The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-18
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p Gen. Butler has opened the war on |
the Tewksberry party in the old Bay
State. In recent speech he tanned
their hides after this fashion:
A man came into my office and bro't
me shoe nlsde of the skin of q wo-
mans breast Said {: Where did
this come from ?" 1t was a tanned
shoe, tanned leather. "Oh," said he,
+" there is plenty of this to be got"
=" Is there p' said /. " Where does it
come from? ?' From Tewksberry.n
+" How does it get there?" " Men die
in Tewksberry. "How does it get
here?" +" Why" said he, they take
them down TO Harvard, skin them and
tan them up to Woburn, down to
Lynn" and other places which he
mentioned What was L to do? Lay
down in the furrow and let that indus
try go on? Not much. Cheers and
applause. brought it before the COM
mittee, aud after a struggle got some
of the evidence before it, and some
they ruled out by a party vote. And
produced the slipper, one of them, the
other you can see any day in WASH
ington street window, and skins from
five tanneries. Skins from your fellow
| creatures and mine. Some of them as
good men as we are in every respect,
| before misfortune and disease brought
them into an almshouse. Applause.
| 1t may he your misfortune, any of us,
to outlive your wife and children your
relatives, and there will be nobody on
whom you can depend, and you may
have to go to the almshouse, and hav-
ing no friends to reclaim your body
within twenty-four hours, or to watch
your death, you may be taken away
for the purpose of dissection. 1t may
! be. Be it SO. But when you are dis
sected, and all the good to science has
been gotten out of your remains, for
Gods sake, for humanity's sake, for
1 Gently buried, and not skinned and
tanned. Prolonged applause.l The
Republican papers say Gen. Butler
must go on account of what he has
done about Tewksberry. Be it SO. |
| can go to heaven on that issue If l
could go on none other. [Vociferous
applause appeal to yeu, fathers, l
appeal to you, brothers, 1 appeal to
you, sons, / appeal to you, mothers,
daughters, wives, whether I am right
or wrong, and I cast myself upon the
humane, sound, Christian judgment
of men and women Of this common
wealth to say. 1t was several mo-
4 ments before the vast audience ceased
I applauding and cheering at this stage
Of the speakers remarks.
They say have done something to
the good name of the commonwealth.
Why, only took up their old charges
which they smothered. and which l
found on the executive files, and pre-
sented them, not as my charges, but
as the charges Of the Board of State
Charities of that day against the insti-
tuition. / desired very much to know
what about it, and found out what
about it. [Applause:] I found out,
/ first, that institution had been SO man
aged that seventy-one out of seventy
three children died Immediately after
being sent there. / found the fact, and
that is not denied by anybody. found
another thing. found that, contrary
to law men had been sold as merchan-
disc by the hundreds, and am one
that believes that man, rich or poor,
pauper or convict, has a right to fill at
least pauper's grave. Tremendous
applause If any one will not give
him that I will defend him. Ap-
plause.l