The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-07-17
FRIDAY, JULY II, 1914
Prophets of EVIL ArraIsned


delegation from Illinois, ia the
House, has fred a broadside al
the Republican calamity liars iu.
the House and put some facts up
TO them which no noe has had the
lemerity to attempt to answer.
He charges them with an effort to
create feeling of business de-
preston throughout the country
where none exists, purely for pol
iiical advantage. Incidentally.
he has taken occasion to call at
iention to some events which hap
pruedduring the good old Re
publican times" Il 1891, when
hundreds of banks were obliged
to issue script" in lieu of money.
in violationof law, and when a
man with money in bank coulI
not draw it out upon his own
check
In his ringing speech the Ill
inois Representative said:
1.-THE Congressional Record al
the present time bristles every
day with unpatroitic prophecies
Of bushes disaster made by Re
publican Members Of this House.
evidently wilnug and anxious To
profit politically at the expense
of the prosperity of the country;
and these utterances are all wild
ly applauded by Republican and
Progressives alike on that side
of the House. We are just re-
covering from the Republican
ranic Of 1907, and throughout
The land the eviGeans of vival
is abundant. Y'h gentlemen can
not bring about a period OBJ bust
ness disaster, no matter how hard
you try.
He then cited some OF the
things that happened in 1908 af-
ter the republican panic of 1907,
which are familiar to all our read
crs and continued:
This is the record, but only a
nart Of it. have only succeeded
in calling attention to sman
part ofthe evidence in existence
as to the effect of this grea. Re
publican panic Of 1907, which
still existed in 1908, and which
has come with us down to The pre-
sent time. From it,, undec the
wise guidance of the present Dem
ocratic administration, we are
Just recovering. It was brought
about by long periods of legisla-
tive inactivity in this country
inactivity here in this body. You
depended upon the obsolete leg
islation Of years ago with which
to meet the present day problems
presenting themselves for solu-
ton. All these problems which
you pushed forward indefinitely
into the future, which you did not
aave either the executive or leg
islative ability OF courage to meet
OF to handle, came down to us.
and we are solving them all, every
one of them, as the times comes,
Sinking no responsibility, plac-
ing the constructive legislation
upon the statute books OF this
country demand by the bust
ness conditions Of the present
period.
1.-THE amount of nuch-neede1. leg
islation we havs plac 4 upon the
statute books has been equa.cd in
no other administration, in this
country in century of time. Here
on the Democratic side of this
House we propose to stand by the
administration through the Ions
hot months of a summer in Wash
ington, if it becomes necessary
to do so. We propose to stay
here until the trust bills are en-
acted into law. Throughout the
land a subsidized press is work
ing over time in its efforts to con
pei an adjournment. From Tho
invisible government, which
thank God, no longer governs D.
this cauntry as it did in the day
Of Republican supremacy, there
comes demands upon the consti-
trents Of Members Of Congress
throughout the land that the!
write letters to their Members uri
ing an adjournment before tn
trust bills are enacted into law
A discredited invisible govern
ment cannot prevent this much
needed legislation. The dawl
OF a new day has come. Their
were protests, vigodous protest
against the parcel post; there ar
none now. Everywhere Their
comes from those interest
whose profits have heretOfor
been protected by Republican ia
ms most violent protests agains
the Democratic tariff law, but
recent report from Bradstreet
agency shows that there are sub
stantial reductions in the whole