Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-29

O the HorIdZ But are you not afraid |
J. uncover them?
Mr. Breckenridge, of Arkansas-If VI
o should uncover the refined sugars and a
0 the same tune keep the tax on raw sugar
0 we should thereby not only destroy tn
9 . trust" but destroy also the refining in
9 dustry
Mr.. Mason-Why could you not protec
the raw material by a bounty? You hav
9 brains enough, but you have not III
courage.
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Arkarsas-I admir-
the courage of the gentleman in so distinct
} !yayowing the doctrine Of q bounty" Tha
Is the true inwardness" and essence o
your Whole protective policy.
0r. Wilkinson rose.
Mr. Mason-I cannot yield. If 1 car
nave my time extended l am willing tc
yield to all these gentlemen.
The gentleman from Mississippi, The
other day, said he wanted to 'cook' this
sugar trust; but he did not; he wanted to
iced 1t, and he started into comic opera
But L would suggest to him and the gen
| tleman from New York, inasmuch as thev
| are poets, and as they propose by this bill
10 protect the sugar trust, that they try the
olo-fashioned lullaby:
Rock-a-by, Sugar Trust, you're on the tree ton
Ana while we're in power your cradle will
But if the duty on sugar should tumble and fall.
Down comes the Sugar Trust, Mills bill and ali
| Laughter Or if poetical genius should
INSPIRE them to rise to the heights of
Mother Goose. would suggest:
Little boy blue, come blow your horn nice.
BLOW nell out of mutton but do not touch rice
lLaughter.] In fancy see the gentleman
from Mississippi holding the infant Sugar
trust IN his arms. and saying "Ah, there;
stay therel Laughter wanted to cook
the little tootsey-wootsey the other day.
but l did not mean to cook YOU. Oh. no
that was bluff" And he passed the in
fant Trust to the gentleman from Texas.
who says, "Tootsey-wootsey, little Sugar
Trust, don't cry, you shall have all the
! sugar in the United States; the Golden bows
can have everything else their way. but
dear little Sugar Trust should not be hurt.
oh, no." And the gentleman from New
York fondles and coddles it, and SAYS, If
poor little tootsey. wootsey was to die we
would not have anything left to throw at
the Republican party"
The gentleman from Mississippi also said
that the cows in his State did not give as
much milk as those in New England. and
his hens do not lay as many eggs. | want
| to say to him now that if there is ANYTHING
under Gods heaven that will dry up good
COW and stop hen from laying, it is being
brought up in free trads country.
was pleased when he boasted of the
beautiful women of the South everybody
knows that all the ladies are pretty-some
better looking than others; but it surprised
me somewhat when the gentleman from
Mississippi said that they had brainy men.
said to myself Probably that is true
but 1t is another illustration of the old say
ing, that you can never tell the kind of
goods man keeps by the sample he puts
on the road" Laughter
The remarks of my friend from Missouri
pleased me very much. After laboring
like mountain he finally proved that ali
the States OF the Union that had taken ad-
vantage of the existing tariff laws had
become prosperous; and when the gentle
man from Maine asked him whether he
proposed to stop the progress, he appealed
to the clock. find that the clock is the most
popular thing to appeal to on theDemocratic
side when members there are asked oues-
tons that they can not answer. Laughter
The gentleman from Missouri closed his
speech by prayer that the American flag
should be seen in all the harbors of the
world that is very pretty but a very soft
sentiment. l never want to see the Amer
lean flag masquerading on an English
mast stood with many of my colleagues
lew days ago and saw that magnificent
vessel, the Yorktown, as she slipped from
the cradle that had held her since her first
rib was set down to the mighty waters, and
one thing that made me proud was the fact
that every pound of iron in her magnificent
sides sprang from American soil in response
to the blows from American citizens. And
when, on the ship setting sail, every pound
of iron, every foot of timber, every bolt and
spar and rope comes from the labor and
genius of American citizens, she speaks not
n slxrn hoy 6 al
try, but is a floating monument to the
industries of the country. Then, and not
till then, should the colors of our country
be nailed to the mast. Applause.
The most popular party to-day in Eng
land is the Democratic party of the United
States. daughter and applause The
most popular individual to-day in England
is the President of the United States of
America, for he recommends to this body
legislation in the interests of every country
under Gods heaven but our own. IRE
newed laughter and applause
heard gentleman on the other side of
the House. and l heard that great Demo-
cratic Senator from Indiana-that is, what
is left of him laughter I heard them
ask, When was the American workman
more degraded and poorer paid than now?''
That is what we have heard | will tell
you when why, every day the Democratic
party was in power in this country.
Laughter and applause.l
l remember in 1857, when my father, who
was skilled mechanic and a builder of
wagons, worked for seventy-five cents a
day.
You remember the carpenter who went
South and applied for a situation as Q car
penter, about that time, OF q planter, and
the planter said, am sorry l cannot give
you employment; just bought two car
penters yesterday" [Applause and laugh
ter.]
MIR. Allen, of Mississippi-Are we to
judge of his fathers skill b. the gentleman
himself as one of mis- products
MIR. Mason-Is this the same gentleman?
Laughter
The Chsirman-Does the gentleman
yield for interruption?
Mr.. Mason-Yes, if it does not come out
of my time. Anybody who does not like
my style of architecture knows where he
can find me when / am not busy. | am
busy now. Laughter and applause.l
l was about t. say when Interrupted by
gentleman who represents brainy district
[laughterl that if his party had continued
in power every man who earns his living
by the sweat of his brow would stand to-
day not only with the products of other
countries of the world brough. to our doors,
but in direct competition with slave labor
upon his own soil. Yet they say they are
the friends of the laboriug man, and want
to buy the products of labor in other mar
kets for the benefit of the laboring people
here. Laughter and applause.
One more thing. There his been a great
deal of talk in this country amongst the
best people that there should be some CON-
mercjal union with Canada. There has
been an honest difference of opinion about
it. But everything we had to trade on in
| that direction is absolutely frittered away
| by the Mills bill. [Applause.l
1t has been great pleasure to the Democ-
racy, and words that they have rolled un-
| der their tongue as a sweet morsel, that the
| Republican party was in favor of free
| whisky. am here to answer simply for
| myself, responsible to no one but my con-
science and to my constituents, and say
! that never have been, and am not now, in
| favor of free whisky. | am in favor of
| whisky helping to support the poor-houses
and prisons which it fills, and next to be-
ing breeder of paupers, it is the greatest
| producer of Democrats known to modern
man. | am in favor of and will vote to
| take off the tax on all alcohol used in the
manufactures, and there are thousands
and thousands of dollars of it used in
manufacturing soaps, which would help
somewhat to reduce the surplus, and would
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