The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-02
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN TRICK.

It seems that the trick by which it is
claimed the Republican party imposed
on even many Of its own members in
Congress in 1873. and by which silver
was "demonetized," has been played on
other occasions with similar success
In the debate in the Senate on the
sugar question recently, Senator Teller
confessed that he was deceived in the
matter when the Mckinley tariff bill of
1890 was passed. Several Republican
senators admitted they had made a
mistake on that occasion and Mr.. Tel
Ter said:
Mr.. Teller-Every time anybody talks
Of the duty and finds fault with the
ment of the wrongdoings of the Re
publican party in 1890, and are told that
it in an outrageous manner gave the
trust an opportunity to SWindle the
American people. 1 am quite inclined
10 think that is correct. l am quite
inclined to think it was done, but in
my judgment it was not done as openly
as it is being done today. The senator
from Missouri (A1r. VeSD suggests to
me that it was. The senator from Mis-
souri, might have known of it. a great
many of us did not.
Mr. Vest-I said it was so much the
worse.
Mr.. Teller-Most of us did not know
when we PASSED the Mckinley bill that
there was a great bounty of $4,000. 600
to be paid to this trust then IL its
incipient stage, dt was nearly three
years old.) and which had not
fairly got SO that it could take hold
and command legislation and corrupt
parties and do all the things that it is
said TO be doing now.
Mr.. Jones of Arkansas-Will the
senator from Colorado allow me to in
terrupt him right there?
Mr.. Teller-Certainly.
Mr.. Jones of Arkansas wish to call
his attention to the fact that one of the
most violent denunciations of the Sugar
trust ever uttered on this floor was ut
tered by the senator from Ohio CMr.
Sherman) in 1888, and in 1890 it was
hardly new and incipient organize
ton which was not Well understood
Mr.. Teller went on to explain that in
1880 the trust did not have a capital of
$75,OOO,OOO, and that its capital was in
creased to $50, 900 in 1891, and added:
Nobody in the United States whom I
with it ever suggested that there was
more than $25,000,000 of property repre-
sented in the trust. Using a plain
American term, the $4,000 600 was a
clean steal, and they have been paving
since that time on the $75, 000. 900 from
20 to q per cent. interest. | believe
this year they are paying % per cent.
when everything else N this country is
in distress. They have bean
getting $23, 100000 out of the American
people since 1890, and [ am afraid they
will continue to- get in the neighbor
hoon Of that amount now. They NAV
not get quite so much
Senator Teller is an honest gentle
man, and when he made this confess
sion he did not attempt to say that all
his Republican associates in the Senate
were deceived as he was When he
said most of us Gid not know" he in
ferred of course that some of them did
know how much of a bounty was to go
to the Sugar trust.
Senators Higgins and Sherman also
admitted the mistake and protested
their ignorance of the provision, but
Senator Aldrich contradicted Shermand
ana said further
L am a protectionist and / believe
that the business of refining sugar is as
legitimate as any in the United States
II is q business which should have