Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-16

house Of representatives. is less docilt
than the senate OF the United States
In the house il has again and agar
happened that the republican minor
ity has broken away from the contro
of It's leaders and voted, sometimes by
a majority Of It's members sometime,
almost unanimously, for the measure,
which have distinguished the action
Of the present democratic congress
They came from the people They
knew when these things we're sug-
gested in congress that they would be
held ineXcusable II they ala not sus-
tain them.
Upon only one conspicuous occa-
sion did the contrary happen. when
the republican machine was able 10
compel n majority OF It's members In
the house TO vote that American citi-
zens had no right 10 travel on the
high seas II their leaders believe in
the rights Of American citizens why
don't their followers II their lead
ers are so stiff TO see that Americans
get their rights everywhere. why do
these men vote that Americans shall
Of the most regrettable incidents Of
American history is that there should
have been found mon in the congress
/ Of the United states willing 10 vote in
that sense.
senate Minority Rcacuonary.
! But is another story i'm the senate
| OF the United states. There serene
confidence obtains in the private con-
ieroncos Of the senate. ! have never
been admitted to their privacy, but
] have seen their performance, and
the most reactionary men in America
have absolutely controlled the action
" the minority in the United States
senate, except for few examples Of
independence by distinguished indl-
yiduals who ala not care to be mas
tered and owned by anybody. But
their number WAS so small as to be !
ncglible.
ut made the whole thing very
much simpler. / admit, because you /
never had 10 speculate how the re- |
publicans were going to vote in the |
United States senate. You knew that |
beforehand by calculations established
through whole generaton--me
who could not see the light Of a new
age, who dld not desire to see il, who /
wished the old methods 10 be re-
sumed; not the methods Of Abraham
Lincoln. who listened to the voice of
the voice 81 the people, but the meth
DDS OF Mark Hanna. who listened TO
the voice Of the interests. They have
been uneasy and little unshopherd-
ed ever since Mark Hanna and Sena-
tor Aldrich passed from the stage
II was so much easier TO be told what
to do. II was 80 much simpler to get
orders
Now, these gentlemen are In oh
yious and undlsputcd control Of the
organization Of the republican party.
It Is they who are counselllng their
leaders to say MS little as possible, so
that nobody may know how to calcu-
late their orbit from day to day
The only thing that they are revealing
is that they do not want anything
said. and after the election is over.
II they should win possession of the
government, they do not mean to say
anything. For obvious reasons. IT is
contrary to the constitution Of the
United states to make man testify
against himself
Who Shall Control Government?
So that it all comes down, my fell l.
low citizens, to very simple PROPOSE !
ton. Are you going 10 leave your :
government under the control of peo-
pie who do know and who will %
tell you what they are going to do or q
IRE you going 10 put It in the hands 81
IF men who viii not tell you what h
hey are going to do and will serve n
heir private interests The choice is q
bigger than that; I understand from
he leaders of the republican party s
hat nothing that has been done has n
'een done right They do not say !,
hat the thing that was done was =,
.lWays wrong, but the way i'm which ~
t was done was always wrong They 1
10 not venture to say that we want n
y anything but peace but they would p
ave preferred some other way, not O.,
disclosed, Of obtaining peace The q,
ocal part says we wanted war The n.
ilent part intimates that we wanted o,
eace, but wanted another kind of
eacc. They never can get over that p,
fundamental unoasiness, gentlemen N,
hat America Is in charge of some a
ody else than themselves. T.,
But America knows that the ~
Kings that were done did obtain
cace and It does not now know that n
he things that might have been done y
ould have obtained peace, so, that
mcrica knows that it is faced with
MS choice. Peace, the continuance
the development Of business along
he lines which it has now cstah- =,
shed and developed and the mainte- f.
tncc OF Woll-known progressive lines =,
action, on the one hand. or. on the -.
her a distribution Of policy all 80,
ong the linc-ncw conditions. new ~,
ijustment underlined alterations of =.
olicy and back of it an, invisible ~
,venmout
Invisible Government Condemned. -.
several gentlemen who are sup ~.
'scd to be spokesman for the rcpuh- :.
AN party have In public protested -.
condemn invisible government but
private they have counsouod ana
ied and ubetted H. The best way
divert suspicion is to condemn the in,
ing that You are doing yourself NJ
nd just because the people OF the ,,,
eat state of New York saw through ,,.
al thin mask they defeated "a toll -,
ably good new constitution by "A ma IA.