Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-28
MART|NE'S CLAIM
To BEING FARMER
AMUSEs SENATE
Idaho's Representatives. Play of
Wit "Gets Goat of New
Jersey Man.

gar MARITIME, of New Jersey. who de-
Directory as "a farmer by occupation"
had his bucolic %pretensions assayed in
the United States Senate yesterday by
William f.. Borah, of Idaho. The result
of the assay can best be told in the
words of senator Borah:
II know what kind OF a farmer my
friend, the senator from New Jersey,
is" said MI. Borah. 'He has been
speaking here in the interests of the
American farmer for several days and
l could not believe that the distin-
guished gentleman, with his gold spec
tacles and his hyperion curls, was In
Iced a farmer. So I began to investi-
gate and / found TIT my friend about
eighteen or twenty years ago had a
farm of 100 acres down in his State or
New Jersey and that he farmed 1t for
awhile and played politics some. and
about ten or fifteen years afterward q
great manufacturing town grew to his
farm and he cut up his farm into little
lots and built seventy-f1ve or 100 houses
on them n sold the houses and lots
n came to the Senate of the United
States"
The Senators were shaking with
laughter before Senator Borah had
concluded. Mr.. MARITIME strobe over 10
the Republican side and, advancing
towards Mr.. Borah, delivered himself
as follows:
II would like to say to the Senator
that the diagnosis of the Senator from
- ~ 1--- uFnFt 70 say
further tina l have lived. on a farm all
my life, and until the past three years
1 have been an active farmer and coul7
cradle a field of rye Qaughter) equal To
any other gentlemen in this body. Fur
ther, in answer to the charge Of the
distinguished Senator that l built
houses. 1 say yes and 1 built them
with unprotected American labor. My
laborors were in competition with the
open markets of the world, competing
with the pauper labor that o protec-
~tionists have been telling us so much
of, and let me say that when I had
built the first five Of the s~eventy-fve
houses. I found that had It not been for
the %iniquitous and accursed system of
this intolerable tariff l would hare
built three more houses with the same
money"
Senator MARITIME gaIloped away
plucking rhetorical garlands here and
there in cheerful disregard of the SEN
ator from Idaho, who had the floor.
Vice-President Sherman tried TO halt
Farmer MARITIME. but he could not. The
Vice-President pounded but still Mr..
MARITIME roared.
Finally seeing nc chance to escape
Senator Borah yielded" and Mr.. Mar
tine concluded a startling peroration
with the following: Turn twelve miles
In the other direction from Plainfield
TO Paterson and Passaic and see the
miserable. measly pittance that white
women under the protective system get,
scarcely money enough TO hold body
and soul together. All, God knows you
are welcome to the glories of the pro-
spective system that has made paupers
on one side and millionaires beyond the
dream Of avarice en- the other"
Everybody was laughing. The mer-
riment was increased when Senator
Borah observed Upon Mr.. Marines
closing words suffice II to say that I
am still here. /. Of course. have great
sympathy with the kind Of farmers the
Senator from New Jersey represents
when a man s~eventy-fve times a land
lord and perhaps 100 times a million
| aire-"
"No; I plead not guilty" Numbered
Mr.. MARITIME, again advancing.
1.-THE Senator from New Jersey will
address the chair" yelled the Vice
President.
II can understand precisely how II
is that one farmer got into h Ameri-
can Senate" said Mr.. Borah. but,
Mr.. President, 1t is evident that the
statement of the Senator from New
Jersey that under this iniquitous
tariff system he has p%rospered well.
No one can certainly complain of the
success which he mas had. New Jersey,
of all the States in the Union, mas re-
ceived most ber.eht from the protective
tariff system.
And hat is the reason, hfr. Presi-
/ dent" continued Mr.. 3orah, humor-
ously, why a farmer in the well-pro-
tected State OF New Jersey can ONE
in hare as q Senator. many times a
la. dlord. while the farmers in other
parts of the country. not so well pro-
tected, must be content with what
feeble representation they have
Again Mr.. MARITIME roared and strobe
in the direction OF Mr.. Borah.
"one moment" yelled the Vice.
President again, until the Senator
from Idaho indicates that he will yield"
when the Senator say that am
a hundred times a millionaire I tell
you I plead not guilty. but l want"
Mr.. Borah-I was Judging from his
appea ce only. (Laughter)
MIR. MartIne-My appearance de-
ceived you. II you wan TO get the
truth you car turn my pockets inside
| out. | want to say Ia answer 10 the
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