The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-07-31
The Sugar Trust.

ing the people, a few months ago
it was the binding twine trust that
held sway over the farmer. The
farmer has roapod down his fields
of wheat and the twine trust has
reaped its immense profits on twine
The farmer has been the sufferers on
twine. The farmer will take that
price for his wheat which the for
eign market sets for him. He paid
the price for twine that the trust set
for him, because the trust had the
power to set the price, a tax on jute
under Republican high protective
tariff giving the trust that power
Yet $4,000 majority, made up of
mortgaged farmers in Kansas, voted
for that price on twine in voting
for Harrison, Morton and protec-
ton.
The sugar trust, now when the
farmers wife needs more sugar than
at any other season of the year to
put up her fruit, raises the price OF
sugar. Ono dollar gets eight pounds
of sugar. In England one dollar
gets twenty pounds of tho same
grade of sugar. The tax on raw
sugar is said to be necessary to aid
the sorghum sugar industry of Kan
sas.
The sugar industry in Kansas is
not drop in the bucket, and never
will be to the great amount of sugar
used in this State. The sugar in
terest, besides, is allowed to tax a
locality for bonds where the people
would be fools enough to vote bonds
to try the experiment of making
sugar, the price of which would be
controlled by the sugar trust. I'm
der the trust price for sugar the
farmer will exchange two bushelsof
wheat for eight pounds of sugar
There is no moro use for sugar be-
ing over five or six cents per pound
in this country than thore should be
in England.
The Mills bill, which would have
reduced the sugar tax over s3O, O,OOO,-
900 per year, was stigmatized as be-
ing a measure in favor of the rebel
South. Many fools believed such a
lie and voted for Harrison, Morton
and protection. The same parties
who told such a lie promised better
times, better wages, more employ
ment, lower prices on articles of
necessity for support of families and
here we have eight pounds of sugar
for one dollar with the average of
wages at seventy-five cents day
for labor of all kinds, and the couu-
try filed with tramps and idle men
anxious to get employment at sev-
enty-fve cents a day the year
around.
Protection does protect sure
enough. 1t protects twine trusts.
It protects sugar trusts. 1t protects
Oligarcbs. It protects the Carne-
gies. 1t protects the millionaire
from paying a decent price for labor.
Let the farmers look ut the iniqui-
ties practiccd upon them by these
lying, dishonest aud thieying politi-
cal bosses, and ask themselves how
long they will continue to allow
their prejudices to control their
votes. The farmers of this country
are rapidly becoming tenants at
will, and are falling into the serfdom
of Russia. Trusts can keep the Re-
publican party in power. indie
pendence in voting and employment
of the masses viii hurl it from power.
The man who grows up in his
native village is frequently regarded
as a boy by his elders until he is
well started down the declivity that
ends in hole. The stranger who
comes into a place may or may not
be an honest, upright man, but he is
oftener pushed to the front than the
we'll known, transformations young
man. who has grown from boyhood
to mans estate without the transit
ton being noticed by his everyday
companions. This is one reason
why SO many young men become
dissatisfied with their home sur-
roundings and long to cast their lot
IN other quarters