The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-11-25
He EATH WRITES 1T
A GOSSipy Letter from the Capital
City.
Sugar Will Take a Leap and Be Way
Up YOnder.
OF THE BEAT SUGAR IN THE WEST
That 1t Will Lead in a Reform of
Placing Wool on the Free List.

| That 1t Will Lead in a Reform of
Placing Wool on the Free List
/ WASHINGTON, Nov 25 Especial j
One Of the most convincing and secret
objections entertained by the democrats
against an extra session of the 53d con
greSs for the repeal of the Mckinley tar
if law is the appearant fact that the
party is going TO have regular cat fight
in agreeing upon a substitute measGre
The leaders in the party want time in
which to hear from the people and TO get
their men in congress together It is
not going to be a simple case of just go
ing right along and preparing a new
tariff, and then passing it through con
gress.
1t is an entirely different thing to cut
down a tariff from what it is to build up
one. The republicans had sorry time
of it, and it took them the better part of
a year, to prepare tariff bill which put
up duties upon majority Of articles
That measure perpefrated no injury
upon an Industry, unless it was by not
affording it sufficient protection by an in
crease. When it comes to protecting an
industry by saying just how much of
cut it can stand the conditions will be
materially changed.
There is no doubt that Senator Cor
man, Of Maryland, is as potential figure
as there is in the democratic party now
in congress. He has shown on many
occasions his party wisdom He will be
foremost in the cOunsels which will map
out the new tariff bill. Senator German
has already made haste to announce that
he will not permit the duty on coal to be
removed. Neither of the democratic
coal producing state, will suffer coal to
be made free There will be other
democrats who will join in this stand to
protect American coal fields The great
est point the democrats made in the re-
cent election was that our manuf .cturers
should have free raw materials Fuel is
the heaviest item in the running ex
penses of a manufacturer. The high
price of fuel is the primary cause which
moves factories from every part of the
country 10 the natural gas fields of In
diana and Ohio, where fuel is free. If
cry of HE democrats for free raw mate
ri us AMI an open market will be at once
led They viii have shown their self
ishneSS by refusing to make free the
productions of states which they politi
cally hold.
When the campaiLn was opening, six
months ago, it was held that the bounty
placed upon domestic sugar, to encour
age the development of the industry in
this country, must be repealed. Even
the democrats from Nebraska the great
and promising beet su gar state, advocated
the repeal of the sugar bounty Now
come Representative Catchings of Missis-
sippi, and the members from Louisiana,
and they declare that the bounty on sugar
must be repealed, but the old duty on
sugar, which is as high as the bounty,
but which comes from the people instead
Of the public treasury, as does the bounty,
must be restored In other words, they
want the protection of an import duty,
but want the money to come from the
consumers of sugar instead of from the
consumers of luXuries Possibly the Ne
braska democrats could afford 10 strike
down their infant industry by voting to
repeal the bounty, but the cane sugar
producers of the South demand protec-
, tion by the re imposition OF the old duty.
L. is safe to predict that within a year
and half sugar will be as high as it was
three years ago. and the beet sugar fac
. tories will be closed.
The only evidence thai has been shown
up to this time of a disposition to be
sacrificing of self interests comes from
Texas. The delegation from tnat state
/ are TO lead out in the work of placing :
, wool upon the free list, as Texas is the
greatest OF the wool growing states. The
little farmer in Indiana, Ohio, and other
states who must feed his sheep the yeaI