The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-28

the situation of that freed slave i'm North
Carolina who lived in hut In the woods
and was in the habit of takng-I do not
care TO call 1t stcaling-from his old
masters flock Sufficient hogs to put up
his winters meat. His old master got
religion. and went TO him and said:
stealing my fat hogs. and [ Will help
you TO quit | viii give YOU some pigs
and you can slop them and raise your
own. Tho negro said Not slop enough.
you six fat hogs In the fall, and you can
put up your own pork Then Uncle Ned
said; That sounds reasonable and fair,
and / guess | VIII accept the proposition,
but i am losing q mighty sight or pork. "
tGreaJ laughter and applause).
Two Corn Raisers.
Keller had a little colloouy with Champ
Clark, In which ho revised that gentle
mans figures as TO the price of enough
seed corn TO plant an acre, He snid
Clark had put the price 1T about 40 cents,
and heifcr said il was about ccnte
Tho gentleman may be nearer correct
than l am" replied Clark. but by some
kind of a roping-n process that | never
understood, there are people Mt Shcnan-
doah, Ia. In Col. Uepburns district, who
sell seed corn for 81 bushcl l never
knew how they managed IT., but l kno"
Kelfcr-I have looked into that ques-
ton, but 1 do not think the gentlcman's
constituents buy that conn (Lnughter)
l kllp" lleN 90 not Nl'It am lulcl'SA-
ed, and am farmer In the West
Clark-So am l.
Ko(er-I understand We arc both far
mcCs. daughter
Clark-If my constituents and the corn
raisers OF Missouri would take my advice
they would never buy a bushel OF seed
corn in Iowa while the world stands
Uaughter)
Keilcr-I tried to introduce new seed
corn into Nebraska, and | came very
near being excluded from ever going back
there again. (LaughtcrD
Then Lacey of Iowa and Grosvcnor of
Ohio got into the controversy, Lacey first
rcmarking TO Ecifer;
Let me say to my friend from Ohio
that the corn there in Missouri all runs
to oobs. and they work them'into pipes"
UaughtcrD
:, clOrk1Thcy make about half a mil
Hon dollars year out OF corncob pipes
In the district | live in. 1t is one of the
greatest industries there.
Lacey-And no corn on the cobs.
Clark-Thcre is as much corn on the
cob as there is I'm any county in the State
of Iowa, and hrst-cass corn. too.
Grosvenor-Whcn these two gentlemen
were supporting each other In the state
mcntS that they were farmers | wanted
10 say that they do not either Of them
look the part, G>aughtcrD
CllTk-You are correct
Kcifcr-T like the compliment, but /
think there are slick fellows In my die
trict who look better than l do and they
arc farmers.
Clark-In reply to the gentleman from
Ohio (AIr Grosvenor | Will say that I
think we look fully as much like farmers
as we do like statesmen. Uaughter)
Another Keifer Story.
Mr.. Keifer said he did not know as
much about the Filipinos as the gentle
men who had Travelled across the sea to
exposition. and there he saw some of
those people. In telling about what he
saw he related humorous incident and
an interesting story OF twenty years ago.
He said:
II never was so much amused in my
life as | was when on getting there
some kind of a stone. Negrito. or Igor
rotc. or head-hunter in his natural ha-
bilamcnts singing. My country, tbs OF
thee, sweet land OF liberty; OF thee l
sing etc CApplause and laughter.)
There | had the living example. a lit
tie incident happened I was looking
around To SEQ who was watching this
demonstration of love OF country by this
peculiar fellow. l saw a lady, Miss
Dawes from Massachusetts. ] had not
seen her for a score OF years She had
tears glistening IN her eyes and she was
laughing ar the same time. j had seen
hsr under other circumstances. | remem-
bered then that she came here TO the hall
OF this House one morning. before 1t met
IN. session aud went before the A Appropria-
tions committee. that was adamant at
that time. when the great Randall was
the chairman of 1t, and she converted the
members OF that committee into Sympa-
thzing people IN a speech OF fifteen min
Utes. and we came In there and asked the
House TO appropriate $4,000 at that wo-
mans instance. to be used TO send a relief
expedition toward tho north pole to hunt
up the Greeley party, eupposed 10 be up
there some place, And the expedition
was sent. and 1t arrived there just in
time. a day longer would have been too .
late 1t was in time TO snatch Greeley
and those of his party which still sur
vived from death 10 life. Well here was
this same woman out there. looking ut
the tropical products. not the arctic
Roosevelt's Luck.
Theodore Roosevelt Is the most fortu-
rate man" remarked one Senator the day
Senator Tillman made his sensational
speech
Fortunate" replied another. why he
is positively lucky Just think of II,
Here was quite a number of men that
were really getting tired Of executive en-
croachmcnt Why. men were getting crit
ical and saying what was In their minds.
Now, here comes Tillman and makes a
speech which makes Roosevelt moro solid
with the country than ever, No man but
Roosevelt could expect any such luck as
that "
A Monument for Hill.
The time Will como when the people of
the Northwest Will build a monument to
Jim Hill" was n remark made by John
Dwight, a member of Congress from New
York. but who Is well acquainted with
affairs In the Northwest as ne is owner
OF big wheat farm in North Dakota
when Hin first built his railroads into
the Northwest wheat was selling for 81 l25
a bushcl and the freight rate was p cents
a hundred. When the price OF wheat
went down 20 81 and lower there was u
howl that could be heard across the State
of Minnesota. Hin met the low price of
wheat with reduction of rates As he
improved his railroads and rolling stock
be still further reduced rates. and now
we pay l. cents a hundred where we for
merly paid % cents In those DAYS we
paid S2GJ for Il binder. and we now pay
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