Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-09-13

more than 10000 persons were present.
Among the many good things Mr.. Reed
said are the following:
THE reason why the Democratic party
has been a failure is a reason so simple
that it is a wonder that we did not I'M
derstand more fully and completely that
this result must take place. 1t was in
evitable.
1.-The Democratic party has had in the
last thirty years no underlying principle
on which it was united from one end
of the country to the other. This is not
said as a ~reproach; it is said simply as an
historical fact. That such should be the
which has been in the minority for a long
period of time gathers together all the
people who are opposed to the party actu-
ally in power, and opposed for different
reasons. 1t is only when they endeavor
to combine and to take positive and af-
firmatiye action themselves that we began
to realize the tremendous diversity of
opinion which was masked under the
seeming unanimity of opposition.
The lesson OF the past year, while 1t
has been disastrous to the material inter
ests of the country, If it should result in
a more thorough appreciation of the ac-
tons and deeds of the party which was in
control of this country from 1860 onward,
the country will wrest out of the mis-
fortune a blessing.
whatever may have been done by the
people at present in possession of the
government, everyone will admit that it
has been done slowly, out of place and in
such a way as to be of the least possible
service TO the country.
''The Republican party in the bill of
1890 had given this country free sugar.
If there is a necessity i'm life that is one,
and we had freed it entirely from the
tax-gatherer. As there existed certain
industries in the Democratic state of
Louisiana, and as we hoped that in the
great states Of California, Nebraska and
Kansas the great industry of sugar pro-
ducing might be carried on to such an
extent as to furnish the entire country
with all the sugar it needed for its con-
sumption, we determined, not only IN the
instincts of justice toward Louisiana, but
feeling that it would be a paying invest
ment to this country to secure, as France
had done, the production of beet sugar,
we determined to bestow a bounty upon
the production of sugar upon all four of
those states, and such other states as it
might prove to be profitable in.
THE result in Louisiana has been a
tremendous increase of sugar production,
and there was every prospect that in
other states the beet sugar industry
would take wide proportions and furnish
not only sugar for the country, but also
occupation and profit for farmers who
would produce the raw mdteFldl. Inc
House of Representatives saw fit not
only 10 abolish this bounty, but also took
off every duty connected with sugar.
"When the bill arrived in the Senate it
was discovered that this country was en-
gagged in the task of passing a bill which
would diminish the revenues $3.50 900.
1t then became necessary, in the opinion
of all intelligent people, to put n tax upon
sugar if this bill was to be persisted in.
Thnraitnnn n tay yyaS nrpnosaI imam c,.oa 70
of 40 per cent, with a differential of one
eighth for the sugar r~efiners, and still
another diferential to protect them
against the export sugar of countries
which paid an export premium.
This was the bill which passed the
House. Anticipating, in fact, knowing,
that such action would be unpopular in
relieve themselves from the burden of the
vote which they had just given. and
therefore availed themselves of the ex-
traordiDary powers which resided in the
House. and by a course of action entirely
unprecedented, they provided that a bill
might be introduced into the House Civ
ing free sugar, which bill could not be
amended, should not be debated over half
an hour n might then be passed, and
accordingly this was done. OF course this
was a pure farce. Everybody knew il,
no matter how they voted upon the sub
Ject. Everybody understood that il was
SIMPLY a campaign document that was
going through the House.
And why was it so? Why. they intend
ed :" say, If your Republican senator's
choose to vote for that it will become a
law Now, while the Republican senators
were opposed 10 the tax upon sugar. Just
as they were opposed TO all the rest of
the bill, and while they had no interest
IN the difterential for the benefit of the
m r roll nAsA L-A
for free sugar without a bounty. When
the bill got TO the Senate it met with the
rate that might hare been expected. The
Senate voted to put on TO il an amend.
ment authorizing the continuance of the
bounty which had already been granted
under the Mckinley act and which was
promised TO the people of the country for
a period OF ten years. This the Demo
Gratis refused TO adopt. so their '%popgun'
bill and all the rest of the 'popgun' bills