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sating duty would toe a question:. Many per-
sons argue that as once on the dutIable list,
sugars would now likely remain there for
ever, and as The result, lie. per poupd duty
on sugar for all indefinitely long time would
be bett er that a 90. bounty for ii years.
There is much doubt about This. Ia fact our
experience shows that sugar is attacked at
every session OF Congress and o@r future
would hardly be much better in thAs respect
than our past. The most difficult point for
our Washington delegation to decide was one
that in the end seems never to have been
presented. 1t was to decide if it were better
10 accept the recent diminished bounty
schedule of the Wilson Bill, or to accept a
duty Of 13c. per pound. The presumed per-
manence IF any duty made it's choice over
the Wilson sugar schedule seem BEST No
opportunity was given to orr members OF
Congress TO exercise any such choice, and,
notwithstanding their earnest opposition, all
sugar has fpally gone on the free list ard
no bounty is allotted.
There a,e in the House some 21S Demo-
crats and Pop;ulIsts and l38 Republicans, or a
majority of some 80 against the Republicans.
The policy of the Republicans seems to be
one of i~n4ction, to vote against ever ything
except the maintenance Of the Mckinley
bill. OF the Democrats there are about rs
who are ANXIOUS to do Justice to Louisiana,
and who would probably concede a duty OF !
cent per pound possibly # II cents.
From these data we see that with only our
rs Democratic votes for us, we have against
uS l43 Derocratic and 1873 Republican votes,
che sotal votes standing say: for us IS ,againstus
26l. These figures show why we have been so
badly beaten in the House. These PopuliSts and
Radical Democrats want to be reelected in
the Ginning November elections. Some of
them hope to escape the political cyclone
that their opponents prophecy will befall
them next November, by stoutly maintaining
and voting for radical free trade doctrines
regardless of whom they may hurt or destroy.
They considCr Themselves responsible TO their
eonsl ituencies and OH the free trade plat
forms on which many Of them were elected,
This House vote, as bad as it is, is by no
EneaDA final, and its dread import to us is
lessened by this fact. The amended Wilson
bill will probably pass the House us amend
ed and go ON to the Senate. 1t will be voted
on next Monday the Goth inst. There will
be considerable delay in the Senate and no
such lush work will be lone as was done in
the House, and there in the Senate Louisiana
must make her fight for justice, her fight for
life.
Material aids to us in Louisiana come in
the shape Of the pelceptible change Of base
H. N~0 v" oI"AAO stN0A~'Sy "'V"S0
ting 8 duty on sugars, and Mr.. Carlisle 10
said TO be doing the same. All this seems to
he a recognition of the fact that the prOpos-
ed in come tax is looked upon as inquititorial,
Odious, ind not likely to become a law that
there is practically no other means --of secur-
ing o revcnue SO easily as by y duty on sugars
and that such duty brings no peril with it
but the opposition of The Populist aid radi-
cal Democratic congressman, who have no
alternative proposition to substitute except
the improbable one of the income tax.
Surveying then this whole situation. there
does seem to be reasonable hopes IF our final
IL receiving proper, or at least some, rcoog.
milton in the Senate. The financial needs OF tile
government, the approval of a sugar duty now
by the President and by the Secretary of the
Treasury, al suggest that the cOnSei vative
temper of the Senate will guarantee them
fair recognition. BY the proper presentation
of our case to the Senate finance committee.
by the proper cooperation of every affected
and allied interest. we must work to obtain
Justice in the United States Senate, and VIZ
believe il can be thus obtained.
There hes never been a period in the his
tory Of our sugar industry, the early years of
the war excepted, so full of danger. We are
bounced dow upon, thrown overheard by
The Democ alto House So recently from the
people and who think they are doing the
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