Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10

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. 1t has
been hard for thep % counterfeit
loyalty to the peoples interests Some
OF them have attempted it and have
been found out, and are now in
/. prIyate ,Nfs....sH he. "cay1S isioNS .haHs
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 securely-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 it 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 fit, provided it was not con-
Quoted in manner manifestly mimi
cal to the public welfare.
The upper house had sent the
Beveridge amendment to passage
quickly. quietly and without 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
1t was held had cast his vote in favor
O. the beef-inspection law rather un-
willingly, was none other than Sen
etor Lodge of Massachusetts.
Possibly it was Mr.. Lodges we'll
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 it's 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
speech tha. he made upon a subject
matter no loftier than the dirt upon
a packlng-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
declared since to be the greatest
speech made at the first session of the
f1fty-ninth congress, and when this
statement was made by those who
have passed judgment the speeches of
Bailey, Knox and spooner upon the
constitutional question involved in the
railroad rate measure were 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 sueer
at times is justifiable. 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 conceit spread into 9th.
er fields where she stands NOT even
second. nor yet perhaps twentieth
Massachusetts. however. genera,,v
does send big men to the senate Of
the United States, and in the main
big men to the house of representa-
uves OF the nation. In the hearing of
such speech as that of Henry Cabot
Lodge upon the Beveridge amendment
to the agricultural bill the living
sneer OF the dead and gone Mark
taanna expends itself ineffectualrv
Hanna said that in Henry Cabot
Lodge good historian was spoiled tn
make poor statesman"
Mr.. Lodge was talking about tho
pork packing industry, of corn heaf
OF sausages and of bob veal and vet
this man rose to the heights Of a
great orator. His speech was -.
whitening as contempt for dishonestv
in business methods, coupled with a
mastery of the language of ironv .,d
scorn and biting satire. could make II
While the senator from Massa.
chusetts was speaking not a colleague
moved in his seat. not whisper wac
heard, nor was one of the paners
which Uttered the senates desks al.
lowed to rustic. Even Mr.. Tillman
whose love for Mr.. Lodge is not
transcending. looked upon the Massa.
chusetts man with much more
sterlingly honest expression OF ad-
miration in his face than he probably
would have cared to make manifest.
for it was the Massachusetts senator
who only few days before mad in
the senate and in the Tillman pres.