Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-08-15
SAND wICH ISLANDS TREATY.
Three Millions ont OF the Revenue Annually
for the Benefit OF One Firm.

Tho trial OF young Spreckles re-
suited in his acquittal of an attempt
to assasslnate De Young, the proof
showing that he only followed DE
Young into his office and shot him
through tho arm. The motive which
prompted the young man to do the act,
writes San Francisco correspondent
to The Cincinnati Enquirer, was proved
to have grown out of the publication
by De Young of certain facts relating
to the business practices OF the Spreck-
les family. Had the publications been
false the libel laws of the state would
have afforded a satisfactory remedy;
but the editor had confined himself to
facts, and no other remedy except
shooting at sight, without previous
notice. seemed sufficient to meet the
demands of the case. But. while the
young man was acquitted of this at
tempt at assassination, his business
and that vi lis family was proved
guilty of living out of annual tax of
more than $4,000, 600 upon the people
of the whole country. In fact, it was
q trial of the Hawaiian reciprocity
treaty, under which the United States
loses $4,000 900 of revenue annually
without reducing the price of sugar
one cent to the consumers. was
present in Senator Sherman's room
during his visit here, when the friends
OF the treaty were attempting to fill
him with arguments in favcr of their
scheme, but he bluntly told them that
the revenue was loser to that amount
while no public benefit was given in
return; not even market on the
Sandwich islands for American pro-
duct;ons. And when he asked them
why one sugar producer, who held
monopoly of sugar-growing on the
islands, should be Disseminated in
favor of by the whole United States,
they made no answer, but went away.
The Sandwich islanders consume moth
ing outside of home products, and all
the machinery used there in the pro-
'duction of sugar is of English manu-
facture, shipped in bond through the
United States These are about the
facts in the Spreckels-De Young war.
which terminated in the shooting of
DE Young. ANY newspaper which
had the courage to say that this mil
lionaire resident OF Snob hill, the
owner of steamship line to his plan
tations, the Sandwich islands; the man
whose sons could afford yachts and all
the luxurious means of dissipation
that royal revenues could buy; the
paper which denied the moral right
OF this man to withdraw $3,000,0 200
annually from the public revenue was
in his opinion blackmailing sheet,
whose editor should be shot on sight,
without so much as notice to "heel
himself"
1t is to be hoped that the next con-
gress will investigate The whole work
ings of this treaty, and il the news
papers will give it such attention as
1t deserves, the treaty will not live to
see the green grass of an other spring.
The working masses arc taxed enough
to support other mOnopolies for which
there may be pretext, without hav-
ing to carry this one at cost of over
$4,000. 900 per annum for the further
enrichment of one man, whose sons
can boast of no greater achievement
than being dead shot with pistol
or the owner of luxurious yacht.
Three millions taken from the pockets
of the people each year, without
penny of direct or indirect benefits,
except to one family, is little beyond
the ideas of the free American pub lie,
though congress seems to have swal-
lowed the scheme without even a pro-
test De Young may be miserable
wretch, for whom shooting is too mild
form of punishment, but that does
not alter the infamy of the persons
who lobbied and bribed the reciprocity
treaty through congress. Chinese
immigrants continue 10 pour in by
every steamer from the Flowery king
dom, the total number weekly being
about one thousand. In fact, all are
landed which come in The combina