Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-05-06
THEY WILL NOT
:. READ THE SIGNS
ORGANIZATION REPUBLICANS IN
CONGRESS REFUSE TO HEED
ALL WARNINGS.
-CUMMINS LECTURES THEM
Iowa Senator's Impressive Speech in
Debate on Railroad BiIi-Prophe-
sizes Danger Progressives in
House Prepare to Renew Strug.
gle With Speaker.

shington-Following the false
legislative gods which led the party
to the recent disasters in Massachu-
sets and New York, the senate is con-
tinuing the work Of framing the rail
road bill so as to confer special IA
vors upon the railroads. The Pro-
gressive Republican senators are
fighting steadily against the fatalism
of the { ganization.
Senator Cummins, in the course of
the debate upon the clause to legalize
traffic agreements, turned aside from
consideration of the legal phases Of
the legislation and read one of the
most impressive political lectures
which has been delivered in congress
in years. He said in part:
What is the matter with the Re-
publican party that the people of the
country should be turning away from
it? We are shocked when we hear
the returns of the election in the Mas
sachusetts district. We are over
whelmed and dismayed when we read
the dispatches announcing the out
come in the New York district Some
people attribute these disturbances,
this loss of faith in the Republican
party to the tariff-some to the postal
savings bank bill, some to this law
and some to other things
Let me remind you. however, that
it is not due to any particular law.
The people of this country are not
insisting upon equality Of conditions.
They are willing to suffer the dis
parity which fortune puts upon them.
They understand the forces Of
business and commercial life, and are
willing to recognize superior power
superior sagacity superior genius;
but only SO long as they believe that
their representatives are intent upon
full and complete Justice; only SO
long as they believe that their gov
erning legislative bodies, whether
they be legislative, executive or jul
dicial, are doing what they can to
give other men a fair and an equal
opportunity in the struggles of life.
People Begin to Lose Faith.
uC I0Su1L LII MASSACHUSETTS,, Tic
result in New York, the turbulent po
litical waters that are stirring every
where, are simply evidence that the
people, whether right or wrong, are
wondering whether the congress of
the United States is faithful in the
discharge of the high duties that are
devolved upon it.
Il am not saying, and | do not be-
lieve, that these political disturbances
are because the people have any
more faith in the Democratic party
than they had before. | do not be-
sentiment upon that question, but it
is due to the gradual weakening of
confidence in the public servants, who
have been endowed with power by
the Republican voters of the United
States. am appealing here, as
shall everywhere, for the continued
supremacy of the party to which I
belong
Prophecy of Danger.
IF, in the end, these people shall
not believe that the laws which we
pass are passed with an eye single to
the welfare of all the people of the
United States, then, as Horace Mann
once said, they will write their pas
sions and vengeful desires all over
the institutions of our country and
they will write them in characters
so tremendous and so terrific that
not only he who runs may read, but
he who reads will run.
THE time has come, it seems to
me, to take council together with re-
spect to these things. Our people
are devoutly attached to the anti
trust law, and they believe that it has,
in the years that have gone. protected
them against the aggressions of greed
and avarice and power which are rep
resented in the railway companies of
She United States, and when we take
away from them this protection, as it
is sought to be done in this section.
let us be exceedingly careful that we
give to them something that we be-
| lieve will be as effectual as a shield
| between them and the avaricious as
the antitrust law has been.
There is only one way in which
that can be accomplished, if we are
| to repeal the antitrust law, and that
is that no rate shall be imposed upon
| the people that is the outcome of an
agreement between the railroads un-
til the rate has received the approval
of the commission created by the gov
eminent for the purpose of standing
between the power eff the railways on
the one hand and the defenseless peo-
pie upon the other Think well.
therefore, before you adopt the
amendment proposed by the senator
from West Virginia. because. and
/ close by repeating, and ! wish l could
emphasize it so that it would be heard
by every patriot within the borders
| of our country, that there is no sub
stitute for the antitrust law save the
Investigation and the the approval
of the rate, if it be one agreed upon
by the railways. before it shall go in.
| to effect"
Renew Fight on Speaker.
The Insurgents in congress have ia