The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-07-07
CONGRESS MAKING
BRILLIANT RECORD
Session Has Achieved Most Important
Record of Constructive Legislation
of Any During Last Fifty Years.
PANIC PROSPECTS ARE SMALL
World Replies to Question Of Golfers
Bringing Strong Points of Admin
istration-Earn Confidence Vote.

BY Congressman c. H. Tavenner.
Washington, July 7.-Taking it's
work as whole, the congress that
is still in session has achieved the
most important record of construc-
tive legislation of any congress in
fifty years, says the New York World
in reply to an attack made on the
Democratic house by Golfers Week
ly. Golfers is either Republican or
Bull Moose, but it is always anti
Democrat in spite Of it's hypocritical
show of support of the Wilson ad-
ministration at the start. 1t re-
Gently asked the World if that news
paper would advise a man to vote
Democrat in the coming con gression-
al elections, and the Worlds reply
was as follows:
This congress has revised the
abuses out of an eXtortionate tariff
1t has imposed an income tax which
lifts part of the burden of taxation
from poverty to wealth. 1t has en-
acted a banking and currency law for
which the American people have
been striving for nearly twenty
years. Whatever difference of opin-
ion there may be about the adminis-
trative details of this measure, all
financial authorities agree that un
der it this country cannot have an
other panic like those of 1878, 1898
and 1907.
I'm addition, this congress has des-
troyed the lobby. In the case of the
Panama tolls bill it has not only
wiped out a peculiarly hypocritical
subsidy but it has reasserted the
good faith of the nation in respect
to treaty obligations. In the matter
of Mexico it has scrupulously avoid
ed all semblance of jingoism and
demagogy. Taking it's work as a
whole, the congress that is still in
session has achieved the most i'm
portant, record--ofs -constructve~--leg-
islation of any congress in fifty
years.
THE World does not withdraw a
single word of it's criticism of the
labor amendments to the Sherman
antitrust, nor of it's complaint that
the house has not yet given ade-
quate consideration to the issue Of
economy. But in spite Of mistakes
and shortcomings, we can recall no
previous congress that has so fully
kept it's faith with the people, no
previous congress that was so little
controlled by sordid special interests,
no previous congress so free from
candal and manipulation and treach-
cry to the public welfare, no pre-
vious congress that so fully embodied
the theory and responsibilities OF
representative government. Nor do
we believe that Golfers can recall
any congress that ever did more to
write in good faith the will Of the
people into the statute books of the
nation.
THE World would not advise a
man who believes in a Payne-Ald-
rich tariff bill to vote for anoth er
Democratic. congress. 1t would not
advise a man who believes in gov
eminent by Wall street and special
privileges to vote for such con-
Sress. 1t would not advise man who
believes in secret Hobbies and in
treaty-breaking and in hidden subsi-
dies to vote for such a congress. 1t
would not advise man who expects
an Immediately millennium to vote
for such congress. But if any con.
gross in a generation has earned a
vote of confidence at the polls, it is
this Sixty-Third congress now in ses.
sion at Washing ton."