The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-01-15
IS CHAMP CLARK
A STALKING HORSE
A Portion of Champ clark's Famous
Speech Delivered Thirteen
Years Ago.

The following is an extract from the
proceedings of the house of represent
tatives on March 2, 1898. 1t is well
worth reading. The hoTse was con-
sidering the Loud bill, which proposed
to increase the postal rates on country
newspapers and to adopt number of
restrictions on their transmission
through the mails. Champ Clark de-
feated the bill by his speech, a portion
of which follows:
Newspap RS are great disseminators
of information. The mammoth metro
politan papers with their vast circula-
tion are splendid educators, but after
all ten persons read the little country
weekly where one reads a metropoli-
tan paper
Having once been country editor
myself, entertain most kindly feel
ing for my old confreres. | am willing
to make affidavit that the eleven
monthsI spent editing rural journal
were the most beneficial of my life to
myself, perhaps to others. l am proud
to have belonged to the editorial guild.
! am unalterably opposed to anything
that will injure the country editor,
curtail his profits, circumscribe his
usefulness, or place an additional
thorn in his nafhWav
The rural editor-God bless him!-
is the most persistent of teachers. Like
charity as described by St. Paul in the
thirteenth chapter of the First CORN.
thians, he "suffereth long and is kind"
which can not be said of the men that
got up this bill He ''envieth not" in
which he does not resemble some peo
pie over on this side of the house. He
"vaunteth not himself" in which he
is differentiated from the leaders on
the other side of the big aisle He sis
not puffed up" in which he rises high
above a good many of us. He docs
not behave himself unseemly: seeketh
not his own; is not easily provoked" :"
He is the pack horse of every COM
munity, the promoter of every laudable
enterprise, the worst underpaid labor
er in the vineyard. Counting his space
as his capital, he gives more to charity
his means considered, than any other
members of society. He is a power
in politics, a pillar of the church, a
leader in the crusade for better morals.
He is pre-emineDtly the friend of hui
manity.
Line upon line, paragraph upon par
agraph, day by day, he is embalming
in cold type the facts from which the
Herodotus, the Tactitus, the Sismondi,
or the Macaulay of the future will write
the history of our times (Applause).
He joyfully announces our advent into
this world, briefly records our upris-
ings and our down-sittings, and sor-
rowfully chronicles our exit from this
vale of tears.
AS a creator of beauty, he double
discounts Nine. Aver who undertakes
to increase Feminine pulchritude only
in particular instances; but the coun-
try editor, in the exercise of plenary
power impartially beauties all wo-
men whose names appear in his col
umns. daughter and applause). By
a touch of his magieian's wand he con-
verts paste into diamonds sparkling
on beauty's neck, and with skill of
which ancient and ambitious alchem-
lists only dreamed, and with politeness
which Chesterfield might have envied,
he transmutes brass trinkets into
jewelry of purest gold, when they ap-
pear as ornaments of the family of his
subscriber.
He is the greatest and most ingen-
ious of manufacturers, for, while other
manufacturers produce only perishable
stuffs, he manufactures immoral states
men out of raw, sometimes very raw,
material. (Laughter). This laudable
industry no Dingley bill can protect
him, and he must ex-necessitate work
in competition with the pauper manu-
facturers of Europe.
He is
To our virtues very kind
And to our faults little blind
We are all more or less, generally
more, his handiwork; and it does not
become the creature to injure the bus
mess of his creator. Without his IN
genious. generous, and enthusiastic la
bors most of us would never have been
here; and when he tires of us, we VIII
retire to private life, amid scenes pro-
pitious for secret meditation and 81
lent prayer (Laughter) Working
night and day during the campaign,
often without money and without price
when the election is over, the victory