The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-03-25
RIDAY MARCH %. 1910.
Speaker CannOnRips EN-.


The Insurgent Republicans an,
Democrats eat some of Speake
Cannon's wings off Saturday b,
creating new committee o.
Rules and firing him bodily from
the Committee. With tie incon
sistancy of republicans they ther
voted TO retain him as speaker
We have always admired incl,
Joe. because he has the courag,
of his convictions and will fight
If the Democrats had hundred
of Joe Cannons in congress there
would be something doing. But
the trouble with most of the Dem
ocrats in congress they are wish
iy-washee. They havn't got the
backbone or the brains that Uncle
Joe has got. Cannon got a chance
Saturday night to make a speech
and instead of thanking them for
retaining him he roasted them tn
a finish. The insurgents know
that he considers them very small
atoms. Here is part of Cannons
speech.
Suppose this $50 pounds of
common clay should drop dead
tonight. what would the newspa-
pers and magazines which make
a profession of lying and SANDER
ing do them?
My daughters grandchildren.
my son-in law would be sorry
But the balance of the world
would not have time to be sorry
There never was a truer word
said than. Let the dead bury the
dead. If that were not true then
the world would be one vast
house of mourning.
Il know people who think they
monopolize wires from the earth
up to the great white throne.
They don't give the majority of
US a chance. They have c'Irealls,
they think God and one constitute
a majority. forgetting thai God
alone is a majority AMI can do
without their help.
We're thankful for Christian
morality. Once in a while we
find people who have monopoly
of all knowledge and, therefore
should be indicted and prosecuted
under the Sherman antitrust law,
Those who disagree with them
are anathema.
Its uncomfortable sometimes
to live in a government by the
people. There always will be
some Who are feeble minded, alb
normal, insane, or, to use z short
er and more common word, are
cranks But we've got to have
them.
There was a new majority
made today. 1t consisted of the
democrats and Is per cent
slough from the republican party.
They destroyed the committee on
rules Then what did they do?
A resolution was presented de-
claring the office of speaker Va
cant Then what did these men
who have been denouncing my
personality, these simon-pure fol-
lowers of Cummins and La Fol-
lette do then? Only eihgt of
them had the courage of their
convictions. 'The result was that
while was elected speaker by a
majority of twenty six last March
they refused to turn me out by a
majority of thirty six
Now this combination abolish
ed the committee on rules which
has, after all, simply the power
to report to the house, although
some seem to think that it is like
the bib ical example of Let there
be light, and there was light,
You in Washington know differ
emily. But the people in the
country apparently believe the
uplift magazine and the cowardly
members of congress who
wrought such havoc today. They
said the speaker should not be a
member of the committee on rules
which they made over into com
mittee Of ten. Much depends
upon the makeup of that commit
tee.
May God bless and keep these
men for so far as | am concerned
He only can bless them. Many
so-called republicans are, in fact
populists, and are trying to out
do Organism.