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Champ Clark's Wit

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Day
28
Month
May
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Champ Clark of Missouri is not ouly one of the wittiest men iu the house of representativos, but he is oue of the best posted on the tariff question. In ridiculing sorue of the rates of the Diugley bill that to hiin seemed snbject to criticism, he reeited how a mnn of the name of Goodyear went before the ways and means coinmittee and secured the tariff he wauted by some skillful palaver about the great stateswen that Idaine had produced. Then he said: "Mr. Chairman, that piece of 'soft soap' made it harder for every poor man in the United States to build a house. Governor Dingley swallowed the bait as quick as a trout would swallow a fly [laughter], and next summer some poor devil out west, living in a dugout 100 ruilea frorn a railroad station, who voted for McKiuley under the deluded idea that prosperity would come under his administratiou and who has not heard of this tariff bill, ciphers it out that he can build him a two room cottage wlth lumber and other building materials at the old rate. He goes to tbe station to get the lumber and finds that the price has gone sky high, and he goes back to his home and says to his wife: 'My dear, I am sorry that wo must stay in the dugout. We cauuot build our little house. A great man by the name of Governor Dingley has put the price of lumber and other things so high that we cannot do it, but, thank God, he has lef t dragon's blood free. ' [Laughter. ] Next year, when my handsome friend froru Iowa (Mr. JDolliver) returns to that fine agricultural district which he represeuts, some man who has not been able to buy a coat because of the high price of woolen cloth will say to his neighbor, 'There comes Dolliver, who put up the price of woolen goods. ' But the successful candidate for the postoffice iu that district says, 'Oh, but Dolliver put divi-divi on the free list!' And in chorus they sing, 'Dolliver and divi-divi forever. ' " [Laughter. Applause on the Democratie side. ]

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Ann Arbor Argus
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