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Show oiid of the brightest men in public in this country. When the filled c!i9oso bill was before the Mouse tho other day Mr. Dolliver spoke ns follows: "I say, give tho American cow a fair chance. She has been the faithful servant of man. She landed with our aces-tors aces-tors at Plymouth Rock, and, tied behind the ' old, weather-beaten emigrant wgon, she has inarched with the household goods of pioneers pione-ers who have taken possession of this continent, from ocean to o.;ean. I (Applause.) She has increased. multiplied and replenished the earth until today the- industries which she has made possible contribute annually to the wealth of tho world more money than the great combinations of modern capital more than iron and steel; more than lumber and coal; more than cotton and wheat; more than all the mysterious riches of gold and silver. Yet there are men in the House whom I have heard today to-day sneering at this bill who spend most of their time trying to get protection for some insignificant local enterprise or "talking through their hats" in the silver debate. I say, give the American cow a fair chance! For myself, I am in favor of the monopoly that God gave her in the production of butter and cheese. And if every man in this House who in the days of his boyhoods gets up at daylight to feed the cows and stayed up after dark in order to milk them; if every man who has churned actual cream with a reliable upright chui n and has watched with a boy's enthusiasm the old-fashioned process of making rheese in the days of its honor and repute, will stand by this bill we will drive from the American barn yard the horde of counterfeiters and cheats at common law ad keep them out "till the cows come home." Exchange." Ilao Amorican Cow. We find the following in the Michigan Agricultural College Record! "The American cow has a champion cham-pion in the halls of Congress. It is Representative Dolliver of Iowa, |