Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-06-15
Full Of Sugar.

"Of course, Mr.. Havemeyer was iuil oi
suear naturally" said Mr.. Terrell, OF the
Sugar Trust, to the Senate Committee'
speaking of the occasion when Senator
Brice took an easy lesson in sugar
schedules from the rich refner. Nothing
: improper was said, of ofcourse-they merely
talked sugar. Then Senator Smith OF New
Jersey, came in and he also got fuh Oh
sugar, In the course of few days SO
MANY Senators had taken to getting full OF
sugar that even the Democratic majority
of the Finance Committee of the Senate
got sweet on the Sugar Trust. So great
indeed. did the Senatorial interest In sugar
become that a number Of Senators even
sought sugar investments in Wall street.
Thus we see that one man being full OF
guear was the cause of fullness In many
others. and there would have been still
more saccharine deals no doubt, had it not
been that the walls Of Mr.. TerrelPs room
had ears.
But to get full of sugar, it seems, is very
dangerous even sweets to the sweet may
sour the stomach and sicken the whole
man. Senator German has been seriously
ill for days, and for no reason, apparently,
except that he allowed himself to get full
on sugar, and now Senator MCPHERSON is
also reported i'll, because he was filled up
with sugar without knowing it. Indeed,
the health and temper of the entire Senate
was affected by the chemical changes due
to overfullness OF sugar.
1t is much to be regretted that on the
occasion when he met Senator Brice at
Mr.. Terrelps room Mr.. Havemeyer should
have been full of sugar, whether naturally
or unnaturally. 1t has turned to bile on
the stomachs of the august fathers of the
Senate, and we hear of Mr.. Hale talking
about the mendicants of Louisiana and OF
Mr.. Caferty resenting the epithet, while
the fiery Mills, we are told. "hurled back
in defiance the shafts of Mr.. Hale and Mr..
Hoar.v Even the angelic Senator Harris
loses his temper, and it is to be fear
ed that sweetness is no longer in the
hearts of Senators Vest and Jones. All
this sourness and bitterness is due to the
fact that when Mr.. Hayemeyer was full OF
sugar many Senators allowed themselves
to get full also.-Phipa Inquirer.
SENATOR QUAY was the only Republi-
can Senator who voted for the Democratic
sugar schedule, which passed the Senate
last week. He is reported to have ex-
planned his vote to an inquirer by saying
that he voted in favor of protection to
sugar. But the fact is the schedule which
he thus supported decreased the protection
of the producers of raw sugar in this coun-
try under the Mckinley act, while increas-
ing the cost of sugar to the consumers OF
the United States. The present law gives
the producers of sugar protection of 2
cents, while the pending bill win give q
less protection 1t imposes the cost on
every pound of sugar that is to be con-
"a snmed In THE oountry. The plaoa where
the protection is increased is on the Sugar
Trusts production. The Mckinley act
gives the Trust half q cent of protection,
which every observer has seen to be ex-
cessive, but the schedule for which our
Senator voted increases that margin to
from SOC to 62fc per hundred pounds,
which is wholly gratuitious gift. More
over the sole purpose OF protection being
to stimulate the competition of domestic
industry, protection to a combination
which stiles domestic competition is be-
trayal of the purpose Of the protective
policy.