St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
MIR. GRADY ON PROTECTION.


In>his last speech in Boston, made
at democratic dinner in the Parker
House, the late Henry w. Grady said :;
You want to know about the
South. My friends, we representa-
tive men will tell you about it. l
just want to say that we have had a
hard time down there.
When my partner came out OF the
war he didn't have any breeches.
(Iaughter.) That is an actual truth.
Well, his wife, one of the best women
that ever lived, reared in the lap of
luxury, took her old wooden dress
that she had worn all during the war
and it had been garment of sor-
row and of CONSERVATION and of he
roism-and cut it up and made a
good pair of brooches. He started
with that pair of breeches and with
So in gold as his capital, and he
scraped up boards from amid the
ashes of his home and built him a
shanty, of which love made a home
and which courtesy made hospita-
BILE And now | believe he has with
him three pairs of breeches (laughter)
and several pairs at home. We have
prospered down there.
| attended funeral once in Pickens
county in my state A funeral is not
usually a cheerful object to me unless
| could select the subject. | think |
could. perhaps, without going hun
dred miles from here, find the materi-
al for one or two cheerful funerals.
(Laughter) Still, this funeral was
peculiarly sad. 1t was poor ''one-
gallus" fellow, whose breeches struck
him under the armpits and hit him a t
the other end about the knee-he
didn't believe in decollete clothes.
They buried him in the midst of a
solid marble to make his grave; and
yet the little tombstone they put
above him was from Vermont. They
buried him in the heart of a pine for
est, and yet the pine coffin was i'm
ported from Cincinnati. They buried
him without touch of an iron mine
and yet the nails in his coffin and the
iron in the shovel that dug his grave
were imported from Pittsburg. They
buried him by the side of the best
sheep-SraZing country on the earth,
and yet the wool in the coffin bands
and the coffin bands themselves were
brought from the North. The South
didn't furnish thing on the earth
the hole in the ground. Laughter.)
There they put him away and the
clods ratified down on his coffin and
they buried him in a New York coat
and a Boston pair of shoes and a
pair of breeches from Chicago and a
shirt from Cincinnati, leaving him
nothing to carry into the next world
with him to remind him of the coun-
try in which he lived and for which
he fought for four years but the chill
of blood in his veins and the marrow
in his bones.
Now we have improved on that.
We have got the biggest marble cut
ting establishment on earth within
a hundred yards of that grave. We
have got half dozen wooden mills
right around it, and iron mines and
iron furnaces and iron factories. We
are coming to meet you. We are go
ing to take a noble revenge, as my
friend Mr.. Carnegie said last night,
by invading every inch of your terri
tory with iron, as you invaded ours
% years ago.
A voice. want to know if the
tariff built up these industries down
there?
Mr.. Grady-The tariff ? Well to
be perfectly frank with you, | think
it helped some; but you can bet your
bottom dollar that we are democrats
(applause) straight through from the
solcs of our feet to the top of our
heads, and Mr.. Cleveland will not
have, if he runs again, which | am
inclined to think he ought to do
(great applause very hard rowing.