The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1889-01-11
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ourRAeeous PROPOSITION.

0UTRAGEous PROPOSITION,
II Is almost impossible to keep pace with
the republican party IN the rapidly chang
Ing and contradictory positions which from
day to day Il assumes on the tariff ques.
tion. During the late campaign the howl
was kept up from Minnesota to Florida,and
from Cape Cod to the Golden Gate by all
the organs Of the republican partv from the
New York 7iI5Sns down to the OregoHiaS
charging that the Mills bill was sectional
entirely In the interest of the South, because,
us these organs all alleged, that bill did not
make large enough reduction of the tariff
duty on sugar. ltwas boldly asserted all
around, the 0ngOMias being the most en-
phatic In Its declarations on that subject
that all the duty should be taken from su.
gar, and that just as soon as the Mills bill
reached the Senate, that body, being repub-
iican, would make at least so per cent re-
duetion, II Il did not put that article alto
gether on the free list. Well the Mills bill
passed the House and the Senate proceeded
at once 10 prepare substitute In which
they made the so per cent cut on sugar
But now, when the bill comes up for final
action In the Senate, the innate selfishness
and greediness Of "protection" again assert
themselves. Senator Stanford, OF Cali
fornia, rises up, and, as the representative
Of that selishness that would tax hi'
neighbor for his own benefit, objects to tn,
reduction of duty on sugar for the reason
that such reduction would injure the bee
sugar production In California. Republi-
cans are growing at Stanford for taking
this position, but from the standpoint o
-protection" Stanford Is right. tits jus
what republicans have been battling TO
the last four years--the friends of the tariff
adjusting 1t for themselves. Isn't StanforC
friend of protection ?" No doubt OF II
Then another great friend of protection
rises up and says he will not support thi
reduction on sugar because 1t will ruin tn
sorghum industry in Kansas. Plumb
fully justified In this by the policy of "pro
tectiou' itself It Is the friends of "protec
ton" revising the tariff, don't you know
This "revision of the tariff by its friends
Is destined to cause them, ,Qhe republicans
an endless amount of trouble. The attitud
OF Stamford and Plumb in the Senat
would insure the defeat of the repubIiea
tariff bill, so a caucus OF republican Sena
tors have agreed that the so per cent rt
duction shall be made, but to compensat
the sugar manufacturers for this loss,i ha
been agreed that bounty of one cent pc
pound shall be paid to the sugar producer
for every pound of sugar hereafter produ'
ed. This bounty money, of course, will
paid out of the treasury of the Unite
States, thus compelling every man VIII
uses sugar to pay back to the sugar pro
ducers all the consumer may have gaine
In consequence of the reduction. This Is
reduction Of the tariff with vengeance.
more outrageous proposition was nev,
made to tax PAYERS In the history of legi.
lation than this. There are three grade
Of sugar. Under the present law the tari
duty is as follows: Sugar above No. l
and not above No. I6 two and seventy-f,
hundredths cents per pound. All aboN
No. I6 and not above No. 20 three cents .,
pound. All above No. 20 three and ha
cents per pounu. The Senate bill woul
reduce these rates one-half and then ad
one cent to each pound so far as consun
efs are concerned, which would give II
following rates: Sugar aboye No. I3 an
not above No. I6 two and thirty-seven an
half hundredths cents per pound. 9Th
Mills bill put this class of sugar at two an
twenty hundredlhs cents per pound, bein
greater reduction than the Senate bi
prOposeS.) Sugar above No. rs and NJ
above No. 20 two and a half cents ps
pound. CThe Mills bill puts this class {
sugar at two and two -fifths cents per poun,
being greater reduction than the Senai
bill proposes) Sugar above No. 20 at tw
and seyenty-fve hundredths cents pc
pound. (The Mills bill puts the duty o
this class at two and eighty hundredtl
cents per ound,being FIVE one hundredtt
of cent per ponnd higher than the pr
posed Senate billy So that taking all tn
grades together the Mills bill, about whic
republicans kept up such an interminabl
noise during the campaign makes grea
erreduction than the republican bill. r.
publicans, what do you think of it1 d
you not see that the only effect of this re
publican bill is to take this bounty Of on
cent a pound out of the treasury of tn
United States and transfer 1t to the pockei
of the producers of sugar, while, PRACTICAL,
the consumer will have to pay the sam
price for his sugar5 What difference doe
1t make to the sugar producer whether hi
benefit comes through high protectiv,
duty or bounty paid out of the treasur
of the United States We trust that farm
ers may open their eyes and behold tn
"Stone" offered them in lieu ofthe ''bread
they have asked for.