St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-08-23
POLITICS AND SUGAR.
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prise that there should be an effort
made to get sugar planters to aban.
don the Democratic party in the
present campaign.
No prominent Democrat has adj
vocated free sugar, while Mr.. His
cock, of New York, and Mr.. Frye,
of Maine, the two most influential
Republican leaders in Congress,
and the present Republican Secre-
tary of the Treasury, have openly
advocated putting sugar ON the
free list.
A Republican President and
Cabinet have negotiated a treaty
with Mexico. the main feature of
which is to make sugar free, in
consideration that Mexico would
give free market to the machinery
manufactured in the Republican
States. This is the most fatal at
tack on sugar, for it actually makes
the American people pay to Mexi-
can planters bounty of from one
to two cents pound on sugar. 1t
takes the bounty from American
planters and laborers, and transfers
it to Mexico and Mexicans.
The Republican administration
of Mr.. Arthur followed in the foot
steps of the previous Republican
administrations, that made the
Sandwich Island Treaty. by which
the American people are now taxed
$4,000, 900 a year for the benefit of
the Sandwich Island and Mr..
Spreckels.
A Republican Senate has con-
firmed this Mexican Treaty. by
which, if it becomes effective, in
less than FIVE years the American
people will be called on to pay a
bounty to Mexico and Mex can
lands at the rate Of $4,000, 900 a
year.
But this treaty has not yet be-
come final, for the reason that the
House of Representatives have not
enacted legislation TO make the
treaty effective. Thus at present
the Democratic House is the only
power that has arrested the action
of the Republican party i'll its raid
upon sugar.
If House Committee Of Ways
and Means had reported favorably
upon the Republican bill to make
the Mexican Treaty effective, it
would have already been in force;
but between us and ruin stands the
Democratic House.
Mr.. Morrison, WHO, in despite Of
the ignorant clamor raised against
him, is great statesman, acting
under the conviction of earnes.
has had the wisdom to see
that the extreme protectionist in
terest seeks by the Mexican Treaty
practically to put sugar on the free
list, destroying the greatest and
most productive source of the Pub
lie Revenue, and thereby creatin.
a necessity for the maintenance Of
high duty upon the protected indus
tries of the North and East
Discovering this, Mr. Morrison,
true to his instincts as a Revenue
has been unwilling that
sugar alone should be sacrificed;
but he has demanded that our great
agricultural interest should be re-
sarded, not as a victim to be slaugh-
tered, but as an interest to be treat
ed fairly and Justly like the other
great industries of the country; and
he and the revenue reformers have
go far arrested the policy of the ex
treme protectionists in their war
upon sugar, and have refused to
permit the Mexican Treaty 10 be-
come law.
All honor and praise to these
great Democratic Statesmen, who,
rising above local prejudices, are
antagonizing powerful lobbies and
and are unwilling that
our farming interest, feeble as it is
in political power. should be des-
troyed, while all the unjust and OBJ
noxious monopolies of the tariff
remain untouched.