Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-22
should not have had so much protec-

should not have had so much protec-
ton.
Senator Germans public declaration
in his great speech on the presidents
letter admitted that a duty on sugar
was distinctly promised during the
campaign of 1892 to Senators Gibson
and White, of Louisiana. These sena-
tors had conferred first with the pres
idcnt, then the candidate who, in the
words of Mr.. German, told them that
the democratic party was not to de-
stroy industries. that 1t should place a
fair duty upon dutiable articles, a rev.
enue duty; that the bill which had met
approval was tho Mills bill, and on the
lines of the Mills bill the democratic
party would act" The Mills bill con-
tanned a graduated duty on raw and
an additional protective duty on re-
fined sugar. Then the senator related
that he with Senators Brice and Smith
were of the campaign committee. and
were waited upon by the Louisiana
senator's after they had seen the presi-
dent, and, says Mr.. German, 1--WE all
said yes, il is a dutiable article; it is
to be and must be the cornerstone by
which we will overthrow Mckinley
ism; you shall have it," He further
said that he would have been glad to
get free sugar, but no one had ever
known him to break a pledge.
This is a straightforward and manly
admission that the democratic candi-
date and organization were bound by
a formal pledge to favor a duty OF
sugar, and more than that, a dife.-
entail duty for the ~refiners such as the
Mills bill contained. But this state
reason for that pledge, or any contri-
button by the sugar interest to the
campaign fund. Right there the in
vestigating committee took sc much
care not TO get at the truth that the
public is compelled to draw its W in
ference. And now it appears, from
statements made in democratic jour
mails, that the president was willing TO
60 even further than the senate had
gone in its bill OF sale" and to make
the difTcrential duty for retiners a fifth
instead of an eighth of u cent. 1t is
further stated that the latest schedule
is yet retained, but as to phraseology
and detail, the Herald says, the con-
ference committee has the assistance
and cooperation of Secretary Carlisle
and the advisory counsel of the presi-
dent"
If the three senators who were of
the democratic campaign committee
n rne canuioaJe VINO Is now presr-
dent all made n pledge to the sugar i'm
terest, and are laboring to carry it out,
how ONE the row between them?
Because the president publicly de-
nounced as ''perfidy" the bill of sale
whifh the senators had framed. In
ordff to carry any bill, duties had
been fixed on coal and iron ore and on
woolens and cottons, and pledges had
been given that all should stand or fall
together. But the president insists
upon free coal, and declares IL dis
honor and perldy to tax raw ma
terials. Then Senator German an
swers that the president was pledged
to the Mills bill, which put the TAX on
coal ut seventv-fve cents per ton, and
that there is but m concern In tho
world to which free coal would give
any especial benefit" He describes
the contract by which the Canadian
government. for twelve cents per ton
royalty, gave exclusive control Of the
Nova Scotia coal fields to capitalists Of
the Canadian Pacific, and certain
gentlemen within our own country as
socinted with them." and says:
Hero arc Boston. and Providence and New
England. which consume the soft coal Of tho
two virginlas, Maryland end Pennsylvania.
We arc nearer 10 IT, the Canadians said;
out OF their own territory. Give US
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