The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
Excerpts Taken From
 Donovan's Speeches

l E.. J. Hill was in Congress TOT Is years, and two years ago he stood in
 and said: esMen, want to talk to you l about yoursbread and butter"
 One factory man exclaimed, Bread and butter You have been telling us that for eighteen years. Are we never going to get anything else but bread and butter. Can't we even look at a piece of pie once in awhile ?'' i Jerry Donovan has been in Congress l less than two years. and his voice has been raised more times for all or the people, and particularly the Connecti-
 cut people, than MT. Hill was ever per nnitted to talk-under the Cannon gag
 rules which he tolerated
 Among some of the things MT. Don ovan has said in his speeches are the l following: l May 6. Ie1s.-.T believe that the Representatives should be near to the people and as responsive to their will, and as close to them as you can get 1 them. would vote to recall Con- gressmen and for the right of recall within thirty days.
 May z, 1913.-tT had supposed that we were going to turn the Philippine islands over to those people, that we were not going to keep <them a sub lject people. and enact laws Tor their I government and welfare Just when and where do we come in the open and t be honest in our transactions. The gentleman from Virginia stated the other day that we had expended. $4O0,- 1 O00, ,o0O on the F1lpinos. Tn the name of all that is good, just suppose that we take part of that $4oo, 900, 1000 and I expend 1t in bAttering the conditions I of the poor fellows who are needy on ! account Of the high cost of living in this country
 May z, 191S.-sT did state that the Member of Congress (E. J. HID did vote to admit 160s 100000 cigars from the Philippine Islands free, and my reason for making the statement was this: He had been high priest CT EProtectfon and he had declared under no circumstances would be bring about a condition as to have American labor come in competitor with the coolies
 and rice eaters of Asia The Dr. Jekyl1 and MT. Hyde character of the
 gentleman caused me to make the statement
 May 3, 1s18.-sAre you going to
 forget the divine word, Love thy neighbor as thyse1f'-a1d iTzs the sea- | sonof your prosperity forget the skill ed mechanic-the hatter3 It is in your 1 power to uphold his hands in the hour of his need. It is simply a question l of whether you will give aid to the I 1workingmen of your own country, or I to some other workingmen who live 5000 miles away and have never seen l the Stars and Stripes flying to the I breeze over American institutions" I June 3, 1913-.sof what advantage I Is it to the United States to hear the I gentleman from Kansas, or the gentle I man from Alabama, when he crates on the welfare of the people of his lcountry, and then when he gets behind l the closed door of his rooh he enacts I some peculiar conduct of the charac- ] ter of the heathen Chinee
 September Is, 1g1S-trWhyl did you not say that for weeks and for months there has been harely a quorum here, and that most of the time less than | half a quorum has been doing b1lsi- ness Why did you not say that they
 are drawing their pay regularly, and that is no way for honest men to do,- to abandon the position and draw the
 pay?''
 l September IT, 1s13.-tsNow am l speaking Of one particular section of New York running from the river to ] the extreme end of Long Island, and I most of the time everyone of the | members from that section has been absent. There has been now and then one here who marches up one aisle l and down the other and shows himself l in the course of half an hour, and who is not seen again until pay day.
 I Septenber 4, 1913.-ssIf there is
 one state in the Union that has had it's
 share of the pork barrel.,' it is the I state of Washington. The state of l Washington and the state of Connecti- cut from which hail, are about the equal in population and in wealth ac-
 cording to the books The last Con gress gave the. state of Washington I $3,836, 900 and it gave Connecticut a beggarly $40O, 900. The people of the l Northwest were very eager when they put their hands into the Public Treas l ury getting nearly half a. million dol l lars in four towns with populatio ions of less than 10000. Now they are growing because they did nto get more.H
 THINGS TO REMEMBER!