Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1914-06-26
CITY VS.. RURAL INFLUENCE

congressman MADDEN, whose
home is in Chicago, made a speech
the other day in which he criticised
the Democrats for passing the anti
trust bill and the men who prepar-
ed and fought it through the
House. He claimed that the anti
trust bill vas framed by Clayton of
Eufala, Ala: Carlin Of Alexandria,
Va; and Floyd, of Yellville, Ark;
and closed his speech with these
words:
Whoever heard of any business
being done at either of these places,
and is it n wonder that the bust
ness of the country is paralyzed
with the legislation to regulate it
coming from such q source?"
The remarks Of Mr.. Madden, the
Congressional Record saws. were
greeted with appls on the Re-
publican side. When Madden took
his seat, Congressman Clark, Demo-
crat from Florida, replied to him as
follows:
Mr.. Chairman, permit me to say
that the greatest man who ever
made n track upon the earth who
brought more of happiness and Of
blessing to mankind than any other
person who ever trod the earth,
did not come from the busy marts
nf trade. He did not come from
New York or Chicago, but He came
from Nazareth. The great men in
every period of the history of the
world. who have wrought nightly
for the interests Of mankind, have
come from the rural NATURES God.
These men have come from the
Eufaulas and AleXandrias and Yell
villes of the earth. not from the
Chicagos, where the Lorimers hold
sway, where a nation has heen
made to blush with shame and the
Senate of the United States has
been compelled by the force Of the
facts to expel from its membership
a Senator, coming not from Eu-
faula, not from Alexandria, not
from Yellville, but from Chicago,
where they do things, where bust
ness is transacted, where the peopl
know how to do business, and
where they make a business of poll
tics and q business of government,
where their patriotism is measured
by the dollars and cents flnwinR
into their pockets. Yes, this Demo-
cratic Congress he's seer fit not To
go to Chicago, not to 20 to the
places where Lorimers arc produc-
ed, but to go to the places where
the great heart of the people finds
sympathy among those who are
reared there, where the people who
come from these rural spots have
an eye to the interests Of the people
of the country and not to the dollar
changers, not to The money chang
ers, whom Christ sc0urged from the
temple, but out IL the rural land
where nature smiles, where the
people are in constant touch with
nature and with natures God. The
Democratic party is proud Of that
record, Mr.. Chairman. We are
glad that we went to that region,
and not to the soiled streets Of
Chicago to get these men.
II the gentleman from Illinois
will only lift up his eyes from the
mud and mire Of Chicago and look
across the country toward the vine.
clad hills Of old Virginia, he-will
see that the rural surroundings at
mOntlccllo contributed TO the
wealth of the Nation the matchless
mentality of Thomas jefferson. If
he will only read the history of
his own country, he will learn that
when the Republic was in extremis
the eyes Of the people we're turned
toward Abraham Lincoln, the rail
splitter Of rural Illinois, and not
toward some Lorimer of State
street or Michigan Avenue in the
great city Of Chicago. When the
armies Of the Union needed a rea!
general they selected Ulysses S.
Grant, the product Of a lanyard;
and when the soldiers Of the South
ern C~onfederacy desired a chieftp