People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1895 — IS ROUNDLY DAMNED. [ARTICLE]

IS ROUNDLY DAMNED.

OPINIONS OF THE FIFTY-THIRB CONGRESS. The Most Coninmate Set of Politic] Jackasses Ever Convened on the Face of the Earth—Populists and Repute* Ueans Condemn Them. The congress has been a bad failure. There is no room for difference of opinion on that point. Very hard things are said of it, and many of them are deserved. We have no disposition to add to its denunciation. We might single out members who especially deserve reprobation, and there are others who have stood out strongly as statesmen and patriots in the hour of trial. It need not have failed in dealing with the tariff; the responsibility here is with a few men, who refused to subordinate their selfishness to their' party’s welfare. It was a foredoomed failure in treating the currency.—Boa* ton Heralrfxßep.).

With a legacy of Republican misrule confronting it at the very start it was the Muty of the Fifty-third congress by wise statesmenshlp to Increase the revenues, restore financial confidence, decrease expenditures and enlarge rather than restrict the markets tat American products. In all these things it has signally failed, and that In ths face of light and knowledge.—PhiladeK phia Times (Pop.). The country has been saved from' much bad legislation by the confusion in the Democratic ranks. Like the men of Sodom, their eyes seem to have been blinded while they were trying to find the dObr to Lot’s house to bring di** aster upon them. Let the Republicans take warning from the great failure* They are better organized and better disciplined. Minneapolis Journal (Rep.) In its last hours the Fifty-third congress has more than sustained it* evil reputation. A few extravagant jobs escaped, but they are not many. There was very little restraint from any quarter upon the profligate diS» regard for the conditon which was heeded was that of the lobby urging greater inroads on the treasury.—Pitta* burg Dispatch (Rep.). At last the Fifty-third congress has expired by limitation, and it will have no more influence over the business and political situation. It has been unequal to the task of Improving those conditions, because it did not appreciate the gravity of the emergency. There has been too much of politics in It and too little of patriotism.—Milwaukee Journal (Pop.). . The Fifty-third congress was elected in hope. It has ended in disappointment. It was confronted with great opportunities. It failed to improve them. The whirlwind of popular wrath which swept away the Democrat!*) majority last fall finds an echo in the sigh of relief that greets its disappearance from the scene.—New York World (Pop.-Dem.). It has spent more time In actual session than any of its predecessors in recent years. It has been more roundly condemned than any of its predecessors of any period. It has had many and grave faults. But it would be unjust to allude to them without adding that it has shown some striking and sterling virtues.—Kansas City Time* (Pop.). V

Men say it was the worst congress ever known. At least there is a fair prospect that no other like it will be be seen for many years to come. Even the free trade fanatics, with all their want of practical sense, will hardly vote for another such congress as the one which buries itself in dishonor today.—New York Tribune (Rep.).* If the people of the United States had a chance to vote on the proposition they would make the 4th of March a national holiday forever, in grateful commemoration of the tact that on the 4th of March, Anno Domini Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-five, the Fiftythird congress passed out of existence. —Courier Journal (Pop.). The adjournment of congress will be an unmlxed blessing. The country is anxious to push forward toward recuperation, and so'long as congress was in session nothing could be done for fear of some egregrious folly that might retard prosperity.—Chattanooga Times (Pop.). The culminating culpability and reproach of the Fifty-third congress is not that it failed —since that was inevitable —but that it invested that failure, when it might have been pathetic or heroic, with the characteristics of a monumental farce.—Scranton Tribune (Rep.). It is possible that in the years to come we may have a congress that will be more incompetent and wrong-head-ed than the Fifty-third, but God save the United States of America if such a dispensation for its sins should befaM it.—Buffalo Commercial (Rep.). The Republican party may have a remedy for hard times, but it don’t seem to be in a hurry about applying it.