The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-08-18

v 'N their influence felt more
| C/SNN markedly within the dec
nv ade than perhaps ever
v before In the history OF
the country AS a re-
suit OF this members OF both houses
have been at times forced to show
plainly whether their sympathies
were with the masses or with the
great controlling interests II has
been hard for them TO counterfeit a
loyalty to the peoples interests Some
OF them have attempted ii and have
been found out and are now In
private life. The conditions have
been such as to make congressional
actions within the last few years OF
special interest certainly TO the on
locker In Washington,
After the Beveridge beef-inspection
amendment had been tacked-it was
hoped secureiy-upon the agricultural
department appropriation bill the sen
ate awaited house action on the
amendment with manifest anxiety.
Now there were some members OF the
senate who II was supposed from the
very inception Of the matter had held
that the measure was altogether too
drastic and was IN its very nature an
invasion OF the right Of private com
panies to conduct their business as
they saw III, provided IL was not con-
Quoted in a manner maniiestly mimi
cal to the public welfare.
The upper house had sent the
Beveridge amendment to passage
quickly, quietly and without a dis
senting vote, but the feeling held
nevertheless that some of the men,
bers voted as they did simply be-
cause they felt obliged so to vote.
One Of those who in the public mind
# was held had cast his vote in favor
C. the beefinspection law rather un-
willingly, was none other than Sen.
ator Lodge Of Massachusetts.
Possibly it was Mr. Lodges well.
known bent toward conservatism and
the old ways that impelled people to
think that he was In mind if not in
heart opposed TO carrying government
inquiry into the business of private
concerns to any greater lengths than
they had been carried.
The house changed the meat in
spection measure by transferring the
cost of the work from the pocketbook
OF the packer TO the pocketbook of
the government and by striking out
the clause which made obligatory the
placing OF the date upon the inspec
tion stamp. When the measure came
back to the senate in its changed
form one of the first senators to get
upon his feet for the purpose of de-
nouncing The changes was Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts, and the
81 eech tha; he made upon a subject
matter no lortier than the dirt upon
a packing-house floor and the conse-
quent duty of the government to force
the hand of the packers TO lay hold
on the broom of cleanliness has been !
speech made at the first session Of the !
Fifty-ninth congress, and when this !
statement was made by those who |
have passed judgment the speeches of
Bailey, Knox and Spooner upon the I.
constitutional question involved in the |
railroad rate measure we're not lost |
TO sight nor to memory.
There are often sneers at Massa- |
chusetts, because, as the rest of the |
country has it, she arrogates to her. |
self a certain scholarly distinction |
denied unto the other commonwealths |
Of the country Possibly the sneer
at times IS iustifiable, because the |
old Bay State not only holds herself |
distinguished above all others in mat.
ters intellectual, but she is too fond |
Of letting the concet spread into 9th
er fields where she stands not even
second, nor yet perhaps twentieth.
Massachusetts, however. generally |
does send big men to the senate Of |
the United States, and in the main |
big men to the house Of representa- !
tives Of the nation. In the hearing of !
such a speech as that of Henry Cabot
Lodge upon the Beveridge amendment !
to the agricultural bill the living
sneer Of the dead and gone Mark |
nanna expends itself Intellectually.
Hanna said that in Henry Cabot
Lodge a good historian was spoiled to
make a poor statesman"
MIR. Lodge was talking about the
pork packing industry of corn beef.
of sausages and of bob veal and yet
this man rose to the heights of a
great orator. His speech was as
withering as contempt for dishonesty
in business methods, coupled with a
mastery Of the language of irony and
gcorn and biting satire, could make it.
While the senator from Massa.
chusetts was speaking not a colleague
moved IN his seat. not a whisper was
heard, nor was one of the papers |