The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21
WALSH AND EVANS REPLY TO
 PRESS SLURS ON CONGRESS
Subsidized Newspapers and Rabid Attacks of Big Business on Public Servants They Can Not Control, Are Greatest Danger to Our Govern ment-Issue Must Be Met at Ballot Box.

Tt is little short of treason Tn a democracy to attempt to capture the sources of information and to use them to deceive the people so that they will vote for their undoing. The prop aganda such as the news articles which have had read at the desk illustrates is deceptive, misleading, unjust, and injurious.
 I think I have voiced the opinion of that great mass of American people among whom are counted those who are compelled to fight the battle of life unaided by social position, political in t1uence, and money, when to the ques- tion, Has the Senate deteriorated? I answer emphatical1y, Mo-"
 Representative Evans of Montana, read from the Literary Digest, contain ing two printed pages of criticism Of the Congress, quotation therein from Judge Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, who declared that the worst thing we have is our American Congress"
 Another quotation was from Orrin Lester, New York banker, who said : With such agencies at work Ill this country as Bolshevism and the present United States Congress we have some job on our hands to maintain the integ- rity of the nation and the security of her institutions"
 Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, was quoted as de claring the United States Senate is an 'il1-mannered scandlemoQgering body.
 Representative Evans then proceed ed, in part as follows:
 These captains of industry, masters of finance, and spokesmen for special privilege seem quite peeved at the Con- gress and the cause is not hard to find. Disregarding the orders of the spokes- men for these interests, Congress re- fused to pass the Mellon tax bill writ ten in the interest of the rich and in tended to shift an undue part Of the tax burden from their shoulders.
 Against the further orders of these same people both houses of Congress have voted bonus for ex-service men.
 'Disregarding the demand for cheap CT human fodder for furnaces, which could only be obtained from Europe, Congress voted ot limit immigration and is preparing to protect the youth of this country by passing a child-labor amendment. .-
 Naturally all these things have been distasteful to the men who speak for the big interests of the country. These gentlemen are attempting to deal with Congress as they do with a competitor when they can not control him they destroy him.
 "These gentlemen are angry because Congress has not been subservient and obeyed orders. They are angry be- cause the Congress did not pass the Mellon bill without the dotting of an I or the crossing of t., when the whole world knew the bill was written in the interests of the rich and against the interests of the average taxpayer.
 Judge Gary, have no doubt, would substitute for Congress board of di- rectosr with himself as chairman and the other members of the board of his own selection. No doubt that sort of government would function to his own satisfaction.
 "If that regime had been in effect for the past year there would have been no investigations. Secretary Fall would not have been forced to plead his own crime to avoid testifying. MT. Fall would have his $1O0,000 received from MT. Doheny and his $25,OOO from MT. Sinclair, and would be posing as distinguished former cabinet member. MT. Doheny would have the oil re- serves in California; MT. Sinclair would have possession of Teapot Dome; MT. Denby would now be in the Depart ment of the Navy, leasing out the rest of the oil reserves to the same par ties, because he has said he would do exactly what ne d1u oVel dSdlii IL N only got the chance.
 'Daugherty would be conducting the affairs of the Department of Just1Ge and Forbes would still be footing the Veterans Bureau. If Fall and Doheny and Sinclair and Denby and Daugh- erty had not been disturbed, Judge Gary and MT. Lester and Dr. Butler would be happy"