The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-19
ADAM BEDE rs
DISCOVERED AT LAST
He Is Found Out by the Members Of the House
of Representatives.

be an era of good feeling. I want you
to love one another and to love us,
and stop sitting UP nights hating each
other in your own party. We do not
do that out in Minnesota. To be sure,
we have pretty long days In the sum-
mer. and the sun sits up nights to
does help a little bit in the prosper
ity, I admit; but it is due largely to
the Republican policies that help the
sunshine. (Laughter).
Besides. we have got improved ma
chinery out there. l remember dis
tinctly as a boy on the Western Re-
serve in Ohio that they used to cut
old-fashioned cradle and a sickle. We
do not do that now. You can not sell
anything to a farmer in Minnesota
that he can not sit down on. Iaugh-
teri. Things are coming our way.
l saw a farmer in the district of
the chairman Of this committee (Mr.
Tawneyl, in the southern portion Of
Minnesota, year or so ago, who was
out cultivating his corn along the
roadside, and one Of the rural mail
carriers. on route the gentleman
from Minnesota had had established,
came along and handed the farmer
his morning paper and his letters as
he was cultivattng his crop. He had
an umbrella or a sort of canopy over
his cultivator, and he went along
reading his newspaper and cultivating
his mind while he was cultivatlng the
soil, and that is why you get that sort
Of a gentleman from that sort Of a
district. daughter and applause.)
am only asking you democrats to
be full-fedged Americans; just to
come in out of the wet while you wait,
n ha lro Ont in h oct IVY
a few years ago a little party of gen
tlemen talking of their different ma
tionalities, for we have everything
there, and among the gentlemen was
ScOtchman, an Englishman, Ger
man, an Italian, and finally they came
to one fellow who said that he was a
Norwegian, but that he had been
"neutralized." prolonged laughter.)
I am willing you should be demo-
Gratis if you will just be 'neutralized,"
just be full-hedged Americans and be-
long to the whole country.
I used to think sometimes myself
that things were not just right, and
have not the slightest doubt now that
1 could run this country better than it
ever was run, but there are a lot of
you fellows who will not let me have
my own way, so have to compromise
with about 100000 people, and it is
| pretty hard to lead the country exactly
! right when one is compromising with
SO many. But there will be no danger
| to the country while I am here in con-
gress. won't let anything happen
on this side. (Applause and laughter. }
SO throw away your fears and throw
! away all those old sOcialistic doctrines
that you can not put in practice here
We have got to run the government
and to do so we must have five or six
| hundred millions Of dollars year, OF
else we can not go down south and
scoop out the rivers that are too shall
low and bank up those that are toe
deep. We are doing everything thai
you want us to do, and we can not dc
it without an abundant revenue, anc
while you are putting on that abund
will do the American laborer the mos
! good applause on the republican
side.)
* 1t seems to me that tn,
interests of this country are too grea
to permit us to give up our time t
ward with impatient joy to that goot
time coming when all these littl
Whirlpools of earthly hate shall be los
in the great ocean of Gods love. Their,
are other points that I would like t,
raise, but 1 see my time has been ex
hausted.
MI. Hemenway-Go ahead, you cal
| nave all the Time you want.
Mr.. Bede-Thank you. I would Xix
to suggest to this house, not alone t
one side of it, that the Monroe doc
trine to which I have referred is jus
as big as the United States navy, an,
no bigger. applause on the !republi
can sid.) If you should destroy gu
navy to-day you would have no Mon
roe doctrine tomorrow. If you bull
81 up the navy you extend the MOnrO
| doctrine
with it.
[ believe that the policy Of this ma
ton, If we are to be a great natio
among others of the world, is to hav
such navy as will enforce those law
that we have laid down, or else with
draw the law and not pretend to it
enforcement. 1 am not pretending t
say how much this house or any hous
shall spend for that purpose; but
am here to say that the people of tn
west stand for that thought; that the
are willing you should do whatever j
reasonable to help to make this tn
greatest nation in the world, as w
think our state is the best, if not tn
greatest, in this union.
You were devastate
, by a civil war: you have had the bur
den Of two races to educate and t
uplift. One generation has passe
away, and you are only now comm
into your inheritance. We want t
: build the Panama canal to help yoJ
and yet your party at thte other end Q
the capitol is holding it back. VIII
not pass the treaty and have the wor
begun? When we first talked of tina
canal it was to be built SO that tn
Pacific coast states could get t
Europe: but the senate has been talk
ing, and now we are going to dig tn
canal so that the Atlantic states an
the south can go to the orient TIL
world has turned around while tn
senate has been talking about thes
things. [Laughter.l
We have been trying to help you 70
a long time, but you refused to b
helped. Now, go to your friends an
tell them to pass that treaty. Te
them to let the work begin, to let re
publican progress march on, and
will be for the uplifting of your state
more than it will for mine. TIL
south has more at stake in the Panam
canal than any ither part of the unior
The city of New York, the city of Bal
timore, and a few Atlantic coast tiwn
are the only ones that have any grea
interest in it, and we are doing it be
HE JESTS!