Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-07-24
Illinois Representative in Vigorous Speech De-
CIareS Republicans Cannot Bring About
Business Depression
RECALLS DARK REPUBLICAN DAYS OF 1907
Quotes Press Dispatches of Spring of 1908 to
Show Severity of R00Seve|tian Panic
Congress to Stay on Job

ly women, to the city hall to demand
employment; policemen were shot
and IA unemployed were arrested.
Also at that time loan of $9,00O,OOO.
to provide funds for public work, was
asked by the city for the unemploy-
ed, and race riot followed the DEM
onstration of unemployed demanding
work; Italians were attacked by men
of other nations.
"On January %, 1908, in San Fran
cisco, there was league formed Of
the unemployed. and they demanded
an issue of $23,O0O,OOO in bonds to
aid them.
"On March 23, 1908, in Toledo,
900 Hungarians marched through
the rain to receive loaf of rye bread
each.
"At that time the total unemploy-
ed was estimated at 100000, half
that number being in the large cities,
New York having 250,0OO unemployed
and Chicago 10000.
"This Is the record, but only part
Of 1t. have only succeeded in calling
attention to a small part Of the->evi-
dence in existence as to the effect of
this great republican panic Of 1907.
which still existed in 1908, and which
has come with us down to the present
time. From 1t, under the wise guid'
ance of the present democratic admin
istration, we are just recovering. It
was brought about by long periods of
legislative inactivity in this country
inactivity here in this body. You de-
pended upon the obsolete legislation Of
years ago with which to meet the
present day problems presenting them
selves for solution. All these prob
lens which you pushed forward in
definitely into the future, which you
did not have either the executive or
legislative ability or courage to meet
or to handle, came down to us. and
we are solving them all, every one Of
them, as the time comes, shirking no
responsibility, placing the constructive
legislation upon the statute books Of
this country, demanded by the busi-
ness conditions of the present period.
"The amount of much-needed legisla-
tion we have placed upon the statute
books has been equaled by no other
administration in this country in
century of time. Here on the Demo-
cratic side of this house we propose
to stand by the administration
through the long, hot months of
summer in Washington, if it becomes
necessary to do so. We propose to
stay here until the trust bills are
enacted into law. Throughout the land
a subsidized press is working over
time in it's efforts to compel an ad-
journment. From the invisible gov
ernment, which, thank God, no long
cT SONSIuS III lHlo COuulIy do IL ulu
in the days of republican supremacy,
there come demands upon the constit-
uents of members of congress through
out the land that they write letters to
their members urging an adjournment
before the trust bills are enacted into
law. A discredited invisible govern
ment can not prevent this much need
ed legislation. The dawn of new day
has come. There were protests, Wig
orous protests, against the parcel
post; there are none now. There were
protests against the Federal reserve
law! there are none now. Everywhere
there comes from those interests
whose profits have heretofore been
protected by republican tariffs most
violent protests against the Democrat
ic tariff law, but recent report from
agency shows that there
are substantial reductions in the
wholesale prices of over hundred
staples in common use
in the country. This means the bring
ing about in due time of retail-price
reductions so important that a return
to the old republican system of pro-
tective tariff will never again be pos
sible."