Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-06-23
COST KANSAS A MILLION.
Senator Martins Vote for
Taxed Sugar Will Take
100000 From the Peo-
pie of His State.

cial to Kansas City Journal. Nine
hundred thousand dollars per year is
the Kansas proportion of the sugar tax
decided upon by the senate. Senator
Martin voted for it. In doing so he
voted against an amendment offered by
PETER to admit sugar free SO that it
would reach the people just as cheap as it
has under the Mckinley bill. The ques-
ton was made plain. 1t was proposed to
allow sugar to go untaxed just as at
present and Senator Hill had led the
way for any and all democrats who
desired an excuse to follow and
vote against the sugar trust and in
favor of allowing a universal necessity
of life to reach the people without being
taxed
Many of the democratic senators who
supported taxed sugar and who voted
against free sugar became Just a little
nervous and Martin may have been one
of them, but it was cuckoo" and that
ended it.
Following so closely his success with
the president in getting postoffice ap-
pointments over the rough and tumble
trouble with the postmaster general, it
is suggested that there is some connec-
ton between the two facts. The vote
of Martin is brought out in flash light
prominence by reason of the fact that
the vote stood 26 to 81. Had the junior
senator from Kansas voted in favor of
the Kansas breakfast table, as he had
been bowling over the prairies of the
state for over thirty years, he would
have voted for free sugar, and free
sugar would have been made part of
the measure at the rate of q to 26.
But as it is, the wishes of the sugar
trust were carried out by the vote of
the senate, and the responsibility of it
can be placed upon everyone of those
who voted as the trust would have di-
rected, or as it may have directed, and
as commonly believed has directed.
There is something else in the days
developments even more startling. To
place tariff on sugar and to raise fif-
ty-tive millions OF money yearly from
this necessity of life and by this means
avoid taxing the luxuries to this extent,
or to raise one third of all revenue from
this one article of universal necessity, is
looked upon as disreputable enough,
but to place, by another vote in the
senate a few minutes later, the total
revenue for one year in the Golfers of
the trust and not in the treasury of the
United States, is not only disreputable
but Infamous.
Martin voted to do it. PETER did not
The proposition is so plain that it is
admitted by the new class of German
Brice legislative sand letters. The
time at which the tariff shall be D.
piled was fixed at one year from July 1,
next.
AS proposed by Teller, it was to go
into effect on the passage of the bill
SO that all the revenue derived from it
would go to the government and not to
the sugar turst. But not enough demo-
Gratis led by Hill would Join to defeat the
wishes of the trust. 1t was decided that
for over one year the tariff should not
apply. No one doubts but that Just as
soon as the bill become law the consumer
will pay the tariff. The consumers of
sugar will observe at once the difference
in the amount of sugar purchased for
81. The money thus secured from all
who use sugar will not go to the gov
eminent by the usual taxation route until
one year from July.
1t will go some place, however, after
it leaves the consumer, and no one de-
MES that it will make a very short trip
to the bank account of the trust. The
remarks of Teller on this matter made
some OF the senators whose names have
been associated with sugar trust gam
bling and with corruption, look pitiable.
1t was noticeable by all. and there was
a marked contrast between the coun-
tenances of the honest men and the ones
accused of gambling on the interests of
country.
How Senator Martin will explain his
taxed sugar bowl and the annual drain
of nearly a million of dollars from the
people of Kansas is not known. The
friends of the senator observe that by
election day the people will have for
gotten it. 1t is supposed the senator
will talk lovingly about many things
but hardly supposed that he will expound
on his vote against free sugar and in
favor of the first years tariff on sugar
from the people of the United States
going to the trust.
His votes, to the people of Kansas,
simply mean taxation on sugar to the
about of nearly $1,00OO,O00 per year
and the first year it goes to the sugar
trust and not to the government. 1t is
suggested that it will take great many
snake charming stories and hoodoo eff
forts in the campaign to hide this cold