New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-12-06

or it would not have been here. It is an
evidence Of the assertion ii another por-
| ton of the holy Bible that man is fear
fully and wonderfully made
It was an old story, but one that threw
the house into commissions. Z.
On the next day Jerry Simpson used a
story to illustrate point in his silver
speech. He said he had been disappoint-
ed at the proverty of the case of the oppo-
sition, 1t reminded him of the story
of the gentleman who built a steamboat
on the Missouri river. 1t was at a time
when there was great rivalry to see
which could have the louder whistle.
The man built steamboat with seven
foot boiler and put oa ninefoot whistle.
When he blew the whistle the first time
all the steam went out of the boiler.
This seemed to be the condition of the
opponents of free coinage. They blew
off every pound of steam in their boiler
at the first start and had drifted into the
rushes on the shore to get up steam
again.
Jerry's story took magniticently. The
! house laughed at it SO long that he spent
fully Il minute in scratching his head.
In his maiden speech on the floor Of
the house the redoubtable Champ Clark
of Missouri stuck 10 lis text with the
quaintest logic. He is regarded as one
of the best story tellers in the country,
but the only paragraph in his speech that
smacks of a story was the assertion that
If the house paid the behests Of the Anne
rican bondholders and made a gold
standard, in a hundred years the people
would be reduced to the condition of the
Russian serfs and Mexican poems. The
bondholtlers would have all the money
in the country, for, as old jim Craig of
St. Joseph used to say, "When 4 dollar
goes into their capacious pockets the
eagle on it sings, Farewell, vain world,
Pm going home!
This brought down the house.
While the Hon. Carries L. Moses of
Georgia was speaking for free silver he
was very much annoyed by Gen. Gros-
venor, ii leading Republican from Ohio.
Mr.. Grosvenor was very pressing with
one of his questions. Finally Moses
turned to him and said:
My friend. ! had almost forgotten
you until you rose in your place yester-
day like the Rip Van Wrinkle of a past
era. You Republicans remind me of the
old Negroes tcrrapin down in Georgia. He
cut the head off the terrapin, and the
next morning found him crawling around
the yard.
"Good God the old darkey remarked,
that fool terrapin don't know he is done
dead YETI"
The laughter and applause was most
terrific, and Gen Grosvenor made no
further attempt to interrupt Moses.
One on the best stories told in the de-
bate on the silver bill came from that
brilliant young congressman, LATE Pence
of Colorado. He said that the people in
his country could not discern the differ
ence between the dollar of the treasury
to-day and the dollar of the treasury
under John Sherman. TO illustrate tins
he said that back in Marion county, Ind,
there is a little town on the Johnson
county line of about 800 people.
A stranger came into the town one
Sunday, and walking cut from the hotel
saw little white church and crowd
going in. He noticed that it WAS a Luth-
eran church. He went on and in the next
block saw little brown church, and
was surprised to see that it was also a
Luthern church. He went back to the
hotel and told the proprietor that it
struck him as a strange that in little
town like his, hardly able to sustain one
church, there could be two churches just
alike.
"What do you mean?" asked the land
lord.
The stranger told HIM what he had
seen.
"Oh," replied the landlord, ''you are
mistaken. Those two churches are some
what alike, but not just alike. Over in
the white church they believe that the
serpent tempted Eve, and Eve tempted
Adam, and Adam fell; but over in the
brown church they think that Adam was
a bad egg from the start
The majority of the good stories told
in the house come from the South and
West They are usually original, and