Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-02-22
SPEECH BY SENATOR Lands.
Delivered in the Senate Chamber on
Friday, Feb, 10th 1898.

custom of this body to-day, Mr.. Presi-
dent, to inaugurate every talk directed
to the discussion of this resolution
with story. We have listened time
and time again, for the past two years,
to the charge thrown at us from every
platform and the public hastings, that
we are Calamity Howlers' and it
reminds me of an incident that occur
red in model family in this state.
Every model family, Mr., President, as
everybody knows, comprises father,
mother and little boy, not excluding
the family cat, and the little boys
name, Mr.. President, it is quite essen
tial in order that the family should be
model one, must be Johnnie; one day
Johnnie asked his mamma "Who owns
the family cat?'' and his mamma re-
piled by saying: !'Why Johnnie, the
cat belongs to all of u.s." but Johnnie
entirely imbued with heAmerlcan idea
OF sole ownership, would not tolerate
the idea of cOpartnershlp, even with
papa and mamma in the ownership of
old Tom and said, Mamma, don't
like that kind of cat, 1 want to know
what part is mine, what part is yours
and what part is papa's;" his mother
then said: Johnnie, the head belongs
TO me, the body belongs to papa, and the
tail belongs to you" A day or two af-
ter his mother heard great out cry be-
hind the barn, and knowing the spirit
or devlltry that prevades the breast of
the average small boy, surmised that
something unusual was occurring; she
went to the barn and found that John
ME was standing with his feet on old
Toms neck and had just chopped
Toms tail off; she was outraged at the
thouht that she was rearing a boy so
devoid OF the finer sensibiities, and
said: Johnnie, 1 did not think that 1
should ever rear boy so villainous and
30 brutal as you are" Johnnie replied
by saying: Mamma, you just shut up,
1t is your end that is doing the howling.n
l submit, Mr.. President, that it is
not in the power of the Senator from
Leavenworth, nor in the power of nv
esteemed friend, the Senator from
Douglass, to point to single instance
IN which peoples party advocate of
any responsibility, with any following
behind him and speaking with authori-
ty has ever advocated or advised the
reputation Of single just debt. Such
cry of pretended reputation, and all
this cry Of calamity, has come from the
Topeka Capital, and papers of that ilk.
1t is supremacy absurd, Mr.. President,
that party numbering among it's ad-
herents one half the citizenship of this
state, the half too, Mr.. President. that
pays the states debts, pays her taxes.
does her work, and has made the COM
monwealth great and grand and glori-
Gus, should be pledged TO the dishonor-
able reputation of just obligations;
whatever idea of reputation and COM
mercial dlshonor may have gone to the
East, was prompted by resolution, or
II not resolution, by the expressed
sentiment uttered on the floor of this
Chamber two years ago, by the republi-
can members, when they promised the
Capitalist of the East that they would
stand between him and any infringe
ment OF the contract entered into by
the men of Kansas; they pointed the
East, MIR. Pesident, to great political
party built up on the free soil of Kan
sas, state born amid the throes of APP
preaching rebellion, Graded by the great
ideas of justice and equality, that was
pledged 10 the idea of personal, politi-
cal and commercial dishonOr.
We are here, Mr.. President, to guard
the interest of the old soldier. 1t is
lifting and proper that resolution of
this character for the advantage of the
old soldier, should originate in this
body and be discussed and adopted by
In members of the senate of this great
state, tnat sent out under the flag
more men than she had voters within
her borders. Wherever, Mr.. President,
our beautiful flag was carried during
those dark days, Kansas breasts were
barred to rebel shells and mimic balls:
they went above the clouds with Hooker
at Lookout; they wadeG the morasses
OF the Carolinas with Sherman, and the
Bayous OF louisiana with Grant.
We have heard here this morning
that this country under the republican
policy OF high protection, has grown
to greatness, grandeur, and prosperity.
we have heard too, from the Senator
from Leavenworth that Washington
was protectionist, and well might he
have been when all industries were tru-
ly in their infancy, and when this coun-
try was emerging from a trouble that
had taxed all the resources of the sa-
cred line of settlements that fringcd the
western shores of the Atlantic; as we'll
might have been Jefferson, and all the
fathers OF this nation a century ago:
but since then, Mr.. President, we have
builded high er and higher this wall of
exclusion, until we now give to the ia
Yored industries of the East, the ex-
treme protection of an average of be-
tween sixty and seventy per cent.
Sir, wnen Henry Clay in the Thirties,
standing as an ultra protectionist. for
INFLATED his great tariff bill, he provid-
ed that at the end of ten years there
should be no duty in excess of twenty
per cent, and there was not found any
among the champions of teh protec ted
industries of that date who dared to
come before the people of the country,
aud claim greater immunity from Eu-
ropean rivalry, than was by this meas
ure proposed, advocated and passed by
the great wing leader, whose whole life
was devoted to the idea of protection.
And the great national leader of the
party represented on the other side of
this chamber, the "Plumed Knight"
who. q few DAYS ago surrendered all of