New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-29
COMMUNISM or PELF.

There Is one passage OF the Presidents letter
10 Mr. Catchngs which is fairly andaciouS III
It's GOODNESS and cynicism. The trusts III"
combinations he sayS-"the communism "i pen
whose Vaccinations have prevented Us from
.,caching the success we deserved, should NOT
"bc forgotten nor forgiven. We snail recover
from our establishment nj their exhibition oil
..powrr and If then the question Is forced upon
ms whether they shall submit 10 I'll" free legs
'lativc Will Of the peoples representatives. "'
shall dictate the laws which the people must
"obcv, we will accept and settle That Issue IL
zone involving The integrity AMI sai'ty "i
"Amcrcan institutions" This bOnbaStic proc
Emation of hostility to Trusts Is ISSUED 10y the
head Of an Administration which is directly re-
sponsiblc for the most corrupt ana Ind'l'hS'p''
concessions made 10 monOpollSts in the Bill II
Sale
9TH. Ncw.York Times" Il Democratic Free
Trade journal, which i supposed 10 be- d'N"""
10 the Presidents political fortunes has assert
eel on what it regards ~ perfectly irus'N"i'hH
evidence. that Secretary Carlisle was 'l'S"''i
for a long time with the r"iincrN al III" Offices
Of the Sugar Trust on March ~. That may or
may not be- true: but ii cannot be- doubted that
the IIaveIncycrs consulted with him ia Nlsh-
ington and received from him letter of INTRO
,luciion 10 a prominent Democratic senator
uor can II be denied that h. drew mp a sugar
sche,lul. giving III Trust ia" b"n"nt of - per
cent ON refined against 10 per cent on raw
sugar: nor has the authenticity ever been Purs-
,iou.d Of the interview published with him on
April 20 in which facts were msr"prrs"nt'-l III
,h. interest Of the Trust; nor was there any
hesitation on his part when The House sent up
the Free Sugar bill 10 the Senate ten days AK"
I'm writing a letter for The avowcd purl'"s" "i
defeating f. THE communism Of pclf, rs
represented by the sugar monopostS. has HAD
an attorney of IT'S own in the Prcsh"nts CAB
met who has aided it AZ every turn u III" sale
and barter tariff law
And what has been the Presidents own shar"
in traficklng with The monopos's who con
tribuicd heavily 10 his campaign expenses III
1882 He has done more than senator Gnrinan'
Senator Smith Senator Brice or any other Dem
ocratic Senator branded by him with 'th" dead
IL blight Of treason" TO secure the triumph and
enrichment Of the Sugar Trust. When The Cor
man bill was sent back 10 the House, which had
dealt that Trust n staggering blow by putting
sugar ON the free list without a dlrcrcnia the
prcsiden, sprang 10 the defence Of the monopo-
lists In the Wilson letter h" virtually urged
the House 10 abandon it, position on TINS ques-
tion contcnding that II was Democratic 10 tax
sugar, and that no one ought 10 be driven away
from this principle and policy by the fear quite
likely cxaggcratcd' that in doing 80 he might
be indirectly and inordlnatcly encouraging Il
combination Of sugar refining interests. The
President in that letter appeared as the cham
pon Of the Sugar Trust. Before blow had
been struck in the House In defence OF free
sugar he abandoned It's ground and senalled
for a surrender to the Senate.
And now the same President who has been
fighting the battle Of monopolisis strikes an
attitude. rolls his eyes and dccams against
trusts and comblnatlons-ihe communism of
'pclf-whosc Vaccinations have prevented us
from reaching the success we deserved" Was
such hypocrisy known In American public
life,