The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-18
twelve PAGES.
WEDNESDAY. JULY is, 1894.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.

RS CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.
l. IS gratifying to Know that the house
conferees are standing firmly against the
senate amendments. and equally disgust
sng 10 know that the senate conferees
are standing firmly for them. We do not
know what any Of the comforting senator's
expect to gain by their obstinate devo-
lion 10 the trusts. but they may De sure
that they VIII gain nothing in favor from
the democratic party. Senator Voorhees,
In particular WI do wei to bear this in
mind he stands now the seIf-proclained
champion Of the whisky trust, and if he
adds 10 this the championship Of the re-
naming atrocities Of the German bill he
may count on his permanent retirement
10 private life 9s an assured thing. There
are some faetuvas Of the German bin that
must go. or THE democratic party viii so.
The frs. ~ tE,se are the concessions to
tire surs- trss'. which are thoroughly in
defansible either from theory or fact. and
which ar wholly obnoxious TO the people.
In TIE 1rst pi5ea the sugar refners have
absoIute.r 10 aesJ Of protection to con-
troll the American market. This was adj
mirtsd III 1850 by Theodore a. Have
meyer before tie ways and means COM
mittee as follows:
Mr. Speaking Of the competi-
ton between the refining Interests in this
country aa5 thu English refining inter
ests. would you be able 20 compete in the
business market if there was perfect free
trade in sugar
Mr. U1vemeye would beat them.
We can refine sugar here more cheaply
than they can in England
Again. on Feb. %. 1881. he made the
zane admission:
Mr.. Mnls-"How much refined sugar do
YOU export aouulliy2'
AR Havemeyer-'Ou exports for this
year would probably amount to about
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Mr.. Mi,ls-"How much sugar do YOU
think You would be able to export under
that proposed provision
Mr. Favemcye THE export of re-
fined sugar u 1u1d be increased very ma
teriallv. ! Do not see why, under free
trade i'm sugar. we could not supply
very lsTse proportion of the worlds con-
sumption.
The same fact of ability to export and
sell in competition with foreign manu-
facturers was conceded by Mr. II. a.
Havemeyer in 1SSS before the house COM
nittee on manufactures:
Q-How much sugar was exported from
this country during the fiscal year ending
the 30th of last June 0SS0? At is my
suppression that about one hundred thou
sand tons
Odd you. or any other concern in
that sugar? A-The bulk of it, l be-
Jieve.
Q-What countries did you export il
to? A-The bulk Of it went to England.
Q-What grade Of sugar was it? A
The bulk of il was granulated.
In the second place the proposed protec-
zion is vastly in excess of the entire wage
cost of sugar. as is also the present Nc
Klnley protection. the total being less
than one-ninth of 1 cent per pound. and
no foreign country can refine sugar SO
rheapiy as that
IF it is desired 70 raise any revenue from
sugar. all that is wanted can be raised
by an uniform specific tax Of cent per
pound on all grades Of sugar, and this
would incidentally give the growers of
r1ne and sugar beets all the protection
1hey could reasonably ask.
Another feature. in which change is i'm
peratively demanded. is the concessions to
the whisky trust The unprecedented
Withdrawals of spirits from the bonded
warehouses at Peoria furnished con-
Elusive proof that these concessions are
directly to the benefit Of the whisky trust,
end that lawless organization is prepar-
ing to reap the usufruct of the money it
has invested in senators.
Other features. which ought by all
means to be removed. are the taxes on
coal and iron and the high duties on cot
ton and wooden goods. These are viola
lions Of the democratic pledges to the peo-
pie. and 1t is notorious that they are de-
.manded by no one but the immediate |
ibenefciarles. We warn the democratic !
senators, and especially the senator from
Indiana, that this time. when the Sher- |
man antitrust law has found it's first |
use against combinations of working !
men, is no time for a democratic con-
gress to be showing favors to the trusts |
against which that law was claimed to |
be directed at the time Of its passage.
It viii not dc to punish workingmen for |
violation of that law and at the same |
time give to the capitalist violators of |
the same law the right to extort millions |
OF dollars from the people. The people |
viii not indorse any such jug-handled adj |
ministration of justice.
THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
The Chicago Times states that Adjt.- |
Cen. Robbins has ordered that II shall |