St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-09-15
AFATAl ERROR.
EX-SENATOR JONAS, IN AN
ADMIRABLE INTERVIEW,
POINTS OUT TO THE PLANT
Frs THE DANGER or
SECESSION.

taken by the sugar PianOess' III
their meetings at DonaIdsonvilie
and Franklin, and the more general
one in New Orleans, and l say
this because 1 am and always have
been . warm friend Of and sympa-
thizer with the sugar producers,
and have on the stump and in Con-
gress always been . staunch advo-
cate Of IN adequate duty on sugar.
81 have contended for this duty
on revenue grounds, on which alone
it could be successfully maintained.
Nine-tenths OF the sugar consumed
in this country is imported, and it
is THEREFORE an ideal subject for .
revenue duty, and was figured -
such upon every Democratic and
Republican tariff bill previous to
the Mckinley bill, and producing
for the treasury the sum Of fifty
millions Of dollars, with but slight,
il any, increase Of price to the con-
sumner.
II had not been in Congress six
weeks when I discovered that the
sugar duty had no friends in the
Republican party, simply because
it Was . revenue duty, and that
party wished to decrease revenue in
:he face Of an immense surplus IN
the Treasury, for the extortion OF
which the country held them re-
spons,ble.
"They wished to preserve their
pampered and protected interests,
and at the same time reduce this
surplus, and 90 put sugar on the
free list in the Mckinley bill, putting
the demagogic claim that it was
to cheaper the poor name break
fast table.
:sTe conciliate the Republican
maple and beet sugar producers.
and in hopes Of building up the
latter industry in the States Of
Nebraska and California, they gave
. bounty, which was never asked
for by the cane sugar producers.
(and which did not receive the votes
OF their representatives, and which
the Republican party knew was 90
contrary to the policy OF this gov
eminent, and 50 indefensible on
q ounds Of principle ana equity,
that it could not be maintained
before the people. and could not
outlast the Congress which enacted
it.
Therefore the Republican party
deliberately put sugar on the free
list.
s'The ouly other crusade against
sugar was made in 1928, in the
Republican House, when Kei6el
was speaker, and where the sugar
tariff was reduced below 40 pei
cent, and only restored and main.
tanned by solid Democratic vote
in the Senate.
I'm the face Of this, it is pro-
posed by the sugar planters to cut
loose from their Democratic friends
and to join hands with their Repub-
licsn enemies.
I'm the face OF . popular move
ment for tariff reform, which has
twice swept the country like Z
cyclone, it is proposed to unite their
fortunes with the lost cause Of pro
lection, and to support and re-enact
il possible, al Of the enormities OF
the Mckinley bill, in the hopes Of
obtaining arestOrati0n OF the bounty
on sugar, ut the hands Ut the Re-
publican party.
III this involved ne sacrifice Of
principle even, where is it hope oi
success?
1.-The Democratic party will
almost certainly obtain . reduced
majority in tse next Congress.
1.-The Republican party will make
their campaign on free sugar, and
their strongest arraignmen: Of the
Democratic party will be for their
action in restoring it to the dutiable
list, and the Republican party will
never advocate the restoration Of
the bounty before the American
people.
Therefore the new venture in
politics which is proposed, while q
sad sacrifice Of principle to- many,
would be political suicide and
martydom without the slightest
hope Of compensation or reward.
III it eventuates in the cleo
ton Of two or three Congressman
who are willing to take the required
pledge, land I am satisfied none Of
the present delegation will 30
debase themselves, then they will
either be Republicans who on every
question but sugar will misrepre-
sent their constituents, or they
will be political hermophradites,
who will represent no one, have no
influence with anybody, and who
will be compelled to flock to them
selves.
''in the meantime the Democratic
party, seeing themselves abandoned
BY the sugar producers, will aban-
don them in turn and they will be
left without friends or sympathizeis
in the whole political field.
II honestly believe that while the
action OF Congress has been disap-
pointing to the sugar interest and
not what we al had hoped, that it
Was the best which could be had
under all the difficulties with which
the majority we're confronted.
II believe that IL that action
could be accepted with patience,
that the situation would be
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