Show Congress Failure Need have now now- been in control of the senate and the T house house for than more a year ear the election of 1918 upon the faith of alluring Promises The They said that they would earnestly support the president at least until the tasks of finished It was their contention that they would enter upon the v ork of recon reconstruction reconstruction with superior intelligence and even with greater than would be possible possible- under Democratic leadership They gave publicity when they entered upon the recent session to detailed and ambitious statements as to their program If we are to be judged as I hope we ye may maybe maybe be by the record let them also be judged by the record what have the tha Republicans accomplished since their political success in I 1918 What beneficial results have flowed to the American What promises have been redeemed What progress has been made in the settlement of foreign or domestic questions Twice the president went before congress since since the termination of hostilities calling attention to needed legislation He urged the passage of jaws aws relating to profiteering measures to simplify and reduce taxation appropriate action relative to the returning soldiers the passage of a resolution concerning the constructive plans worked out in in detail by former Secretary Secretary- Lane and the measures advocated by the secretary of agriculture He suggested that congress take counsel together and provide prove legislation with reference to industrial unrest and the mutual relations of capital and labor After more than a year of sterile debate our country has neither peace nor Barren of achievement shameless in in waste of time and money the record of the present is without parallel for its failures and repudiations Are the American Amer Amer- can ican people so unjust or so lacking in discrimination that they will ill reject the service serice of a party which has kept and place trust in a party which merely renews the broken promises of a previous campaign campaign From Cummings Cummings' keynote speech |