The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-09-28
PLAIN TALK.
d" The Mckinley Bill the Biggest
Fraud Oh Record"

ELaHd Oh hCcOIOs
Mr.. r. B. Brennan, general agent
for Oregon Of the Provident Saving
Life Assurance Society of New
York, in an interview in the Baker
City (Or.) Democrat, of Sept. 9Th,
has this to say of the Mckinley bill !
and Hawaii:
"The body polite is suffering |
from a score Of serious ailments
that must be cured before anarchy
sets in, and just now is like the
patient trembling in the presence
of the surgeons knife. Look at
these trusts! They alone are sutfi-
cient to shake the confidence OF the
world in our business sense.
Gwen now an occasional men
ton is made of the late lamented
Bill Mckinley for the presidency.
If every time you drink a cup OF
coffee or tea, or mix cocktail, you
will look at that sugar which you
use for sweetening and think of
Bill Mckinley as l do, you won't
get very enthusiastic about him or
his bill.
GAS regards this staple, his legis-
lation has proved pretty nearly the
biggest fraud on record.
GAS you know, his bill admits all
raw sugar free of duty. Down in
the Sandwich islands they export
to this country 10000 tons of sugar
annually, and nine-tenths of the
capital invested is American capt.
tai. Under the reciprocity treaty
this sugar has been admitted free
of duty since 1876, in consideration
for which all American goods and
raw material are admitted there
free. Neither can the Hawaiian
nor the American planter compete
in raising raw sugar with the cheap
labor of Manila and Cuba and
other foreign sugar-producing coun-
tries.
GA bounty of two cents pound
is given the American planter, but
no Justice is done to the Hawaiian,
and we have been guilty of an act
of political injustice to weak
neighbor who had adjusted his
business interests TO our promises
only to meet with financial ruin.
GAS a result Of this bill-Bill
argued that sugar, of which
America consumes more per capita
than any nation, would be cheap
ened to every consumer, and un-
doubtedly the cocktail drinker had
hopes of getting a cheaper cocktail.
But mol The sugar refiners had
already formed a trust and the
difference did not go to the Amerl-
can consumer, but into the gigan-
tic men of the trust, Havemeyer,
Spreckels, ct al, and once more the
American public got left.
"No doubt the remedy to be APP
piled by our administration will be
to remit refined sugar free of duty
and do away with the middle
man.
"The unrest that exists in our
money centers today is the unrest
of dishonest profits made by dis
honest legislation. AS honest old
| Abe Lincoln said: You may fool
one man all the time, or all men a
part of the time, but you can't fool
all the people all the time. Old
issues are dead, the war has been
over twenty years, although there
are people occasionally met with
who think they are still fighting
down south. The issues that con-
front US of honest government and
legislation demand repeal OF
much legislation and new system
inaugurated under which a poor
man has a show; and the owner
ship of our courts and Legislative
halls will be taken from our pluto
Gratis, trusts and monopolies and
put in the hands of honest men.
"The republican party has been
tried and found wanting. If the
democratic party don't make a good
fight some other party will"