The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-13
IS THE eovEsNMEs77 "a BANKRUPT,

Labor has hestated say that the present Con-
gress of the United States morally bankrupt We do
not that its members immoral; that their
acer among their open suspicion that
they live lives materially different from other people
The average member of Congress good and bad
the average American citizen
But agency for looking after the comfort and
well-being of 1100O0o0o people, body of
whose first duty it is that justice done only
between man and man, but between the Government
itself and those who constitute the Government
again that the Congress of the United
morally bankrupt.
The great British scientist Huxley, says: 1.-THE end
of government is the webeng of mankind"
The Sixty-sxth Congress has said effect that
end of is the enrichment the the
impoverishment of the many.
This is an honest appraisal of the Congress of the
United States judged by its actions and its attitude
every great question that has come before it
Congress is morally if not intellectually. bankrupt
The people of the United States without injustice
of it. said of Nebuchadnezzer old "Mene mene
tekel upharsn which translated says been
weighed in the balance and found wanting" For any
Congress that will far depart from traditions Of
America as to subsdize private business this Con-
gress has subsidized the railroads has been found
Any Congress that has shackled labor as this Con-
gress has shacked the railway workers has found
wanting. -.-
Any Congress, period critical as this when all
the world occupied with social that has
done nothing to relieve this condition. has weighed
in the balance and found wanting. tsf
measure
tax the sacrifices and the suffering of the workers of
America, who won the by tax sales has been
weighed in the balance and found wanting s.
The editors of LABOR have asked members of Con-
gress the question: what any been
enacted during the years may fairly be said
to have contributed the webeng the and the
happiness of the people of America up to date the
editors of LABOR have single reply of an
affirmative nature while those replies that have been re-
ceved have said: Ths Congress has done nothing for
the webeng the comfort and the happiness of the peo-
pie.
LABOR repeats again, the Sixty-sixth Congress is
morally bankrupt. 1t has betrayed its trust 1t has
turned its back the people has thought it has sct
ed it has legislaed solely the of Wall Street
OF bankers of railroad nagnate Of the and Of
privilege generally.
No Congress in the history Of America we doubt if
any Parliament in the history of the world has the
people with inusces financial and political as
has the Congress of the United States There
some brilliant exceptions of who served well and
honestly the trust to which they assigned the
great majority of those who up for should
be sent back to private life
The lawyers should be ordered to make their money
as egtimately the in private practice rather
than in the Halls of Congress-
The bankers should be kept home operate their
banks from the counting room rather Capt.
to Hill.
The trust magnates and the agents of trust mag
nates the railroad stockholders the parasites
be placed where they belong-in their Offices at home
rather than in the magnificent office buildings by
the people of America for their servants
For member of Congress is a of the people.
He is nothing When he arrogates himself DO
siton of superiority he is doing only what did
only what the Kaiser did only what the Bourbons did
only what the smarts of old did Russia, Germany,
France and England disposed Bourbon masters
The people of America have of dsposing of
= theirs NOT BY REVOLUTION, NOT BY VIOLENCE.
BUT BY THE ORDERLY PROCESS OF THE BALLOT
BOX
And this is the first job of the American people, We
need housecleanng thorough and this
we believe is the temper of AmercaLabor Washington
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