The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-06-22
Makes Senate, MeCumbsr's Opposition
10 Reciprocity Treaty
APPEAR RIDICULOUS

How the T,lind Senator Took All the
Wind Gut of the North Dakota
Senator's Sails, Which Was Great
iy Enjoyed by President Taft and
Others.
One of the finest pieces of sarcasm
In the recent records Of Congress
went to the credit of Senator 'Thos.
p. Gore, Oklahoma's blind genius, at
last Wednesdays session Of the Sem
ate. Mr.. Gore has been saying very
little at the extra session, rarely ris-
ing EXCEPT to introduce bill or to-
make brief inquiry. -Atsthe close
of a lor.e and lugubrious speech by
Senator. Cumber, of North DAKOTA
Wednesday, in opposition to the Can
adian reciprocity bill, however, Mr.
Gore gave brilliant display OF MS
gifts as a speaker.
While Mr.. McCumber vas wiping
from his fevered brow the perspira-
ton resulting from his terrific as
sault OH reciprocity as a menace to
the prosperity Of our farming In
terests, Senator Gore arose and in
his clear voice, clean-cut enunciation
and faultless infection, without hes
itating a moment for the right word,
and also without even the s,imblance
of a smile, asked to have printed IN
the Record a speech recently de-
livered In the Canadian Parliament
by one, Mr.. Sexsmith, predicting for
Canada, as result of the recipro-
city treaty, not only agricultural de-
cline and industrial suffering, but
complete national disintegration.
In explaining his request that the
Sexsmitn speech should be printed,
Senator Gore delivered this little
masterpiece, over which nobody has
chucklei with more delight than the
President of the United States:
According to the prophetic vision,
according to the argument conclusive
and unanswerable argument. OF Mr
Sexsmith and the Senator from North
Dakota, the fair and fruitful fields OF
the Dominion and of this Republic
are destined soon to become a well
tering waste of wreck and ruin.
.Mr. President, the section OF this
Union now designated as Arizona
and New Mexico was once peopled by
prosperous and enlightened race
now known as the Cliff Dwellers.
The ruins of their former prosperity
still mark the desolate mountain
sides Of that distant region. They
were brought to an untimely end
through some unaccountable cata-
clysm, of nature. The remains OF
those people are still found with
their hands elapsed upon their
mouths as if protecting themselves
against the noxicus fumes and en-
halations from quaking and dis
tracted earth.
"AIr. President, when ruin comes
again upon the people of this coun-
try, shared by our neighbors to the
nortaward, it will not be through
poisorring the air that they breathe.
Sir. It will be through removal
of the tax upon the bread that they
eat. 81 removal of the tax upon the
whea. and cattle which thty import
from the Dominion of Canada, and
our neighbors will suffer similar
catastrophe from the removal OF the
tax ON the wheat and on the cattle
which they import from the United
STATES l repeat, sir, not from too
little. breath, but from too much
bread.
"qsome may marvel that such re-
suits should flow from this Canadian
agreement, but I suppose the fact
that it is to precipitate disaster upon
both the countries results from that
ancient and established canon Of
philosophy that like causes produce
like effects, and it would be unfair
for this agreement to precipitate
chaos and ruin in the United States
without precipitating similar fate
upon the inhabitants of Canada.
81 wish to print this speech, so
that when these two lands now fair,
fruitful and prosperous, shall be-
come weltering waste; when the
traveller of the future impelled by
curiosity, shall wander through this
land, now prosperous, then desolate,
shall find deposited in the corner
stone Of that mausoleum in which
our hopes, opr prosperity and our
destiny are entombed the speech of
the Senator from North Dakota, &C
coplpanied by the speech Of Mr.. Sex
smith, Of the Canadian Parliament,
accounting for the catastrophe which
overwhelmed this matchless Republic
aid splendid Dominion toward the
Northrn Star.