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Speaker Cannon'S speech.
Speaker Cannon said:
! II am glad indeed to be a member Of
the Illinois Republican Club. which is
also, I believe. a social club You are
busy and / am busy. so that many of
you have not met me and may not
meet me again.
During a session Of Congress the
wheels go around. and there is much
to go around with them. Representatives
are elected every two years And when
we have extraordinary sessions Of Con
gress. as we have had during the Sixty
first we have more business than usual.
Especially IN renewing our acquaintance
with constituents at home and those who
are present in Washington.
Washington. SO far as ! know, is the
most comfortable residence city in which
TO live in the United States. and think
I have covered the whole world when
say that. because think the United
States is the best place to live, anyway.
At times it seems very uncomfortable
here. though. as for instance. at the pres
ent time.
ITO live, it is necessary for all OF us
to be busy, and We must eat bread and
those who are not beggars" must eat
bread that has not been made by Others.
This Is not an uncomfortable thing. but
rather fortunate.
Labor a Necessity.
Those who do not labor. but simply
live off their fellow-men. are drones. and
there IS not one In a hundred found any
where that lives without labor that adds
to civilization.
| Some people pray for the millennium.
| ! do not want the millennium 10 come
unless the Almighty reaches down His
| finger and changes human nature. be-
cause II we could touch q button and
could get bread and butter without ef-
fort We would die with the dry rot.
TT Is uncomfortable at times TO live
under a government by the people and
yet if the people did not rule, thank
! God as they do ninety million OF us
might be ruled by feeble minded indi-
viduals. There are abnormal people.
though: whom | call abnormal because
they are people who are cranks at
| times: who make themselves very I'M
comfortable.
I know people who monopolize all
the wires that lead to heaven. up 10
the great white throne. while the bal
ance OF us only have one single wire.
There are people who make a speciality
OF curing all the Ills the flesh is heir
TO. and defy the balance Of the ninety
million who. with God. make a ma
iority.
And yet man in the United states is
entitled to be crank and a reformer.
and proclaim II himself. and he is enti-
tied TO DO that even from the pulpit.
Finds a Monopoly.
Yet, once IN a while we find people
who have a monopoly, and who really
ought to be indicted under the Sherman
antitrust act, on all the knowledge, and
when any one disagrees with them il is
sacrilegious. AS long as the human in
dividual does not interfere with others
ne has right to do anything. it seems.
Now. in these later days. the trend of
the 'uplift magazines. and some Of the
newspapers. IS 10 decTy ali combinations
under which We cooperate from time TO
time TO govern the country. 1t is a gov
eminent by the majority
Now II seems TO be fashionable vito
these uplift magazines 10 decry organiza-
ton. and I sometimes think they would
not be satisfied unless they could govern
the United States and the balance Of the
%. 600 900 people. The trouble with them ia
the small minority is that they have not
the power TO make the people bow and
bend to their will.
Now. in politics. because that means
policy. the party TO which We belong, the
Republican patty, has been the party
under which we have made the best pro
gress the world has seen in two centuries.
Mentions a Defeat.
From time to time We have defeats
in fact. we had one to-day. The country
believes we have forty-four majority in
the House of Representatives. and the
country believes we have a majority In
the Senate. Now we have not a real
Republican MAJORITY In either the Senate
or House. as is being demonstrated, and
will be demonstrated until the people can
speak at the polls next November
1.-The forty-four majority. and all the
papers of the 'uplift some of them will
suppress the news tomorrow. some of
them viii tell stories about il. some will
talk about campaigns. and some will talk
about the great defeat and the rebuke
the car Of the House received. and all
that kind OF thing.
Great heavens, do you suppose this
$50 pounds of common clay, were il to
drop dead. would halt national affairs?
Cod what would these uplift magazines
do that have been lying and cheating and
spreading lying stories? And yet IL that
were TO happen, the two daughters and
the son-in-law and the two granddaugh-
tiers would be exceedingly sorry. My per-
sonal friends would be sorry. OF course.
THE rest OF those who know me would
be sorry for week or a month. but the
balance of the world has not time to be
sorry about the death of any individual
THE greatest man this country ever
produced. Abraham Lincoln. when he
was hunting volunteers, found one who
gave the excuse that he had 10 bury his
father: another said ne must bury his
grandfather. Lincoln said: What does
that matter against the good OF your
country? The Master said, Let the dead
care for the dead" That is the abso- |
lutte necessity OF the world. But to-day. |
with a majority Of fOrty-four i'm the |
House, the majority struck hands with |
the minority and afterward at the Com |
mittee on Rules.
Committee Has Privilege.
THE Committee on Rules is the COM
mittee which has the privilege to report |