The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
CORRESPONDENCE.
SUGAR BEET BOUNTIES.
A Lively Discussion by Nebraska
Correspondent.
CDITOR REPRESENTATIVES,

bounty on sugar beets. Why not
then vote a bounty on oats, corn,
wheat, chickens, calves, pigs, cotton
cloth, canned goods, brick and mort
cages? They all need encouragement
while local freight rates are 100 per
cent too high.
When we ask legislation to use the
money fat of our nation for the ben
eft of the people we are told that
'you can't make money by law" but
we find the same breed of cats posted
on our legislative fences bowling for
money ''by law for sugar beets be-
cause the OXnards are wealthy pau
pers. A witty writer in the Indiana
polls Journal defines self-made
man, in supposed question of boy
to his father.
Tommy-"Paw, | heard a may say
that Mr.. Public Pap-sucker was
self-made man. What is a self-made
man?"
Paw-"A man who knows how to
get bounty for nothing, or how to
buy dollars worth of work for fifty
centS.'
Among our million and half citi-
zens we have about twenty-five hun
dred "self-made" men,
They are the city pawn broker, the
note shaver, the "board of trade"
gambler, solicitors for bounties, sub
sides, and wealthy paupers.
The banking class around which
we have built walls of legislation
protecting the divine right to draw
interest at ten per cent when three
per cent is it's measure of value, are
''Self-made" men.
The men who came to Nebraska
and homesteaded the land-whO
built up our state to a garden--whO
voted subsidies and bonds to build
roads-who mortgaged their homes
to exist while subduing natures wild
state and graSshoppers some years
ago, and railroad gophers of today
few of whom have held on and now
begin to see the dawn of brighter
days have had no bounties voted
them. Instead of being "self-made''
men, they are calamity howlers."
Those who have lost their homes or
are still mOrtgaged and in chattel
debt are "paupers' and ''cattle" of
our self-made job organs of republi-
can and democratic faith.
An editorial in the Peoria Qll.)
Herald speaking of sugar bounties,
says:
'Some public pap hunters in Colo
RADIO have decided to ask that state
to give a bounty for two years of 81
ton on beetS sold to sugar factories
and bounty of half cent a pound
on sugar product pOlarising not less
than 80. These people will ask con-
gresS to continue it's bounty on
American sugar. Evidently they
have not heard the news. The peO-
pie of this country decided last
| November that they are tired of TAX
ing money out of their pockets to
give to other people without consider
alton. OF all the schemes to get
something for nothing this legiSla-
tive bounty is the most fraudulent
and the most lucrative.''
That which is true of Colorado is
true of Nebraska. An editorial in
the Chicago Tribune entitled ''Protit
in beet sugar culture" which is too
long to quote, treats of the subject
in similar strain and ends by say
ing: '"The industry is paying one,
and there is no more justice in pay
ing bounty on the production of
cane and beet sugar than in doing
the same thing for wheat and cot
ton"
We look with scorn upon the law
tramp who visits our kitchen door for
breakfast - but not so on these
wealthy paupers who brazenly walk
into our legislative parlors and ask
yearly bounty. The difference be-
tween these seekers for public charity
is, the beggar tramp has been bred
by our "self-made'' civilization: bru-
talizated, so that self respect is lost
from excessive poverty, and he asks
for but little, while the rich beggar
has lost his manhood from excessive
cupidity and asks for all we have
above an existance. One NAV be un-
fortunate and actually destitute and
If he will give an hours work ia
worthy of his breakfast, while the
wealthy public pap-sucker should feel
our boot toes promptly and firmly
planted under his coat tails. that bv
chance his brains might be quickened
into legitimate action for self sun
port. LA
The enterprise that requires public
bounty should apply to the county
poor house for home. The unfor-
tunate (?) rich man and poor man
calling for public aims should be
housed under one roof to save ex.
pense. Then the calamity howlinu,,
farmer and mechanic who pays the
tax, duty, bounty and freight. will
know just how much to set aside for
their support.