The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-08-23

SUGAR TRUST PROTECTORS.
The Tariff Reform Democrats Labored and
Added Millions to the Wealth of
the Sugar Trust.

The Tariff. Reform Democrats Labored and |
Added Millions to the Wealth of
the Sugar Trust.
It is enough to make a craven image
shed tears, to see how this Democratic
tariff-tinkering congress acts. They
call it craftsmanship but are evidently
not ssonto their job, = for the house and.
senate have been working at cross pur-
poses from the start. First the house
took a turn at the tariff, and after
months Of setting and no end Of
cackling, laid an egg. It was the Will
son bill, and was enclosed in thin
free-trade shell. Tt went over to the
senate and they 'ssot and sot'' on it for
months but it wouldn't hatch: Then
they smashed it, gathered up the frag-
ments and undertook to patch up
new shell for it. They mended it, or
tried to, in 400 places and riveted on
an everlasting lot Of pieces for pro:
lection, they said and got it all out
OF shape so that no one would own or
recognize it, when it went back to the.
house. It had as many sides as con
CHEESEMAN'S conscience and more colors
than Joseph's coat. It was patchwork
of the craziest sort, and the house
members said they wouldn't have it;
they would rather have Bill McKin-
ley's bill, if it is ever so vicious and
unconstitutional. Finally a conference
committee from both houses under
took to fix things up, made a mess Of
it and retired. The president joined
with the house in denouncing the
senate goose egg as the worst botch Of
the century. He, too, would rather
have the present Mckinley law and
intimated that this vicious bill never
would pass except over his veto. Then
half a dozen august senators went to
roost on Cleveland's PROSTATE form:
They picked his eyes out one by one,
covered him with defilement and then
flew over to the other hatchery and
said ''Now set! and setif you have to
set standing, and hatch this egg of
ours or we will pull down the whole
Democratic rookery." The house
members, be it remembered, were anx-
ious to get home and repair their
fences. They knew very well that if
they went home with the Mckinley
law unrepealed they would have to stay
there. The people had heard them
lsay twas ssstthe sum of al illainies,'
and had directed them to destroy it
and if it was not destroyed they would
be called upon. to tell why. So. a new
conference committee was called upon
in the interest of Democratic peace
and harmony and just as it was about
to do something some of the Demo-
cratic senators who were afraid the
senate bill would pass, despite the as
sertions of the house and the threats
of the president, moved to recall it
from the committee and thus save the
country from such fate. But the
house members had got desperate by
this time. The campaign was. on and
they must hatch something right
away. Their poor little egg was n. G..
and there was nothing left but the
awkward senate affair-not such as
they wanted and positively odious, but
hatch it they would and hatch it they
did and all their grand professions
of faithfullness to Democratic princi-
pies went up in smoke. And Cleve-
land, the man Of nerve, the president
who characterized the senate bill as
the sum Of all villianies and wrote his
celebrated letter to Wilson in protest
againstit, declaring it should not be-
come a law. Well, it is now before
him and everything goes to show that
he, too, will take tumble and make
it the law of the land Great is De-
mocracy and the sugar trust is its
prophet lontevideo Leader.