Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-10-11
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find it.
Now, who opposed this amendment
to strike out part of this tax on sugar
as amended by Kyle? "a democrats
and one republican. These are the
fellows who defeated kyle's amend
ment and voted TO retain this tax on
sugar and struck the "death blow to
themselves and their party" Yet at
Webster, on the 9th. day of Oct. "a,
this smooth-tongued, sugar senator
made a democratic free trade speech,
defending the Wilson bill with the
sugar tax in it, which SO democrats
with the help of populists Kyle, Al
len and lrby passed.
But let us examine the Congress
sional Record further, Let us turn
to page 1929, July 3rd, the same day
when this same section of the sugar
schedule was still under consideration
and, after various amendments had
been voted on and all rejected. Sen
ator PETER, a populist senator from
Kansas, arose and moved to amend
the sugar schedule as follows: 81
now 0 to strike out all the parts
of the section providing for a duty on
sugar, without specifying all the diff
ferent lines, the object of the amend
ment is to present the subject of free
sugar. This is the first time the
free sugar question was presented
and the smooth, oily, sugar-coated
senator from South Dakota was a
little off when he said with great
bombast, at was | who moved for
free sugar. 1t was | who voted for
free sugar" He did not say any
thing about senator PETER. Truthful
Boss Kelley, of the Herald, knew it
was PETER who moved for free sugar,
because he told you in a recent issue
of his paper and not the great big
sugar-coated capital 81" from South
Dakota.
What became of this amendment
of senator PETERS? 1t vas rejected
by a vote of SO to 80. Kyle voted
for this amendment. PETER and
Kyle again marshaled their forces,
consisting of 20 republicans rogues,
l democrat and 4 populists, and
again met defeat at the hands of 80
democrats and one republican, who
were the 80 senators who did not
want FREE SUGAR. These are the
80 fellows who struck the "death
blow" and killed free sugar.
And so we now come to July 5th,
when the Wilson bill, SUGAR TAX
AND ALL, passed in the senate. 1t
is found on page S491 OF the Con-
gressional Record. On the 3rd, OF
July, this smooth-tongued, oily,
sugar-coated senator had "marshaled
mis- forces on his own amendment,
and again on the 3rd. of July the
same forces were marshaled on
PETERS amendment. But when ii
came to the final test-when it came
to the vote which made this sugar
tax a law so far as the senate was
concerned, did this sugar-coated
senator again ''marshal his forces?'
Was he found at the head of his col
umn with senator PETER? No. we
are sorry to say he vas not. He
sold out, body and breaches, to the
other camp. He went in with the
very men and the very party about
whom, on the 3rd. day of July, this
sugar-coated senator said he"believed
meant the death blow to the man or
party which passed this bill with that
sugar tax in it," and thereby fixed
and fastened down on the people of
the United States this sugar tariff.
1t is no wonder he spends an hour
and a half preaching the old, worn
out free trade heresies that have been
preached from the democratic stump
since the time of John G. Calhoun.
The question of free trade-tarif-
wages in this country and England
free wool-duty on yarn. hats and
clothing, and pauper labor have been
in some form in every democratic
platform since 1910. No wonder he
says the trusts wanted more but swe
only gave them part of wha. they
wanted. No wonder he works his
audience up on ''shoddy" before ex-
planning his vote on sugar. No won
der he says IL voted for free sugar.
No wonder he says II voted for the
Wilson bill with a tax on sugar in
it)' and that he is proud of it. No
wonder he says at was | who
moved to strike out the tax on
sugar" when he knew it was PETER.
No wonder he prefers to quote his
figures from a little book he has
made himself. No wonder he does
not show you the Congressional
Record as to how he voted, but says
''you will find it all there" Just as
though every farmer in the country
had a Congressional Record in his
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