The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-18

demand be rejected as the result Of
hysteria'.
''The real trouble is that this So
called 'hySteria' hurts. 1t keeps party
pledges, it does not take from labor
the bread it earns, it makes protec-
ton built wealth pay income tax. 1t
elects senators direct from the people.
They call it hysterical because it
means we can have no more senators
from the New York Central railroad,
no more senators from the Southern
Express Co, no more senators from
the New York. New Haven & Hart
the Standard Oil trust.
'They call it hysteria because it pre-
vents the classes from exploiting the
masses, and brings the government
back to the people. After all, the real
hystericals are not the people who
stand upon house tops and cry for re-
form but the people who are guarding
special privilege and are seeing the
castles built by privilege tumble down
about their heads.
mo, gentlemen" continued thu
secretary, the victims of .hysteria
are not the forward looking, promise
keeping reformerS, who quietly con-
vince the people that this new way,
his gospel of progressive statesman
ship Is best for the country, but your
hysterical man is that i~ncarnate eX-
| clamation point of self-intoXicated
! patriotism and who madly waves@the
stars and stripes with one hand and
! grips his rebate-provided. protection
fostered wealth with the other, and
bewails an alleged tendency to put a
| period to class legislation; who wild
ly proclaim that we are turning away
from those fundamental principles
through which we have come to our
present high estate.
Legislators in the recent past have
been the favorites of great corpora
tions. They have felt a compelling
power from higher up The i'm
personal element in the situation made
has been laid at the root of the tree,
and the people have demanded that
all this must be changed. How? BY
legalized primaries, even for presi-
dent, by pure food laws, by an income
tax, by a lower tariff, by laws to pro-
tect seamen, by regulation Of trusts
by the abolition of interlocking direc-
torates and rebates, etc. =
Take the tariff. The men who re-
| vised it were not historical. They
used figures and facts. They were
was the answer? The beneficiaries OF
protection, the infant industries, gray
and hoary with age, and obese from
their long pull at the paper-bottle
cried out:
You are going to impoverish oul
country. Four months under the
new tariff have passed, and the report
Of Secretary of Commerce Redheld
declares that the flooding Of GU,
markets with the cheap wares OF
Europe has not happened as predicted
and Americas foreign trade Is still
e~videncing a healthy growth.
The latest exhibition of hysteria is
the effort to prevent the passage OF
the currency bill. 1t is we'll known by
everybody that this bill is certain to
become a law substantially as now
framed. and the principal features OF
it are as good as upon the statute
books, and yet those who would de-
stroy confidence in the American gov
eminent and it's ability to control its
finances dub as hysteria the effort to
pass a 1~ong-needed currency reform,
promised for years but never until
now answered.
Take conservation, the waste OF