The sun., 1903-12-23
The Sociology Of DR.. Gaines.

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The Hon. JOHN WESLEY GAINES, Rep
resentative in Congress Of the Sixth
Tennessee district, is regrettably parsi-
monious in his autobiography in the
Congressional Directory:
JOHN WESLEY GAINES. Democrat, OF Nashville.
elected to the Fifty NTH. Fifty sixth. Fifty
seventh and Fifty eighth Congresses; sa lawyer
by profession and native of his district"
Two lines and half in the Directory.
The Hon. ROBERT BAKER Of Brooklyn
feels himself crowded in forty-nine. Mr..
GAINES does not spread upon the record
the fact that he is an NJ. ID. Indeed, neither
medicine nor law stirs him to as much
enthusiasm as farming. He is "a friend
of the farmer" as he said proudly but
supernuously in the House last week. He
is "for the farmer first and the super
strata of society next He is friend OF
the sociologist. too, and this same speech
contains rich and improving sociological
material such as the Hon. LESTER
FRANK WARD and Prof. FRANKLIN
HENRY GIDDINGs have too rarely an
opportunity to amass. Here is nugget
for Prof. McMAsTER or his imitators
and successors:
THE negroes and laborors In the South. and pos
slbly elsewhere, rarely ever buy cigars. They
rarely ever buy manufactured tobacco. II they
do II is plug, for chewing. They prefer what they
call old long green or old Lincoln twist as
distinguished Republican called II the other day
when talking about the twisted tobacco which he
saw down South during the civi war"
Then we get a still more interesting
peep at Mr.. GAINES's internal economy
and the wrench it suffers in Washington:
You take corn tha, Is incapable of doing any
harm to anybody earth. unless you eat TOO much
corn bread-and ate that until came to Congress
and am very sorry that do not get chance to
eat II now three times day-but the corn Is
changed from corn into whlskey-entirely diner.
ent from corn"
The poetcal expression "corned"
seems to indicate that in the transmuta-
ton from raw material into the wine Of
the country the Corn Spirit is not lost.
1t is difficult TO make out from Mr..
GAINEs's perhaps intentionally obscure
remarks as to the difference between
solid and liquid or quintessential corn,
whether he now has to content himself
with three whiskeys day. owing to the
drought in the Capitol, or whether he
mourns the loss Of that unequalled corn
bread which the Southerners will per-
sist in making the Northerners sigh and
try in vain for. What has become of
~, 90 1-t
GAINES seems to imply that it is not
abundant in Washington, but is he not
almost disloyal to great name and in
stitution in assuming that it is possible
"to eat too much corn bread?
Now Mr.. GAINES takes us back to
primitive times in Davidson county,
before the internal revenue laws and the
Tobacco Trust had begun to oppress the
"God-made man.
1t used to be, as remember. when | was q boy
at my native home, twelve miles from Nashville,
that could go down to my o.d neghbor. whose
spirit long since took Its everlasting aight and there
In his barn could see long strings OF twisted To-.
bacco: all this he would sell Then | have seen
him crush 1t for smoking purposes. which he would
put in boxes and give away to his neighbors as q
Christmas gift"
Those Christmas boxes of smoking
purposes are sent no more:
We arc paralyzng the farmer. robblng him OF
his right to labor that GOD Almighty has given him.
Mr.. GAINES is a philologian as we'll as
doctor, a lawyer and poet:
Il will grant you, Mr.. Chairman. that manu-
facturc means something done with the hand
from manus. the hand, and faoeo, lsicl 10 make,
believe"
Let us leave Mr.. GAINES happy in that
belief