The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-11-28
Get The Broom.


combination of Bolshevists. red an
archists, disgruntled Democrats and
discredited Republicans.
The United States Senate, once a
body of American statesmen, has fall
len into disrepute and decay. The
once glorious seat of Americas dis
tinguished patriots is now a retreat
of misery derelicts and doddering
idiot. 1t is a grotesque and pitiful
emasculation of once proud and
glorious people.
Not even in poor reverence is 1t
remembered by the gossiping pink
tea parties or the chatter of garru-
lous fshwives.
We shudder to think 1t may be
the beginning of the decline and fall
of the American Republican, down
in it's youth and prime-so early,
so ingloriously.
This may seem like jest, but in
effect it is staggering reality.
The deplorable loss of reason and
responsibility, its pettifogging sim
plemindedness, has made to the eyes
of the world an amazing spectacle
of the United States Senate.
Refusing to recognize and indorse
the President and the leading states
men of Europe in the extraordinary
and unexampled effort to organize
the forces of law and order, to inspire
the better instincts and intelligences
of mankind to face the maddening,
seething fury of world mined with
the engines of destruction, to stem
the fiery red storm clouds of hell,
and to stay the hands of beastly lust
and murder; refusing after session
of twelve months or more even to
acknowledge the services of the
American President and his associates
in the most remarkable worldwide
movement for better civilization; the
Senate closes it's doors and leaves the
70 fddles while Rome burns
Then the Senators, with supine
indifference and impunity, start home
or somewhere else to save little
more of the ill begotten gains of Con-
gressional railroad mileage-the
highest or next to election their
highest aims.
After the Verseillaise covenant,
which had no doubt proved a merci-
full instrument in quieting the un-
restrained spirit of revolution, with
the only exception of Russian Boil
shevism, it was to be expected that
the nations, whose representatives
had thus set in order the work of re-
construction and the blessings of
peace, would follow it up with a
much easier and more agreeable task
of speedy approval. So they did
with the exception of the United
States.
Our people were betrayed. They
were surprised, even amazed, at the
action of the Senate. 1t is indeed a
stigma, a reproach which strikes deep
into the roots of Americanism.
But when we begin to analyze the
motives which prompted this betray-
al, the qualities of the men and their
political alliances and standards, 1t
is not so strange that they failed in
measuring man and brain with the
demands of the present world prob
lens so great and grave.
1t is not SO long ago that this mar
row provincial spirit and little
mindedness manifested itself in the
act of Congress to exempt it's own
members from war revenue taxes
and thus in actions louder than words
set an example of disloyalty to the
country they were chosen to serve
and this during the war at time
when extraordinary efforts were made
to stir the patriotism of our people
to military service and national de-
Tense. It was point too obviously
important to be waived aside with
transparent excuses.
And then again we follow the
course OF Congress. SO wrapped NJ
in petty politics. pork, patronage
and personal perQuisites as to quit'
absorb its attention and render use
less its grasp of the things that ar,
so vastly important to the nation
and the people.
Is it any wonder that Congress
has failed-utterly dismally failed
More than year since the arm
istice was signed, and only one in
significant item of reconstructiv
legislation has received attention
that Of the return Of the wires t