The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-06-07

sue dsheu, WneD was American laDO
more degraded and poorly paid thai
. nowr He answered.: During every da,
that the Democratic party was in power.
His (Masons father was a ekilled me
chanic, wagon builder, but in 1857 h,
could only command rs cents day. II
those days carpenters had gone SoutE
and applied to the cotton planter fol
work, but the planter had smiled anC
said he was sorry but he had just bought
couple OF carpenters. Loud laughter.
II the Democratic party had continued
In power every laborer in this country
would be in competition not only with
the pauper labor of Europe, but with the
slave labor OF his own soil. Republi
can applause,
Mr.. Allen OF Mississippi, arose and in
tlmated that he would like to ask a
question, and Mr.. Mason smiled at him
remarking in a quzzical manner, and
referring to the planter of whom he had
just spoken. lis this the same genteman?'
Roars of laughter,
Mr.. Allen, Are we to Judge of your
fathers skill by his products?'
You are. And il you don't like my
style OF architecture you know what you
can do when | am not busy, And am
not busy now, he added, amid yells and
laughter that seemed as though they
would never end.
Continuing, Mr.. Masun maintained
that the bill was unfair to the products
OF his district, such as hemp, soap, glue
| and brushes. The chemicals used in
soap, he said, were not put on the free
llst-an invitation to the manufacturers
In tins country TO move, The mere ten
dency OF the bill is paralyzing the enter
prise and industry of the counsry; il
was standing monument to the inca
pac'ty OF It's authors and a standing
menace to the best business enterprise
Of the nation.
Many of the best minds have been con.
sidering the proposition of commercial
union with Canada. II this bill should
become law we would have yielded to
Canada everything that she wanted, ,and
1t would be of no interest for Canada to
continue further negotiations for COM
mercial union. The trouble was that
majority Of the committee-6 out of s.
came from States lately in rebellion and
when he went through his district and
saw the prosperous manufacturing and
business men there, and realized that
the gentlemen on the committee had no
sympathy and no interest in them, it
ground him to think that the affairs of
his district should be in the hands of
such men. A few years ago when the
brigadiers got back into Congress the
prodlgal son act worked very well. but
now it didn't fit their case. Said he:
You are back in your fathers house be.
cause he caught you by the nape of the
neck and seat of government and
brought you back. You did not say.
Father, have sinned against thee, /
am not worthy to be one of the family;
make me hostleG,' You are not that
kind of prOjigals. You come right in
at the front door and wipe your feet on
the carpet. Laughter. Some of you
even drink out OF the glass fire extin-
guishers in the hotel laughter and sIy
glances at Maj. Martin and set your
watches by the indicator in the street
car. Continued laughter and conse-
quent confusion of the Major You do
not wait for the fatte1 calf; you put
your feet on the table and say, What |
want is veal Loud laughter,
When the Republicans talked about
protecting any of the enterprises in the
manufacturing States, the Democrats in
sisted on Incorporating into 1.-THE laws of
the United States plank that was in
the constitution of the Southern con-
federacy. The people were getting yery
weary OF it, and next fall they would |
take the prodigal son and gently send
HIM back to the husks of the defeated
Democracy, while your leader-his one
hn
highest position in the world-thAt of
an American citizen in private life,'
He also declared himself against the
proposition of free whiskey, saving that
whiskey was not only pauper breeder.
but a multiplier of Democrats; he was,
however, in favor of taking off the tax
on alcohol used in the manufactures and |
the arts.
He then attacked the Committee on
Ways and Means, charging that he had |
been informed and believed, and that
they had not denied it, 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.
Mr., Mason closed by saying that the |
sleeping giant-the Republican party
would awake, and, standing in every |
harbor and port of entry, would say to |
the importers of goods produced by |
chep and pauper labor, thus far and no |
farther and under the influence of |
public administration the country would
have new life and new hopes, and make |
greater strides IN the march of ciyiliza-
tion than had heretofore been accom-
plished in the history of the world. |
! Long continued applause