The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-11
UNDEFILED TARIFF REFORM
Is THE DEMAND OF THE DEMoC-
RACY OF INDIANA.
The Senators Are Altogether Too
Courteous 10 the Special Glass In
terests-Pass the Wilson Bill ms 1t
Came from the House.

To the Editor-Sir: II our Indiana
senators must go to Louisiana to pro-
tect sugar, and to West Virginia TO pro-
tect coal barons, and to Pennsylvania
10 protect iron, and elsewhere to pro-
tect lead and other trusts, and to the
devil 10 protect whisky in bond eight
years, why not have them go the whole
Mckinley hog and come back 10 their
own-our own state and protect Indiana
wool just a little bit? Why not have
them tip their senatorial hats to the
corn belt and the pork belt? Have they
forgotten there is such a place? If pro-
lection is such a valuable thing to trusts
and industries i'm other states, why not
let our farmers have a little taste Of it?
Why not give them a small bounty on
corn and hogs?-enough at least to even
us up?" Is it not possible that their
senatorial courtesy" has allowed our
senators to extend their courtesy a
l-e-edle too far toward certain other
senators who are asking the earth for
themselves and their constituents. while
we are left out? We are informed by
one of our senators that we will get free
wool and lumber and salt. And he
LllBil hdNe Sdlu Tree uldItbuuSp anu ulNA
divi and dragons blood! They are in
the free list! AS to free salt. it is too
trivial to placate us much-one barrel,
costing 90 cents under the Mckinley law,
lasts a family two years, so that is a
poor excuse for the great tariff reform
we have been promised and hoped for
so long. ] also doubt whether we are
so much concerned about free lumber
in this state.
-,
looks just like free sugar In Louisiana
or free coal in West Virginia ought to
look.
So when our senator writes to his con-
stituents that we will have free wool and
free salt and lumber it does not pacify
a Hoosier or Buckeye or even a Sucker
as much as he might suppose.
The more we investigate and study the
senate bill the more absurd 1t appears
and the less tariff reform we see In II.
And the more we discover in it that II
discriminates against the masses and in
favor of classes whom we have been after
so long. / do not believe there is genu-
inc democrat in the state who thinks this
is fair.
But we are informed by our senators
that the Chicago platform pledges the
repeal Of the Mckinley law. Correct.
But does that platform warrant them in
Offering us a law which is in some re-
spects even worse than the Mckinley
law? Does il warrant them in giving
US a law that protects trusts-a law that
protects whisky in bond eight years and
allows it to age at the governments ex-
pense without paying any tax? Does il
intimate that the law should discrimin-
ate against Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and
Iowa and in favor of Louisiana sugar
and the coal and iron and lead trust?
The proposition "out Herod's Herod"
and would even make Mckinley himself
blush, because he had gumption enough
to protect Ohio and Indiana wool. If we
are to have protection at all let IL pro-
tect every interest North. South. East
and West alike But the democratic
party has pledged and stood for tariff
reform, which the country has demanded
in no uncertain tones, and now let US
have that reform in a fair and square
way among woOl-grOwers, sugar trusts,
coal barons, iron mongers. lead trusts,
cuffs and collars and whisky distillers
without fear or favor
Again. what in the name of reason are
diamonds and divi divi and dragons
blood put in the free list? Say, Mr.. SEN
ator. does the Chicago platform say they
shall be on the free list?
The whole batch is disgusting and
there is not eloquence and brains enough
in North America TO explain it and make
the senate tariff bill satisfactory to the
masses who expected SO much and are
about to get so little.
j. A. MINICH, NJ. d.
Worthington. Ind, April f.