New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-17
1RTSTS AND THE T1RIFE.

The charge has been publicly made that The
Sugar Trust raised a large campaign fund for
tle election Of Mr. Cleveland, and that the Cor
man bill liQuidates the political debt The ac-
cusaton may may not be well founded Dul
it is undeniable that the Senatorial brokers
have transformed the sugar schedules IN the
interest of the Trust. If there had been bar
gain between the Trust and the Democratic
managers before the Presidential election. ana
half Il million dollars had been paid with the
understanding that refners' interests would De
protected in any scheme Of tariff revision that
might be enacted, the conduct or the Dclho-
cratic Senator'S would not have been different
from what It has been. They are acting to-day
precisely as they would have done If they had
agreed to the Bill Of Sale two years ago IN re-
turn for an enormous campaign subscription.
What renders their surrender to the rehners
trust even more suspicious is the fact that IL IS
in open violation OF the pledges made by Their
party In the Presidential canvass. I'VE recog-
nize," the Chicago platform stated, IN the
trusts and combinations which are designed 10
enable capital TO secure more than It's Just
share Of the joint product of capital and labor
a natural consequence of the prohibitive taxes
which prevent the free competition which ~
the life Of honest trade, but we believe their
worst evils can be abated by law, and we de-
mand the rigid enforcement OF the laws made
10 prevent and control them. together Win such
further legislation in restraint of their abuses
as experience may show TO be necessary Inc
corporation lawyers in President Clevelands
Cabinet have Systematically RETAINED from en-
forcing the laws enacted against trusts and
combinations; and Democratic legislators. in
stead OF seeking the abatement of evils arising
from the attempts OF capitalists and monopo
lists to control the conditions Of supply and or
trade. are making IL tariff in the direct interest
of the most rapacious trusts in the land The
schedules have been dictated by the Sugar
Whskey Lead. Lnsccd Oil, Barbed Wire, steel
Beam and other trusts How many OF these
trusts contributed TO the Democratic campaign
fund in 1892 we do not know. but Mr.. German
and his fellow brokers in the Senate are GER
tainly repudlatng the pledges OF the party IN
legslatng for their benefit.
This issue is one that ought TO be Kept con
stantly before the public. Mr. Cleveland early
In 1892 quoted the Eighth Commandment
against Protection, denounced the trusts IN un
measured terms and consecratcd himself ana
his party to "thc peoples cause OF Tariff Re
form" The German bill Is not only stepped In
and rocking with Protection. which the De-
mocracy has condemned "legalized rob
berry," but 1t Is pre-eminently measure for
enriching the trusts. Every other interest Is
sacrificed In order that the trusts may have a
tariff to their liking Twenty Reciprocity trea-
ties highly beneficial TO the export trade are
repealed the price OF sugar one Of the largest
articles Of imported food, Is doubled TO the CON
sumner; the promising bect-sugar interest In the
United States Is destroyed; and the only com
pensations for all these Incredible plumbers and
follies are the fortunes TO be made by the sugar
refiners. Such also Is the outcome OF Demo
cratic Tariff Reform all along the line The
trusts triumph and honest industries are ruined.
The monopolists are aided In doubling their
fortunes, and the poor workngman Is thrown
out Of employment. The Peoples cause"
which Mr. Cleveland two years ago Invested
with the sanctty Of the Mosaic Decaloguc, Is
the profit account Of greedy corporations and
Wall Street spectators.