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Show WILLIAM KENT'S SPEECH. (From Collier's.) As reported by the stenographers in the Record, the maiden speech of the now Republican congressman from California Is punctuated six times by the phrase: "Prolonged applause on the Democratic side"; thoro Ib no mention men-tion of such emotions as must have stirred the Republican side Probably the history of the Houso does not show anothor such merciless grilling of the fundamental principle of tho party by which the speaker was nominally nomi-nally elceted. It wasn't mere Insurgency, Insur-gency, it was repudiation. The daily newspapers of the country printed the humorous parts of It; it did contain much humor, of that Incisive Incis-ive and engaging quality that has been heard in the House only rarely since Cushman of Washington died. But tho serious parts of eKnt's speech were entirolv consistent with his possession of an honorar- degree from Yale, no speech in tho present session has gone more directly to the heart of the philosophy phil-osophy of government The biological analogy to the protective tariff theory of "taxing one Industry for the benefit of another and vice versa" was bor rowed from President David Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford "A California eagle ono day swooped , down upon a local blue-tailed lizard and bit off and ate the lizard's tail, whereupon the eagle acquired sufficient suffi-cient enegry to lay an egg The lbard climbed the tree, sucked the egg, and, through the encouragement thus afforded, af-forded, grew a new tail This process continued through many years, anna-rently anna-rently without much profit Lo cither partv save as It added to the Interest of existence " The protective tariff Is. of course, a you-scratch-my-backril-scratch yours policy. Necessarily It must "bo wrought out of the clash of class, section, sec-tion, district and other special lnteress. and settled by a sort of mutual give and take less euphemistically as logrolling. log-rolling. This makes of the tariff a sort of grab-bag, and wo may reasonably reason-ably cxnect that the more powerful get the first, last and biggest grabs." "Kent, although he stated speclficaitv that he would protect Infant In Iub tries, so long as thev remain Infants, looked free trade in tho face more courageously even than anv Democrat who has spoken during the present session California has reason to be proud of his courage every voter in that State ought to send for his speech, and everybody else as well who would like to see a tariff speech which Is easy to read, luminous and entertaining |