Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-10
Mills bill the Democratic party would act.
This bill gave full! protection to sugar.

Mills Dill the Democrallc party Woulu ACT.
This bill gave full protection to sugar)
"rhe Junior senator from New Jersey
(Mr. SMITH the junior senator from Ohio
(Mr. Brice), and myself were then giving
our time, and our money. and everything
that men can give for the success of The
party. We conferred with all those dis.
tinguished gentlemen"
I'VE were II at the conference with the
candidate, but had from both sides what had
occurred They wanted to know If the
| Democratic organic iiion. of which we were
a par, put the same construction upon II,
and would be III favor of that line of pro
ceGEre thereafter.
THEY said to US frankly. eve want to
tell our people the truth. We do not want
to press you to give single fraction of a
cent TO Louisiana, but we only want to
know the truth
eat that solemn conciave we all said,
'Yes,it is a dutilble article; you
| sra'l have it
No man, no living being, has ever
charged me with perfdy. No soul can say
that have ever made promise about pub
lie or private matters that did not carry
out if had the power 10 do it. These two
senators and myself, carving ort our
pledge, have stood here and been gibhetei
as three men who were in the Sugar Trust"
There is The lain Story
told in simple telm., in open SENATE, in
public debate, by Senator German. What
& commentary upon ID mocraiic political
| me hods
An agreeme mt as to the action of polii-
cal party upon great public question
made in private made with two senator's and
the candidate for President himself; made
to SC cure the electoral 70 g of the state of
Louisiana made in absolute secret; that
sugar should be taken from the free list,
where the Republican party had put it, aud
be taxed for the benefit of the producers
and the sugar ru,t, which tax should be
borne by the American consumer.
Suppose President Cleveland and Sena-
tors Gorman and Brice had issued an address
to the country announcing that they had so
far modified the Democratic platform rs to
provide for taxed sugar, what do you think
| would have be- II the effect? Does anybody
believe that if this agreement had been
Thoroughly understood that Mr.. Cleveland
would have carried the country? No Demo-
| cratic orator, or editor, certainly in the
| North, ever so much AS limited that the
boon of free sugar WAS to be taken from the
people.
The great public was not taken into this
conference. They were not advised of it..
1t was not in the Democratic platform. 1t
was not announced in any Democratic
newspaper. Ii was not talked of upon the
stump. 1t was private arrangement with
the campaign managers and the Presiien-
tial candidate to barter away the platform
of their party for the vote of Senate. 1t
was deception base and rank. 1t was a
fraud uron every voter. The bargain was
made-Louisiana was saved, and the only
thing honorable in connection with it if
that be honorable, was that the private
contract was written into public law by
those who made and profited by it.
One Of the Hidden Reasons.
The President himself, if Senator Cor
man be right, was party to this contract,
and he, too, much IA he loathed the bill,
was not unwilling to have the sugar bargain
carried out. Perhaps, too, il is one of the
hidden reasons why he did not veto the
hideous offspring of "party perfidy and
party dishonor
After most bitterly denouncing the bill
they have denounced, Democratic leaders
and press console themselves by declaring
that the new law, after ALL is better than
the act of 1890. Better for whom! Better
for what? Better in which particular? Not
better in its FREQ list Not better in its
du,iable list Not better for the United
States. Not better for American indus
tries. Not better for American labor. Not
better for the American farmer.
Where has it given hop? Whose facto-
ries will it set to work. 1t has improved,
confessedly improved, no American inter
ests whatever unless it be the Sugar and
Whiskey Trusts. 1t will not start u single
new factory at home. II will not light a
solitary new fire st home. IL will not in
crease the demand for labor at home.
Whatever hope il brings is 10 the alien and
tthe stranger. " hatvver industry it quick
ems lies beyond the seas; it is not located
beneath our flag.
What Comparison
Better than the law of 1890. law I'M
der the operation of which every man in
this country was employed at good wages .
Every factory was running at its full capa-
city, and the consumer WIS securing the
! necessati-s of lie cheaper than he ha,i
, ever received them before. Does any
, ;houghtfui man believe that the law of 1894
will ever restore those happy conditions
here in the Uri.ed States?
t The law of 1890 WAS enacted for the
American pfople aud the Amer can home.
Whatever mistakes were made by it were all
made in favor of tie occupations and the
, firesdes of the American people. 1t didn't
{ take away single day work from soil
| tary Am, ricsn workiugman. 1t gave work
and wages to all, such as they had never
had before. 1t did it by establishing new
T and great industries in This country, which
I increased the demand for the skill aud
, handi ~nIk of our l.borers everywhere. 1t
, had no friends in Europe. # gave their in
, dusiries no stimulus it gave no employ
l ment to their labor at the expense of our
8 own, and this cannot be Faithfully said OF
. the law OF 1894
During more than two years of the AID
ministration of President Harrison, and
down to its end, it raised all the revenue
S necessary to pay the vast expenditures Of
f: the government including the interest on
4 the public debt and the pensions. 1t never
encrosched upon the gold reserve, which
in the past HIS always been sacrelly pre-
I served, for the redemption OF outstanding