Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-01

wHYMAKE ANY EXCEPTIONS
Republican comments on the closing
down Of the Sugar Trust are highly
amusing. The calamity gentlemen
won't have it that the Sugar Trust has
closed down because Of the new tariff,
though Mr.. HAvEMEYER declared that
is the cause of the closing of the refn-
cries. The Republicans declare that 1t is
a base scheme on the part Of the Trust to
make political capital for the new tariff
by trying to show it has cut down the
profits Of the Sugar Trust, or run it out
of business altogether, for the calamity
howlers claimed, you know, that the
Sugar Trust wrote its own schedule In
the Democratic tariff bill. Here we
have, for instance, HARRIsON's home
organ, the Indianapolis Journal. asking
with much apparent indignation:
UDoes the boss Of the Sugar Trust i'm
apine that the American people are fools,
and that they Will believe him when he
saws the present tariff has been injurious 10
his businessm
Now Just think Of q calamity organ
taking such a stand, with regard to
shut down! II isn't at all the proper
way for good calamityite to treat this
matter. Did they not declare that the
new tariff would shut up manufactures
and have not manufactures been start
ing up all over the country, while bus
mess has been psrsistently getting bet
tsrP Then, why, when a case OF real,
sure-enough shut down comes to hand,
not utilize it?.
Mr.. HAvEMEYER, the President OF
the Sugar Trust, said of the closing of
the refneries:
G"The operation Of the new tariff law has
already closed half the rehnerles IN the
country. throwing the men wno worked 10
them out Of employment, and II Will PROB
ably close all the rest OF them next week.
This will mean putting at least ten thou
sandAmen out Of work. The price OF sugar
is below the cost of production. For some
time past the company has been working
the rehneries at considerable loss"
AS the Louisville Courier Journal
puts it, "we submit that this is the
genuine brand of the calamity howl 1t
bears all the marks Of the staple article
on which we have been fed for 10! these
many years, and it has at least one
characteristic in addition. The REIN
cries have shut down, whereas many OF
the calamity howlers only threaten to
close while a tariff bill is pending; after
it is passed they enlarge their plants.
The closed rehneries show for them
selves; they are undoubtedly inactive,
whatever may be the reason.
THE Journal is indignant that HAVE
MEYER should say that the new tariff
bin is injurious to his business, but it is
not forgotten that he said so before the
bill was passed. he testified that the
Mckinley bill was more favorable to
the Trust than the German schedule
When asked aiterward what tariff on
sugar he preferred, he answered I'M
hesitatingly "McKinley's. Nor is
there anything unreasonable in the
statement According to Senator AID
RICH, the Republican leader in the Sen
.ata, the McKialey bill gave the Trust
nearly twice as much protection as the
new law.
BESIDES, it is dangerous for Repu5-
licans to throw distrust on these ca
lamity bowls. They are depreciating
their own goods. They are impairing
their political capital. Without calam-
ity bowls they must go out of business.
They have no policy. They cannot
even tell whether they will treat the
German bill as a 6nality or not. And
vet, when they have q full-grOwn howl
ready made to their hands, and 10000
men thrown out of employment, they
hesitate to accept it. Have they not
HAvEMEYER's word that the tariff bill
has closed the refneries? What more
do they have in other cases than the
word OF the manufacturer? Why &C.
cept all the others and reject this? If
the howIsrs are not to be trusted, the
Republican party is political bank
rupt.
There is not" says the Courier
Journal "the slightest room for doubt
that the new tariff bill has cut down
the profits of the trust. That it has
forced the closing Of the refineries we
do not, OF course, believe Neverthe-
less, we insist that the statement that
the tariff bill has closed the refneres
is just as worthy Of belief as the aver
age statement of this sort made by
other trusts aud other protected manu-
facturers. There is no reason for dis
elimination.
Mr.. A. c. HARRELL, OF Potomac, who
is well known in this city, dropped into
tie REGISTER Office Saturday aud stated
that wool was of easy sale to Washing
ton county BUYERS for twenty cents.