Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-06-21
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The Baltimore Sun and some Of
our brothers Of the country press
are having asmonkey and parrot
time Of it, and if the spots are not
knocked off the aforementioned lum-
mary, our brothers Of the Port To-
baceo Times and Ellicott City
Times will certainly not be respon-
sible for the failure.
The Port Tobacco Times, of the
18th instant, says:
We have positive information that
both Senator Voorhees, and Senator
Harris, the two leading members of
the Senate Finance Committee,
stated to Washington reporter Of
the Baltimore San that there never
had been at any time any shadow Of
doubt in the minds of the commit
tee that Senator German would vote
for any tariff bill that the Demo-
Gratis Of the Senate might agree to
present, even If it had been the
Wilson bill as it came from the
House. III b information was COM
municatedS 20 the Sun people in
Baltimore, but instead of letting
this important truth shine in the
eight for all'' they deliberately sup
pressed it, in order to keep up their
false and malicious attack upon the
Senator as an alleged INSTRUCTOR of
tariff legislation. To have brought
forth this timely truth would have
destroyed their whole stock in trade.
as their whole fabric of misrepre-
scntatain and calumny rested upon
their persistent false assertion of
the contrary; therefore they sup
pressed it. This suPprcssio veri on
the part of a journal that makes
pretensions of fairness and respec-
liability ought to be made known
throughout the State. Such jour
nalism cannot long retain the power
and influence to mislead the people
and do wrong to honorable and
capable public men.
In the Suns Washington Cores
pondence of the 18th, this is called
Rural Misrepresentation, char
acterized as Awkward Attempts
to Defend Senator Gorman," and
stigmatized as absolutely and un-
qualifiedly destitute of foundation. !"
In speaking of Senator Mills
testimony before the Senate Inves-
tigating Committee, the Ellicott
City Times of the 10th says:
The evidence was given to the
newspapers last week, but with
characteristic dishonesty the Balti-
more San suppressed it. The New
York Herald, although not friendly
to Democratic interests, yet in pur-
suance of its policy to publish all
the news regardless of effect, gave
Mr.. Mills testimony wherein the
free trade Senator from Texas
shouldered the responsibility for
the sugar tariff.
Mr.. Mills said: 81 was the first
one to propose duty on sugar. 1t
was an unwelcome thing to me to
do it, but | regarded the bill as not
producing sufficient revenues, and
something had to be done. That
was one reason. Another reason
was, have always advocated put
ting sugar on the dutiable list as a
revenue article, and | told them:
1--WE have got to have more
money than the Wilson bill makes.
and we have to have a duty on
sugar. / do not want it. / do not
like to 60 backward. / would not
have taken sugar off the dutiable
list and put it on the free list. 1t
has been done and l don't like to
put anything back on the dntiablc
list do not care whether it is u
revenue article or MOTTO take it
from the free list and put it back
on the dutiable list / said, I'VE
have got it to do, and You may as
well make up your minds about il
We have to have more money
''Senator Vest and Senator Jones
held out for several days and insist
ed that there should be no duty on
sugar, they tried to figure it out
that we could get along without It.
Finally they reluctantly agreed for
duty on raw sugar