The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-24

yoke, you gentlemen stand higgling
about the amount of tribute, and in
stead of saving, for every hundred,
they proposed to give forty dollars of
| the peoples money and throw it into the
trade market of the world. If it was a
tribute, be bold and sweep it
| away. Why did they hesitate?
Was it because they dared
not be caught lowering the wages of
the laboring men who have votes.
Have the courage of your leaders con-
victions, for has not the gentleman
from Texas, the godfather of this bill,
who has promised to bring it up in the
nurture and admonition of the Lord,
loudly proclaimed to the open day,
that the tariff has nothing to do with
wages; is it out of mercy to capitalists
that you falter; do you say there is
capital invested under our laws and
we must keep faith with those who
have it invested, and whether faith
should be kept with such vampires is
for you to say. But surely no better
faith need be kept than to pay back
every cent they have in
vested. If the president be right
and John Randolph Tucker be right
if honorable and gallant MEMBER be
right, if j. s. Moore, who fixes tribute
in 1882 at 81 zoo, 100000 more
than any of US, be right. if they all be
right, then every year more than 1,OOO,-
these men who did not propose to de-
fend protection. Its vast growth
within the last quarter of century
defended better even than eloquence
or orations, it was born with the re-
public. On the face of the earth to-
day there were but two sectS of people
who believe in free trade, the masked
majority of the committee on ways
and means, and their followers and the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, with Ireland suppressed.
Monopoly. said Horace Greedy. a doc
tor of laws, and once candidate of the
democratic party for president, mon
opoly is perhaps the most perverted and
misapplied word in our much abused
| mother tongue. How very tame
this Languages is. l suppose that dur
ing the ten years last past L have
listened in this hall to more idiotic
raving and more pestiferOus rant on
that subject than on all others put to-
gether, and vet 1 do not regret it.
| What pitiful sight 1t is to see a rev.
enue reform orator go into action
against monopoly. Nelson, as he
stood blazing with decorations on the
deck of victory on the fatal day of
Trafalgar, Napoleon at Friedland as
the guards went cheering and charging
by, Thomas Sayers as he stripped for
| the championship of England, when
Heenan had crossed the lifting waters,
the eagle soaring to his eyrie, the
royal man-eating Bengal tiger in his
native jungle, nay, the very bull himself
| the strong bull of Bashan as he upliftS
| his below over the rocky deserts of
! Palestine are all but pale reminders of
one of these majestic creatures, and
yet outside of the patent Office there
are no monopolies in the country, and
| that see on this far horizon edge with
| tongue of flame and eye of fire, ser
pent head and griffin clawed? Surely
| it must be the new chimera "trust. "
Quick. cried every masked member OF
the ways and means; quick let us lower
the tariff; let us call on the British; let
| them save our devastated homes.
Courage, dear brethren; be not too
much disturbed, the Lord will reign
| even if the board of mayor and alder
men should adjourn. Call in the Brit
ish. When the day comes that this re-
public cannot save itself from a
dozen of it's own citizens with
out aid from over the sea,
hope to be buried a thousand
| leagues under some respectable and
prominent mountain range. How we
| do love to hear him on the impoverished
| farmer. Then he is not sublime but he
is pathetically great. heard him first
/ ten years ago. 10 me all innocent, I'M
travelled, it seemed as if the western
farmer was the most woe BECOME, luck
less, unsuccessful and dispirited devil
| on the face of the earth. Eastern
vampires had mortgaged his farm and
| thrown down his fences and scattered
his substances wantonly to the wind:
In the fullness of time l travelled west
myself, and you may well imagine my
astOnIshment who had never seen ter
/ acres together in corn, to behold fields
of that great staple stretching way out
| to the horizons edge. To see tracks OF
land which seemed to have no bound
| aries but visible sky; land so rich thai
if we had an acre of it in Maine, we
would have sold it by the bushel, while
on every side were great brick houses
such as only a squire lived in in Oul
villages. After some days of this
became sulky, l said, gentlemen, OF
course we have robbed you; your con
gresham would not lie about trifles
like that, bat what disgusts me is thai
we did not do it more thoroughly
Cleaning looks bigger than harvest
and then they confided to me that thu
western congressman were grea
orators, and did this for practice
Since then have not been SO mucl
moved by it. Whoever takes dow
the map of 1850, and the map of 1888
will look upon the most wOndrou
growth that ever the sun shone on, il
all its myriad courses around TIN
Al earth; it is a marvellous spectacle; it
not alone great cities, borl
} like exhalationS, which flasl
: prosperity over great lake
/ over broad plains, over mighty fields
! rich with verdure or teeming with un
( counted harvest, it is not alone pile
/ up billions under which greater na
: tional debt and war expenditure CON
| bined the world never saw. has melte
I like an iceberg under the tropic SUI
g turning its face to its great future
4 nav, it is not even all of these con
. bined; it is fact found by the mos
: cultured Englishmen of our day tia
g all this wealth and prosperity has bee
g so shaped that it seeks comfort not {
S the rich, not of the lounging owner {
: fixed income. not of the pampere
e member of the governmental powe
4 but of the plain people whom Abraham
f Lincoln saved, and who are of rigl
s the chief glory of this republic.
e Reed finished his speech at 1:55 an
i was greeted with rounds of applaus
II and was made the recipient of heart
v congratulations from party colleague
II At various times throughout IL
# speech he was interrupted with a.
). plause and laughter, in which the a
D, dience in the galleries loudly joine
, AS Speaker Carlisle arose to reply,
n storm of enthusiasm broke out. Che
l. followed cheer in quick succession. al
l. it was some moments before he cou
le proceed.
n Carlisle began by replying to Reed
n charge of insincerity. He said that
Is might retort that if protection was
Sc sound doctrine it should be carried
x its logical enthusiastically prohiI
e, duties. In China the doctrine carri
n out. produced its logical effects wi
lie every resource of natural wealth al
id frugal, Industrious people, the arts a
at manufactures we're in their infanC
Of We wanted no China here, all ta2
ey ton was an evil and we should endes
Mt or to make trade as free as possil
lg with the lowest tax that would affC
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