The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-14
Congressman Reilly
In Clever Speech On
Wooden Schedule
Meriden's Mayor Blossoms Out
as a Poet and Delights Wash
ingtOn Statesmen With Timely
Verses

Washington, June ID - Congressman
Thomas L. Reilly of Connecticut has
made short speech in the House on
Schedule K, the wooden schedule, con-
Guiding his clever remarks with a
paraphrase on George P. Morris
"Woodman, Spare That Tree, which
was greeted with laughter and loud
side of the House. Said Congressman
Reilly:
MIR. Chairman: The cries for help
that are going up today from the wool
trust barons and beneficiaries of
Schedule K are pathetic and heart
rending. The cry of Caesar, Help
me, Cassius, or I sink" as he was
Tiber, is as the song Of a jolly joust
compared with this dying appeal.
Spare Schedule K!" come in the
pleas through the lobby and the mail.
The post office messengers are hump
backed and worn with the loads of
the wooden literature they carry to the
members, and in the heat of a swell
tering summer. Q4aughter) But 1t
is the winter of discomfort with these
high protection bandits, who have the
country "all bound around with a
wooden string (Renewed laughter
and applause)
But the American people are break
ing those bonds They began to loos-
en- the knot in 1910, and will have it
united completely in 1872 (Applause.)
Not only will the wooden thongs be
severed, but all the others that have
held them helpless while the trust
bulls fatten in the peoples pasture.
Only a year and a fraction away is
the time of reckoning, when broken
platform pledges and promises will
have their final accounting and Sched-
K "a a iY1in Wi ho
wiped out, when other Payne-Aldrich
schedules will be revised in the inter
est of the many and not for the en-
richment of a favored few. 1t is with
this certainty, made doubly sure by
the wise action of a united Democracy,
that no wool jungle can separate nor
steel projectile pierce, that the people
can bide their time, the time when
the party that has kept and Is keeping
its pledges will take it's place of power
and administer the government for
the benefit Of all. (Applause.)
In that retrospective happiness the
people can enjoy the swan song Of the
placence, listen to the cry of the woody
old hypocrite appealing to the Con-
gress to spare his Schedule K. It
suggests the immortal lines of George
p Morris, "Woodman, Spare That
Tree!" to whose memory due apology
is made for the following:
STATESMAN, SPARE THAT K!"
Statesman, spare my schedule!
Touch not a single line!
For years it has protected me;
Looked after me and mine.
Twas dear Sereno's hand
That made it our own way;
So let it, statesman, stand,
My own dear Schedule K
That old high tariff bunk!
It's wide protecting wings
Cover wool and shoddy
And tariff-armored things.
Statesman, forbear thy axe,
Cut not its trust-bound ties
Oh, spare my wooden tax,
Now towering to the skies
When but an infant trust
1 sought it's mighty aid,
And, tell it if I must
1 sure was amply paid.
Specific was the duty
And ad valorem, too;
Combined they were the booty
That enriched our favored few.
My purse strings round thee cling
AS twining vines in May,
In which the trust birds sing
My loved one, Schedule X
Old Seized, thou god of wool!
From now till judgment day
Well fight, we'll throw the bull,
My sweetheart, Schedule K
cloud applause.)