is debate in the House that both Mr. Reed and Mr.
McKinley so distinguished themselves as the great advocates of
Protection. Mr. Reed was then the floor leader of the minority.
He made a magnificent speech against Free Trade in which he used
many familiar allegories, one of which I have often used myself in
campaign speeches. It is substantially as follows:

"Once there was a dog. He was a nice little dog--nothing the matter
with him, except a few foolish Free Trade ideas in his head. He
was trotting along, happy as the day, for he had in his mouth a
nice shoulder of succulent mutton. By and by he came to a stream
bridged by a plank. He trotted along, and looking over the side
of the plank, he saw the markets of the world, and dived for them.
A minute afterwards he was crawling up the bank the wettest, the
sickest, the nastiest, the most muttonless dog that ever swam
ashore."

Thomas B. Reed was one whom I unquestionably would term a great
man. He was conspicuous among the most brilliant presiding officers
that ever occupied the chair of the Speaker. He ruled the House
with a rod of iron, thus earning for himself the nickname of "Czar."

And this was more or less warranted. He was the first Speaker to
inaugurate the new rules. He found a demoralized House in which
it was difficult to enact legislation, and in which the right of
the majority to rule was questioned and hampered. He turned the
Lower House into an orderly legislative body in which legislation
was enacted expeditiously by the majority. He had more perfect
control over the House than any former Speaker, and his authority
remained unquestioned until he retired. He ruled alone; after he
became Speaker he had no favorites; he had no little coterie of
men around him to excite the jealousy of the members of the House,
and it has even been said that so careful was he in this respect
that he would scarcely venture to walk in public with a member of
the House. He was a powerful man intellectually and physically,
and he looked the giant he was among the members of the House. He
wanted to be President; and it seems rather a queer coincidence
that his election as Speaker paved the way for his rival, Mr.
McKinley, as by his acceptance of the chair Mr. McKinley became
the leader of the majority, chairman of the Committee on Ways and
Means, the author of the McKinley Bill, which finally resulted in
its author's defeat for Congress, but in his election as