CONGRESS AND THE INSURGENTS
Congress and the Insurgents Editorial from the Nebraska State Capital GONGRESS has adjourned, and the federal press bureaus are busy writing editorials for use all over the country to the effect...
...They were the only true friends of the administration...
...And over yonder the while sat Elkins and Depew and Aldrich and Hale and Payne and Dalzell, glowering and silent like the surly dogs that they were...
...Congress and the Insurgents Editorial from the Nebraska State Capital GONGRESS has adjourned, and the federal press bureaus are busy writing editorials for use all over the country to the effect that "more constructive legislation than ever has been passed," and that "Taft has scored a great victory by having his entire program carried out," and more of the same kind...
...La Pollette and Bristow and Beveridge and Gore and Cummins and Dolliver and Norris and Murdock and the others from day to day took the floor and exposed and explained and amended, while the crowded galleries and the people of the country looked on and approved...
...It is true that much of the "Taft program" has been carried out...
...And they will receive no comfort from the president whose reputation they have saved so far as this session is concerned...
...They will be opposed by every vicious "interest" in the United States...
...They added the things that were for the protection of the people of the country...
...It is up to the people...
...Not to the corporation-serving members of Taft's cabinet, who drew many of the "program" bills and inserted in them the most vicious features...
...Don't forget that for a moment...
...To them came the duty of remodeling the bills...
...But the pity of it is that these same "Insurgents" must go home to fight for their political lives...
...And they will be opposed by the Hitchcock machine with its attendant train of postmasters and pap-suckers...
...The only genuine representatives of the people of this United States were the so-called "insurgents...
...To them came the duty of speaking out in the open so the country could know...
...And they will be opposed by the cabinet officers whose treachery they have balked...
...In their preparation Taft had been imposed upon by his conscienceless advisors, find by the standpatters in the two houses...
...They struck out the vicious paragraphs...
...Does he mean to include the Pittsburgh steel mill workers...
...It was a glorious victory, won by the "insurgents...
...Not to the "regulars" in Washington, who were opposed to any reform legislation, but who, on the other hand, continued to serve the "interests...
...They were not always successful, but nearly always...
...It is true that there has been much constructive legislation...
...But to whom belongs the credit...
...Not to the Aldriches and Paynes and Dalzells and Smoots and Elkinsea and BallingerB and Wickershams, who were apparently the only ones called into consultation by the president during the strenuous session...
...If adopted as presented they would have been the shame of the country...
...And the "insurgents" met the duty with strong hands and stronger hearts...
...They exposed the "jokers" in the bills...
...The "administration bills" as originally presented were nearly every one faulty or absolutely vicious...
...President Taft says everybody should take a two months' vacation...
...And in the presiding chairs sat Sherman and Cannon, each intent to seize any chance to betray the country...
Vol. 2 • August 1910 • No. 32
