The morning call., 1894-10-30

for various reasons, chiefly for revenue.
Reference was made to the Mckinley bill.
which, he said. pretended 10 give the people
free sugar, but didn't. 1t admitted ra "
sugar free. but people don't eat raw sugar
any more than they eat raw beef. Mr..
Havemeyer of the sugar trust Testified
under oath that the Mckinley bill was the
best and most favorable for that giant
mouopoly.tWh the Republican party too X
away the tariff on sugar it placed a bounty
OF cents per pound on all the raw sugar
produced in this country. II even included
maple sugar, that infant industry.
What is the difference between bounty
ana tariff? The tariff places money in
the treasury to pay the expenses of Gov
ernment. The bounty takes money out of
the treasury in order to enrich few in
dividuals.
cabbages and corn as much entitled to
bounty as they who raise cane and sorghum
and beetS?" he went on. "Most assuredly
YOU are. am tired and disgusted with
this system of fiiching from the pockets of
one class of people to enrich another class.
we pay great sum. over $40, ,000 600
annually, to pensioners We are willing
and glad to do this. But the growers of
beet and maple sugar did not risk their
lives and limbs in defense of their cour-
try, and therefore we do not consider that
they are entitled TO bounties or pensiops.
We have given the farmers of California
grain bags free of duty. We have re-
moved the onerOus burden of taliff on
coal so that the poor man can afford to
keep fire in the house as we'll as the rich
man. On the wool schedule alone we have
saved the people S140, 600. COO and so on In
proportion on all the necessities of life.
This tariff bin is most pr gre ssiye meas
ure. 1t does not go far enough, but it will
never be perfected unless 1t be by the
Democratic party"
The Chinese treaty was then touched
upon. The speaker denounced as false
the assertions that the treaty opened the
door for the admission of Chinese laborers.
IL simply provides, said the speaker, that
II ChinamaD wants to 90 away from
mere ior year and return again he can do
so. lie is already here and can stay If he
so elects. Ii he wants 10 paw a visit to
China the people of California can proba-
bly, spare him for few months or q wear
In referring to the Hawaiian Islands and
their revolution be said
II was opposed to the ratification of the
treaty 10 annex those islands to this Gov
ernment. The natives there are not fit for
American citizenship. Mr.. Sherman said
the islands ought to be annexed and made
a part of California. L thought il would
be more appropriate 10 attach them to
Ohio. How many blocks of votes, do you
think, would our friend Burns discover in
Hawaii? think he would be very sue
cessful there. We do not want to spread
our ideas by force or the power Of the
sword. The native population of Hawaii
was opposed 10 annexation, and therefore
we did not wan- them. Rather let some
monarchial government invade those lands
and break the barbarians into ciyiliza-
ton"
Mr.. White, in speaking of the Burns
convention, said that nothing was said on
the railroad question, because there was a
contract to keep silent, contract bound
by certain pledges to turn over blocks of
votes, as we'll as other cousiders tions.
He did not blame the railroad people for
taxing the public most OutragOuslv when
ever and wherever they could. The peo-
pie had put them where they are, to do
just what they are doing, and il the eople
like 1t they can keep things as they are.
The soil is cultivated, bOunteOus crops are
grown. aud the farmers grow poorer with
the abundance Of each year because the
railroad takes all the profit. He then ad-
vOcated the foreclosure of the Central Pa
clfic mortgage bonds, and, il necessary.
the operation of the railroad by the Gov
erDment. Ii is a wonderful corporation.
AS corporation ii is insolvent, while the
managing stockholders are wonderfully
rich. In eulogy OF James G. Mcguire
Mr.. White said:
"There is no man in California who can
uO JVui CVIpOI dbiou-iHip pClsOneu CITY so
much good as James g. Mcguire in Con-
gress. Ii you let him De defeated l shall
be ashamed of the city of my birth"
The Senator closed his address by hurl-
ing bitter denun citation and fiery invee-
tive against the American Protective
Association, which he characterized as
being a creature of evil. heart and soul,
opposed to American PRINCIPLES and con-
trary TO constitutional rights and liberties.
The meeting adjourned with three
cheers for jim Budd and the ticket"