Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-01-25

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ing: Colonel Anderson, are you taken
by surprise?" Whereupon Anderson
electrified bench aud bar by replying:
GOOD God, your honor! | am not
only surprised, but utterly astounded"
[Great laughter.
l was likewise astounded when l
heard the gentleman from Ohio, Gen
eral GRosvENoR, say that the Wilson
tariff bill was a free trade measure.
Laughter. There is nowhere on
earth or under the earth or in the air
above the earth a scintilla of evidence
on which to base that statement. 1t is
absolutely preposterous. That bill
carried an average tariff duty of nearly
40 per cent on about 1000 articles of
everyday consumption. Surely no
sane man can believe or does believe
that such bill was a free-trade meas
ure. Free traders voted for il holding
their noses. They voted for il because
it was the best they could get and cut
down the rates of the Mckinley bill of
abominations about 3 per cent. 1t is a
poor cause that uecessitates such
! wrenching of historic facts to support
it and only shows to what straits Re
| publicans are driven to defend their
present course.
A characterless, obscure, and ignor-
ant stump speaker might be excused
| for making such i groundless asser-
ton in the heat of debate out in the
backwoods of Ohio, but General GRoS-
vENoR can not be excused on any such
theory. He can not afford to make
such a ridiculous statement. He GER
taiuly can not be excused on the
grounds of ignorance, for one of his
foibles 10 omniscicnce; nor on grounds
of irexperience, for he has long since
passed the efervescent period of youth;
sixty six winters have frosted his head
with silver, and he is veteran, con-
spicuous, IN able member of this House
He is great historic parsonage
| Ilaughterl; younger men look to him
for guidance. He is the only real
simon-pure major prophet now known
to be on terra firma.
! The public regards him as sort OF
walking delegate for the Administra-
ton [laughterl, its mouthpiece on this
/ floor. the keeper of the kings con
science and groom of the Presidential
posset.
| He owes it to his own fame, to the
dignity of this House, and to the cause
Of truth and justice to cxpunge that
charge from his speech, for it is base
less as the fabric of vision.
THE PENDING CURRENCY BILL.
| consistency a jewel" If the
philosopher who wrote that famous
| sentence should return to earth and
| should find himself among the Repub.
] lican ana jority of the House of Repre-.
| sentatives, he would feel as lonesome
as Adam before Eve impinged upon his
enraptured vision or as Alexander Sci.
kirk in the oppressive solicitude of his
desert island.
| If Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, were
speaking as of the political morals OF
| the supporters of 1.-The Atlantic City
money BILL" he would change his far.
resounding exclauiation: "Frailty
thy name is woman" SO as to read
"Frailty, thy name is latter-day Re.
publicanism!"
| With consciences of India rubber and
cheeks of Hindoo gods, Republican
Representatives and Senators are now
doing the very thing which we charged
in 1896 they would do, if given sufiicien,
power, which charge Republican ora.
tors and editors west of the Allcghe
MES with one accord denied as bitterly
and vehemently as Peter denied his
Lord and Master. / suppose ] owe an
apology to the memory of the great
apostle for placing him even Temporal,
rily in such ignoble company and MAX
amends by stating at once the historic
fact that he made noble atoncment for
his one act Of weakness and unfaith
fulness-an example which Republi
cans are not liable to emulate. Laugh
ter on the Democratic side.
The die is cast. Hugh II. Hanna
and his confreres are anxious for the
sacrifice. The majority here are eager
to do his bidding. Argument has
about the same effect upon Republicar
Representatives as il would if address
ed to "the dull, cold car of DEATH
This House will pass "thc Atlantic
City money bill" and the Senate will
pass it or something equally as bad
No Republican will dare to oppose i
for two reasons--iear of the caucus
lash and fear Of being divorced frou
the pie counter. Our appeal is not t.
the members Of this House, but I,
those who make and uuInakc Repre-
sentatives-the great body Of th'
American people. In them we plac,
eur trust and not in those who ar,
| lAnL i,r IA a,,r,lx N he. Whit