National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-01-28
Waiting the Rehearsal.

closed is not generally known, and few can sur
mise. That business behind the drop is active
there can DO no question, but whether the
scene will turn out to be American or British
Is in doubt. Tho boys in the gallery are
ready to applaud either but tho dress circle
and boxes arc divided in tastes and cxpecta-
lions. Carlisle and Morrison are supposed to
DO hard at work to introduce on the stage
large quantity of bales boxes, and packages
of British goods. II is believed they have
engaged a number Of men and some boys to
knock or tho lids of tho boxes and tumble
the goods upon the floor. They arc so much
in earnest to show these goods that they do
cidcd IN their own minds to remove all OBJ
structons possible to their coming
in. They would encourage and help
them by removing the duties-all the
duties ifthe government did not want money
to pay the salaries of the speaker and MEM
bers Of the ways and means com
mittoe; but as that cannot be, then
so much as can DO got off by cutting
NVNh hho sdlaAlVo VI pNOlgboug OioO' AhNg
want these goods TO show because they arc
cheap, and as it will make them cheaper to
remove the duties they want the duties taken
OIL. For the sake Of cheapcning the cost they
would be glad to hire Cinnamon to open the
packages, only prejudice has arisen in the
minds of u few voters against that form of
chcapnoss, and it is we'll to respect it or the
play may not draw.
When the boxes are open the first star actor
will come in. lilo is q majestic looking man,
with ruddy face and great benignity OF
CountcnRncc lilo will be dressed in a suit of
clothes made in England of cloth woven in a
British mill from wool grown in the Scottish
Highlands, because wooden goods are pro-
duced cheaper there, and, as the five millions of
laborers in this country who weave and spin
and make clothes could do SO much better as
sailors and stokers in bringing over goods all
made up than in making them, it is a great
boon to give them the chance. This is the
cause Of the benevolent expression on the
countenance of the star, whose name, by the
way, is McDonald-McDonald, of Indiana.
Mr. Mcdonald will strike his first attitude
in front of large picture, said to be one of
tho finest ever exhibited in America. This
picture is lile-sized portrait of that great
democrat, Thomas Jefferson, proceeding to
the capitol on horseback. unatten died. to be
inaugu rated in a suit OF American cloth and
make, out of wool taken from the back Of u IL
American sheep. In the background is the
form of the sheep. The pride of Jefferson, as
he casts downward glance at his garments,
is slightly coudei as he notices that tho
brass buttons were made abroad, and tho
great skill of the artist is sh own most strik-
ingly in this shading of sadness, which was
the only drawback to tho pleasure of the
grand occasion. As Mac strikes his initial
attitude he will excaim, in n voice to be
heard from Passamaquoddy bay to the harbor
of anita Barbara Look on that picture and
| then on this2"
Having bowed to the audience and smiled,
the great actor will turn to Jefferson and say,
tuDIuulC yOu udNo COlub uOWu 70 ub
| from former generation. Heaven has
bounteously preserved your likeness to be-
hold this Joyous day. You were the great
democrat of your time. You honestly thought
it patriotic to buy wool of Virginia farmer.
You had it woven in an'American loom so as
to encourage home labor. You sought an
American tailor, and was glad to give him
| Job. True, it cost you more money, but
thinking to set good example you stood it
and received the praise of thousands. All
that is past. We forgive your folly because
you were ignorant. You had no David A.
Wells to teach you better. When you recon-
mended making this country independent of
foreign nations by learning to make goods
instead Of importing them, and proposed
to discourage foreign importations by re-
fusing to wear foreign garments. and placing
duties in the way Of their coming in, you
could not have foreseen Carlisle, Morrison,
and Wells ut work TO encourage importa-
tons. Above ALL you could not have seen
ME, the friend of commerce, of agriculture,
of the Glasgow weaver, the London tailor,
the Paris halter, and the American hod-
carrier, in my gorgeous apparel, which got
at such low figure as to make tailors' and
wcavers eyes water in this country, aud
which quite astonishes my own porderous
intellect
At the conclusion of the address there
comes upon tho stage the figure of gentle
man we'll known in Cleveland, Ohio. He is
tall, good looking, modest and the frosts of
seventy.three winters have whitened his
handsome, well-formed head. He proceeds a
little way, and behind him follows a youth of
saucy mien and irreverent air who derisively
cries out go up, thou bald head. The old
man seems not to notice, but the youth, turn
ing his eyes, beholds two bears from the Ohio
woods Thompson and McLean) making to-
ward him in haste. lie starts with great
suddennes5 to clear tho stage, but striking his
toe against dry goods box is thrown upon
the floor, and when picked up there is found
a rent in his garments as wide as David ex-