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NOVEMBER, 1914
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The 63d the People's Congress
The New York World gives the fol
lowing review of the work of the 63d
congress up to the time of its recent
adjournment:
"The best that can be said of any
congress during its life is that it has
been true to its trust. Timo alone
will determine the wisdom of its
deeds. The sixty-third congress, in
session longer than uny other in our
history, is noteworthy for its indus
try. It should always bo even more
memorable for Us faithfulness to the
pledges upon which it was chosen.
For those pledges the people no less
than their congress must bear tho re
sponsibility. "When this congress began its la
bors, April 7, 1913, certain great
measures of reform nad been prom
ised by both parties for years. Ex
cept for two years in tho house of
representatives, the republicans had
been in complete control of tho gov
ernment since 1897. They had been
bound by their platforms to reduce
and equalize tariff and other taxa
tion, to extend and strengthen tho
anti-trust law, to reform our finances,
to stop the exploitation of Alaska
and to promote justly the principles
of self-government in the Philip
pines. "To every one of these obligations
thev had proven false. In most cases
they had done nothing. Revising the!
tariff twice, they increased its bur
dens unon consumers. Enacting somt
useful and progressive legislation in
other directions, they studiously ig
nored or rejected popular demands
for relief from privilege, extortion
and monopoly. Such was the situa
tion a' year ago last spring, when for
the first time in more than fifty years
a democratic president with a con
gress having a dependable democrat
ic majority in both branches took
office.
"For good or for 111, this congress,
co-operating with this president, has
met the Issued of the last twenty years
in accordance with its covenants. It
has dealt with several new problems
besides. No other congress has en
acted so many laws reaching to the
very foundations of finance, com
merce, industry and social order. In
no other congress has there been
more freedom from lobbyists and
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congress have tho people suffered less
from demagogy and violence.
"The Bixty-third congress has re
vised downward in tho interest of
consumers a tariff whose schedules
not many years ago were sold to the
contributors of campaign funds.
"It has reformed our banking and
currency systems, putting an end to a
financial tyranny centralized in a pri
vate coterie.
"It has supplemented and clarified
tho anti-trust laws, establishing per
sonal guilt, preventing monopoly and
interlocking directorates, and eman-4
clpating labor from unwarranted
prosecutions aid summary punish
ments without trial by jury.
"It has levied an income tax by
means of which wealth must bear a
share of public burdens 'heretofore
heaped solely for consumption.
"It has created a trade commission
empowered to investigate and report
upon commercial oppressions that
tend toward criminality.
"It has amended tho employees' ar
bitration law, by wnich means it re
cently, in the case of the railroads,
averted what threatened to be the
greatest strike ever known.
"It has provided for the construc
tion of a government railroad in
Alaska and for the leasing of public
coal lands in that territory, thereby
forever protecting national rights in
a dependency long menaced by tho
avarice of a moneyed sovereignty.
"It has passed in ono branch an
act extending the liberties of the Fil
ipinos and preparing the way for
their self-government, a fulfillment
not only of our most solemn pledges
but a reaffirmation of the principles
underlying our own freedom as ex
pressed in the Declaration of Inde
pendence. "These are the mighty promise
keeping performances of the sixty
third congress. Of its many achieve
ments relating to issues unforeseen,
we shall cite only the repeal of the
Panama canal tolls act in which a
former congress had violated a treaty
to serve the coastwise-shipping mon
opoly; the act authorizing the pres
ident to use force at Vera Cruz, but
not declaring war upon the people of
Mexico: the admission of foreign
built ships to American registry; the
extension of the emergency currency
act, anticipating the activities of tho
federal reserve banks, not yet in op
eration, and the establishment of a
bureau of maritime insurance to con
tinue during the European war.
"In proof of the rectitude of pur
pose displayed In this remarkable
record and of the fact that both par
ties have long been pledged to root
privilege and plutocracy out of our
laws, reference may be made to the
attitude of the minority on some of
these questions. Republican leader
ship, of course, was antagonistic, but
it could not prevent men who re
spected their word from standing
true. In the senate, on the first pass
ago of the Clayton anti-trust bill,
seven republicans voted with the
democrats; in the house, fifty-six re
publicans. In the house, no repub
lican voted against tho trade-commission
bill; in the senate; twelve
republicans favored it. In the sen
ate, the banking and currency bill
-,"., vntAs of four republi-
cans; in the ban... forty-nlno repub
honor and principle and reason abide
on both sides. Tho timo was ripe, in
deed, for these movements forward,
but progress such us this would not
have been made except under highly
favorable conditions, when the tem
per of tho people was known. In
both houses tho majority was ably
and sincerely, led. There was an .un
alterable purpose to respect public
opinion. There was the most labor
ious industry. There was unlimited
patience. Above all else, thoro was
the lofty inspiration of tho White
House, which, to tho condemnation
of a great party, had not boon thoro
before.
"Nothing in a republic Ib more In
spiring than obedience to the popu
lar will. Tho sixty-third congress has
been more than obedient. It has
been highly appreciated. It has
been a people's congress in which tho
best trnditiona of representative gov
ernment have been courageously
maintained. It must look to tho peo
ple for its rowcrds. To the people
belongs tho trlunpli, all of which
thoy saw, a large part of which they
were."
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