The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-01-13
IN RAGS And TATTERS
Jerry Simpson Presents a Startling %.
i,Ct Lesson 10 the House.
ON THE BACK OF MILLIONS
The Kansas Statesman Holds Aloft
a DiIaplda,ed Old Ovsrcoat as
Specimen OF What Pro-
lection Has Done.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-In the house
the senate amendments to the joint reso-
luton for the appointment of joint COM
mission TO examine into the personnel of
tue navy were agreed to. The foreign af-
fairs committee reported favorably Hits
resolution calling on the president for all
the Hawaiian information received since
the special message. Objection was made
to its immediate consideration aud the
house resumed the tariff debate, Brusius
of Pennsylvania continuing his argument
begun yesterday. Everett, Pendleton,
Black and Payne also spoke on the meas
ure.
Jerry Simpson then launched broad
side against protection and trusts. Simp-
son said that while he intended TO vote
for the Wilson bill, there were many pro-
visions in it of which he did not approve.
He was not one of those who ever believed
that the democratic party, brought to the
test. would carry out its pledges, for he
knew, while there were honest democrats,
the action of the democratic party, like
that Of the republicans. was controlled by
the money power. "The peoples party"
said he, islands on q platform pledged,
as interpret it, to the principle of free
trade. The intolerable burden put upon
the agricultural classes through the indi-
rect system of taxation has been one of
the potent causes which produced the
present condition of affairs. The farmers
of the country in 1850 owned 60 per cent of
the wealth; SO per cent in 1850; 40 per
cent in 1880 and 30 per cent in 1890"
A, ,h, taI
applause and amusement by treating the
house to spectacle of dilapidated over
coat. He proposed to show the house
exactly what the poor people of the coun-
try did wear. Reaching down under his
desk he seized tattered old overcoat,
fringed at the edge and bespangled with
great patches. He held it on high while
the house and galleries cheered.
II bought that of a farmer" said he.
"who told me he left home at Il o'clock at
night and drove % miles 10 sell his product
in your boasted home market. There, as
Cleveland said, is an object lesson.
Iaughter). There is q sample Of what
men wear under the beneficlent system Of
protection" he continued. at is made of
shoddy and rags, see," here he ripped il
up tue Dack, YET, ue auucos u Can tuu
its duplicate on the backs Of a million
men in this country"
"Where did he buy 2" asked Cannon.
republican, OF Illinois.
"He bought il year ago In this city for
So, and bought him another shoddy coat
to take its place for slo.4o." laugh
teri
"Is 1t American or imported?" asked
Cannon.
~ don't know" replied Simpson. ~
don't care; but it is product of Ameri.
can protection. No one can deny that"
daughter and applause
Simpson concluded with an appeal 10
the people TO ring out the old aud ring in
the new order of .hines. Many members
rendered him personal congratulations
when he sat down.
Daniels. republican, Of New York, ar
gued against the bill. Mcdowell. republi.
can,. Of Pennsylvania, followed, and
Meiklejohn, republican, Of Nebraska,
closed the debate for the afternoon ses.
sion in opposition to the bill.