Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-21
PUBLICAN MATTERS.
|USTs AND THE TARIFF.

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,ulation as Payment in Full for
Campaign Funds Received.
e charge has been publicly
that the sugar trust raised a
campaign fund for the cleo
of Mr.. Cleveland, and that the
nan bill liquidates the political
The accusation may or may
be we'll founded, but it is unde-
lie that the sen Itorial brokers
Bformed the sugar schedules in
of the trust. If there had
a bargain between the trust
the Democratic managers before
presidential election, and half a
ion dollars had been paid with
understanding that refiners' in
Bts would be protected in any
me of tariff revision that might
nacted, the conduct of the Dem
tic senator's would not have been
rent from what it has been.
act precisely as they would
J done if they had agreed to the
of sale two years ago in return
ia enormous campaign subscrip-
hat renders their surrender to
refiners' trust even more suspi-
S is the fact that it is in open
alton of the pledges made by
| r party in the presidential can
J. ave recognize" the Chicago
form stated, I'm the trusts and
binations which are designed to
bile capital to secure more than
ust share of the joint product of
tai and labor a natural conse-
|nce OF the prohibitive taxes
|ch prevent the free competition
|ch is the life of honest trade, but
believe their worst evils can be
ted by law. and we demand the
ID enforcement of the laws made
prevent and control them, to-
her with such further legis-
lon in restraint of their
|ses as experience may show
be necessary. The corpora
lawyers in President Cleveland's
|fnet have Systematically refrained
|n enforcing the laws enacted
inst trusts and com binations; and
hocratic legislators, instead of
king the abatement of evils aris-
from the attempts of capitalists
monopolists to control the con-
ons of supply and of trade, make
hriff in the direct interest of the
ST rapaciOus trusts in the land.
schedules have been dictated by
Sugar, whisky, lead, linseed oil,
bed wire, steel beam and other
SITS. How many of these trusts
tributed to the Democratic cam
gn fund of 1892 we do not know,
Mr.. German and his fellow
kers in the senate certainly re-
late the pledges of the party in
islating for their benefit.
his issue is one that the New
* Tribune rightly thinks ought
De kept constantly before the pub
Mr.. Cleveland early in 1892
ted the eighth commandment
inst protection, denounced the
SITS in unmeasured terms and con-
rated himself and his party to
e peoples cause of tariff reform"
, German bill is not only stepped
and reeking with protection.
Ich the Democracy has condemned
''legalized robbery" but it is pre-
nently a measure for enriching
trusts Every other interest is
rificed in order that the trusts
Y have a tariff to their liking.
enty reciprocity treaties highly
eficial to the export trade are re-
led; the price of sugar. one of the
gest articles of imported food, is
Ibled to the consumer; the prom
lg beet-sugar interest in the
TIED States is destroyed; and the
y compensations for all these in
dible blunders and follies are the
tunes to be made by the sugar re-
RS. Such also is the outcome of
nocratic reform all along the line.
, trusts triumph and honest in
tries are ruined. The monopo-
S are aided in doubling their for
es, and the poor workingman is
own out of employment. The
,ople's cause" which Mr.. Cleve-
d two years ago invested with the
City of the Mosaic decalogue, is
profit account of greedy corpo-
ions and Wall street spectators.