The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-08-27

furnish them almost indefinite wealth
for Mr.. Wilson himself on the floor OF
the House gave figures which showed
that in all probability the bill for which
he was then voting and for W hich he was
} demanding votes and which he finally
carried will give TO the sugar trust
welve millions of dollars this very
year outside the protection to refining.
; 1t seems incredible that men after
doing such an act as that should turn
around and proceed to make loud-voiced
talk about trusts and their desire for
their destruction.
1t has already been charged that the
Mckinley bill gave the sugar interests
one-haIf a cent a pound protection and
therefore as this bill gives but 6ne-f1fth
we Republicans have no right to COM
ment. There are two answers to this,
both of fact upon which the people
should ponder. Ina the first place the
the Sugar Trust in 1890 did not control.
There were large refneries in Philadel-
phia owned by Harrisonsand by Knight
and afterwards Spreckles who held the
Pacific coast came over to Philadelphia
and built the best refinery in the world
and in full antagonism to the Trust.
All these properties are now owned by
the Trust which controls the production.
A potection which was justiiable
where there was competition may be
utterly unJustifiable when given
BY PARTY TO A TRUST
while pretending to be against both
trusts and protection too.
The other fact is that the claim that
| the present duty is one half the old is a
| falsehood, which can be proved to be
such. One-eighth of cent is IL S one
hundredths. Forty per cent on LOS
pounds of raw sugar necessary to make
4 100 pounds of refined at cents a pound
| is /. rs cents. Forty per cent on refined
sugar at cents is 1.S0 difference, which
| is protection of "a one-hundredths. Add
| to this the value of the syrup which
comes out of the raw in refining, and
the refner gets practically so one-hun-
dredths. So that this bill, with it's
protection concealed equals theMcKinley
/ bill, and is given to trusts as protec-
| tion not when the trust is merely a
competitor, but when it is sole owner
of all production.
But you say, what is the remedy
for all this? If the billshas been passed
what dc you propose to do in regard to
it?" In the first place. it is necessary
it is until something better can be
| done. 1t is necessary that the people
should interpose, just as they are surely
| going to 1nterpose, and see that the
House of Representatives is in such
hands that neither it's incompetency,
nor the incompentency of the Senate
shall be a source of difficulty and of
trouble. OF course, as long as the, pEesi1
| dency remains in Democratic control, mo
steps can be taken to rectify what has
/ been wronKfully done in the. Senate bill.
And, on the otherl hand, the future
4 attacks of such destroyers as Mills and
Wilson may be- warded off, and the
l.nvr<
anime the workings Of the bill TO, ssee
precisely what its defects are and then
accomplish whatever remedy is needful
to bring the country back to the state
| of prosperity which itt3was in when
\ this unfortunate black cloud of Demo-
| cratic control passed over IT.
TARIFF Is BUSINESS,
and must be treated in sensible bust
| ness way. / cannot refrain from a
/ single word upon subject which has
been perhaps familiar to you all, but
which has passed out of sight within
| the last few years. You remembe that,
| at the close of the SYST Congress, the last
Of which the Republicans were in con-
troll the country was fooded'with outcries
| and denunciations relating to the
expenditures of the country. The coun-
| try was then prosperous, capable of
| spending all the money that it needed
| for its own convenience, for the doing
of justice and for the protection Of itself
on sea and shore, II was declared that
| the 51st Congress, !. the billion dollar
congress- had, ruined the country, had
| been unfaithful to its trust, and. above
all, had shown itself un able to restrain
! the attacks made upon the United States
Treasury. | need notstelf you the next
| House Of Representatives. under 4 the
lead Of Judge Holman, exceeded the
expenditures Of the congress which they
| derided by something over fifty millions
Of dollars.But I desire to point out to you
| the stranger fact that alta time when the
| revenues of the country are decreasing,
| when it has been already necessary I to
put out fifty millions of interest bearin B
bonds. the expenditures of the first
session OF the 53st Congress, with both
| exceeded the expendit ures OF the first
session of the 51st Congress by twenty
seven millions OF dollars. The chair
man of the committee on appropriations,
Gov. Savers, who is himself an exceed
| ingly fair man in other respects, has
endeavored to make figures which would
| Indicate that the first session of the SD
| Congress. which, was Democratic, was
| twenty mine millions sof dollars more
| economical than the second session of
| the SD Congress, the House of which
was Democratic alone. But comrari-
son of figures will show that the pensions
| for that session of the 52d Congress were
one hundred and eighty millions of dol
lars. while those of the SD Congress were
one hundred and ffty-one millions of
dollars, which makes exactly this differ
ence of of tweuty-nine millions. In other
words, they have
DEPRIVED THE PENSI ONER,
or rather. they have deprived the pension
fund of twenty-nine millions of dollars,
the exact amount of their claim of
economy. This, however, is a trivial
matter on which, perhaps, it is not worth
while to waste time, except to say that
what the Democratic party in Washing
ton claimed was gross extravaganza and
unwarranted expenditure, at time, when
the country was prosperous and with
a surplus revenue, they have exceeded
by twenty-seven millions of dollars
themselves when they have both the
House and the Senate under their con-
troll, and when the country was borrowing
fifty millions of dollars BY issuing in