The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-21
a OUTPUT.

A very curious thing indeed has hap
pened in the Congress. What is itG 1t
is the House has accepted the Senate
protection bill that makes a surplus OF
sos, 600, 900, gives 81, 600 annually
to the giant Sugar Trust, taxes hun
dreds of household n-ecessaries from 40
to 12O per cent. or more, taxes the poor
mans sugar, taking from the people
nearly $50, 900, 900 in this tax on sugar
alone and when it is not needed, and
indorsing by their votes the theory and
principle of high protection which the
Democratic platform 80 incontinently,
so vigorously damns, branding it as
robbery"
The President should write an hum
BILE apology to the Senators, whom he
so approbriously stigmatized, and the
Representatives should make most
h~umiliating confession that they had
been slandering grossly the Sugar Sen
ators. The press, too, should make a
low salaam, casting much ashes on
their heads should admit that Great
is Diana of the E~phesians." Hurrah
for the Senate bill! 1t is the triumph
of the age. The Republican New York
Tribune saw it coming, and two or
three days ago gave the following as
the amended, revised reading of the
Democratic platform as to the tariff
and trusts for 1894:
1--WE declare it to be a fundamental
principle of the Democratic party that
the Federal Government has every
constitutional power to impose and
collect tariff duties for the benefit of
Senators interested in special industries
or specializing in Wall street, and for
the enrichment of trusts contributing
locally to Democratic campaign funds
in Democratic States, or Of syndicates
and combinations controlled by the
Presidents political and personal
friends.
I'VE recognize in the trusts and
combinations which are designed to
enable capital to secure more than it's
just share of the joint product of cap
ital and labor convenient business
agencies for securing Democratic cam.
paign funds in presidential years and
for controlling the election of Demo
cratic Senators, and we believe that
financial resources of the party can be
vastly incre 4sed by the enactment of
tariff schedules directly in the interest
of trusts, together with such further
legislation in support of syndicates and
corporations as experience may show
to be necessary for making hard cash
a controlling issue in Democratic cleo
tions."
Plain, honest, sincere people who
know nothing of the tricks and sell outs
of the regulation politician will not be
liable to understand how any party
can so far forget the past, the declara-
tions of 1892, the history of the Demo
cratic party. The Democrats among
the people will be amazed, possibly, at
the performances in Washington.
Others will not be amazed at anything
that may occur, after John Sherman
became the counsellor and the engineer
of the silver repeal bill last year in the
Senate.
In 1892, before the Lenox Lyceum,
the President said of trusts:
''The movement begins with the cor
ruption of the beneficiaries themselves.
They are thereafter willing instruments
for the corruption of others, instigated
to activity by an obligation to aid the
party which has favored them and
stimulated by the expectation of
further especial benefit. This deal be-
tween a political party and private en-
terprise, by which governmental aid
is promised in exchange for partisan
support, is covered by a pretext of a
a r for the business interests of the
country"
The people are deplorably sacrificed,
and we hope it will teach them a lesson
they will not soon forget. Look at the
declarations Of the State Democratic
Convention last week, and then look
at their Representatives voting for a
high protective bill laid in the interests
of monopoly and trusts, and that
creates a surplus of $68, 600, 900 accord
ing to the experts. Mr.. Wilson tries
to explain the surrender by saying it
is ''plain Democratic necessity" So
might the Republicans say any time
when making a tariff law for monop-
olists. - Wilmington Messenger 18th.
Here is ~, DR.. Kingsbury.
| "