Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-05-09
AMERICAN COW WON.
Old Pride of the Farm Has MANY
Friends In Congress.
The Debate on Ole0marEarine Bill
Brought Ont Many Very Pretty
Thoughts and Some De-
cidedIy witty Sayings.
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. legend in all of our large cities;
and yet the American COW has
friends. defenders and champions be-
,yond the borders of the farms.
One of the veteran Washington cor
respondents was visiting in Webster
City, Ia, last summer, and he tells an
experience which has interested many
friends here this winter. saying: "No
sooner were we seated at the family
breakfast table than the little young
mother poured coffee and handed me
a cup, following it with a beautiful
pitcher filled with very thick sub
stance which she said was for the cof-
fee. looked at it and asked what il
was, supposing it to be condensed milk.
such as we used to have for our baby.
She told me that it was cream. Itried
Il, tasted it, and found il to be genuine
cream, such as they use at every meal
out there. If cream of that quality
were served here in Washington It
would be charged for at the rate of its
weight in gold"
The alleged cream furnished here.
even by hostelries called first class, is
little better than the skim milk of the
prairies, while what they call milk is
thinner than Potomac water after
heavy rains have thickened 1t with the
alluvial washings from the hills of
Maryland and Virginia. Under such
conditions ii might not have been ex-
pected that in this vicinity the Ameri-
can cow would have any friends at all;
so remotely do we know of her prac-
teal existence. But, fortunately for
the lovely old pride of the farm, she
had friends sent here to congress from
the sovereign states, and they cham
pioned her cause with fervid and eff
fective eloquence during the considera-
ton of the oleomargarine bill.
Whenever the cow is spoken of the
writer is reminded, by the way, of a
story concerning DR.. Loring, the first
commissioner of agriculture. At q
gathering of prosperous farmers near
Lowell, Mass, DR.. Loring was telling
Of the intelligence as well as affection
of the COW, saying that on one occasion
he had been helpful at the delivery of
n calf, and that Immediately thereafter
the COW looked at him gratefully, and
licked his hand. Ben Butler was pres
ent, and he said:
"Oh, rats, DIR. Loring; the COW
thought she had twins"
But to return to the COW and her de-
tenders. Not less than so set speeches
were delivered for and against the
oleomargarine bill, all of them Of in
terest and merit, portraying the views
sss~4be friends and. opponents OF tho
measure although the American COW
does not vote, her faYfre ri owner votes
and therefore IL was that tffsAskiiisan y !
ons of the COW were those who are o.
most closely identified with the farm
err people. The foremost champion of
the COW in the senate was Mr.. Dolliver,
who has heretofore pampered delight
ed audiences with his mellifiuous ut
terances on tariff and other politico-
economic topics. He spoke for an
hour, and all that he said was worthy
of repetition and frequent iteration.
One of his choicest paragraphs was
the following:
"While this subject is rather low
ly one from some standpoints, it has
nevertheless become, in my humble
judgment, one of the pressing and i'm
portant questions with which we have
to deal / speak for the live stock in
dustry of state which Is first in
swine, first in beef cattle, and first in