The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-02
IMPORTANT.
Wnshburn Speaks.

Did our readers in the rural districts
observe, the other day, peculiar. awe-in-
spring pause in the operations OF nature,
as if the world drew deep breath and
waited in suspense for a final catastrophe?
Thus, as we often see against some
storm,
A silence in the heavens, the rack stand
still.
The bold winds speeches., and the orb
below
AS hush as DEATH anon the dreadful
thunder
Doth rend the region"
What is the explanation Of these
tonishing phenomenal 1t is an announce
ment, in the congressional report, in these
portentous words:
Senator Washburn. Of Minnesota, gave
notice that next Monday at l o'clock he
would speak on the tariff question:
Blow it upon the reverberating winds to
the uttermost limits of created things
Washburn will make speech. He an
nounces it himself to an expectant world
it must be so.
Give me the cups
And let the kettle to the trumpet speak
The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to
EARTH
Washburn will make a speech!
Hurry, hurry, Minnesotians! BY Pullman
palace cars, by chair cars; by frst-class,
by second-class conveyances; by freight
cars, by cattle cars; by carriages, wagons
carts and wheel-barrows; a-foot, a-horse-
back-everyhow. Hurry, hurry, and get
there in time for that great sion 7
Past doing towns and sleeping villages;
past the slumberng Coxeyites, in their
sluggish canal boats; past the struggling
and superabundant tramps; past even the
Hylng army of office-seekers, moving in a
Decline toward the fat-headed Grover
Hurry past them all. with the speed of the
wind, until you hear-Washburn make a
speech.
And what will he speak about? The
tariff, of course. This was the tune the
angels played their golden harps when
the morning stars first sang together. And
when the final dissolution of all things is
reached, then, upon some small fragment
of the shattered globe, a Republican and a
Democrat will be seen, with their hands
in each others hair, discussing the duty on
anu Guns, anu wien the last
sounds of earth die out in the awful silence
of eternity, the of the seraphim will
ring with the dreadful words, 1.-The tariff
on yard of scent calico"
Mighty statecraft; you will have met q
fit expounder-when Washburn speaks
We pray God that when Washburn reads
his speech he may, for the credit of Mime
sofa, be sufficiently familiar with the hand
writing to pronounce it trippingly, and not,
like one of our eX-governors break his
shins and tumble headlong over many
ansled words to which he had never previ-
ously been introduced.
And yet there are topics on which Mr..
Washburn could make a much more in
teresting speech than on the tariff The
whole state would lean forward, eagerly to
learn how man can Smash financially
and go the denniton, everlasting bow
vows; and then. within five years, while
ruin rules the land and the richest are
breaking in all directions, walk to the can
taln's office and pay up several hundred
thousand dollars of debts; and walk off
again with his pockets bullying with a vast
fortune. Wonderful financer! Whom even
the demonetization of silver makes richer
Tell us thy secret, oh extraordinary Wash
burn! What is the tariff to that mighty
question? Teach us how we can gather
millions of dollars off blackberry bushes:
how we can coin cucumbers into sunbeams
Tell US that, oh Washburn, and we shall
die happy. The purse Of Fortunatus, the
universal solvent" the philosophers
stone,'-even our own Golden Bottle
are nothing compared to that. For II takes
neither brains, nor learning, nor genius,
nor honesty. nor character, nor capital At
one stride we can mount from the wreck
and mud of disastrous failures to the very
top and pinnacle of human greatness
Upon what meat doth this, our Caesar
feed,
That he has grown so great? Age, thou
art shamed;
Rome, thou hast lost thy breed Of noble
bloods
Bullet us INSTRUMENTATION speaksi