St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-03-26
4 New HQmOriSt
J. ADAM BEDE II HOUSE OF REP.
REsENrsTIvEs Is He.

(From the maiden speech Of the Min
nesoto Congressman
Iwant this to be an era of good
feeling. ] want you to love one an
other. and to love US, aud stop sit
ting mp at nights hating each other
IN your own PARTY. We do not do
that out in Minnesota. 10 he sure.
we have prett, long days in the
summer, and the sun sits up at
nights to SHINE for the farmer, up
there, and does help little bit IN
the prosperity, l admit; but it is
due largely to the Republican poll
cies that help the sunshine. Laugh
ter.)
Besides, We have got improved
machinery on, there. / remember
distinctly as a boy On the Western
deserve. III Ohio. that they used TO
cut their grain with a scytlse and
With all ne,l fashioned cradle and
sickle W. donut do that nov. You
cannot sell anything to a farmer in
Minnesota that he cannot sit down
on. (Laughter.) Things are com
lug our way.
I saw a farmer in the district 81
the chairman OF tins committee Mr.
rawney) in the southern portioD
OF Minnesota. a year Or SD ago. who
was cnllivaling his corn along the
roadside, aud one OF the rural mail
carriers on "A route the gentleman
from Minnesota had established
came along ami handed the farmer
his morning paper and his letters as
be was cultivnting his crop. He had
an umbrella or sort ct canopy
over his cultivstor, and he went
along reading his newspaper and
cultivating his mind while he was
cultivallng the soil, and this is why
you get that sort OF a gentleman
from shat sort Of district. Laugh
ter aud applause.)
I am only asking YOU Democrats
20 be full dedged Americans just
to come in out III the wet while you
wait and be like us. Out in the
West l saw few years ago little
party Ut gentlemen talking OF their
different nationalities, for We have
everything there. and among the
gentlemen was ScotcllmaE.s all
EDglisllnian, German, an Italian,
and finally they came to one fellow
who said he was a Norwegian. but
that he had been ''nentralized. :"
prolonged laughter.
l am willing you should be Demo-
Gratis il you will just be 'neutral-
lzed," just be full hedged Ameri-
CANS and belong to tue whole coun-
try.
l am willing to lake you into full
fellowship, just to let you disband
and get rid OF your two-shlrds rule,
and in four years come and elect for
President the gentleman from Mis-
sissippi (Mr. Williams J if you can
| want to flnd some way to promote
him. Laughter and applause. And
the world is not so bad as it has
been pictured by some Of those
boys who were talking recently.
When they have lived longer they
will sec things differently.
l used to think sometimes that
things were not just right. and |
have not the slightest doubt pow that
could run this country better than
it ever was run, but there are lot
of you fellows who will not let me
have my own way. $" | have to com
promise with about so, 0u0, 900 peu-
pie, aud it is pretty hard to lead the
country exactly right when one Is
compromising with SO many. But
there will be NO danger to tue
country while l am here in Con.
gress. l won. let anything happen
on this side. Applause and laugh
ter.)
When we first talked OF that canal
it was to be built so that the Pacific
Coast States could get to Europe ;
but the Senate has been talking, and
now we're going to dig the canal 80
that the Atlantic States and the
South can get to the Orient. The
world has been turned around while
the Senate has been talking about
these things. daughter
q, We have heard some pesslmls-
tic talk from the other side, but the
| world is not bad after all. have
heard fellows find fault before. !
met friend Of mine once WHO was
kicking hard. he had just come
| out OF saloon. He told NE he
had been buying some lining for bis
underclolhes. Why he said that
His horse went dead and his mule WI Mt
lame,
And he lost six cows In poker game.
Then hurricane came on a summer
day,
And blew the house where he lived
away.
Aud an earthquake came when that
was gone
And swallowed the land that the house
stood on.
Then the tax collector, he came round,
And charged him up with the hole In
the ground.
| daughter
He tllOuyht that was carving the