The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-10-01
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Gov. Campbell Says Free Sugar is a Fraud.
don't have to ask or receive from the
manufacturers of sugar any reply to
that. l appeal to this audience tonight
whether free sugar is fraud or not.
Those of you who think il is stand ups
Why nobody but the Governor stands
mp. Laughter Ithas brought blessings
to every household in the land, but the
Democrats say of course it is cheaper
because it is free, and we have always
been for free sugar. There is not o
Democratic tariff law upon the statute
books from 1906 down to the last one
they ever made In 1857 that Las not got
tariff on sugar, raw and refined. Even
the Robert j. Walker tariff, which was
regarded as the best expression of DEM
ocratic tariff reform, had tariff on
sugar, raw and refined, of 30 per cent
That is the record of Democratic tariff
laws. What is the record of tariff laws
proposed by that party2 They COM
menced proposing them in 1876. Fer
nando Wood was the author of the first.
He had tariff on sugar from to 3
cents per pound Then came the
two Morrison ILLS, and they had
tariff from | IA to IA, and then
came the Mills BILL the very last
and final Democratic embodiment of
Democratic purpose, and he put tariff
of Q 1-2 to 3 Ia cents per pound, and
every Democrat in both branches voted
for it. That is not ALL When 1 brought
this new tariff law in the House with its
free sugar clause in it every Democrat
in the House voted against it. moved to
strike it out. 1t went to the Senate, and
every Democrat in the Senate
Voted to strike 1t Out
And justified his vote on the ground
that it was Democratic revenue tariff
within the line of Democratic purpose
and Democratic policy-and that you
have free sugar today is in spite of the
Democratic party. Applause.] Gov
ernor Campbell says that the bounty we
give is even worse than the tariff. Let
us see about that. When we took the
tariff off, indeed before we took it of,
we saw that millions of dollars were in
vested in the United States in sugar, in
its production, and thousands Of men
were employed in that industry. The
Republican party never breaks down an
industry. Applause. Its aim and pur-
took the tariff away, we said that that
industry may live, we will give boun-
ty equal to the tariff, and we give to the
producers Of sorghum and maple
sugar, we give to every one a bounty equal
to the tariff, and that costs us this year
$10,O00,000. Applause. The tariff
last year, which was Democratic reve-
nue. tariff, cost us s55, 100000. We saved
$45, 100000 [Applause.] But all of the
Democratic leaders say that the sugar is
not quite 80 sweet. Laughter.
That reminds me OF what an old Dem
ocratic friei.d of mine in Northern Ohio
said the other day. He had never
been in the grocery store since the
tariff on sugar was taken off on the 1st
of April, ana he went in and asked for a
dollars worth of sugar, and as the grocer
piled scoop ON top Of scoop, the old man
said: 1T is only adollars worth Iwant.
Laughter. The grocer explained that
under the new law he got twenty -fou,
pounds for a dollar. It was weighed
out and put into the old mans sack. He
got as far as the door with it and turned
around and came back and said; "Mis
ter, take some of this stuff out. If
take this home and tell my wife that
got all this for dollar she Will make mt
vote the Republican ticket" Applaus'
and cheers