The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-14

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 "Who are the people that represent the mills and the pastures and that hold up congress in both houses and threaten to beat any legislation St all unless an outrage contrived forty-two years ago is perpetrated world without end? Are they insurgents? Did any of you ever study what an insurgent is?
 "1s man who holds congress up by a threat and wins congress- votes on a bluff a patriot because be repre- sents his own interests, and is a man to be derided and despised because he lnterposes in behalf of the public when he has no interest in it at all and says, This ought not to be done, and by my vote it shall not be done? By what grotesque standard of morality is the group of men that made that in- famous threat. which the president says caused both houses of congress to execute a corrupt bargain-by what alchemy of diseased morality do they become the nucleus around which the solidarity of great political party is to be organized for the future, while men who stood for public rights and fought for them and voted as they fought are to be kicked out of the Re publican party as unworthy of it's membership or it's fellowship? We are fallen upon curious times
 On the Bargain Counter.
 What farce to send men around talking about the rule of majority when, before the eyes of all men and with no dispute of the truth of 1t pos sible before God or men, the most im- portant business of the American peo- pie has come down to the bargain counter and men authorized to say, This is the citadel of protection; if any of you have constituents that want anything. come here; we are the dis jpensfng power; support what we want and take anything you think you need, and the man who does not like 1t and has no stomach for the fight is re- quested to depart.
 q do not propose that it shall be- come the practice of the Republican party if I can help it. do not pro- pose that the work which it did and which it brought forth here last sum- mer shall be forced into the platform of the Republican party and made test of party feaIty and party duty and party obligation. 1 propose that the job shall stand on its merits and that the American people shall inquire to the full limit Of their curiosity into every detail of the performance.
 "Again, l do not like this idea of having custom house officials, to whom most of HIS have never been Introduced. write cur tariff laws. It hurt my pride, to start with. l can conceal 1t from the public, but you cannot con- ceal when you are at home. Those who know you begin to see what a bubble this senate business is; that its majority does not represent anybody's ideas, which my friend from Oregon (NIr. Bourne) so we'll says is the one potent thing there is in this world that its debates have no significance; that when you want to get anything done send out to the custom house and get an expert-a veteran expert, if you can-to fix it up.
 "Well, 1 am tired of it, and l will tell you why. The veteran experts that are given carte blanche to fix up our laws do not appeal to me as they used to- Behind nearly every veteran around here in recent years is the veteran manager of the enterprise that is to be fixed
 How long does the senate of the United States propose that these great interests, affecting every man, woman and child in the United States, shall be managed with brutal tyranny, without debate and without knowledge and without explanation by the very peo- pie that are engaged in monopolizing the great industries of the world, that propose to impose intolerable burdens upon the market place of the United States?
 "So far as am concerned 1 am through with 1t. I intend to fight it, but I intend to fight it as Republican and as an American citizen. l intend to fight without fear. I do not care what may be my political fate. I have had burdenSOme and to1lsome e1- perience in public life these twenty five years I am beginning to feel the pressure of that burden.
 'fI do not propose that the remaining years of my life, whether they be in public affairs or in my private busi- ness, shall be given up to dull con- sent to the success of all these con- spiracies, which do not hesitate before our very eyes to use the lawmaking power of the United States to multiply their own wealth and to fill the market places with evidences of their greed.
 ''I am through with it. I intend to fight as Republican for a free mar ket place on this continent"
 The Tariff ExplainS