The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-07-27
PROTECTION BLAc KMAlL.


Mirror and Farmer. chief protection
lnnco stccrcr for the state OF New
Hampshire. protests most earnestly
against my kicking its large protec-
ZION paunchc In reply 10 my i.dict-
mcnt. il assures the republican voter,
w.om IL il misleading and befooling
on this question:
l. That am hired writer for the
sugar trust, paid by it 10 defend its
thrfts
2. That there Is now no tax on So
gar; that the Mckinley bill put sugar
on the free list. and that the wicked
democrats are now trying 10 put tax
on sugar that will benefit the trust bv
s. 50 per ton.
3 That there never was sugar trust
under republican legislation. or while
the republicans taxed sugar. and that
Il Is under the law putting sugar on
the free list. under the abominablc
free trade" in sugar of the Mckinley
bill. that the sugar trust has grown
rich and insolent.
I. That every man Except one) in
the sugar trust is a democrat. and that
MI the contributions of the sugar trust
have been made TO the democratic
party.
There are many more statements Of
this kind with which it proposes to
hoolwink the ignorant and vicious re-
publican voters OF New Hampshire
TOO ignorant To refer to the law and
see for themselves what the facts are:
too vicious to even care what the facts
IRE when the truth has been shown
them Each republican vote which
This protection bunco-stcerer can re-
tain for the republican party next No
vcmber is worth sll0 in crisp green
backs 10 the league Of four hundred
and fifty American protected trusts,
md II pluhing will keep even one vote
from straving. it does not propose 70
lose that one. or its percentage on any
one it can steer into the game for its
employers to swindle. That IL is Grim
inally dishonest. that il is n partner Of
the protection thieves. sharing their
plumber. must be the unbiased opinion
Of any honest man who reads its an
swcr 10 my STRAIGHTFORWARD statement
Of facts and figures. not one of which
II attempts to inpeach.
This World hirc.lly OF the gang that has
planned and Is about TO execute this stu
pendous robbery calls the pending bill one 20
reduce the profits Of the trust threc-four.hs.
and says he proposes to Plant his ~ell-shoi
heels square in the stomach OF NIL WAC oppose
IL The vell-shoi heels Of that ANIMAL are
the heels 81 ass that is staggering under the
load his brutal owners have piled upo1 him.
ana whose voice 1, badly broken by the bray
ing which cruel keeper EFFORTS from him
with the goad. but listen further to the noise
that comes cchoing from among the bats that
rest in his stomach up through the vacuum In
his skull and out through the oriiices OF his
vile nose"
That is its only answer to my state
ment that the Mckinley bill PRO
tects" the sugar trust with a duty Of
SLIGO per ton: that the proposed SEN
ate bill reduces this Mckinley protcc-
ton of the trust to duty of $3.50 per
ton. II cannot deny that the sugar
trust yearly receives under the Nc
Kinley law $50. 900. 600 blood money and
blacSmail. 1t cannot deny that the
senate bill substitutes a tax OF one
eighth Of n cent in place of the present
tax of onc-half Of a cent. as the pro-
lection of the trust. IL cannot deny
that the senate bill compcls the sugar
trust to pay into the treasury sl5.ooo.-
900 of the $4,000. 900 blaclsmail now
paid to IL yearly by the people. and
that all other taxes on sugar levied by
the senate bill go into the treasury.
1tdocs not deny, and cannot deny. that
under the Mckinley bill we must pay to
the sugar trust SIC. 600. 900 blackmail
yearly. rs we have done since 1890. and it
does not deny that the defeat of dem
ocratic reform measure which cuts this
blackmail down is what the trust
is working for. 1t cannot meet
facts or figures. 1t dare not quote
the present law or the proposed law.
There is nothing left but to dcnouncc
me as the paid advocate of the sugar
trust! Between 1886 and 1890 there was
not fact or figure in connection
with the exposure Of the sugar trusts
thcfts used in any newspaper or in any
public utterance that did not supply:
no other writer furnished anything;
and this same defender OF protection
then denounced me for my pcrsistcn I
attack on the sugar trust, as 1.-The pa id
clerk of gang of foreign importers
rs "A liar hired by British gold" TO de-
fame honest men. The exposure that
! made Of the sugar trust blackmail
between 1885 and 1929 forced q rcduc-
ton to the present theft Of $40. 600 600.
Because am fighting row to either cut
this blackmail of altogether or reduce
1t to S5.0)O,ooo, this protection bunco-
stcercr denounces me as the paid agent
Of the trust. in order to defeat any
change and keep the $50. 600. 600 black
mail for the trust 1t is an old trick OF
the pickpocket 70 shout stop thief
at his accuscr. This editor has such
confidence in the stupidity and ignor-
nnce of his readers that he knows 1t
will be successful in divcrting nttcn-
ton from himself To call me hire
ling of the sugar trust" Not one Of
his readers cares enough for the truth
20 pin him down to the figures and
facts. if he had sufficient intelligence
20 understand them.-Tarif Rule. In
\. Y. World.