Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-05-18
STA. MAINE. FRIDAY MORNING. MAY Is. 1888

l,w chandlers might have all the advantage.
What cheap pauper labor the sun wa
daughter. Joshua must have been prt
tectionist, for he made the earth stand still
The infant industries possessed pow
ler of suction which amounted
over lG,ooo,0 900 horse poxer. Thcr
was some struggling as 10 which infant shout
have the FIRST pull al the pap Ii was sai
of Hercules, that he pulled so bard he spill
ed the :ailk and made the milky way. Her
cuies, Hercules, that was Pennsylvania. Th
prg;ettioais.s III : d,d that ,he United State
had protection and high wages. therefor
protection brought high wages. Apply tn
same augmentation 10 England. Englan,
had the House of Lords and iow wages
therefore the House of Lords made low
wages, The United States had tramps ant
| high wages, therefore tramps made higl
wages. Ireland had no snakes and no wages
therefore snakes made high wages. Laugh
ter.) Cox continued in the same vein
quoting poetry at times and answering vari
Gus speakers on the opposite side, keeping
the House in roars of laughter
He combatted the charge that the ideas OF
the revenue reformers were of foreign
| growth. The gentleman from Nevada
| Woodburn, had rushed to London and found
in the membership of the Golden club a
number of Dukes and Lords who were going
to do America by paying three guiness
apiece TO overthrow the republican party and
things generally. Goodness gracious, wha
a great programe for the Golden club. "A
whole ocean into tempest tossed to float 8
feather or drown a fly" Turning his a,,en
non 10 the speech of Butterworth Cox fol
lowed in the same numerous strain. After
his tilt with Butterworth Cox said he would
give that gentlemen little geIl oi the sWce;
singer of Michigan upon the alligator as be-
ing applicable TO the gentleman's Butter
WORTH reciprocity and fisheries question:
"How cheerfully it seems to grin,
How neatly spreads Its paws;
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws"
Laughter
Cox next turned his attention to Burrows
speech, especially that gentleman's periora.
ton, where, like Silas Wagg, he dropped
into poetry" The gentleman, after in elo-
quent language picturing the advancement
and progress of the new Senate had quoted
hail its coming tongue and PEN quoting
Charles Mackeys law rhyme for the incom-
ing of absolute free trade loud laughter
and applause He (Cox) had quoted the
a. uv'o' ,a'i' 'a.' US az 'he .iihe VI
''e ueai i"cA anu ne uiu" hno" ho" the
ssp'iehiah got hoiu Oh " unless II was .ha'
'''' eiA'ns Vi h"nsaS' N"no ihau'eI'en.iy
"anuereu '"'o 'ie caucus han hearu MN
quo,ng II anu gave IL 10 'ha' geh'iei'ah. ne
"ouiu iihe 10 nave tuning iork mere SO 'hat
All hiish'
Hail its coming tongue and pen.
Aid II, hopes of honest men,
"A II IT, tprpb, prpIb, h"nr h,u - Yin, IN
And our earnest shou d not slacken into play.
Men OF Thought and men OF action, lead the way
But he couldn't get tuning fork because
the tariff was too high. laughter In
conclusion Cox said that the country had
grown from sea to sea and from gulf to lake
expanding its progress. Why should we NOT
expand our liberty alsoY Whv not give men
a right to the earnings of their own labor?
Why take from one class to give to another?
Why make a slave of laborp WHY mt the
shackles ON any man? Wby not stand for
freedom eyerywhere? Let us be said to be
true to the PRINCIPLES of our constitution
true to our freedom for what avails the plow
or soil on land or life of freedom fall"
Mason. of Illinois, read from speeches bv
Mills and other democrats, showing their de-
sire to purchase where they could purchase
the phpaDest. and proceeded: tI therefore
charge the democratic party of being in IA
,.,r ~ f,aa ,r.da 'rha Nnr,barn ,Jom,cr.ts
a.,
however, say we are not IN favor OF Tree
'laue' o"t 'he .lii eoes WIN ,ne h'ue' ne
elteu 'he oeau iock upon 'he direc' 'aA piii'
s'"''ne '',a' 'ne 4'o''hein ue'i'oe s"i' ,na'
they would rot III thelr seats De1Ore they
Would De Dossed by southern democracy
hu' "heh kng caucus aappeu 'he oeii the
hehiocrats an scoo'eu. Inc pr'ganiers ring
tne caucus pen, ana the dough Lace eres'
'for shame, III mol De Dossed py the br'ga-
ulefs' out ne ge.s 'here just the same.
| Laughter Inc government announced
'lat the doc'fihe OF Tree traue ana the North-
efh democrats was 'he tail 10 the great dem-
ocfa'ic uog anu "ouin weekly ioiu hseiI oe-
tween 'he nina legs OF itS owner 10 wait 1or
instructions from 'he business ehd OF 'he
dog' "hether 10 "ag 1or Pro'ecuoh or iree
traue' MT Mason attacKed the
NILS biil saying that IL was IN
the interest OF trusts ana syhdicates. lie
ct'eo me sugar trust as one OF the largest III
the word which anected the price OF neces-
sities OF iife. ne suggested 70 the gentle
man from Mississippi (aiien) that the comic
opera ne quoted from was not suited 70 MS
'vir OF voice OF iorm, ana suggested tha' IN
s'ean 'hereoi' nc shouiu sing
Rock a-bye sugar trust, your on the tree top,
Rui If e The tain hrsts Tho cradle viii fsi
And down will come sugar trust Mills bill and all
Or if he insisted on rising to a higher
realm. "Motber Goose" he would suggest
ri,,,e how b,ue co,ne blov ,o,r horn n,ce
Blow sheol out of mutton but don't touch our rice
He also suggested that the gentleman hold
the infant trus, in his hand, and saw ..Iar-
ling. | threatened to roast Won the other dav.
but that was a bluff and that he mass the
iufan, suoar trust 70 Mills who would fon.
lJa il aud sav ..b,bv dear don't crv Won
sbouIj have all tho sugar in tho Jrn;tad
States The Cobde, hoys can have everv-
thing else but sugar !" and then be wopld mass
il IN the gentleman from Kentucky who
vouId saw don't cry Ittle nonsie woons;e ;f
we wouldn't have anything else to throw at
isPPl 'on,p'Iiu @ ,;i'a,. o'.eg oecause ;,,. 'ne