Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1911-08-30

before In the history or
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. 1t has
been hard for them to counterfeit a
loyalty to the peoples interests Some
or them have attempted 1t 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 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 1t was not con.
Quoted In a manner manifestly mimi
cal to the public welfare.
The upper house had sent the
Beverage amendment to passage
quickly, quietly and without a dis
senting vote, but the feeling held
nevertheless that some of the mem
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
C the beef-inspection law rather I'M
willingly, was none other than Sen
ator Lodge Of Massachusetts.
Possibly IL 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
coat 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-
tfon 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 tho
sleech tina: he made upon a subject
matter no loftier than the dir unon
a clearinghouse floor and the consa-
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 tbis
statement was made by those who
have passed judgment the speeches If
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 NJ The
country has 1t. she arrogates to ber.
self certain scholarly djstinctio,
denled unto the other common weaI+bs
OF the country. Possibly the snaor
at times is justifiable, because rho
old Bay State not only holds berse1f
distinguished above all others in mat.
ters intellectual, but she is too fond
of letting the conceit spread into oth
er fields where she stands not even
second nor yet perhaps twentieth
Massachusetts, however. genera11v
does send big men to the senate -,
the United States, and I'm tho rotr
big men to the house Of representa.
ives OF the nation. In the hearing ~
such q speech as that Of Henry Cebo,
Lodge upon the Beveridge amendrpont
TO the agricultural bill the living
sheer OF the dead and gone Mari.
hanna expends itself ineffectuallv
Hanna said that "in Henry Cabot
Lodge a good historian was spoiled n
make poor statesman"
Mr.. Lodge was talking about tbo
pork packing industry. of corn beof
OF sausages and Of bob veal. and vot
this man rose TO the heights of
great orator. HIS speech was nc
whitening as contempt for dishonesty
in business methods. coupled with a
mastery of the language of IRONY and
scorn and biting satire. could make II
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
which Uttered the senate's desks al.
lowed to rustic. Even Mr.. Tillman.
whose love for Mr.. Lodge is NOT
transcending, looked upon the Massa.
chusetts man with much mora
GteriinRly honest oxproeefon - -,