| Show ME REEDS MODERATION ExSpeaker REEDS comparison between himself and CLIVE is a most astounding piece of assumption and bravado It exhibits ex-hibits moreover the exspeakers conception concep-tion or more properly his misconception of the principle upon which the government is founded According to Mr REED the representatives representa-tives of the people in Congress are to be treated as a mob of rebellious Sepoys who are to ha dragooned into meek obedience to the powers that be Theirs not to reason why but to submit to the will of the dictator dic-tator without remark or protestation This dictator moreover tho organized power of men representing a minority of the voters of this nation had usurped supreme control con-trol and attempted to disfranchise the majority ma-jority because by a luckychance the representatives repre-sentatives tho minority happened to outnumber out-number those of the majority in the national na-tional counciL When tho minority who represented the majority of the people of thisnation sought to expose the infamy of the plots of the minority representatives the latter denounced de-nounced them as obstructionists denied them the right of free speech passed a cumbrous and iniquitous tariff measure without permitting per-mitting its sections to be debated and then attempted in the face of the verdict of a million votes against them to intrench themselves in power in spite of the people peo-ple Afraid to debate rejected by their own constituents repudiated by the voice of the country at largo they oven then attempted at-tempted the grossest outrage known to the black record of political crimesthe practical prac-tical disfranchisement of great numbers of their political opponents because tho latter had tho audacity to outnumber them In this they failed not because of any laxity in tho tyranny of their machine or in the rulings of the speaker but because a few western Senators revolted at the glaring iniquity of their party and at the last moment refused to sustain the contemplated con-templated outrage That the speaker should profess surprise now at his own moderation after ho had failed in the attack upon the liberties of the people simply from lack of power to succeed suc-ceed shows how little he regards the verdict ver-dict of the people against him and how readily he would sacrifice the people in the interests of his party had he the power to do so |
