Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-06-13

Then the rolllcast OF States com
'menced, and as the Chairman of eacl
delegation announced full vote fo1
IU. ST. Grant,, the excitement rar
higher and higher. until the climax
iof wild Joy was reached with the end
of theirolL when s,1ry Statsdsd Terri
tory haa giren its fuN rote-seven hun.
dred and fifty,two in all-j~ Presi-
HeHt Grant.
\ ,Reelprocal Theft,
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humorous speech OF Hon. s. 8. Cox
- In Congress.
I Discussions on the Tasiif nd Ia x
bills in Congress are usually oi the
most unipteressing character, but Ia g
speech OF S. S. Cox in the House on
Wednesday last was exceedingly
lively.a Members of Congress and
politicians here are still talking Of it,
and it,nndoubtedly claims attention
as Clever act of Congressional op~e
t0sfs: tsies a 4 s<Ei7. &. ..ssia )
Mr.. Cox-I do not propose so
much to antagonize the gentleman
from Massachusetts (Mr. Butler) in
regard to making salt partly free. I
should like to see it entirely free. 1
speak on this side of the House
[stanaing near Mr.. Dawes ] because
lny side Of. the House is somewhat
demoralized on the tariff [laugh;ngl
Judging from some of the votes
given on coal there yesterday They
60 far to disturb some ofmy princi-
pies, if not control my vote. a gen
tloman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Grit
fith) appealed to my friend from In
diana (Mr. kerry not to oppose the
coal tax, because he was born above
a coal formation [laughterl in Penn
sy.vania,, AMI his playmates We're
honorable men. feel the force Of
that adKomlnem. was born near the
salt wells of the beautiful Musking-
um, in Ohio. Before that stream had
slack water, before it was consldcrcd
worth a dam-[laughter] its banks
spouted water like massachusetts
member OF Congress. It was evapo-
rated by bituminous cosl--I mean
nothing personal to the gallant mem
ber from Massachusetts, lMr. Ranks)
II mean the salt water, not the
banks. Laughter.J Around the
wells and kettles Of my native river
cluster. those sweet, saline, associa-I
tiona which have preserved me ever
youny!l They arc hard to i'esist.-
Another argument has still more
toroe. The. gentleman from Mary
land {Mr. Ritchle) begged Us not TO
throttle the intantile coal interests of
his beloved Cumberland. Laugh.
ter. Althouoh that unhealthy baby
has been fostered by "paternal gov-
ernmcntg on -eap,' or.ae1 ought TO
say, by a maternal government on
milk [Iaughterl for so many years,
its power ofsuction IS at least forty
thousand horse power. Laughter. ]
These are statistics. Lah ghter1-
Net,s with rare economical genius,
followed by the eloquent tiscat mem--
Der from the Kanawha salt works,
he appealed to us to let him steal, so
long as other sections stole from
him. Was there ever such an Illus
tration as that just made on the gem
tleman from Massachusetts, Mr.
Butler)? The. gentleman IRON Mis-.
souri, lAff. ,Fihkiinbnrg) wanted to
be SO honest as the help the people
TO keep pork byn cheap salt. The
gentleman from Massachussettss(Mr.
Butle,) wants to cheat the Treasury
By tree SALT lor Goldfish. This is all
larceny. ii Laughter j. What could
be more reasonable or ethicals 8. Let
as be to each other instruments OF
reciprocalGrapine. [Langhter.l Mich
igan steals on copper Maine on lpm-
Der; Pennsylvania on iron; North
Carolina on peanuts; Massachusetts
on cotton goods; Connecticut on hair
pins; New Jersey -on speol.:hread;
Louisiana on sugar, and 50 on Why
not let the ..gentlemnn from Mary
land steal on coal IRON them? True,
bu; comparative few get the bene-
fl, and comes out of the body of the
people true, it tends to highprices,
but does not stea ling encourage in
dustry? Let US as moralists, It not
as politicians, re-writa the eighth
sThous shalt steal;
because stealing is right when com
mon" AS l am representative OF
New York, and Onondaga, with the
aid OF foreign solar, artisan, eYapo.
rates sail, ought not also to steal
to help Onondaga Stealing by tar
it's, Mr.. Chairman, is, as De Quincy
proved of murder, a fine art. It'ev.
Srybody stole from everybody, is
there any reproach to- anybody IN
{ Laughter. j II everybody is . burg
lar, is there any need tor anybody TO
lock up houses The mining Com
panies out West send their ores 10
Wales to be so refined as to got
more wealth. It ought to. be stopped.
Let them steal capital out OF govern
ment! Why not, paisr1 something
out OF semebodyt else's earnings and
build works in Colorado ana Neva,
ia like those in Wales ? How hap
ny We should all be when, the re
proach OF Goat Island Is removed
from the Pacific, and from the gen
tleman from California MIR. Sargent
[laughterl hya grader steal for Woo
and blankets ! How happy we shbnl,