The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-08-10


great eoatrolliAS interests. II has
besa hard for them to countsrfsit .
loyalty to the peoples interests Bone
of thso have attempted II and have
boo0 found out, and are nov In
Deivats life. The coaditioas have
boso such - to make congressional
aetioas within The last few ysars Of
special Interest certainly To ths on
iookor h Washingtoa.
Aftse the Bsvsridgs bssfinspsctioo
a0oodnsat haA been tacksd-it was
hopod sscursly-upoa the agricultural
department appropriation bill the SEA
ato awaited houss action On the
aneoamsnt 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 vas altogether too
drastic and was II its very nature a
invasioa oe ths right Of private con-
panies to coaduct their business -
they saw fit. provided It was not con.
Quoted in . manner manifestly mimi
cal to the public welfare.
The upper house had sent the
Bsverides amendment to passage
quickly. quietly and without . dis
seating vote. but the feeling held
nevertheless that some q the mem
bers voted ~ they did simply be-
cause they felt obliged 30 to vote.
One OF those who in the public mind
It was held had cast his vote In favor
o. the beefinspection law rather un-
willingly. was none other than Ssn-
ator Lodge Of Massachusetts,.
Possibly 1t was Mr. Lodges well.
known bent toward conservatism and
the old ways that impelled people to
think that hs was In mind II 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 tho packer to the pocketbook Of
the government and by striking out
the clause which made obligatory the
placing Of the date upon the inspec-
ton stamp. When the measure came
back to the senate In its changed
form ono Of the first senators to get
upon his feet for the purpose Of de-
nouncing the changes was Senator
Lodge Of Massachusetts,. and the
sIeech that he made upon . subject
matter NO loftier than the dirt upon
. packing house floor and the conse-
quent duty Of the government to force
the hand Of tho 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
Nfty-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 q certain scholarly distinction
denied unto the other commonwealth
Of the country. Possibly the sneer
at times 10 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. generally
does send big men to the senate of
the United States. and in the main
big men to the house Of representa-.
tfves Of the nation. In the hearing of
such a speech ~ that Of Henry Cabot
Lodge upon the Beveridge amendment
to the agricultural bill the living
sneer of the dead and gone Mark
mama expends itself Intellectually.
Hanna said that lin Henry Cabot
Lodge a good historian was spoiled to
make . poor statesman"
Mr.. Lodge was talking about the
pork packing industry, Of corn beef.
Of sausases and of bob veal, and vet
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
scorn and biting satire. could make II.
While the senator from Massa-
chusetts was speaking not a colleague
moved in his seat, not 4 whisper was
heard, nor was one Of the papers
which Uttered the senate's desks a.
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 1t was the Massachusetts senator
who only . few days before had in
PIE senate and in the Tillman pres