The National tribune., 1899-08-10


A!len. the other day said he wanted to
Cooh' this sugar trust Continued MIR.
dason; but he did not; he wanted to
eai it. and ne started into comic opera.
SUIT would suggest to him aId the gen
| 1enan from New York, ilasEauch as they
| are poets and as they propose by this bill
| u protect the sugar trust, that they tIy the
old fasaioled lullaby:
"Rock-a-by, sugar trust,
You're on the tree top,
i dd while we're in power
Your cradle will rock;
But if the duty on sugar
Slold tumble and fall,
Down cones the sugar trust,
Mills bill and all (Laug ter0
"Or if poetical genius should inspire them
| to rise to the hights OF Mother Goose, |
would suggest:
Little boy blue, come blow
Your horn nice,
Blow HI out of mutton,
But do not touch rice
"Fhe gentleman from Mississippi also
said that the cows in his State did not give
as much milk as those in New England;
= ID his hens do not lay as many eggs.
want to say to him now, that if there is
anything under Gods heavens that will
dry up gool COW, and stop a hen from
laying, it is being brought up in a free
trade country.
al was pleased when he boosted of the
beautiful women in the South. Every
body knows that all the ladies are pretty,
some better looking than others; but it
surprised me somewhat when he said they
had brainy men from Mississippi. I said
to myself possibly that is true but it is an
other Illustration OF the old saying, that
yoI can never tell the kind Of goods a man
keeps by the sample he puts on the road
tLaughter.)
"The real trouble is, Mr. Chairman, that
the gentlemen who compose the majority
of the Committee on Ways and Means
come from six out Of eight States lately in
rebellion. who have been taught from in
fancy that free trade is right Now, gem
tlenen, when you came here first, after the
war, the prodigal son racket worked well,
but it is getting old. Uaughter.)
"You used to talk about the proiigal son.
who is represented in the Bible as coming
in and telling his father 4 have been of in
a far country; / have lost all mad; am not
fit to be your son, maze me your servant"
"But that is not the kind Of Dro1igal son
you are. G4aug iiter.) Yon co ne into the
front door, you wipe yonr feet on the carpet.
and We have been tod some Of you drink
oIt Of the fire-extinguish in the hotels,
a I'd others of you set your watches by Che
street-car eounciators. CLaug hter.l Ant. you
DO not sit down and wait for the fatted
calf; you pub your feet on the best table
and say. Pap, what we want is veai!'
daughter and appiause)
"But the people are getting tired of this
sort of thing, and next Fall they are going
70 take the prodigal son by the nape of his
neck and the seat of his Government and
set him out among the husks OF defeated
Democracy"
AT the close of his speech the House
hummed with applause and roars Of laugh
ter, while he was surrounded b. ii, friends
and carried out on the shoulders of his
Now all this forensic eIoquence, if not
Indicative of the high lights in statesl l.
h ., these artists entertain Congress and
C public at $4,000 per day. 1t comes
high, but they think it is worth it, and as
10 as there is demand the market will
be supplied, and tie piblic taxed to pay
'?hen the curtain is rug up or down. In
gae meantime what became of the tariff
Dill?
Probably the most unpopular position
senator Mason has assumed is that on the
) 1auish-AL 'can war and its outcome
de has disappointed his friends and aided
and abetted his enemies in their attack
on the Government.
However honest he may be in his own
co Iyictions, many of his friends regret that
he WIS not srried out of Congress on the
sho ilders OF some Of them, ere he bega
his attacks on the policy and plans of the
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