The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-05-29
BEHOLD TIE ROTTENNESS.

The overwhelmingdeftat ofthe $780,
900 subsidy scheme by the House and
its emphatic Reputation by an almost
unanimous Democratic vote. does not
sit we'll on the stomach of the Times
Democrat. and that journal this NOM
ing gives vert to doleful sr"wl.
Hear it
ave doubt if the argument of parsi-
mony in this special matter Will p!"ve
veiV popular %to-tiav. The people are
beginning to recognize the fact that tx
cessive economy aud II ptnnywlse poll
CIV are not always the best that the
present situation demands higher
statesmanship than that which con-
tents itself in refusing money Tor every
measure Of public benefit
Our esteemed neishbor is entirely
mistaken as to the cause Of the over.
whelming defeat of one OF lis tavoilte
Jobs or noSttums to cure our diiDS
foreign trade. TIL. subsidy bill was
not boosted on. Of the ii use by the
Democrats on any ground of pal>lmo-
nv or pretense of economy. 1t was
knocked in the head because it was IL
palpable attempt to rob the Treasury.
that is the people. for the benefit of a
steamship ring ; the Democrats in the
House did not catch the little job by
the hair and wipe up the floor of the
Capitol with it because of Il p%ennywise
policy. but because The Democrats held
honesty to he the right policy.
To Expos the absurd claim that
this subsidy was intended to develop
our foreign trade. it is only necessary
United States mails TO China and ia
pau are carried by the Occidental and
Oriental steamship line. owned by a
British company, for !, sam something
less than sly thousand dollars per an
num-. Now, under the provisions 81
this subsidy, the same mails are t" be
carried exactly tire same number Of
trips and precisely the anne distance
by the pacific Mail Line, for one hun-
bred and nine Thousand dollars +: on in
an Other WOr{s. for precisely the sam scr
rice that the British ljRe r~eceirls sir
thousand d2llars for performing, the
american Uneis to ,eceire about eighteen
times that sun.
1t must be quite evident that it this
money was appropriated for thepurpose
of developing our trade with China and
Japan. the sum is ridiculou>ly ins:g-
nificant ; if intended for such a rur-
pose it is cuntemptiblc in its infinites-
simality. 1t would not add Il slt..le
ship to our merchant marine it wonld
moi result in hanging an additional
rag to the mast> of the subsidized iiue,
nor add a yawl to their equipment it
would not result in the transportation
of an additional pound of freight nor an
increase Of onr trade to the amount of
a thousand dollars. This is evident to
any man of sense. #. then. it will do
none of these things, it is neither more
nor less than Il gilt of the difference be
tween six thousand and one hundred
and nine thousand dollars to the own
ers of the Pacific Mail Line, whose
agents and strikers, with those of 9TH
er subsidy beggarS. lohbird this amend
ment through The Senate,
American ships are not to be built,
nor American trade developed by any
such lOcuspocus measures RS this, ana
how any Democrat III Congress-, or amy
Democratic newspaper familiar with
the features of this fragrant job, can
vote to support it, is n Of those
things we can't untie rstand.
N. O. States.