River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-24

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Mr.. Mills say; II W. r. MASON
want to buy my shoes in En-
gland, where l can buy them cheaper, to
help the poor shoe makers of America, -
and that he wanted to buy his cloth of
other countries, to help the spinners aud
weavers of America, and that he wanted
TO buy his machinery and iron tools in En-
gland, where the wages were just half
what they were in this oountry, to help the
poor iron-wOrkers Of This country. Mr..
Mason continued:
II have never been in favor OF sending Z.
man 10 the penitentary for preaching fres
trade, but when he asks me to buy the product
OF labor IN other countries. and announces as
the reason that II is TO help the laboring men
OF this country | think he ought to be sent
down for six months twice year or fifty years
for hypocrisy
He cited the deadlock of a few weeks ago
upon the Direct-tax bill, stating that
Northern Democrats said they would rot in
their seats before they would be bossed by
the Southern Democracy, but when King
Caucus tapped the bell the Democrats all
scoOted.
"The brgadiers ring the caucus-bell
The doughface cries For shame;
I'll not be bossed by the brigadiers,'
But he gets there just the same"
He said the Mills bill was in the interest
of trusts and syndicates, and cited the
sugar trust as an instance. He suggested
to the gentleman from Mississippi (Allen)
that the comic opera he quoted from was
not suited to his style of voice and form,
and suggested instead thereof he should
sing:
" Rock-a-by, sugar trust, you're on the tree
tor,
While we are in power your cradle we will
rock.
But If the tariff busts the cradle will fall,
And down will come sugar-trust, Mills bill,
and ALL"
Or if he insisted on rising to that higher
realm of - Mother Goose" he would sug-
gest:
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn nice,
Blow sheol out Of mutton, but don't touch
our rice"
He also suggested that the gentleman
hold the infant sugar trust in his arms and
say Darling, l threatened to roast you
the other day, but that was bluff and
that he pass it to Mr. Mills, who would
fondle il and say: Baby, dear, don't cry.
You should have all the sugar in the
United States. The Golden boys have
every thing else but sugar." and then he
would pass it to the gentleman from Ken
lucky, who would say: Don't cry, little
popsie- wopsie. If our poor little pOpsie-
wopsie should die we would not have any
thing else TO throw at the Republican par
ty." The speaker continued:
"The gentleman from Mississippi COM
planned bitterly because the cows IN his State
do not give as much milk as they did in New
England and the hens did not lay as many eggs.
If there was any thing under the heavens that
would stop laying hen or dry up a COW IL was
TO be brought up under the influence Of free
trade. The gentleman, however, boosted
Of their beautiful women and their
brainy men. They may have brainy men in
Mississippi but IL they did, then IL was another
illustration of the saying that you never can
tell the kind OF goods man keeps by the sam
pies he puts on the road lLaughter.l
Mr.. Allen MISS -" Are we to judge of your
'athers skin by his products!'
MIR. Mason" You are. Anybody who don't
like my style OF architecture knows what he
can do when am not busy"
Mr.. Mason then criticised the Ways and
Means Committee, six of whose eight
members, he said, were from the States
lately in rebellion. Said he:
''You are back in your fathers house because
he caught you by the nape of the neck and seat
of your pants and brought you back. You did
not say: Father, have sinned against thee.
am not worthy to be one of the family; make
me an hostler' You do not wait for the fatted
calf You put your feet on the table and say:
What want is veal.
"When the Republicans talked about pro-
tecting any OF the enterprises in the manufact-
uring States the Democrats insisted on incor-
porating into the laws OF the United States
plank that was in the constitution OF the
Southern Confederacy. The people were get
ting very weary OF IT, and next fall they would
take the prodigal son and gently send him back
10 the husks of a defeated Democracy, while
your leader and his one termedpess will be pro-
NOTED to the highest position in the world
that OF an American citizen IN private life"
He declared himself opposed to free
whisky, which, he said was not only a
pauper breeder, but a multiplier of Demo
Gratis. He had been informed that an
agent of the English manufacturers had
been in consultation with the committee
and had been influential in fixing some
parts of the Mills bill. If that was true
the man who consented to 1t was as
much a traitor to the industries of
his country as his ancestors were
twenty-five years ago who tried to destroy
he Union, but without the redeeming feat
ure of bravery You charge me now
with drawing sectional lines / deny il.
/ am simply drawing attention to the sec
tional lines which you have drawn. You
have drawn this bill in every particular
attempting to benefit the people of the
South, wholly regardless of the interests
of the North, East and West
The Senate passed the Pension Appropri-
alton bill after adopting an amendment re-
ported by the Committee on Appropriations
TO strike out the words that in all pen
sions TO widows payments shall be made
from the death of the husband,
and to insert ''that all payments
which have been or which may hereafter
be granted under the general laws regulat-
ing pensions to widows in consequence of
death occurring from a cause which origi-
mated in the service since the 18th of March,
1861, shall commence from the date of the
death of the husband