
make has been to smile
3. We heard two years or more
ago, that committee was engaged
in drafting currency system for the
country and that the chairman of
that committee, Senator Aldrich, had
expressed the wish that he might be
able to present a system of finance
for the country that would be so
nearly perfect that it would act like
moving the previous question and
shut off all future debate. There are
some people who have been ungener-
GUS enough to express the belief that
the Senator has both the hook worm
and the sleeping sickness.
4. Every little while some gent
leman throws off his drOwsiness long
enough to rise and express the con-
victiOn that the government ought
| to conserve our natural resources,
and no other gentleman has had the
strength to express the opinion that
every such gentleman is the lneal
descendant of sires who made their
fortunes grabbing everything right
and left, timber lands, water power,
coal and iron mines, marble quarries.
building stone quarries, phosphate
beds, oil lands, salt marshes, soda
beds. mineral springs-everything in
and out of sight, and that the gentle
mans present solicitude is an Inherit
ed fear felt by his ancestors that
some other natural grabber would
get ahead of them.
! Hence the story of that scrap last
Saturday was welcome news. 1t was
an indication of red blood still in the
veins of Congress, that the hook
worm had lost it's hold and that the
sleeping sickness could be shaken off
If the remedy was only drastic
enough.
That the dignity that should per-
tain to that august body was cast
aside for the time did not matter.
When the cyclone is sent to clear
the air, it has no time to stop and
pick out the trees that it is going
to rend And then there was a
world of good sense in the reply of
the old Mississippi doctor who was
told by man that he had been in
suited by one beneath him, one who
was no gentleman, and asked what he
should do. The reply was, when
: n man in Mississippi needs licking,
we lick him and inquire into his
pedigree later"
The country had about reached the
: conclusion of the woman whom q
} neighbor tried to sympathize with af-
} ter her husband had blackened her
} eyes. Don't do that" said the af-
7 flicted wife, Il don't need it, ! am
: glad of it. | rejoice over it on ac-
: count of my children. I did not
! think the low-down cuss had the
, spunk to do it," Seriously, it was a
} good thing. Parties are necessary in
a republic, and parties have to en-
force rules to preserve their organi-
l zation and maintain their working
front; but when partisanism degen-
crates into tyranny, until mans
t honest opinion is made an excuse fol
4 oppression and attempted oppro'
= brium: then it is time to take or
e the thought that after all the peo.
e pie are supposed to rule this cOun-
try through their representatives ant
= when they are insulted or ignored
then the people are insulted and ig-
nored, and it is time for an insur-
rection. - GOodwins Weekly, Sal
Lake.