The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-05-02
Vitrol and Soothing Syrup
Don't Mix Naturally
SUCH ARE DEMAGOGUERY
The Speaker Says--Suggcstive Talk
About Grants World Tour and
Failure TO Catch the Public
Eye.

can CRUZ hefe nabAfUHA hlRht3 khNt Hih
views Oh the tariff, the high cost Of
living, the new rules committee and the
old political coalition that was formed
against President Grant.
Although Uncle Joe was talking Of
insurgency in the years gone by IL was
perfectly apparent that he intended that
his pointed remarks should be applied
to conditions confronting the Republi-
can party in and out Of Congress to-
day.
Speaker Cannon. after delivering a
eulogy upon the life Of tile great Amer
lean general and former president. an
lnounced that he had been asked To say
word about the rules Of the House,
"after the ocean Of words that have
been hurled at the rules in the last
two years. Thomas B. Reed once
sad,R the speaker said, shat the noise
made BY a small but loud minority in
the wrong IS too often mistaken for
the voice Of the people and the voice
Of God That remark applies to the
discussion of the rules
The speaker said shat the rules were
the development Of 1870 years, that they
were substantially as they had been for
Ia generations; that a campaign against
the rules made % years ago brought
out ell the dennnciation made within
the last two years. and that on the
former occasion it was the loud minor
lily" trying to dictate legislation "The
Democrats We're in the minority in the
l5lst Congress he said, 4hut they tried
70 dietate legislation Speaker Reed
land the majority, who were responsible
Gov The legislation refused TO be detat-
ed "a. Reed counted 4 quorum Of those
who were present for mischief, but de-.
clared they were not present for bus
mess. That action Of Reed was de-
lnouuced as czarism The discussion be-
came international but the supreme
court sustained Reed and so ala the
/ Democratic party when It came into
lpower II adopted what Il had de-
lnouneed az The Reed rules
"Why this fuss and fury The old
cause, the effort 81 the minority Is
irule On THE ev Of the last presiden-
tial election the Democratic leader
sought 10 dictate legislation The MAJ
liority would nat areepi dietstion He
ihegan flihuster, which continued to-
1.-THE end 81 the session frankly stating
on the floor that the minority would
iresist and enharrass IN every way pos
lsible al legislation unless certain meas.
lures demanded BIZ the minority should
be brought forward
History depeated itself, The Demo
cratic platform denounced the cgarism
lof tie speaker inst Az the Democratic
platform ala ii lsa0 The minority
had demanded legislation for special IN.
terests not for the general interest
There are other special interests de-
lman9ng that the speaker use arbitrary
power IN their behalf When he refused
60 violate the rules and traditions Of
1.-THE House he Was denounced as car
When we have to change the rules Of
the House 70 permit the minority 10
dictate legislation ID behalf Of special
interests. we will he confronted with
the necessity Of changing oar constitu.
ltion and al oar conceptions % pco-
iplcs government where the majority
4 shaH leoislate and accept responsibility
for the legislation
I In discussing the criticism Of Gen
iGmnf during his administration as
president, Speaker Cannon found
parallel 10 the attacks on the present
administration and inferred that this
administration would overcome all at-
itacks as triumphantly as did Grant.
I'm bis memoirs the speaker recalled.
l"Grant tells off an incident In his cam
lpaian ii Texas, where one night the
camp was disturbed hy an unearthly
noise that had panicky effect on the
soldiers and caused some uueasiness
among the officers. sound was de
tailed TO make a reconnaissance They
istealthly moved n the direction from
which the sounds came and as the men
lrounded a butte they discovered two
COYOTES on little nilioeks engaged in 4
serenpde The noise made BY the
liberal and Democratic press against
Grant was fitting parallel to that
iepis0de ID his earlY life. IL did not
I BRIGHTEN him nor the Republican rank
land me, who marched 70 the polls with
tile same determination they Ind four
years before, and 100000 more az them
dropped Republican ballots into the
boxes"
After discussing the act Of 1909, and
declaring that the worth OF the new
/ law is to be measured BY the conditions
Of industry and business since It's enact
lment. MI. Cannon said; a good many
people complain 81 the high cost Of
Living. aud ! will not say that It isl
exactly described hY James J. Hill in
lhis epiqram Of the cost Of high living,
but there has been a tendency through
out the century to live better and each
generation in this country has lived
better than the one that preceded It.
and that is no great ideal for which
we have iabored through the years. I
hope that it will continue and that we
can continue here to develop a better
civilization than anywhere in the world
protecting om labor and industry
against the competition Of the labor and
Industry IN the more crowded parts Of
The earth
when anybody tells me that our Ia
Dor IS no better OF tnsn III Europe. 7
look To Castle Garden and find the an
swer in the thousands Of immigrants
who come here every year and find em-
iploymeHt and become q part Of our
civilization But we have other test.
mony from our American consular serv-
ice, from the agents Of the department
Of commerce and labor. and from Mr.
Samuel Gompers. president Of The
American federation 81 labor, to the ef-
feet that wages ia America are double
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