The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-18

can majority acting under the same
rules gave US the legislation regu
lating our railroads and other cor
porations. The Sherman antitrust aci
], and the Elkins act of 1908 passed
the house under the Reed rules and
have not been improved upon much
since. In fact every requirement o!
the country has been promptly met
It remained for few distinguished
statesmen from Wisconsin and the
middle west to discover that the
rules imperilled our liberties.
No Cause for Assaults.
am not ready to admit that the
house of representatives as it has
been organized in the past twenty or
more years has been controlled
against the best interests of the peo-
pie as the insurgent press and mem
bers of congress would have us be
neyc.
The history of this country in the
last two decades is the history OF I'M
paralleled prosperity and develop
ment. That prosperity has Gene to all
the people or at least to all who have
been willing to put the time and en-
iergy and industry into their occupa-
ton that Is required to make people
prosperous under favorable condi-
tons.
The men who devoted their lives
to the government during that time
have been just as able and patriotic
as the men of any other period in
our country's history. have no conf
dence in the good faith and patriot
ism of any man who assails the his
tory of any other part of our nation
al existence.
Several months ago the insurgent
press of the country announced with
large headlines that the country had
at last been saved. Speaker Cannon
was completely dislodged and the
people would thereafter be protected
in their rights. A new rule had been
adopted in the house Of representa-
tiyes increasing the size of the com
mittee on rules and deposing the
speaker from it.
Shout System" Influence
OF course. the insurgents as usual,
when they desired to save the peo-
pie, had to join the Democratic mi,
nority to accomplish the result.
However, the people were told that
they were inspired by patriotic mo.
tives and that henceforth the sin-
terests'. were down and out. Either
they did not believe what they said
or their calculations have gone all
wrong. according to their own story
Under date of July 9th LaFollettes
Magazine which devotes practically
all its space to the defence of insur.
gency has the following to say in re-
gard to the action of the house in
the matter of handling the postal
bank bill: "On June Z the caucus
bill was reported by the committee
ito the house as an amendment in the
nature of a substitute for the senate
SAfi. LII 1inlNil dalLSll IL Jill
the committee on rules a special rule
for its consideration. The rule pro-
yided for eight hours debate etc,
The system leaders served notice on
the membership of the house that
they could adopt this rule or go home
and answer to the constituents for
not passing savings bank bill. The
rule was agreed to and the bill was
passed accordingly.
Still whining you viii notice. OF
course if the rule had been made by
the old committee of which Speaker
Cannon was member they would
have predicated their whine on Can
nonigm. Now that the new rule, by
their own admission works no bet
ter than the old one, they shout "sys
tenn Influence.