The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-03-10
Saturday March, 10, 1888
Humors Of the Tariff Debate.
m the Denver Inter. Ocean.

liner are many amusing cpl
sodes in the apparently dull discus
sions-and not at all confined TO
the mercurial members at the South
end. Senator Beck of Kentucky
has had more to say on the tariff
than any twenty other Senators,
which inspired Senator Hoar TO
remark drily that 1.-The Senator
from Kentucky rests his mind while
talking" and the Scotchman from
the Blue Grass region ~rociprocates
the sally by replying: "The Sena-
tor from Massachusetts reminds
me of that sterile tract of ground
in Virginia which John Randolph
said was poor by nature and ex-
hausted by cultivation"
BY his happy hits and sarcastic
thrusts, our member now On to
the front ps the "Sunset" Cox of
the Republican side. Judge Bel
tord's mercurial nature rebels
against sitting day after day and
listening to the threadbare argu-
ments IN the tariff; hence he rush
es down his favorite aisle two or
three times a week and brings down
the horce. The following charac-
teristic' chunk of free milling elo-
quence last Tuesday, in reply to
Cox, ] respectfully submit as wor-
thy q place in your sparkling col
umns:
Mr.. BEDFoRD.-Mr. Chairman, ]
always listen with unfeigned delight
to the discourses Of the distinguish
ed gentleman from the State of
New York who has just taken his
,'eat. He made q speech the other
day that I read with great interest,
and to which ! desire to allude for
Il moment. Speaking of man, and
describing his composition as being
a paragon of perfection, he said he
came INTO this country and into
this world without any tax or tariff
placed upon him. He came with
out any dd UaL0rem duty, and that
no impost duties we're levied upon
him.
Does the gentleman from New
York know the fact that when you
get married you pay a duty TO the
preachers That when you get
born you pay a duty to the doctor
and the nurses! Laughter |
suppose the gentleman from New
York came to this world under the
free schedule on the ground of
being raw material. GGreat laugh
ter. | do not want this Interrupt
ton to come out of my time. Re
newed laughter. l am going to
make 4 great speech and | want all
the time | al get.
| was going on to say that if
there had been a duty of one per
cent. ad ualOrem upon hat raw
material this House would doubt
less have been deprived of the
food-tides of brilliant eloquence
which we have enjoyed on the
tariff and on all other questions
from the gentleman from New
York.
l have noticed, Mr.. Chairman,
in this debate that there is a class
of men on this side of the House
and a class of men on the other
side who run with the protection
hare and bark with the free-trade
hounds. Laughter and applause. !
And refer especially to my distin-
guished friend from the State of
Kansas, who in the interest of
agriculture is ready to sacrifice all
the great manufacturing interests
Of this Nation.
Does not the gentleman from
Kansas know that in 1853 the Dem
ocratic party was opposed to the
agriculture interests OF this Nation.
Does not the gentleman know that
when an attempt was made to
amend the pre-emtion laws, a bill
introduced, believe, by Mr.. Grow
of Pennsylvania, the Democratic
party voted solidly against itl |
am going to recall these facts to
gentlemen's minds to-day. And
do not you know that when we
attempted to give land to actual
settlers that party came up and
a|ntagonized that bill by declaring
as old Ben Wade said, "We shall
give niggers to the niggerless."
daughter and applause]
You antagonized that bill with
the proposition 10 purchse Cuba,
and You got a Democratic Presi-
dent, James Buchanan, the last
You ever had, and hope to God
tho last you ever will have Laugh
ter and applause, to veto that