The evening world. Newspaper, June 3, 1920, Page 21

CHUTE CORED BY RANKED MAL OF CNGRESSHEN (Continued From First Page.) . self in the minds of the people. You will agree, I am sure, that we are fac- ing the gravest crisis in our his‘ory. ‘The fight is on between constitutional government—law and order— and Boishevism. It should not be possible for newspapers and critics genorally to make the perfectly true gtatements about Congress which are, and can bp, made. Every keen observer who comes to Washington can go home and prove to homefolks—and they do—that millions are being jimmied out of the public treasury for pork and patronage. No people nor any class of people, ever thought in terins of revolution so long as they had con- fidence in their Government. We, ourscives, have sown the seeds of Bolshevism through our failure to be businesslike in conducting the legis- lative business of the Nation. “The shameful abuso of the frank- THE EV ENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE ing privilege by members of Congross is reprehensible at any time, but in times like these, when the public {+ being exhorted to be thrifty in all matters, to economize and todeprive themselves of all but necessities, It seems pa,ticularly repretiensible that their representatives in Conkrows, members. if you please, of the great- est legislative body in the world, should waste millions of dollars in an abuse which smells to high heaven, PRIVILEGES A DISCREDIT TO CONGRESS. “From time to time comments are printed in datly papers all over tho country referring to this abuse and that abuse in connection with the franking , privilege. These items en- courage «the people, and quite justly, in bel that there is something ‘rotten ‘In Denmark.’ It discredits Congress becnuse it gives the impres+ sion that representatives of the peo- ple in Washington enjoy privileges and perquisities “of one kind or un- other that would not stand the beht of day, This creates a lack of con- fidence and generates an impression that citizens are warranted in fecling that ‘each should be for himself and the devil take the hindermost,’ which is not the sort of an impression that should be generated by or concerning a. self-respecting, high-minded body of legislators, “Now, Mr. Speaker, with your p:r- mission, I propose to enumerate a series of illuminating facts that, with one-tenth as damning evidence, would lead you and me to demand ar vestigation of any industrial enter- prise in which we might be Interostod. “Firstly, there is franked out of House office building daily fror twenty to thirty tons of mali matta! and about election timo this quantity Is Increased to thirty or forty tons. One Congressman sent out 750,000 parcels of literature and one political party at one election sent out 55,000,- 000 speeches, I took the liberty the other day of calling on the Superin- tendent who has charge of the clerks who send out this mass of stuff, and he stated that at tims there were 500 to 600 clerks employed doing nothing but packing free literature into fre envelopes to be sent through the mails free of expense to oCngressmen He stated that these clerks couid address and send out about 1,500 eac in ench day, I asked the man charge how many parcels a Congr: man could have, and he,aaid, as mi: as he liked. ‘Well,’ Ie said, ‘not a million apiece? and he said, ‘Yos.’ And then I inquired how manv on- velopes,,and he said as many as a Congressman wanted. I asked hia how about the printing, and he said, ‘No charge to a Congressman,’ And I asked him about the franking priv.- lege, and he said these things were all franked out, agd then he said, Ly way of offering a defense that. of course, no Congressman, unless he were a damned hog, than a hundred tho: “Now, the cbject Speaker, is to mu hogs’ and to hamst ‘high rollers,’ prit of the treasury, an | their franking privilege to the extent 6f a million dollars a year.” ~ASPIKIT tice to tho self-respecting element in Congress who feel that peing a Con- gressman is a matter in which they could justly take pride rather than that they ghould be part of a body re- ferred to as grafters and psalm-sing- ing hypocrites, “[ find it quite the custom when a Name “Bayer” on Genuine Congressman is running for election, or wishes to have his name before tho public because he aspires for some other office to flood his district or State, as the case may be, with e'l kinds of free literature. For exam- ple, one of our Congressmen awhile ago desired to have his name consid- red in connection with the Governor: ship of hig State, with tho result that he conceived the idea of sending out a nice collection of books to the voters of his State, He sent out 640,000 par- cels of books in one day, and upon in- “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” is gen- uine Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for ove: twenty years. an un- quiry at the Post OMice 1 found that x Accept pnl the postag uld have peen to ordi-| broken Bayer package’ w ich con- nary mor 45 cents per parcel, It is|tains proper directions ‘to relieve a simple matter in arithmetic to sce | F ache, Toothache, Earache, Neu- that 640,000 parcels at 45 cents aplece | ralgia, Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. cost Uncle Sam over $300,000 for post-] Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost age, Of course, the cost of the books | few cents. Druggists also sell larger themselves would be greatly in excvss|“Bayer packages.” Aspirin is tradc of this amount. It 1s easy to see, with| mark Bayer Manufacture Monoacetic- this illustration in mind, that Indi-| acidester of Salicylicacid.—Advt For HE new Gillette Big Fellow gets its longer handle, its heavier head. from the needs of the two-fisted American—the man who is brain and sinews to pro- ducing. There is no time wasted with the Big Fellow—No Stropping—No Honing— no going over the same Da and rent s of Hustle The Gillette _ Big Fellow giving his place two or three times. Its two-edged, keen Gil- lette Blade is made of the finest quality of high car- bon steel—sharpened for you at the factory—each edge the most lasting shaving edge ever pro- duced. Each blade delivers many velvet-smooth shaves. Then you simply throw it away and put in a new one. In these days of hustle and go a man’s time is worth more than the cost of the keenest steel. 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