The National tribune., 1908-12-17

hypothetical question and proceed to
make another campaign speech, Sc that
Mr. Schwab got in about rs words to
Bourke Cochran's 500, and the testi-
mony will show all the way through
| that most of those who ask questions
have read into the testimony before
the Ways and Means Committee about
all the campaign literature extant.
Queer Testimony.
And that testimony! II things keep
on as they have started Il will take
100 volumes of thousand pages each
| to hold that testimony, because every
word uttered in the Ways and Means
Committee hearing is taken down. Not
| only that. Into that Tariff hearing
goes any old paper that anybody wants
| to read into it. A Mr.. Dana IN. "
appeared as representative OF the
New York State Sheep Breeders Asso-
ciatiop. Mr.. Dana read paper on let
| ting the tariff on wool remain as it is.
| And this is the way he began:
Gold and silver taken from natures
| safety vaults, placed upon the markets
of the world, dissipated in coinage and
the industrial arts, are ours no more.
| Copper, iron, and lead, when taken
| from our mines and manufactured, are
gone and lost.
1.-The ak IN the woodman's hands de-
stroys our forests and leaves but ugly
scars upon our mountain slopes"
After lot like that he landed on the
bunch on the Throne with the vital
point of his remarks:
"Mr. Chairman, 1 believe that sheep
husbandry is so vitally related to the
conservation of the fertility of our soils
| that any effort to develop it would be
justified"
| Quotations from Ancient Wisdom.
And then what do you reckon he did ?
Just quoted about yard from "the
words of Jesus ben Sirach, which are
as true today as when they were writ
ten," he declared. Here is a part OF
it, which is mighty good reading, splen-
did philosophy, magnificent rules for
life. but in a sheep hearing-oh, well,
it did seem an anachronism:
1.-The wisdom of the scribe cometh by
opportunity of leisure;
And he that hath little business shall
become wise.
How shall he become wise that holdeth
the plow,
That glorieth in the shaft of the goad
That driveth oxen, and is occupied
! with their labors,
And whose discourse is Of the stock oi
bulls?
He will set his heart upon turning hi.
burrows;
And his wakefulness is to give hi!
heifers their fodder
So is every artifcer and workmas
So is the smith sitting by the anvil
, SO is the potter sitting at his worl
All these put their trust in their hands
! And each becometh wise in his owl
They shall not be sought for I'm TIL
Y council of the people
TIE Eternal Justice.
This was followed on the same da.
by Mr.. Justice, of Philadelphia. MI
i, Justice seems to have been a voiumin
= Gus letter writer about the tariff. III
:, could almost get into a Press Associa
; | ton because of the many articles" h
a has had in print They are all signed
: too, so that there would be no difficult
+ in proving up an ownership. The
: were written to many New York news
= papers; they were written for maya
y zines, and numbered a dozen or more
Mr.. Justice is supposed to be an author
ity on wool tariff, you know. The
there Is a "piece" from the America
Economist, one from the Outlook, an
= then in the report of that tariff hear
4 ing come IL pages in the center 9
: | whose blank whiteness appears tn
: single line "omitted by request Of tn
A Committee
What was omitted? ] don't know
, | 1t seems to be a hiatus In the article
= of Mr.. Justice, for on the next page n
p Ibegins again. Maybe he read into tn
{ report some Swinburne. or passionat
,. and incomprehensible Browning, or
u might have been some of Salome's re
marks as she danced; anyhow, it ism
II there, but the blank pages are.
And then follow about 40 more page
= of Mr.. Justices pieces as they haV
: appeared in print.
A Mr.. Cowan took up about 10
e pages in the hearing on Dec. S. M
Cowan appeared as attorney for
& years Of the Cattle Raisers' Assocjatio
y of Texas" He is also attorney for ha
Is a dozen other cattle and live stock a.
s, sociations, SO must speak by the book
l. If he is paid for it, and, sub rosa, 1t
ID said that he is paid mighty well for b,
D. ing attorney for these associations.
A "Jiner."
"a Then appeared upon the Stage M
" - Miles, of Racine, Wis, who is
e. "Jiner from Jinerville," evidently, fl
he began by saying, IT can speak f.
no organization except as definite
hereinafter stated. l am associated of
, ciaily and semi-officially with two
L. three hundred organizations represen
n, ing all phases of Industrial life."
at Gee" Just think what that man
o. dues must bel
=, Mr.. Miles had wee small voice TIL
b. could not be heard three feet, and hs
ny constantly to be ordered to speak lou
er. He TAXED ever $50 pages tn