Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-07-12
A Crushing Indictment.

The three main facts about the Demo
cratlc proposition to tax sugar. and there
by make a contribution of some $50
100000 to the Sugar trust, are discussed
by the New York Sun, a Democratic
newspaper, as follows:
Naked and ugly, the main facts about
the sugar schedule are these:
The administration proposed il. The
secretary OF the treasury framed il. He
asked a little more for the trust than the
trust finally obtained. Then Mr.. Carlisle
Announced the new sugar schedule to the
country as n of the concessions neces-
sary to be made in order to pass any sort
of a tariff bill.
"A majority of the senator's voted for
it. Some of them denounced it, and yet
voted for it. Some voted and kept their
mouths shut tight. Some of them were
gambling in sugar. Some of them have
admitted that they were gambling in
sugar. Some have denied under oath
that they were gambling in sugar. But
tify, that the adoption of the trusts
sugar schedule was desired by him. much
less required by him, as a concession nee
esSary to be made in order to obtain his
vote for the tariff bill.
The pretended investigation of this gi-
gantic scandal has been conducted under
the management of George Gray of Della
ware, generally recognized as the admin
istration's spokesman in the Senate: and
it has been conducted, from beginning to
end, with the apparent intention of con-
cealing rather than discovering the truth,
That is all. 1t is quite enough. What
are the honest Democrats in the House
of Representatives going to do about itT'
Some Facts for Farmers to Consider.
The Inter Ocean calls attention to the
fact that the farmers of the United States
should speak in no uncertain tones TO the
POpulist congressman who betrayed their
constituents by voting for the Wilson
bill, or for any tariff bill proposed by the
is to repeal the reciprocity features of the
present law, and to largely take from
farmers the protection which that law
now afford them.
The same paper presents some Stats
tics in support of the Republican policy
of reciprocity which are strikingly i'm
portant and useful at this time:
Prior to 1890, the year of the passage
of the Mckinley law, the great markets
of Germany were closed to American
pork. The reciprocity clauses of that
bill empowered the President to impose
q tariff on German beet sugar so long as
Germany Disseminated against Ameri-
can farms. The President gave notice
that he would avail himself of such
power. lHe Stuuc was tudl Sti-
many consented to the admission of
American meat to its ports, in return
for the free admission of German sugar
to our ports. The effect upon American
farm products was, in part only, this:
In 1890 we exported 4,239,S91 pounds OF
canned beef to Germany; in 1893, after
two years of reciprocity, we exported,
lo,ol5;142 pounds That is to say the foe
American beef had been increased "
and a half times in two years. In 1890
we sent 3.363,3S6 pounds of pork and
bacon TO Germany; in 1893 we sent lO,-
715,203 pounds, an increase OF nearly
800 per cent. in two years. :.
THE Populists who vote for repeal of
the law that so greatly enlarges the mar
ket for American meats are traitors 10
the farmers who elected them.
But Germany is only one OF the sew
eral markets that have been opened or
enlarged by the reciprocity clauses OF the
Mckinley law, and meat is but enc of the
articles that have found a new market.
Cuba and Brazil have become large pur-
chasers of American flour. And reci-
procity is but in its infancy, while the
Populists in Congress are conspiring with
the Democrats to kill it. Surely they are
traitors TO the farmers who elected them.
''Their crime is aggravated by the fact
that they are conspiring against the farm
ers for the benefit of the Sugar trust.
Their action, If successful, will increase
the price of every pound of sugar that the
farmer buys and lessen the price OF every
nound of meat and every bushel of grain
that he sells. They are traitors to their
constituents.
some Mugwump and Democratic Opin-
ions of the Democratic Congress.
Harper's Weekly: A wretched failure,
n cowardly and dishonest travesty. Ii
this bill is the outcome of the Demo-
party's twenty-years' struggle for
tariff reform, the party is worthy OF CON
tempt.
Springfield Republican: I~ncompetency