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with it in colnprehensivenes on the
subject Of cheek was one made some
years ago by an eminent lawyer Of my
district. Judge William o. Forrist. who.
in speaking of i brother lawyer, said,
IF his cheek had taken on the shape
OF ears they would have been big
enough to make awnings for a Chicago
packing house.
Fuckers entire speech of forty min
utes is full of bright sayings and point
ed arguments / wish l had space to
quote it all, but of course cannot.
His speech was frequently and up
roariously applauded by the Demo
Gratis.
Here is an argument ad hominem
which in strength has not been ex-
celled in recent days on the floor of the
house. He was not attacking small fry,
but was going after big game when he
said:
In a speech on this floor last December
that great party leader the distinguished
gentleman from Iowa mr. Hepburn said:
Il live in a county Of 240O0 people-a
farming community. On the LIST day OF
last october there was $2.5S0,000 on de-
post in the little banks of that county
more than a hundred dollars for every
man, woman and child in the county
This is a splendid showing for Page
county, Ia, the home of the most infiuen-
tial and powerful advocate of high pro-
lection on this floor. But of course his
people-his immediate neighbors and close
personal friends, citizens Of his county
ana of his state-have prospered under
tariff for protection or this gallant and
fearless representative would not indorse
protection.
The distinguished gentleman from Ohio
[Mr. Grosvenorl, after hearing the great
speech of the gentleman from Iowa in
support of the protective tariff policy of
the Republican party, said:
81 do not intend to mar the beauty, the
symmetry and irresistible logic of the gem
tleman from Iowa.
We may assume that the good people of
Athens county, O., are prosperous, too, or
surely the great leader from Ohio would
not concede the irresistible logic of an
argument in support of the Dingley tariff.
At this point Mr.. Chairman. / desire to
submit some statistics. which / shall in
corporate in my remarks, showing the
mortgage Indebtedness and the number of
homes mortgaged in Iowa and Ohio, two
Of the leading agricultural states of the
Union:
Mortgage Per cent
Indebtedness. of in
1890 1900 crease.
Iowa .......... 1899, TAIL s217, O4o. 25S ss4
Ohio ......... 259, S421SS s25.s9s,ss4 a542
Page Co., Ia. 1.98s992 2,113,264 6.19
Athens Co, o. 4.S3s5S1 5,176,7s2 1916
Homes Per cent
mortgaged In of in
1890 1900. crease. crease.
Iowa ........ .los.o72 1879 l4l0 1856
Ohio s2a z2s IS sss g Is2 e :. q ]
Athens tn g.. 8. IS 1'la0 81 sssS
These fgures, which are carefully COM
piled from data furnished by the census
bureau, show that under the operation of
this so called wise and beneficial policy of
the Republican party the mortgage in
debtedness of Iowa. that stalwart Repub-
lican state, has increased 8.64 per cent and
the number of mortgaged homes has in
creased Is. IS per cent in ten years.
In Ohio the increase of mortgage indebt-
edness from 1890 to 1900 is 2542 per cent
and of mortgaged homes $3.50 per cent
This is not all. In Page county, la,
where we are told the bank deposits equal
500 per capita, these statistics prove that
for every. dollar deposited in 1903 by the
more fortunate there was like sum in
1900 plastered upon the homes of the peo-
pie. To be entirely accurate, statistics
show that in 1900 there was secured by
mortgage-not chattel mortgage, munich
pal or corporate Indebtedness, but by
deeds of trust upon homes Of the people
of Page county, LA sum equal to S87 40
for each and every man, woman and child
in that county.
chief idolater of high tariff, mortgage in
debtedness has increased 1916 per cent
and the number of mortgaged homes % 81
per cent in ten years. These are addi-
tional evidences of the wholesome and
highly beneficial results of SO called pro-
lection. Iowa and Ohio are great agri-
cultural states, and under normal condi-
tons the people ought to prosper. But
the blight Of tariff for protection falls up
on producers everywhere and insidiously
day by day steals the fruits of labor to fill
the Golfers of those who reap where they
have not sown.
AS Colonel Hepburn and General
Grosvenor have made no reply to this,
it must be assumed that there is no re-
ply that can be made and that Judge
Rucker, by digging into the facts in
stead of indulging in empty rhetoric,
put these two illustrious Republicans
in a hole.
Hypocrisy Arraigned
Evidently Judge Rueker is familiar
with the classics as well as with sta
tistics, as is demonstrated by the fol
lowing excerpt from his speech:
Colonel ]. II. Brigham, assistant secre-
tary of agriculture, in an interview pub
lished in the Washington Post recently
used this language:
"It is very well understood by intelli-
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existing do not secure to the farmer the
full share Of the value of his products
that rightfully belongs to him. They also
know that existing combinations compel
the farmer to pay more than is equitable
for the implements with which he tills
the soil and the supplies of the farm and
home It is also well understood that the
farmer bears more than his full share Of
the burden of taxation
Thus, with great precision and accu-