San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-10
GEORGE 'PASCHAL TALKS

And Gives the Harrison and Morton
Club His Ideas Of Pro-
lection.
The Harrison and Morton club met
in the Alamo pavilion on Saturday
night. President Huston was in the
chair and Mr.. Ryder-Taylor acted as
chairman pro tenn.
The members having been read and
adopted, the offices OF treasurer ana
assistant treasurer were declared va
cant by the resignation of l.. w.
Madarasz and DR.. NJ. Lindner. To
the former Office Mr.. T. b. Johnson
was elected. and to the latter position,
Mr.. w. J. Locke was duly elected.
There being no further business, the
president called for the orator Of
the evening, the Hon. Geo. Paschal,
district attorney OF BeXar county.
That gentleman came forward and
opened an excellent address by prov
ing that protection was not republic
can idea, but an American principle
enunciated and practised by Wash
ington, jefferson, Jackson, Monroe
and other good presidents whom the
democrats delighted to honor. This
proved that the democrat who reared
for free trade and boosted of Jeffer-
sonian and Jackson ian democracy
didn't know what he was talking
about. The times talked of dark lam
ternism. he recommended it to look
to the committee room at Washington
where the Mills bill committee sat,
and where the manufacturing and
laboring interests had knocked at the
door in vain for hearing and were
repulsed with the snub, I'VE
don't want your testimony, we
know all about it, -Four years ago
Jack Evans represented Mills and
Carlisle in far-of corner playing q
little violin in the high keys, squeak
ing Free trade :" Free trade ~
"Free trade!!w While Randall
playing a base violin pronounced in
base tone "Protection ~ Protection!
My friend little thought then that in
few years he would see the position
reversed, that Carlisle and Mills
would be croaking OH the big fiddles,
Free trade ~ Free trade ~ Free
trade !!m While Randall, with the
little violin was family screeching in
far off corner, Protection ~ PRO
lection =" protection !!r He
glanced at the surplus, showed how
it had been reduced and how the
democrats had cut the ground from
under the feet and how Senator Beck
had offered two bills to make up the
surplus. He scared the local con-
gresham by saying that when the
| interests of Louisiana, South
Carolina, California, Virginia and
Kentucky were all threatened,
their congressman stood by
| protested and protection was given,
but when the wool interests of Texas
were threatened, her representatives
| were silent, and wool went on the
| free list. Three days after the Mills
bill passed, Sayers broke silence and
| cried: "Mr. speaker! 1 solemnly
and earnestly protest against lacking
the fortification appropriation on to
the army appropriations"
| OF what use was that to his con-
stituents? If congress were not
elected to attend to the interests OF
their con stituents it would be better
for them to be elected by the people
at large.
Mr.. Paschal concluded by pathetic
ally saying: After the battle is
over there will be a little funeral at
Corsicana, the place that produced
| Roger @. Mills, and afterward passer
will read the following epitaph in
scribed upon rude mesquite cross:
"Here lies the bill of Roger @. Mills,
Consigned to the earth by various ills,
Tread lightly and softly around this
sad i'll,
For it's buried and smothered in a bed
of sheep pills"
Mr.. Paschal resumed his seat amid
much cheering.
Mr.. Walter Townsend (cornet) and
Burt Ashford relieved the proceedings
by music and then the Hon. A. j..
Evans closed the meeting with char
acteristic address.
| The Grea. Success Isl.