The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-09-29
KIPtBLICANS WON'T Res
TORE THE BOUNTY.
80 says tao rery prominent Republican
newspapers, as the foHowing clip
pings shoe.


newspapers, as the foUoWing clip
pings shoe.
But it would b. uHuise for Repub-
leans to count on much from the
Pelican State. TIE price of her adj
leience even temporarily is plainly
fixed at Il restoration either Of the
sugar duties which prevailed before
1890 or of the bounty system. Repub-
iicaus certainly could not restore the
old duties, AID they should not res
tore the bounty syst m, Louisiana
has once proiiied by Republican fair
Ness and hei thacks We're the elections
of Democratic Representatives to over
throw what the Republicans had done.
The same result will follow again.
Republicans, or semi Republicans,
:aay be elected in two or three els.
trlcIs this year and in 1896. but once
Il return of Republican prosperity Is
secured, l. u!Slana will be as ready to
vote 1t away once mole as she was in
1890 and 1892. E
Thus from the political point of
View alone 1t would be folly 20 make
any pr rmises to the Louisiana q
planters. The bounty is repealed, and
1t is we'll. Let it never be restored as
a national policy. If Louisiana thinks
her sugar industry is worth
ing at the cost ola bounty, let her pay
the bounty herself. The sugar grow
Ing States alone derive benefit from
the fostering OF this weak Industry.
Let them encourage it.-Butfilo Ex-
press, Rep.
The Republicans Don't Want Them.
Chicago Tribune, Rep.
The rnction of the sugar planters in
louisa IL continues and is beyinuiGp
to attract widespread attention, par
tlcnIarir III the South. For the bene-
fit of all concerned. however, it nav
be "a we'll /" inform the people down
there that there S ONE doubt wheth-
Ell the Republican party, when it
rotakes possession of the government
thlee Years hence, will care to restore
the bounty feature. That provision
of the Mckinley law, which was repu-
dated hy the Democrats, did not meet
with the approval of many Republic
cans, who We're inclined to regard if
not only as nnwise, but as IA stretch of
the Constitution, yet the bounty was
gwen as a sort of compensation for
the free listing of sugar and for the
taklnG away Of the protective duty
from the planters. These planters
took The money and then turned
around and voted against the Repub-
beans III 1890 and again in 1892. They
s"' The cash and the Republican par
~ got the odium of the bounty.
There is no doubt that this bounty
WAS one of the causes which helped to
the Republicans, and the Lon
Isiana Jewellers contributed their share
towards tie defeat. Now they are
growing becaaae Democrats, whom
they supported with il clear under-
standing OF the platform and fully
"ith~iE Pronunciation ofbouuties.
taken off the sugar bounty. and
they are declaring that they will vote
1"r Republicans. The Democrats.
however. have not treated them as
badly as the platform threatened.
i hat document was adverse to bonn
ties ana 10 protective duties, but they
been given 40 per cent protec-
ton, which Is more than the average
given to Northern interests. PERHAPS
they viii fluid that they cannot Get
with that.
Now THESE recalcitrant planters are
engaged IL demanding not alone the
per cent Of protection, the bounty
upon THIS years crop also, which, ii is
clear ron Secretary Carlisle's letter.
they VIII not get. Their position in
THIS matter illustrates their greediness.
they have no higher idea than sugar
hnd What they IA get ont of it. 1t
may possibly ne that tley will succeed
III Sending Il or Two republicans
:" Congress. but if So it will only be
ior the sake of getting a bounty on
sugar; and if they should get it, they
VIII lapse back lnto the Democratic |
party again. 1t Is not Il permanent
conversion. Even if the whole State
II Louisiana should flop over to the !
pnhiicans it would be "a high price
I the Republicans had to take it and
'tt for it with the bounty these greedy
planters propose. Converts of