Tensas gazette., 1894-11-02
SEND FOR CULLeM.
From the Daily States.

le, Saturday night AT the Auditors
nm ditl nor afford the sugar plant
els OF this State much comfort, hu'
on the contrary, it was ia the Da'
tur. of q sore diSa pOinfmrnt I
them. IuS;ead OF pub.iclt declaring
that be- was in favor OF Restoring III"
bounty which he placed on Sugdf
and which the Democrats IL iustIr'
to the masses OF th~ people. out /"
whose pockets it was taken. re-
moved, he asserted that "the HePub
lIcan party makes M phmises" Ii
vas evident To all who heard Gov.
McKinley's speech that he was
afraid to go on record aS favcrIns
tue restoration oi th.- sugar bOunt.
which SucB Republican leaders as
Reed, Shrrmin aud Allison have
acknowledged cnst their party from
forty to sixty votes IN tue present
House.
But while Mckinley got aronnh
the bounty IN IA way To convince his
audience that he is u very arttul
Iolitical dod gel, another Republican
who aspirrs to the presidency, Sen
atOr CuiIum, of Illinois, has come
out squsrely tor the bounty. He
is tae man the bOlting planters
should have brought here to res
vive their dropping spirits, because
while they talk about protection
for sugar they want the protection
in the shape of IA bounty. They
care nothing at all for the pr0tec,
ton which Mckinley preaches.
Regarding Senator Culium's ads
vocacy OF the sugar bounty the
Chicago Herald says
"Senator Cull0m at last has Civ
en a direct answer to one ot Mac>
Veagh's direct qne-tions. He would
restore the Mckinley bounty of :
cents d pound oD sug',r produced IN
this country. He admitted that
while talking u IL small crowd al
| Pitt III I'D the ether da,.
! so the Senator wJull vote the
taxes paid 10y the people vi Illinois
aud o'her States INTO the packets NJ
a teS rich planters in Louisiana aud
4 lew bpdt-grosersi IN two or three
other States.
"Last year the bounties y II
amonnted to about Sl2,Oo0, ,0oa 0i
this sum about $40 O0O. .OOh wsut Ia
! 800 planters in Louisi tna, giv!n.
each of them something like s21,-
0O0 on the avera, -. Mnch the
largest share of the remainder went
to beet>9rowerS in California. Beet
growers 10 Nebraska also got con
siderable amount. People in THESE
, three States got nearly all lhe
: bounty paid on cane and beet SIS
gar. Tie rest of the money wen,
to boilers, of maple sap mostly.
$50 Mr.. Cullum would tax the
paople of Illinois 10 pay bouniies to
men in Louisiana. Nehrask ska sn'
California He would tax then
: nearly a million dollars u year fol
, the enrIchmrnt ~ LonIsiAra pla,,r,
! ers, who nnSt be good deal rirGr
| On the average than the farmers q
! Ill nos or they would not have pI0
:, ducrd sugar pn"ugh last yeat I
b bring them in $4,000 each on tn
i average in bounty.
"iI- woull tax them also To en
e t,ch beer- growers in CallfOrnl;
- .Tn sugar beet growing must /
Il Oue OF the most profitable indus
II tres IN that State in the abseu,
d OF bounty, since good beet Ian
|, evtn now Is about as high price
: a. town lots. The whole bount
. ~ fem Involves a wrong, which b,
,f CO es most outrageous wrOn
II wi ! the bounty is paid to the Tic
;. . out ( the earnings of the cODpari
n tiv' : poor.
, by is Mr.. Cullum in favor
'i rei ing this wrong against Il
pc, ,of his own State! Dnrs |