The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-14
THE LATEST INFAyY.

THE LATEST INFAMY.
The senate committee has made it's
report on the Wilson bill. and the report
is simply infamous. It shows that the
sugar trust. the whisky trust. the rail-
road and coal combine and the iron mine
combine have had their way with the
committee, and the whisky man from
Troy has had his demands granted as
TO collars and cuffs The sugar trust
is given a donation Of four-tenths of a
cent per pound, which is. in fact, a
greater advantage than the Mckinley
donation of five-tenths with one-tenth
pay an export bounty, because the duty
of 1 cent per pound i'm raw sugar added
to this gives the trust absolute command
of our market, as against any outside
competition. If Mr.. Havemeyer did not
dictate this section he dictated it to
some one who did dictate it. 1t is SIM
ply an outrage on the people and on the
democratic party. 1t is a thing that can
not be explained or justified to any in
telligent man. or to many who are not
intelligent And the bounty of cents
gallon on refined molasses is equally
indefensible If it be democracy to give
such favors as these to notorious, law
less trusts we know Of no way in which
democracy can be distinguished from
republicanism.
The extension OF the bonded period Of
whisky from three 70 eight years is an
even worse concession to one Of the
worst trusts in the country. The man
who is responsible for it is an enemy TO
the democratic party. and we may add in
this connection that we do not believe
that Hill or Murphy, or German. or
Brice, or Morgan. or White, or Caffery
is in any way responsible for it. There
will be some pretty close guessing at
who is responsible if this scandalous IA
vor to the whisky trust goes into the
law. The duty on lead is not very ma
terial. and its extension to mixed silver
and lead ores will not be regarded with
great aversion because it is to some ex-
tent a compensation TO the western
states. whose industries have been Sc
riously impaired by the demonstration
OF silver. The greater part If the silver
produced in this country is produced in
conjunction with lead. and as this duty
Of three-fourths of a cent per pound is
only one-half OF the Mckinley duty, it
cannot be considered altogether unrea-
sonabie. Besides this. lead is not an ar
ticle of universal consumption like iron
or coal, or even collars and cuffs.
The duties on coal and iron cannot be
defended even on the principle of protcc-
ton. They are imposed solely for the BEN
eft Of the railroads of the country. which
own most OF the coal and iron mines
and want to force every one to use their
product. The increase of duties on col
lars and cuffs is concession to the vile
New York influence which has long been
held in detestation by the people of the
country at large, and which at length
seems to have turned the stomachs OF
the people of New York.
These amendments will rot do. They
must be stopped. If the senate does not
stop them the house must. So far as polti-
cal effect is concerned congress can better
afford to pass no tariff bin at all than to
permit any such sale and delivery of the
party as this. For the party will not be
delivered. 1t took its stand when it
said: eve indorse the efforts made by
the democrats OF the present congress
to modify it's (the Mckinley bilTs) most
oppressive features in the direction Of
free raw materials and cheaper manu-
featured goods that enter into general
consumption. and we promise its repeal
as one of the beneficent results that will
follow the action Of the people i'm in
trusting power to the democratic party"
Put those raw materials back or the free
list; wipe out those favors to trusts; or
else understand that when you return
to your homes you return to an indignant
people, who will mete out punishment
to the men who betrayed them
NEW YORK AND INDIANA.
OF the seventy-five persons indicted in
New York City for ballot-bOx frauds
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