A Fanners' Member of Parliament

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 31, 5 August 1896, Page 2

A Fanners' Member of Parliament

■— The following brilliant example of American eloquence is by the represen- , tative in Congress for lowa in a debate j upon the Adulterated Cheese Bill:—" I ; say, give the American cow a fair chance, j She has been a faithful servant to man. j She landed with our ancestors at Ply- i mouth Rock, and, tied behind the old weather- beaten emigrant waggons, she has marched with the household goods of the pioneers who have taken possession of this country from ocean to ocean. She has increased and multiplied and replenished the earth, until today the industries which she has made possible contribute annually to the wealth of the world more money than any of the great combinations of modern capital. Yet there are men in this House whom I hare beard to-day sneering at this Bill while talking through their hats in the silver debate. I say, give the American cow a lair chance. For myself, sir, I am in favour of her monopoly — a monopoly in the production of butter and cheese. That is a monopoly I am in favour of. And if any man in tbis house who in the days of his boyhood got up at daylight to feed the cows and stayed up tfter dark in order to milk them ; if every man who has churned actual cream with a reliable upright churn, and lias watched with a boy's enthusiasm the old-fashioned process of making cheese in the days of its honour and repute, will stand by tbis Bill, we will drive from tbe American barn yard the horde of counterfeiters and cheats at common law, and keep them out ' till the cow comes home.' "