Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-11
THE SUGAR SCANDAL
AN OUTRAGEOUS SCHEME TO
ROB THE PEOPLE
up the Bill at the Behest OF Have
meyer and the sugar Trust.

Dill Will De learned Win surprise ana
regret Secretary Carlisle has long
stood pre-eminent among those who
were regarded as tariff reformers on
principle and who felt all the antago-
Lism to tariff bred trusts which the
democratic party has been vOicing in
its platforms and upon the stump for
a dozen years. Yet the schedule
framed by him is a complete surrender
to the grsediest, mos: arrogan and
most oppressive of all the trusts
New York World dem.
Crush the Infamous Thing!
The Cleveland administration stands
pilloried before the country as the ac-
tive partner in a monumental con-
spiracY TO eXtort more than $50, 600, 600
from the American people for the
benefit OF vast monopoly which was
lavish contributor to Mr.. Cleveland's
election. Misrepresentation and eva
sion have proven futile. The shield
of prevarication and concealment has
given away at every point. The shame
sion with the sugar trust are re-
vealed before the eyes of an indignant
nation. Distort and belittle it as they
may, the democratic leaders at Wash
ington can not obscure the meaning
Of Secretary Carlisle's confession that
he himself drew up the disgraceful
schedule which gives the sugar trust
the power to import two years full
supply of raw sugar free of duty be-
fore Jan. l, 1895, and extort scores of
millions from the taxpayers of the
United States through the increased
price of one of the commonest neces-
saries of life. Amid the cloud of
denials which have emanated from the
capital in the last few days, there has
been no denial of the one conclusive
fact, that under the pending tariff
bill the trust could deprive the gov
ernment of all revenue from duties on
raw sugar for two years and divert to
its own Golfers the immense sum
which the ad valore.n dTty of 40 per
cent on sugar would force American
consumers to pay. This fact, first
pointed out by the press, has not been
questioned, for it is unquestionable;
and now the secretary of the treasury
has confirmed with his own lips the
truth of the original statement of the
press, that he drew up the unprece-
dented provisions which gave the
trust its opportunity to wiring enor-
nous wealth from the people of this
republic.
The fact that the sugar sched-
ule drawn by Mr. Carlisle was
modified in one or two par
ticulars by the senate finance
committee is only significant as show
ing that the democratic majority in
that body, devoted though they were
10 the demands of the administration,
did not dare to go quite so far as Mr..
Cleveland wished them to go in favor
ing the sugar trust The sugar sched-
ule as it stands is in it's essential
principles the schedule drawn by Mr.
Carlisle-drawn in defiance of justice
of democratic platform pledges and
OF the interests Of the American PEG.
ple-drawn to plumber the nation for
the enrichment Of monopoly and tax
the people to pay the political debts
OF Grover Cleveland. American his.
tory has no parallel for this astound-
ing performance. Political corrup-
tion in this country has never
before attained such a height. All
through the record of the negotiations
in regard to sugar the complete sub
serviency of the democratic leaders to
commands of the sugar trust is mani
fest. Before the final adjustment of
the sugar schedule Mr.. Havemeyer,
the head of the trust, denounced the
specific rates of duty favored by the
Louisiana pla nters and demanded ad
valorem rates MIR. Carlisle, un-
doubtedly in obedience to the Presi-
dent, not only engineered the change
to the ad valorem system as desired
by the trust but published on April
80 an elaborate statement in which he
attempted to justify the ad valorem
principle for sugar, and virtually ad-
mitted that the transformation was
necessary in order to sooth the pas
sage of the bill. On this occasion
the secretary of the treasury said:
by far the most important single
article upon which a change of duty
is now proposed 10 sugar, raw and re-
fined, and it is strenuously contended
by persons interested in the produc-
tion of this article that the specific
rates already in the bill, as reported
by the senate committee, are higher
than the ad valorem rates which it is
now proposed to insert. Whether this
is correct or not depends upon the
price of sugar in the foreign markets:
but am satisfied that the differences,
If any, between the specified rates
heretofore proposed and the ad val
orem rate now under consideration is
so small as to be of no material con-
sequence either way. at any rate, L
think that differences of opinion upon
this question, which haze always
been troublesome AMI vexatious.
should not be allowed to defeat the
passage of the tariff bill
This statement wes lnteLded and