123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536

The House of Representatives has resolved by 154 votes against

6, that" all forms of repudiation of the national indebtedness are odious to the American people, whose representatives will not offer to the national creditors a less amount than the Govern- ment has contracted to pay." Good, but rather vague !—the precise form of dishonesty on the part of the Democrats having been a quibble as to what the Government did "promise to pay." And why does the House of Representatives so often refer to what is odious to "the American people," rather than to them- selves? They are not the American people, though they more or less successfully represent it. Why can't they stick to business, and not lug in "the American people" as a sort of oratorical expression on all sorts of occasions ?

Next page