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Friday, May 1? 1931
THE REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS
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O11 a certain day in tlie year of 1SS3
a bill was pending before the House
of Representatives at Washington,
providing for an appropriation of $10,-
000 for the .benefit of the widow of a
every soldier who fought in the War
of 1812 precisely the same amount.
There is a woman in my neighborhood
—the widow of as gallant a man as
ever shouldered a musket. He fell in
battle. She is as good in every respect
as this lady, and is as poor. She is
earning her daily bread by her daily
naval officer. It was more or less a lalj01' an(l if I were to int 1 oduce a
routine matter, but the members were j 1)111 to appropriate five or ten thousand
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Greetings to Our Many Friends in
Refugio County
“Let Us Rebuild Your Mattress”
taking advantage of the opportunity
to make flowery speeches, expressing
patriotic sentiments in rounded pe-
riods, and setting forth that the Nation
owed the deceased a debt which never
could be paid. To provide for his wid-
ow, now that he was gone, was little
enough. Indeed, it was paltry! No
mere gold, so the speakers declared,
could wipe out. the debt. But the
gold must be paid in any event, if only
to express in that poor fashion the
| gratitude of the Nation.
Spectators in the lobby dozed. There
was little interest in such a common-
place matter; there was no division
of opinion, no promise of excitement.
Here and there, perhaps, some expe-
rienced attendant at the congressional
spectacle pointed out to some newcom-
er the more prominent of the members,
Like as not more than one asked,
“Where is Colonel Crockett?” For
David Crockett, the gentleman from
Tennessee, was the most picturesque
member of the house at this time. The
dollars for her benefit I should be
laughed at and my bill would not get
five votes in this House. There are
thousands of widows in this country
just as this one I have spoken of; but
we never hear of any of these large
debts to them.
“Sir, this is not a debt. The gov-
ernment did not owe it to the de-
ceased when he was alive; it could
not contract it after he died. I do
not wish to be rude, hut I muos he
plain. Every man in this house knows
plied that he could not vote for him
again because of the vote he had cast
for the appropriation to relieve the
fire sufferers. The farmer said it was
j not the amount involved, but the prin-
ciple. Add then he proceeded to give
Davy Crockett a lesson in the funda-
mentals of American government.
“In the first place,” he said, “the
government ought to have in the treas-
ury no more than enough for its legit-
imate purposes. But that has nothing
to do with the question. The power
of collecting and disbursing money at
pleasure is the most dangerous power
that can be intrusted to man. If you
had the right to give anything, the
amount was simply a matter of dis-
cretion with you, and you had as much
right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000.
If you have the right to give to one,
you have the right to give to all; and
as the constitution neither defines
charity nor stipulates the amount you
are at liberty to give to any and every-
thing which you may be lieve, or pro-
fess to believe, is a charity, and to any
amount you may think proper. You
it is not a debt. We cannot, without ,
the grossest corruption, appropriate}^11 W easily perceive what a wide
this money as the payment of a debt.
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We have not the semblance of author-
ity to appropriate it as charity.
“Mr. Speaker, I have said we have
the right to give as much money of
our own as we please. I am the poor-
est man on this floor. I cannot vote
for this, bill, but I will give one week’s
pay to the object, and if every member
of Congress will do the same, it will
amount to more than the bill asks.”
Pat—Be Gorry, and why is Ben
wearing the big plaid vest?
Mike—And haven’t ye heard? The
doctor told him to keep a check on
his stomach?
SAFE F OR
backwoods statesman was at the! Crockett took his seat. There was
height of his career, and it is on record no applause, but nobody replied. Not
that he was present on this occasion one of the eloquent gentlemen who had
door this would open for fraud and
corruption and favoritism on the one
hand, and for robbing the people on
the other.
Crockett was so impressed by this
man’s argument that he promptly ad-
mitted lie had been wrong, and agreed
to apologize for his vote before a gath-
ering of the farmer’s neighbors. He.
carried out that agreement, and lie'
repeated the apology in every speech
he made in his campaign for re-elec-
tion. And he afterwards decleared
that the speech which he made in
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pointed out to spectators more than
once. But aside from gazing at him
curiously for a few moments, or at
some other member particular specta-
tors wanted to see, the crowd took lit-
tle interest in the proceedings.
The speeches continued. There was
no debate, for each gentleman begged
leave to add his voice to the general
chorus of approval of the bill. The
speaker of the House finally arose
and prepared to put the question.
Then there was a stir among the spec-
tators as Crockett stood up and asked
the indulgence of the chair while he
made a few remarks. More than one
of the spectators,' no doubt, felt the
quick surge of a feeling of gratifica-
tion over the fact that they were about
to hear the famous backwoodsman
speak, even if it were to he only a
few words in praise of a departed
servant of the country and in approval
of a measure to provide his widow
with the comparatively small sum of
$10,000. For, of course, everybody
j expected Crockett to speak in favor
of the bill, just as all the other speak-
ers had done.
“Mr Speaker,” said Crockett, speak-
ing slowly and deliberately, “I have
much respect for the memory of the
deceased, and as much sympathy for
the suffering of the living, if suffering
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there be, as any man in this house,
but we must not permit our respect
for the dead nor our sympathy for a
part of the living to lead us into an
act of injustice to belance of the liv-
ing.
“I will not go into an argument to
prove that Congress has no power to
appropriate this money as an act of
charity. Every member upon this
floor knows it. We have the right, as
individuals, to give away as much of
our money as we please in charity;
but as members of Congress we have
no right so to appropriate a dollar of
the public money.
“Some eloquent appeals have been
made to us upon the ground that it
is a debt due the deceased. Mr.
Speaker, the deceased lived long after
the close of the war; he was in office
to the day of his death, and I have
never heard that the government was
in arrears to him. This government
can owe no debts but for services ren-
dered, and at a stipulated price. If
it is a debt, how much is it? * Has it
been audited, and the amount due as-
certained? If it is a debt, this is not
the place to present it for payment,
or to have its merits examined. If it is
a debt, we owe more than we can ever
hope to pay, for we owe the widow of
so recently joined the chorus oi ap-
proval of the hill could find his voice
to answer the argument of the back-
woodsman from Tennessee. The vote
was taken, and instead of passing
unanimously, as had been generally ex-
pected prior to Crockett’s speech, the
bill received only a few votes aud was
defeated. And it is worthy of remark
that the gentlemen of Congress did not
take up Crockett’s proposal of each
giving the widow one week’s pay.
Certain utterances on the floors of
Congress at Washington during recent
weeks and in the floors of Congress
and in the Legislature at Austin dur-
ing the past week, have caused me to
recall this incident. President Hoo-
ver’s quoting of Grover Cleveland to
the effect that the people should sup-
port the government, and not the gov-
ernment the people, has also brought
it to my mind. For it happens that
Davy Crockett, who within three years
after this incident occurred, poured
out his blood for Texas in the Alamo,
took occasion to explain liis position
on this- matter to a friend who chided
him for having made that speech and
killed that hill. In explaining his posi-
tion he said that many years before
he had voted in Congress for an ap-
propriation of $20,000 for the benefit
of the victims of a disastrous fire at
Georgetown which had left them des-
titue. And then when he stood for
re-election he had apologized for that
vote on every stump in liis district
He said he was not likely to commit
the same error twice.
It seems that he started over his
district when the time came for him
to stand for re-election, and chanced
upon a sturdy farmer working in his
field, one who took the Washington
newspapers and who was a leader
among his fellow farmers. Crockett
solicited his vote, and the farmer re-
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Jones, J. L. Refugio Timely Remarks and Refugio County News (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1931, newspaper, May 1, 1931; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1158619/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dennis M. O’Connor Public Library.