The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-07-05
RECIPROCAL THEFT.
SUNSET cox on THE TARIFF.

Mr.. Cox-I do not propose so much
to antagonize the gentleman from
Massachusetts (Mr. Butler) in regard
to making salt partly free. ! should
like TO sec it entirely free. | speak
on this side of the House standing
near MIR. Dawes] because my side OF
the house is somewhat demoraized
on the tariil-judging from some OF
the votes given on coal there yester-
day. They go far to disturb some of
my principles, if not control my vote.
A gentleman from Pennsy lyania (Mr.
Griffith appealed to my friend from
Indiana Mr.. KERR not to oppose the
coal tax because he was born above q
formation in Pennsylvania aud his
playmatcs were honorable men, [ feel
the force of that a3 hominem. | was
born near the salt wells ofthe beautiful
Muskingum, Ohio. Before that stream
had slack water-bciorc il was con
| sidered hardly worth dam - It's
banks spouted salt water like a Massa.
chusetts member OF Congress. 1t
was eyaporatcd by bituminons coal
| mean nothing personal to the gal
liant member from Massachusetts Or.
Banks)--I mean the salt water, not
the banks. Around the wells and
kettles oi my native river cluster those
sweet saline associations which have
preserved me ever young. They are
hard TO resist.
STRUGGLING INFANTS.
Another argument has still more
force. The gentleman from Mary
land (Mr. Richic) begged me not TO
throttle the iniautile coal interests oil
has beloved Cuumberland. Although
that unhealthy baby has been iattened
by u ''paternal government Oh pap,
or, rs | ought TO say, by neutral
government on milk Tor so many years
It's power OF suction is NJ least iorty
thousand horse power. These are
statistics. Yet, with rare economical
genius, followed by the eloquent fiscal
manager from the Kama salt
works, he appealed to us TO let
him steal, 80 long as other sections
stole fro.u him. Was there ever such
an illustration as tha. just made on
the gentlcman from Massachusetts
(Mr. Butler)? The gentleman from
Missouri (Mr. Finkelnburg) wanted TO
he 50 honest as to keep pork by cheap
salt. The gentleman from Massacht-
setts OR. Butler) wants to cheat the
treasury by free salt for goldfish. This
is all
LARcESY.
What could be more reasonable or
ethical? Let us be 10 each other in
struments of reciprocal rapinel Mich
igan steals on copper; Maine on lum-
Der; Pennsylvania on iron; North
Carolina on peanuts; Massachusetts,
on cotton goods; Connecticut on hair
pins New Jersey on spool thread -
Louisiana on sugar, and 80 on. WHY
not Let the gentleman from Maryland
steal on coal from them? True, bat
Il comparative few get the benefit,
aud il comes out OF the body of the
people; true, it tends to high prices,
but
DOES NOT STEALING ENCOURAGE IN
DCsTRY !
Let us as moralists, if not as politi-
ciaps, rewrite the eighth command
ment; Thou shalt steal because steal
ing is right when common" As am
representative of New York, and
Onondaga, with the and OF the foreign
solar artisan, eyaporates salt, ought /
not also steal to help onondaga p
Stealing by tariffs, Mr. Chairman. is,
as DcQuincy proved of murder, a fine
art. Ii everybody is a burglar, is
there any need for anybody to lock
up their houses? The mining COM
panies out West send ther ores to
Wales to be SO refined as to get more
wealth. II ought TO be stopped. Let
them steal capital out of Government [!
Why not pilfer something out of
somebod's earnings, and build works
in Colorado and Nevada like those in
Wales? How happy we should all
be when
THE REPRoAoH OF GOAT ISLAND
is removed from the Pacific, and from
the gentleman from California (Mr.
SargenD by a grander steal for wool
and blankets How happy we should
be when we can look each other in the
face here, clasp hands as now look
into the face of the gentleman from
Massachusetts (Mr. Dawes) and say,
God bless you, my brother; you
have stolen from me, and ] from you,
let us love one another. Then the
LITTLE UNPROTECTED PIGS,
who are crowded by big pigs, quietly
eating out of tho trough, will squeal
no more to be let in, for on this idea
shall all be fed by swallowing each
others food and when all are fed no
one loses and we shall be happy.
How beautifully this thought is il,
lustrated by the well-laid table of my
colleague tAIr. Brooks) The happy
family gathers around it, grace is said,
God is asked to
PROTECT" US IN OUR JOINT AND
SEVERAL EFFORTS TO STEAL!
One guest pockets the knives and
forks; another the salt and saltcellar
another the cream jug, plates and SUI
gar bowl; another the potatoes, an.
other the plated ware, another the
mutton chop; brawny Robert Ma
carrie from down East lifts out the Ia
Bile, while sly Jean Jacques, to en-
courage domestic cookery, slips into
the kitchen, puts out the fire and car
ries out the stove and Goals. Tht
| guests look at each other innocently
and say, 1--WE have done all this to in