The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-09-22
SUNSET COX ON THE TARIFF.
\ Humorous Speech in the House Of
Representatives.

Representatives.
Congressman ). S. Cox in bis tariff
speech in the House OF Representatives
thus depicted the prospective trials of
Republican stump orator in the COM
ing political campaign:
How can you go out and answer the
questions pertinent to this campaign
without entangling alliances and con
fused ideasi
Some taxpayer, tired of your pro-
tective exactions, asks:
"Why should only 2,738,895 people,
the pets Of protection, be favored at
the expense of over 20 per cent. of
their 100000 -citizensir
What forl The voice from the still
warm with the tears of widows and
orphans -huskily an. wers; "For free
whisky ~
"Why should we not cheaper cloth
es, blankets aud carpets by admitting
wool free, since the wooden mills have
= capacity for 600,000,000 pounds,
aud only 240,000,000 pounds are rails
ed at homel"
The answer comes like the bleat of
a thousand flocks: Before clothes, or
blankets, or carpets, take free whisky J"
But says an honorable recusant Re
publican from Minnesota:
"Worthier, better and juster, it
seems to my mind, would it be To give
our people, the toiIing masses, cheap
er food, cheaper fuel, cheaper cloth
ing and cheaper shelter, cheaper be-
cause released from the heavy and un-
necessary burden of high tariff taxes. y
"Pshaw y says the hlde-bound pro-
tectionist, ''these articles must remain
taxed to vindicate the American sys-
tenn" That system has as its genius
free whisky
A taxpayer inquiries of you:
Have not the American people paid
In sixty years over $4,000, 0,0O0,0OO in
the hope of getting goods cheaper bv
and by, after the infants have attain d
lncir maturit5i What, my Republican
brnther, will YOU now dur
The brother answer, Free whisky"
HAS invention done nothing Tor
usl" ask tile impoverished mcdaniel.
"What do you show Us rs tile result
OF our American genius for century
in mechaniesf'
The answer comes: 1--WE tender you
the worm in the still, the finest inven-
lion OF the devil. 1t may take away
your rains I'd impoverish your fam
liies; but protection must standf We
offer you, unlaxed, free, whisky"
Another inquirer asks why do
You not take the tax off my coat of re-
sersible napln
The answer comes "Protection first,
but always tree whisky"
An old lady of West Virginia asks,
with anxiety: "Why must | pay 60 in
addition to every dollar for the crock
cry from which | drink my sassafras
teal"
"Ah" says the protectionist, sis not
whisky better than tea2"
A series of questions and answers
might be fired off in the following or
der:
"Are you going TO allow that reduc-
ton proposed by the Mills bill from
Al per cent. duty to 40 on carpetl"
mo, but we will repeal the tax on
cigarettes for your young boys, and
add free whisky
Wont you support that reduction
of 10 per cent. on cotton goodsl"
'No, but would love to lower the
whisky tax
Wont you reduce the tax on cas-
tor oil below 194 per cent.-its present
ratel"
mo, won't condescend to help
anybody but those who want the cost
of whisky reduced"
"Please help US reduce the tax on
cheap wooden cloth from SO per cent
to 40 per cent. as Mills proposes
will you not2"
"No; | do not want to engage in
anything else till | have taken the
tax of ninety cents a gallon from
whisky"
ave are making last effort to re-
duce the duty on wool hats from 54
per cent. Cheap hats. Won't you
help us?"
mo, sir; the Republican platform
doesn't say anything about cheap hats
1t does advocate taking tax from
whisky, and stand by the platform. :"
"The worsted goods for my family
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