The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1922-01-26
NOT "A FOOL CONGRESS-" BUT
FOOL CRITICISM =.

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world and that those who assail II
are giving encouragement To radi-
Gals. we take exception 20 the fol-
lowing editorial utterance of the
Washington Herald:
THE conference is doing well.
How would II do to let It legislate
for the United States in the place of
fool Congress-"
II the Sixty-seventh Congress is
fool Congress then every other Con-
gress has been a fool Congress, our
government Is fool government,
and the people are fools for using
their votes to clothe with power the
individuals who compose the Con-
gress. A review of what the Sixty
seventh Congress accomplished be-
fore the adjournment of the first
session on November 23 is sufficient
refutation of the scandalous remark
of the Herald.
One hundred and thirty-six laws
were enacted in, the six months of
the first session, and scores of 9TH
ers are pending in various stages OF
| Legislation, ready to be taken up
when the second session convened.
The more important bills enacted in
nue. act. budget act, emergency
tariff extension act, peace resolu-
tion, Veterans bureau act, immigra-
tion act. anti-beer act, $25 900 ,O0e
farm loan act, navy and army ap-
preparation acts. grain futures act,
packers control act, war finance ag-
ricultural loan act, SIS 900 900
state highways aid act, maternity
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act, cable control act, Indian bureau
act.
This program of legislation was
prepared and enacted into law by
congressman and senators, each in
dividual OF whom was selected and
sent to Washington by the popular
vote of his constituency. Students
of democratic government the world
over have pronounced the American
system OF popular elections the
most nearly perfect that human in
genuity can contrive. Every men,
ber of the House of Representatives
and of the Senate knows perfectly
well that II he does not guide his
actions and votes according to the
will of the majority of the people
whom he represents he will be re-
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tion and another man sent to Wash
ington who will do their bidding.
That means that the legislation en-
acted by Congress is, in fact. the
will of the people written into law.
1t is unfortunately true that GER
tain other papers In the United
States permit themselves to make
ill-considered reflections upon Con-
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the Washington Herald. Did they
hut realize IL. they are attacking
directly our form OF government
and giving aid and announcement
to the various evil forces within our
borders who are bent on wrecking
the Constitution and substituting
Russian order. The people in the
United States have always ruled and
always will rule. The present Con-
gress is of their own choosing, and
future Congresses will be likewise.
There is no surer way to lower
the standard of the body that makes
our laws than to instill into the
minds of the people the idea that
the present Congress is fool
Congress. and that radical change
Is necessary. Congressman and
senators today are statesmen.
lawyers and business men who have
sufficiently gained the respect and
esteem OF their fellow men to win
an election to Washington.
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
The Christmas Spirit is a wonder
ful thing. for II softens hard hearts
1t wipes out animosity; 1t equalizes
positions in life; IL makes us better.
We pause in our mad rush and
speak a kind word TO someone who
is in need of encoura cement: we
reach down in our pockets and even
II there Is little in our pockets, we
divide what we have with some one
else.
The New Years Spirit
Right on the heels, of Christmas,
when our minds and hearts have
been softened towards our fellow
men, comes the New Year. Because
IL Is so near Christmas, our atti-
tude toward the future contains so
many higher thoughts we are then
prompted to make resolutions to
govern our future conduct We
stop TO think over our past and we
find much that is sordid. We re-
solve TO do better: we actually be-
Npihc btttCi hltu anu WOultn.
The Every Day Spirit
But, with the dying away of the
Christmas season, with the close of
the New Year festivities, do we not
too often forget our good resolves
and our purposes to live bigger and
better lives? When the season of
happy days and joyful giving is past
and we go back to the so-called
| hum-drum Of every day life we do
not always take our Christmas and
New Year Spirit with us, but leave
1t to die with the old year and take
up our thread of thought and living
just where We left off. thinking
pettish thoughts. doing selfish acts
and forgetting to be kind and char
table. Just one tiiaath of the New
Year has passed. Are you keeping
your resolves 90 do bigger and bet
ter things In the year 1922 than
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