The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-19
WAXEM is CRITICAL.
~ YOU SCRATCH AsTATESMAN DEEP
YOU FIND A POLITICIAN.
The Jedee Doesn't Know Which Way to
Turn in the uaiter OF Trusts That Are
Now Being Investigated--The venexue.
Ian Question.
Special Correspondence J

Al
rER-COngress, as usual amt dom much,
but il is git,n thar by degrees. We air
doin our leeislatln by fits and starts, like
"a tode walkn; out the pot - bihn, and
You'll here from US before very long.
I've been tall<in with number Of yo.uble
and reliable states men, and they II unan-
imous in Their belief that somethin has got
TO be done Their idees aint very clere
list what It is, but that don't make much
difiereuts 70 statesman when he yits his
dander riz and the idle wave OF active pat
triotism sweaps acrost his peaceful brest.
la my unhle opinion, most OF the legs-
latin will have pOlitikle complexion on
10 II. fer, bein presidential yere, we cant
hardly fergit what we ar here fer. Tariff
aud pensions will be our name holt, and
notwithstaudin the fact that one IS bust.
ness and tother is pure patriotism, and
politicks ourhtent TO take hand, Us poll
ticians has Crowed 10 be sutch business
men and sutch patriots that we air bound
TO leave our finger marks on every
thing we tutch This has been shOwTT
severl times lately by speeches Oh the dore
OF the house, and more 80 by the grave and
diguifde members Of the sonnet. like Mr..
Vest. and Mr. ingalls,, and Col Beck, and
Col Blackburn The way they talked re-
minded me more Of the stump speeches
me and my opponents used ter make runnin
fer the state legislator than anything I've
heerd FER "A lOng time. Ne and seyerl
dozen othe. leadin members ol the house
lockupide prominent persitions on sOfys
and cheers back BY the clOke rooms out
side OF the ring, the day Ingalls, aud Black
burn iii. and / haint felt 50 mutch ike
fumpin up and crackln my heels together
aud yellin fer "Tippycanoo and Tyler Too"
serce was boy. | clean forget | was
in the sacred presinHs OF the sonnet
chamber OF the United States, the great
est republck the world has ever saw, and
e, il hadent been fer the restrainin hand
" a fcller member | woold have been
carried away with the sperrit Of the
ockasion and done sumthin teetotaly dis
respectable. unless what was goin on at
the time mite have been fetched Ia as
mitigatin circumstances.
Thars no use talkiu, Mr. Edditer. cf
you'll only scratch q statesman deep
enough You'll be bound TO find a poll
tican kuO IL ain rite and I'll ht agin
il but it's thar, and 10 skin medisin in
the world is goin 10 cure it.
Just at this time am called on 10 take
public stand in the question at issher
between England and Neunyzwela, a
South American republic, and want the
British lion 20 understand TINT ! side
with the republic Tho western CONT
uent wasn't made 10 grow thrones on,
and the crap hain't newer been a very
hevyy one. though sOine seed has been
sowed, and sparse suOwln has been
made towards pore harvest. The Mon
roe doctrin is good glide horde fer this
crate and glorious republic 10 90 by, and
we ought 10 stand by il, bnt thar amt
nothiu in that 70 peryeut Our chOosin be-
tween the tierant's heel, and the free air
Of republican libberty, and when we air
called on 20 say whether England ~ a
South American republic mas the rite Of
question. IL is our duty and privilege
to say that the republic has got II, aud
then fer US 20 make our words good. The
American eagle has got all the territory
il wants 10 Hop It's wings over, but IL
wants 10 see the day when republican
institutions will furnish from the open
Polar sea TO the Antarkt.c continent and
forty mile t'other side, and I'm standin
shoulder 10 shoulder with the American
eagle.
A bill has been introduced in the house
Yer the better perfection Of hotel keepers,
lodgin house keepers and boar!.n house
keepers in the Deestr.ck OF Columbia, and
line goin 10 introduce one for the per-
lection OF US victims thar has got 70
make our homes. temporarily, thank the
Lord, in sutch house made aud peryided
The national capital ha, got more on less
Of Il bad reputation ou account Of is un-
helthyucss and they say Dr. Is mal?ry
/ Potomac fats and thar sort OF thing. and
quin.ne Is pnrly nigh served Ultn every
/ meel, but The diagnoses aiu'r COrfeck.
It's bOrdin house feed tANt IS Loh ~
/ mOren anything else, and lua' Wlar our
/ perfection Is nceCces~Ary. y statesman
with his stummicA ont of ordel can't
histe himself into the higher spccre OF
legislQtir ethics. and evolve laws ,hJt -
pure and disintrusted and ju-, be can't
get perfection ont OK a torpid .i,rer; lac
can't work heyvy bred aud bad coGy over
into wise statutes, and he can't drive the
chariot Of progress over an empty stun
mich. No, Mr. Edditcr hc can't
and as sufferer am askin
for legislation 10 perfect Ole side
I Is We'll Us lbAllfl ii AlANh-
cost any more than 1t is with it mite be
stood. durin the time We a'r mere, but the
cost is somethin that makes our salleries
melt like the fioat before Tho mornin sun
and the surplus I'm The hands ~ our
domestlck tierauts is getting 10 be a twin
TO the surplus IN the treasury Washing
ton has got name Ter IT, eaters and
drinkers, and the reezin OF il II that ther
public eatin Is 20 much better than Their
private eatin that tney feel bound 20 gil
enough when IL IS good sO's they can
kinder hold over tell another chance
comes around. In these Jew remarks |
aint relerrin 10 them as has got princely
fortunes and can pay any bill that may
come IN. but jist them as hes got the sal
leries Of say 5000 a yer 70 pay board
with
We cir beginnin 10 do IL little legislatin
agin trusts, aud ain l-sioed yit just
whar | stand \ Statesman has cot 10 be
nifty keerlul whar large amounts or
money is al stake. and tna. amt nO tellin
what kind OF mistake b. mite make ef
he got In TOO much Of bury. lme agin
monopoies, as rule Ink trusts IS a
little different. aint personally IN
tursted, of course, but, ogt IN WAY hack.
Mandy cells milk and brtter and u!-s Of
our own partiuciu home indu-trv as 70