Good Words in Congress.
By Editor
WHILE the "Whisky Bill" was pending in Congress, one of the opposers of the bill used the following strong language, which we clipped from a report in a daily paper:— "Alluding to the statement made by the friends of the bill that whisky had paid into the treasury and maintained the armies of the United States in time of war, Governor Long said such talk was sham. Whisky had never paid a dollar into the treasury, but the people had paid it, and had paid it in blood, in crime, in broken hearts, and in indescribable sufferings. If $100,000,000 had gone into the treasury on this account, it had gone in over the whisky bridge, the product of an article which he could only term the dynamite of civilization. At the close of his speech, Long was freely cheered, and scores of members offered him their congratulations." This nation was founded upon the idea that Governments are instituted for the good of the people—for the preservation of human rights. When a Government speculates upon the sufferings of its subjects, and draws its revenue from the groans and tears of the helpless and oppressed poor, it has lost sight of its legitimate object.