The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-10-03
PLAIN TALK.
" The Mckinley Bill the Biggest
Fraud on Record"

AAduu vi hCCOIu.
Mr.. R. B. Brennan, general agen
for Oregon Of the Provident Saving
Life Assurance Society of New
York, in an interview in the Bake
City (0r.) 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 al
these trusts They alone are suffi.
cient to shake the confidence of the
world in our business sense.
Even now an occasional men.
ton is made of the late lamented
Bill Mckinley for the presidency.
If every time you drink 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.
"As regards this staple, his legis-
lation has proved pretty nearly the
biggest fraud on record.
"As 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.
"a bounty of two cents a 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 a weak
who had adjusted his
business interests 10 our promises
only to meet with financial ruin.
"As 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 I'M
ioubtedly the cocktail drinker had |
hopes of getting cheaper cocktail. |
But no! The sugar refners had |
formed trust and the |
difference did not go to the Ameri-
can consumer, but into the gigan-
lie men of the trust, Havemeyer,
Spreckels, ct al, and once more the
American public got left.
''No doubt the remedy to be ap-
llied by our administration will be
@ remit refined sugar free of duty
md do away with the middle
nan.
"The unrest that exists in our
money centers TODAY is the unrest
# dishonest profits made by dis
honest legislation. As honest old
Abe Lincoln said: You may fool !
ne man all the time, or all men
,art of the time, but you can't fool
II the people all the time. Old
ssues are dead, the war has been
.ver twenty years, although there
re people occasionally met with
rho think they are still fighting
own south. The issues that con-
-ont US of honest government and
egislation demand a repeal of
1uch legislation and a new system
under which a poor
nan mas show; and the owner
hip Of our courts and legislative
ais will be taken from our pluto
rats, trusts and monopolies and
ut in the hands of honest men.
'The republican party has been
lied and found wanting. If the
emocratic party don't make good
ght some other party will"