The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-28
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
The Republican senators are so shocked
at the sugar rings tariff schedule that
they are trying to prevent Senator Lind
say from denouncing it and seeking to
get 1T repealed or amended.-N. Y. World
Dem).
These Republican senators are so
shocked that the country thinks they are
protesting too much and that their vir-
tue is more simulated than real.
The report of the Naval committee of
the House. of Representatives upon, the
charges of fraud in the armor plates
made by the Carnegie company is to
the effect that all the accusations have
been sustained by the evidence. In
other words, that company, which con-
tributed nearly half a million dollars to
the Republican corruption fund in 1892,
has been systematically defrauding the
government for years by imposing on its
agents defective plates, at an enormous
expenditures City Times Dem.).
The Carnegie company took a logical
view of the situation. If it was right
for the government to allow the COM
pany, through the tariff, to rob the peo-
pie why was it not right to rob the gov
eminent?
If 3,S5O,000,000 pounds of refined sugar
tax in the Mckinley tariff has been
equivalent to S23 900, 900 per annum. If to
this be added the bounty paid by the
people to the domestic producers SO, 375, 900
year before last and about $12 100000 last
year, we have an annual tax of from
1872, 100000 to s35, 900 paid by consumers
of sugar and the people generally on
sugar under the Mckinley tariff, tax
no part of which went into the national
treasury, two-thirds of it going to the
combined ref1ners and the remainder to
the domestic producers.-N. Y. Times
Oem.).
The anxiety of the Republicans is lest
the people discover that the bounty paid
on domestic sugar was tax on it after
all and that they paid it on other
things.
Editor Rosewater of the Omaha Bee, is
manly but inconsistent. He has repudi-
ated the nominee of the Republicans for
governor, pronouneing him 1.-The creature
of the Burlington railroad bosses" and
disreputable candidate; But Mr.. Rose
water is inconsistent when he attempts
to distinguish between the elements
dominating the Republican party in Ne
braska and the party elsewhere. EveIy-
trusts. the railroads, the privileged cor
porations of every kind.-Chicago Times
Oem.).
Republicans are generally birds of a
feather that flock together
Finally, compulsory arbitration is an in,
vasion of personal liberty. No tribunal
ought to have the power to say that
man must work for a certain employer
on terms that it may name, nor shouid
it be given power to say that men shall
be given employment on certain condi-
tions that it may designate.-Mail and
Express (Rep).
Compulsory arbitration would be state
control of private business.
Government control of our railways i'm
plies an addition of many thousands of
office holders to the civil list, all OF
whom, even under civil service system,
would feel more or less interest In the
result of the elections. The civil list may
be increased without danger in mon
archy, but in a republic the fewer office
holders the DISQUALIFICATION Ledger
Rep.).
Government ownership of railroads
would mean railroads in politics. This
would be Objectionable no matter which
party was in power
The Republican House of Representa-
tives to be elected in November won't
have a chance to get into power n mhtli
and Democratic House will continue TO
Imisrepresent the country until March i.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat (Repo
There is on old saw that says Don't
count your chickens before they are
Matched" Let the Republicans heed 1t.
Whenever the people get a. chance they
will make the condition of the alleged
Democratic conservatives" decidedly I'M
Notwithstanding Post Oemo
These conservatives will then realize
that they Rave done those things they
ought not to have done.
70, that
lof severity, such as is justly dealt out 10
the Carnegie company, is not EXTENDED 10
the government inspectors VINO O., nave We oeea zen
educated at public cost in all the arts ana
land munitions, and who have permitted
themselves. to be imposed upon most
Inter-Ocean (Rep)
All who are in any way responsible for
these frauds should be dealt with and
should be punished according to their de-
gree of guilt.
While the Republican party. may not
propose any further extensive tariff legis-
beao feeag bR that the ths fear Of pubc
domination from fcisting free trade tariff
Upon the country; while the Republicans
may see the wisdom of giving the country
a rest from further tariff agitation, there
can be no safety in this regard except
by and through the return OF the Repupli-
cans to power.-San FRANCISCO Chrohicle
Rep)
Are not the Republicans afraid to say
they will tinker with the tariff? To
give the country rest from further tariff
agitation is very magnainous on the part
of the Republicans.
The verdict of Congress sustains the
charges of fraud in the armor plate con-
tracts. If the practical tests prove that
these charges are correct there should be
some greater punishment than fine i'm
posed on the Carnegie officials Nothing
short of the penitentiary would satisfy
justice.-San Francisco Examiner Dem.)
Frauds of this nature are the very worst
kind. 1t is like mixing sand with powder
i'll war time. Those who are guilty should
be made to suffer-