Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-05
ITS THE CURSE
 OF CONGRESS
Demand for a Permanent SuS- pension of the Congress
 SiOnal Record
ENCOURAGES MUCH TALK

GlNOOOiHN0LO WONtl HEN
 If there had been no such publica- tion as the Congressional Record. Canadian reciprocity would have been enacted by the last congress. and Gods patience would have been spared the present session of the Six ty-second congress. No other nnblica- ton in the world contains so much transformation. so much non-informa- ton. Abolish it. and congress will do its work much better than it does and in half the. time it takes. Such a thing as a buncombe speech would be left ro the stump. and nobody would debate in either house who did not have g1mething to say. Until our con gress abolishes the Record, the British house of commons will remain the first senate in the world" In England every speech in either house of par lament worth rap is preserved in the public press, but with us, the cant of patriotism. the error of statecraft, the mendacity of statistics. the ridic- ulosity of eloquence the hyperbole of rhetoric, and all the other fooleries and furbelows and concOmitants ol humbug and asshood remain and it makes little men actually believe that they are Pitts and Foxes, Burkes and GladstOnes, Clays and Calhouns, Web sters and Pinckneys.
 Why, 1t has got to be SO that a speech of three-dayG hand-runnin' ' is moderate address in the senate. Indeed, it sometimes takes La Toilette Q week to tell what he knows and am plfy what he does not know about matters and things. CummiEs is near ly as bad and there are others. No body but the orator himself ever hears those speeches, and nobody hut the orator and proofreader ever reads them. l have long had the opinion that the greatest orator I ever heard was a predecessor in the senate of Mir. La Toilette, and l am sure that Matt Carpenter never held the flooi in that body as long as two hours. But when Carpenter spoke, everybody lis. ! tened Nobody made a point of order that there was no quorum present, a parliamentary expedient that is daily resorted to in the senate now days. l However, that is Q dignifed and there 1 fore senatorial way 10 filibuster, and | eminently parliamentary. But abolish | the Record and we will be rid of deal 1 Of nonsense in the guise of congres. | sinai elOquence. l.. C. C. Lamar re | fused to have one of his greatest ef. ! forts printed in the Record, and at 1 least two of Frank Hurd's splendid l speeches that he delivered on the | floor are missing theresrom.
 
 In @ torrential burst Of eloquence and A tidal wave Of ecstasy, the Hon | Champ Clark delivered himself cf the | following apostrophe in a speech iT | the national congress: The greatest ! calamity that has overtaken mankind since the fall of Adam was the cleo ton of Grover Cleveland as president of the United States or words oi that import It is rather of an ex travagant and incorporate statement and one that would probably provoke a challenge from some millions of meT 1 who belong to the party of which Ar 1 Clark is so conspicuous and distin guished a member. Of course it wal merely a piece of hyperbole-sOund fury. nothing-called forth, doubtless by some exigency more seeming thar real.
 But it is not of Grover Cleveland election I would write, but of his de feat, and in my poor opinion that wal an event simply stupendous for tho
 calamities that succeeded. The cam paign of 1888 was unskillfully and i'm proyidentlv managed. There wer' 1 Enaveries and treacheries practiced Attempts were made to carry Michigan that should have been directed t2 say , ing New York, and Quay plowed witi Tammany and the other democrati'
 heifers
 Had Cleveland been reelected il
 1888 the Mills tariff would have beel enacted. Instead we had the McKinle! tariff. which was revision 'up.' Ha' Cleveland been reelected the pUchas
 Ing clause Of the Bland-Allison silve Ii law would have been repealed. lr . stead we had the Serman silver law fthat diluted the currency with 5000
 600 silver dollars monthly and pu
 everything but the United States treas
 urv on the silver basis. Had Cleyelan' been reelected no annual pension ar propriation would have amounted t as much as S1VNfNNVsNNV anu eAA' . enough on that account alone woui' have been saved to eXtinguish the ma
 ticnal debt. Had Cleveland been re i elected he would have been succeede, ! bv a democrat in 1892 and in l89t
 There would have been no war wit
 Spain, and t is doubtful if we hai
 reached the s1 ,000. .0O0, 900 congress D.
 tbis time. There would have been m nauic Of 1893 and the present expend ] tures for the army. navy and pension
 wonld be less than one-half what the
 are. Spain would have retired fror
 the hemisphere without the fire of
 gun. and by 1910 free trade woui ] have given the American people th - lions share of most of the neutra
 markets. something that protectio
 can never give us.
 P The successful politician, if he is i man of the peorle, is bound to hay D what, for want of a better name. ma |. be called instinct. Abraham Lincol
 lad it, and so did Grover Cleyelanf D TO anybody with the slightest ting
 of this instinct it was manifest ths t the day after Ben Harrison wa '. elected president in 1888 the America ..-1,,4 tr, l,,.I ,s..s,ife4tt md xrnl< z.