The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-11
THE VOICE OF THE HYPocRITE.

Having Championed the whisky ana
sugar trust clauses of his tariff BILL MI.
Voorhees, has evidently left the defense
OF the lead trust to that illustrious free
trader from Missouri. Senator vest
Then all the democratic trusts in the
tariff Will be defended.-Journal
In the name of all that is holy. what
room have you to say anything on the
subject? If these are democratic trusts
they are no more democratic than they
were when the Mckinley bill was passed
in 1890 and the Mckinley bill did more
for them than even the most recreant
democrats OF the senate have done. The
Mckinley bill gave greater donation
to the sugar trust than the senate
amendment does, and you defended it,
and gloried in It, More than that, even
during the present struggle to break the
hold of this octopus on the country. you
have championed it, and have prated
about the loss Of wages to its men if the
Mckinley stipend of $2O,OOO,OOO per an
mum were taken away from it, Was 1t
democratic trust then, or has it only
become so in the last week?
Is the iron combine a democratic af-
fair? If so your Mckinley bill gave 1t
bonus of IS cents ton where the
senate amendment gives it 40 cents. Is
the coal combine also democratic? Your
Mckinley bill gave it a bonus of Is
cents per ton also, where the senate
amendment gives it only 40 cents. And
ov,1x- ir nd
It. but only a few weeks ago, when Mr..
ingalls, insisted on these taxes, for the
benefit of the railroads. you applauded
him as a wise man who realized the
necessity Of filling the pockets of these
trusts for the benefit of the American
workingman. Bah! You talk about
corrupt concessions to trusts. Why your
very types ought to drop out of sight
for shame and leave a blank on your
editorial page. You who have defended
every infamous combination that has
preyed on the people through the tariff
system, who have pretended that they
were beneficial to the country, who have
in every way aided to build up these
monsters which now grapple at the
throat Of the nation-you talk of dem
Ocratic trusts? You impose double con-
demnation on yourself with every word.
The Sentinel will neither apologize nor
plead the baby act for any democratic
senator. But understand this: The
complaint we make is that the worst
and most mercenary democratic sena-
tors have shown themselves almost as
depraved in this matter as the best re-
publican senator's What republican SEN
ator protested or voted against any in
EQUITY Of the Mckinley bill? What one
will fail 10 defend them now? If there
senate now. who had any honest objec-
ton to any of the concessions to what
the Journal calls democratic trusts, they
could have them stricken from the bill
But they will not. They would give the
lie to their protestations Of former years
If they did. 1t does not lie in the mouth
of any man who has voted the repub-
lican ticket since the Mckinley bill was
passed to say anything about conces-
sions to trusts And more than that, no
one need imagine that any democrat who
is protesting against the failure OF dem
ocratic senators to do their full duty
win ever turn for relief to the repub-
lIcan party, which has made and fos-
tered every trust in existence This is
a controversy between the white sheep
and the black sheep. The goats are not
in il.