The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1922-09-29
CONGRESS ADJOURNS.

The Sixty-seventy Congress has ad-
journed.
It is the most signal achievement Of
its career.
In years to come this country will
look back at the two years Of procras-
tination and humbuggery that have
been brought to close with indigna-
tion and shame.
Here was nation come out Of the
greatest war of all time with the res
pect and confidence Of civilization.
Here was great opportunity to
serve humanity, and by serving hui
manity to help ourselves.
The opportunity was recognized by
every thoughtful person in the coun-
try--and regardless Of political belief
it was expected that the administra-
ton would accept the opportunity to
lead in peace as its predecessor led
in war.
That the American people were to
be doomed to disappointment was APP
parent almost from the beginning.
A president who was elected on a
platform of concrete pledges to the
country, soon found that these
pledges could not be fulfilled, be-
cause to fulfill them would have Gre
.ated party lesion.
An administration that rode into
power on wave of protest against
taxation and through appeal to the
mob soon resolved itself into an ad-
ADMINISTRATION by the mob.
We were promised lower taxes and
economic administration,
We were promised less government
in business and more business in gov
ernment.
We were promised continued pros
perity.
We were given hodge-podge rev.
enue act that the Republicans had to
hold their noses when voting for.
We have had weekly evidence of
governmental interference in bust
ness and strangulation of trade.
We have witnessed falling off of
our foreign trade until it has all but
disappeared.
We have witnessed depression Of
the farm and stagnation in industry.
We have had more unemployed
than at any other time in the history
ef our country.
We have had a Congress that has
been peculiarly responsive to popular
demand.
We have had a Congress driven to
mad acts by partisan consideration
and private interests.
We have been nauseated by scandal
in office.
We have been made indignant by
waste and extravaganza.
We have witnessed a Congress
without responsive leadership veer-
ing first one way and then the other,
according to the within Of the ascen-
dant bloc. and we have witnessed an
unwilling or an unable President
failure to assume the authority with
which to assume the authority with
which the electorate vested him.
III there ever was parallel for the
fiddling of Nero, Washington for the
past two years has supplied it.
Congress has adjourned and its
members return to their Districts
seeking reelection.
Will an outraged people excure the
iuefficiency, incapacity of the Repub-
iiean rabble which has been in con-
troll since 1918?
Can n United States Senator, with
the faint of Newberryism hanging tc
him. appeal to a freedom electorate
for endorsement?
Can Representative with the stig.
ma of the Fordney- McCumber raid
attached to him ask honest men anc
women for their suffrage?
Can a President who has approved
the acts of this Congress appeal t.
the public to return these men to of
flee without violating his own self
respect and trailing the dignity of tn,
office in the dust?
Congress has adjourned. It is the
most commendable part Of its record
God save US from another like it,
Nashville Tennessean.