The National tribune., 1902-04-10


1t is a strong point which my eloquent
friend made that butter is colored, and
therefore why not color oleOmargarine
But colored butter is still butter, and col
ored Oleomargarine is not still oleomar-
garine. according to what its seller says.
To color butter does not destroy its taste,
does not destroy its chemical properties,
does not destroy its wholesomeness. 1t
is still butter, with that particular color
given to it which the customer wants in
his butter. But when the oleomargarlne
is colorcd, it is colored not to sell it as
OleOmargarine, but in order to follow but
ter as butter through all the grades of the
article.
There was one part of my eloquent
friends speech which shocked me-abSo-
lutely shocked me. 1t would not seem
possible that Il gentleman who has such
Il command of the English language, who
is so chivalrous, who talks and thinks and
acts upon such Il high plane as does my
eloquent friend, the Senator from Texas,
could shock me. But he did. When he
compared the color of oleomargarine to the
art by which young lady wins the heart
of her lover, l felt that the American girl
had been put in a wrong position before
the American people. Uaughter)
Mr.. BAILEY. l forgot for the moment
Il recent occurrence in the life of the Sena-
said it daughter and applause.)
Mr.. DEPEW. And but for that occur
renee | should have left it for younger
man to come to the defense of the Ameri-
can girl. 1t was the Senator's youth and
beauty which astonished me when he made
that remark. Uaughter.) If he had been
sour and acrid, if he had been disap-
pointed in love, if the sex had treated him
in any way which would lead him to speak
in hot DhOnt
them in that way, then | could under
stand it. But no one can meet the Sena-
tor, no one can meet him socially or IN
his grave and dignifed position as Sena-
tor, in this Chamber, no one can see his
photograph on Pennsylvania avenue, no
one can come in that contact with him
which is always pleasure without know
ing that his geniality, his happiness, his
elouuence have come because the Ameri
can girl has loved and has admired him.
Uaughter) And he never ought, so soon
after she appeared so enhancing in her
Easter hat and gown in the churches and
on the avenues of Washington, to have
gone back on her today by saying that
she is a fraudulent specimen of living
Uaughter.) With all her
finery, flowers, and ribbons and cOlors, she
was still the Incompatible American girl.
Mr. President, | did not rise to make
because of the peculiar, as well as eloquent
way in which my distinguished friend, the
Senator from Texas, presented in most at
tractive form the proposition that fraud
and Misrepresentation stand on the same
plane with truth, and honesty, and open
that fraud and misrepresen-
tatiOn are the honest competitors of truth
and virtue. Up in Peekskill, where l was
born, that was not taught in the oid-schOol
ID hvfn in uh /
reared. 1t may be that in the wilds Of
Texas that is the way the people think,
but along the Hudson River we people
Of Dutch ancestry learned TO call a spade
a spade.
We learned to call butter butter and
milk milk, and we do not learn to call any
thing else, made in some other way, by
the wonders of chemistry, whether it is
better or worse, by an honest name; but
we learned to call an article just what it
is, and then we take it or reject it upon
n full understanding of what we are buy
ing. We are not brought up in the belief
that one Of the enterprising citizens Of the
who discovers an honest yeo-
man from Texas-nOt an agriculturist,
but farmer-in New York, and then, ap-
pealing to his cupidity, sells him a gold
brick, is an honest competitor with the
jeweler across the way. On the contrary,
by which this active, energetic, and enter
prising business man of our State, who
accepting the Senator's views Of cOmpeti-
lion, captures this innocent agriculturist
from Texas and sells him a gold brick, is
seized and punished, not for selling the
gold brick, but because he sold it as gold.
If he had sold it as a gold brick, as
to nothing but brass outside
and sand in, and got a gold price for it
for ha, ha Il,
Of New York say that that is honest com
petition. 1t is the deceit which we pun
sh: not the art.
Mr.. President, this debate has gone into
many fields, and especially this evening
1t is fortunate for modern elOquence that
il has led On the one side and the other to
two of the most attractive speeches i have
ever heard in a legislative body-the Scna-
tor from Iowa (Nr. DOlliverJ on the COW,
and the Senator from Texas CMr. Bailey
On competition. The COW and competition
will live in the annals of American oratory
as presented under the forms of rhetoric,
Of eloquence, of fancy, and of flights of
imagination which place these two Sena
Ors along with the Millions and the Byrons
Of the English language. Uaughter)
Mr.. BAILEY. Mr.. President, the Sena-
tor from New York CMr. Depewl did not
happen to honor me with his attention in
II
else he would have known that / repro
bated the fraudulent practice of selling
for butter as much as he
ran possibly do.
Mr.. SPOONER. Intellectually.
The Senate also found time during the
week to vote upon a large number of pri-
vate measures, as usual during the morn
ing hour, among which, on Wednesday,
The following private pension bills were
passed:
Samuel L. LefangweIl Co. l.. ID Ohio, war
with Mexico. and Major 3lst and S7th Ohio,
private, Co. NJ, LIST Ohio Cav; increase, S3O
Anna Il. Luke, widow OF Andrew VI. Luke |
Captain. Co. Il, 7th Ind; increase, $40
Otto II: Hasselman, Co. A, 1920 Ind; in
crease. $50.
Thomas Bliss. Co. G. Hath Ohio; increase,
$50. blouse BILL
Joseph b. Arbaugh Co. K. 10th Ohio; In.
crease. S2i. blouse Bili)
Joseph Cowgirl First Independent Battery,
Ind l.; A; increase. $50. tHouse BILL
William ]. Overman. Co. A, 3sth Ind; in
crease $50. (HOuse BILL
Charles w. Thomas. Co. G., 1s9th Ohio; In
crease. s24. (House Bil)
Ellen J. Clark, widow Of Henry W. Clark,
Co. X, 30 Wis. Cav; increase, s12, and So
additional on account of minor child.
Mary King, dependent mother of Michael
King, Co. f, 4th Iowa; S12 House BILL
HoratiO n. Warren, Lieutenant Colonel,
1921 Pa: increase, s17. blouse BID
John W; Moore, Co. X, soth Ohio; IS.
Levi II. winsIow. Co A, 18th Me-; increase,
S2i. House BilI)
Eliza Stewart, widow OF Hugh Stewart, U.
$. $. Great Western; Ss. Pension TO cease
upon proof that the said Hugh Stewart is
living. blouse BILL
Albert $. Whittier. Co. l., 4th Mass II. A.;
Increase, $50. blouse BILL