New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-09-06
Wednesday, September s, 1898.

tor from Massachusetts, is tall, rather
shambling construction, who looks as if
hurried together in his physical making
up by some amateur whose meager outfit.
consisted perhaps of a Ratchet and hand
saw. Lodge has an unpleasant express
sion. His head is full. and round and
thoughtful, but his face somehow gives
one mongrel impression. It isn't thor
oughbred. Nevertheless, Lodge claims
quite a pedigree and his family tree is a
perfect banyan I understand. In the
Fifty first congress the senator---:hen in
the house-courted infamy as the author
of the force bill and only missed its at
tainment by the measure being dexter
ously talked to death by Arthur Pue Cor
man ct al. in the senate. --'
Lodge has some notoriety as a writer
and recently underwent vile ADVERTISE
ment tor bribing certain custodians of the
national archives, to the end that all 9TH
ers save Lodge would be denied access
to particular and curious records import
ant in some historical work upon which
the Bay State senator was just then en-
barked. 1t is more than likely that this
is true. Lodge is not above an OCCASION
al small, queer trick. Once, when the
Mckinley bill was being debated and be-
fore its passage an accident of small SOFT
came to pass which shows how, like a
fsh-hawk, Lodge is ever swoopingly
ready to claim credit which belongs to
someone else. During the debate some
orator, widely out for the Mckinley bill
and an altitudlnous tariff had, to illus
trate the beauty and the virtues of pro-
lection, drawn picture of the vine bow
cred, fower-bordered cottage of the New
England factory hand. He spoke Of it's
comfortable white paint, its shutters in
elegant green, its graceful porches, where,
when the day was done, the honest factory
hand called his children and his good
wife about him and safe him under his
own vine and fig tree, with none to mo-
lest him or make him afraid. All this
security and pleasant ease were-quoth
the orator-the plain children Of high
tariff. Wilson of West Virginia, on the
occasion when Lodge shone, was reply
ing to this orator and his scene of New
England factory life. Wilson,-the same
who is now chief of the ways and means
WAS reading'a sketch in Charles Dick
ems "American Notes." wherein occurred
description of the home of the New
England factory hand, and which was
even more highly colored and beautiful
than that furnished by the protection
talker who had just ceased. Wilson's
contention was that the ''American
Notes" in its description, written long
before the existence of war or high pro-
tective tariff, disproved the protection
claim that these beautiful New England
factory homes therein described and
which were thus seen to have existed for
forty-tive years, were the outgrowth of a
tariff not twenty-five years old. Wilson
was getting along famously. Mckinley
was leading for the republicans and was
lulled back in his chair, listening to Will
son. All at once, as the thought struck
him, he turned to Cabot Lodge, who sat
next to him, and said:
"Lodge, it just occurs to me that at
the time when Dickens made his Gamer
lean Notes" and the description which
Wilson is now reading we not only had
very high protective tariff, but had had
for several years. Suppose you go to
the library and see.'
Lodge started. He found it to be ex-
actly as Mckinley surniscd. The cam
erican Notes" were written in high tar
if era. Lodge came eagerly into the
house, bringing the book. Wilson was
talking. Lodge never went near McKin-
ley at all. He saw chance to grab
little unearned name and fame land did
it. He claimed the speakers attention
from the middle aisle of the house.
evil the gentleman from West Vir-
gia permit me a question:" -
The gentleman from West Virginia
~ j.
of course permitted it.. Then Lodge
nailed Wilson with book and date. And
he had Wilson out on limb IN a mo-
ment. It made quite a hit, too, and the
protection papers were full of 1.-THE next
day, and all men, marvelled and won:
derea at the depth and p,ofundity of
Lodges knowledge Of books, authors,
etc. No one ever heard of Mckinley in
the whole transaction. And Lodge was
oeculiarly reticent on that point, and