Show HOUSE Speaker Satisfied Present C BETTER FAThERS o S a Dec aher Can flout was one of the his t the house t He desired simply to py bin to thit preL dent but vas obliged to defer them themas as the president bad gone to the coun country try for a long ride The speaker was iii spirits and with the n men in tile Way say things ate not now like were In he old days that we ard becoming there Is no honesty In bodies that there Is no at the bar that we are liable to become a that strong man is liable to rise up and everybody Better Than Our Fathers But I that there Is no fair minded man studies the history of tIlls country from the days of its foundation to the time and who deduces the difference between people and who con elders the telegraph telephone and time railroad who will not say we are markedly better physically mentally amid morally out or even our fathers Then you the house of rep i just as as it was Iii years Ys yes the speaker cc House Is Representative The house ls as representative a body now as it was this try had emily people If you histen to that is said you might be the country Is fast going to the devil Is fast becoming a monarchy and ivilL cease soon to be a republic Why I heard that same kind of talk when I Iwas was a boy when we to gather at camp meetings They used to tel us that tImings vere not what they were in time good old lays You bear the same things the country Is retrograding that everybody Is cor corrupt rupt and and that there Is I do not heat tate to assert that this country Is bet better ter today than it was In Its his history tory that the people are more moral and less to yIeld to that are put In InS front of honest men at every turn S People Are Mighty The people are just as mighty now in the as ever be before fore and just as dIscriminating as to toI I a man has done his duty No Noman man ever gets ap big that ho cannot easily be wiped oiT the map And how quickly the people do it too They settle a man so quickly that he heis is soon forgotten I venture the prediction that faw of the best men in the country could sIt today and give offhand time names of men who have helped to tomake make history In time house of he others cere defeated mind anti was the end ws J put the house the of to build the telegraph hue Washington and Baltimore He did the world an yet at next election afterwards he received hardly enough votes to count The opposition put lm a man who rim euel thin idea of messages by and he beat Brown thou sands of So it is today although a mans services now are not so easily condoned Undoubtedly we arc better oft than Our forefathers The is not here It Is true and things will not be bea a bit until everything be becomes comes Te are doing better |