Show WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS DID It removed from the statutes the federal election law the most odious and undemocratic measure ever enacted en-acted and thereby restored to the people peo-ple of the sovereign states full and complete com-plete control over tkeir elections free from the intervention of sup rvieors and deputy marshals whose sole duties under republican supremacy had been to intimidate arrest and imprison im-prison electors before they had cast their ballots It reduced the expenditares of the government below those of the last republican re-publican administration more than 28000000 thereby relieving the people peo-ple from the payment of thot immense sum into the federal treasury to stimulate stim-ulate extravagant jobs It reformed the abuses the various departments and by the aid of the heads of the same dispensed with useless use-less positions thereby reducing the salary list more than 81000000 annually annu-ally allyIt It repealed the most obnoxious ill formea and oppressive measure called the McKinley law and substituted in its stead a measure of revenue reform that will reviye trade and restore prosperity pros-perity It destroyed the policy of paying out of the public funds in the treasury derived from taxes collected from the people millions of dollars annually in the way of bounties to aid private individuals in-dividuals in the prosecution of their private industries It provided for the taxation bv states counties and municipalities of more than three hundred millions of taxable values which had heretofore not only been exempt from taxation but had enabled unscrupulous persons by fradulent practices to escape from their just share of the burdens of domestic do-mestic government It placed upon the statute books the most drastic measure against combinations combina-tions trusts and monopolies engaged in foreign commerce ever enacted It provided for an income tax upon the wealth of the country thereby placing upon the shoulders of the rich a due share of the burdens of government govern-ment It recognized the dignity of labor by providing by law a national holiday in the District of Columbia upon which the working people may cease from toil and unite in a peaceful celebration oi their achievements and triumphs It enacted more than two hundred laws for the benefit of the people indifferent in-different sections of the country |