Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-06-25
The Sugar Tax Again.

Inc sugar ak N6dssss
We will notintrude on ground else
where gone over. That the reduction
in the tariff OIL sugar has immensely
cheapened that necessity of life is so
plain that an owl can see 1t. 1t has
been a beautiful illustration that''Tar
iff'' is 'Tax," no more, no less. But
the infamous Mckinley bill must pois-
on even that sop to the people by its
bounty system. These sugar bounties
will foot up slO,OO0,OOO for this year,
and will probably reach Sao,0OO,oOO III
five years. That is, We are to be taxed
on other necessaries to pay the maple
and beet and cane sugar raisers for
transacting their own business. Under
our present system government must
take some O,0O0, 900 out of the pockets
of the people to get the SlO,OOO,NO to
pay the bonus with. And in five years
we shall have to pay twice the amount
of the old revenue tax on sugar to get
the money to pay the sugar bountles
with. This is worse than taking mon
ey out of one pocket to put into an
other. Instead of lessening our tariff
taxes it will increase them, as all and
more than all we gain Oh the sugar tax
reduction will be more than made up
by other impositions to meet the sugar
bounties. If Senator Sherman's propl-
ecy comes true that in ten years we
will raise all our own sugar, where are
the eightv-six millions to come from to
pay the bounties? Under the present
system of CROOKED taxation that
would mean an additional burden OF
400 millions of dollars on the people.
But let us take courage. Before then
we shall have knocked out the Mckin-
ley bill and its sugar bouEties, and will
take straight free trade in sugar.
Meantime many voter is getting his
eyes open to the true.meaning of tariff
and sees now that all these years it has
meant simply ''tax.'' And moreover,
are the wheat farmers of North Dako-
tn going to sit down tamely and bolster
up this policy of paying the sugar far
mers bonus for1their product? If it
is right to pay a bonus of two cents a
pound on sugar, it is right to pay us a
bonus of 20 cents buShel in hard cash
out of the treasury OH our wheat. If
not, why not? How long are we to &C
on supporting such an outrage? II
bonuses are to be paid the sugar grow
er, let us demand the same for wheat
farmer, and the growers Of cotton and
corn, But you say this is impossible
because it would bankrupt the country
True. Therefore let us send represen
tatives to congress who will help wipe
out this whole bonus system. Let every
tub stand on its own bottom, the sugar
tubs included, If wheat and beef ant
corn and COTTON and pork must paddle
their own canoe without government
help, so must sugar and wool and min
ing and manufacturing. Is this no
fair? For a century we have beer
robbed by this outrageous system 0.
class legislation. We shall be addle
pated fools to submit to it any longer
Let every self-respecting wheat grow
Ell add the mite of his vote to help OF
the total destruction of this system O.
''crooked taxation" long misnamet
'protection;" and demand for TIN
Northwest and the nation, fair play
fair trade. and like treatment to all tn,
workers of the land.-Tax Reformer il
Fargo Commonwealth.
We have accumulated evidence tina
great injustice has been done to man.
farmers who have taken sheep Oh shar'
in portions of the Dakotas. The inter
est they are compelled to pay is usur
Gus and should be punished by the in
Fiction of the same penalties as for us
ury. The form of contract published
in the May 18th number, and which i!
claimed to be used by the Mortgage
Bank and Investment Co., and thu
sheep to be insured in the Phoenix ms
Co.'-which has the name of E. Ashle,
Mears, Fargo, at it's head, is far from
establishing innocence at the door o:
Mr.. Mears. We claim that the collect
ion of usurous interest upon sheep is ;
fraud, and that in any court of justice
it could not be collected. We insis
that every business man in the state O
North Dakota is financially intereste,
in the success of farmers in their state
and they cannot afford to allow burde,
to be placed upon them, to sap the leg
itimate profits of their industry. Mr.
Mears has promised us to make new
form of sheep contract Northwestern
Farmer and Breeder.
Specimen Cases.
S. H. Clifford New Cassel, Wis, wa
troubled with neuralgia and rheuma
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