The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-02-18

ior present discussion Laughter
This proposition FIR kitchen and
corn, with its Interpretation. presup
poses. first. that we are the only count
ry that Iaises this cereal and tha. no
other country has any knowledge of il:
and second, that il will open large
marke. for our corn abroad. As 10 the
first, need not say what / mentioned
10 my colleague when be was present
before our committee, that the armies
at present on the Danube aud in Arme-
MIA are in part livisg upon maize of
their own raising.
Maize was we'll known to Europe. as
early NJ when Joel Barlow executed his
'Hassy Pudding. Barlow had trrveled
abroad He had worshiped the tawny
Ceres in other lands; his heart had ex-
panded 20 meet it in Savoy. where his
poem was written. He did not find it
in Paris, where shameless Bacchus re-
veied, nor in London, lost in smoke
and stepped in tea; but he recognized
its yellow face. that strong complexion
Of true Indian race at the foot of the
Alps. He had found it in the Levant
under the alias of palenta; he found it
in France as polante; as muM in Penn.
sylvania; suppanR in New York, the
hasty-pudding of the Yankee; under one
or another name he found it wherever
he roamed 1t was not always cooked
as succotash, nor blended with beans.
nor made into hoe-cake; but wherever
the sun shone there grew the maize. So
that it seems like carrying Goals to
Newcastle or bonnets to Paris. to
transport it TO France in order t. show
the pupils of Messieurs Soyer, Blot and
Savariu how to cook it.
Much of my speech upon this topic
has been anticipated by the newspaper
comments called forth 5y the interest
ing conversations of Governor Tilden
and tho Jealous cooperation of my COL
league. Mr, HEWrr Full of love
for the laboring-mau and the great
corn growing West and South. they
have returned to their native land with
their hands horny with toll in this
foreign corn-field. Laughter Our
New York avenues are to be razed from
their foundations aud those seats of
luxury are t. give place to that plant
whose green spire declares the sprout-
ing root when the tender germ begins
to shoot Sir, not only will the sweat
stream from every cook among the
efFete kitchens of Europe. but the stall
wart sons of toll in our luxurious cities
will bead their brows with labor that
their simple meals shall be succotash,
hoe cakes. and mush.
One Of our journalists in New York
basely charges that the crafty Ti.den
knew. that my humanitarian colleague
lMr. HEWITT knew, that this measure
would be introduced into Congress.
uui predicted An increase ia the con-
sumption of our corn of over sixty mil
lion bushels which it reached last year.
Another journalist charges further
that my colleague wished to avenge
himself on pauperized Europe by in
Producing corn as a regular article OF
diet. Great laughter. 1t Is also
limited that some OF our distinguished
statesmen will be called to minister to
the long line of .fInenrs aud petits-
maitre along the boulevards. while
they illustrate how the smoking corn
can be guawed and the dulcet sound Of
"hot corn" lull them at night into sweet
dreams OF home. He then goes so far
rs TO hint that the popcorn" fiend
will he introduced upon the railways
of France. Laughter.
But. Mr.. Chairman, have We no
cherished associations with France,
growing ont of our revolutionary era,
which forbid US to exhibi. toward that
friendly nation such spirit OF revenge
and lack of comitys 1t is many years
since that an Indiana minister to Berlin
lahored to qualify the European stom-
for this American diet. His experiment
was tried upon Humboldt. 1t failed;
failed. sir. upon griddle-cakes for
breakfast. as the piece dc resistance
Laughterl 1t failed, even though the
Indiana matron compounded it with
her own skiilful hands. 1t failed, sir.
although the sweet treacle, tine. with
the maple of Vermont, with its dnlcet
syrup titillated the palate and enthused
the fancy. Laughter Why, sir.
since .his scheme, which contemplated
both hog and hominy. patriotism and
and grits, both corn dodgers aud corn
iuice. failed, even though an American
minister. racy of the Western soil. had
earnestly eudeavored to accomplish 1t.
what can be expected from q body of
political Jeremy Diddlers and self-suf-
ficient commissioners whoknow not q
full ear from hubbin, Laughter.
The amendment under consideration
only proposes to prepare and cook the
maize in the presence of the assembled
French. This requires an explanation.
Why not show how it is grown. now
the hills are planted and hoed, the
shooting of the tender but not danger
Gus germ; then the way to project
with ashes from the grub worEs and
friabten of birds with the scsrecrow,
one of the most interesting images of
western production, requiring sep.
arate exhibition with varieties al
along from Virginia to Kansas.
Laughter.
Let there be q corn -shucking on the
Trocadero. when the ear is full ripe
for the harvest; then let the cursting
corn arise upon the banks OF the oene,
aloof from the incursive rat ana the
waters flow. Then. o. Joy. let as show
the world the old-tashioned husk'ng'
before machinery iepcetized the rustic
frolic. What reformatory sight In
had luxurions Paris. Would that IT
we're permitted the Foreign Affairs
Comm,ttee 10 take part in it. with its
grave but festive chairman. Laughter. ]
How happy to be surrounded by the
attractive grisettes and coquettisn1
lore,tes, mayhap by the woodsn-shod