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Show "Gooding Had Eight Thousand Sheep" rniiS.. f ,.J Gooding had eight thousand sheep, Their fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Gooding went The sheep were sure to go. They followed him by night and day. Which was against the rule. They tilled the statesman with dismay. Tossed high the wool schedule. And when the peopfe found It out Their rage began a-waxlng; They knew the presence of those sheep - Meant heavy tariff taxing. But If the wool on Gooding's sheep. To make cloth for those who wear It. Won't grow unless we tax our folks. Then they must grin and bear It. . But Gooding's case Is only one Of many like abuses Of taxes that the tariff lays 1 For private, not public, uses. .This piece of "poetry" was read in the senate the other day by Senator Sena-tor Hitchcock of Nebraska, concerning Senator Gooding of Idaho (portrait herewith). Gooding had stated that he had sold all his sheep, bad been out of the sheep business for two years and then had to take 8,000 back, owing to free wool and a Democratic administration. Gooding later said he was a grower of practically all farm products and was determined to ascertain once and for all whether a man who grows agricultural agri-cultural products In this country can, without a violation of his oath, sit In the senate and defend the Interests of bis state and of agriculture generally. |
