The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-09
Unjust to Justice White.

submitted to if it can be helped.
Unjust to Justice White.
The attacks made on Justice White.
because he remains in the Senate after
he has been confirmed as an associate
justice of the supreme court, 10 order to
serve the sugar planters of his state. are
unjust. The iusinuation is thrown out
that he has been influenced in his efforts
in behalf of sugar by the fact that he is a
large sugar planter, having received last
year as much as $4,000 from the govern
! ment as duty on the sugar produced on
his plantation
Justice White has never denied that he
is largely interested in the production of
| sugar, and that it is to his interest that
there shall be duty on sugar. In fact,
1t must be pretty generally known to all
the senators that he is interested in the
production of sugar But the fact thathe
is does not lessen the force of his argu-
ments in behalf of duty on
sugar. 1t is question if there
are many senators or representatives
who are not interested either directly, or
Indirectly, in some one or more of the
articles that are affected by the tariff.
Some are interested in farming, others in
manufacturing and still Others in iron.
lead and coal mines. If all the senators
and representatives who are interested
| pecuniarily in tariff legislation were de-
barred from taking part in tariff leg
islation it would be difficult matter to
get quorum of either house on that sub
iect.
Unless Justice Whites arguments are
sound, they will have no force in the
Senate, If they are sound, senator's will
be influenced by them. They will not take
into consideration the question whether
or not he is interested in having a duty
placed on sugar.
Justice White has been criticised for
not leaving the Senate as soon as his nom
nation to the associate iusticeship of the
| supreme court was confirmed The rea-
| son he did not resign a once was that he
| felt it was duty he owed to his consti-
! tutents to do them all the service he could
! before leaving the Senate. The sugar in
| terest is an immense one in Louisiana,
| and no man in the Senate is
! better equipped to represent its needs
/ than he He would have shown
/ ingraItude to those who elected him to
| the Senate if he had abandoned their in
terests at time when his services were
! of the greatest benefit to them.
Justice White has done nothing that re-
| fleets in the least upon his reputation for
/ honorable ana straightforward conduct.
/ Those who criticise him do so thought
lessly or for the purpose of lessening his
/ influence.
The fact that British schooners have
looted the wreck of the old hearsarge. on
/ Rontondor reef, may have the effect of
stirring up our navy and state depart
ments almost as much as the landing of
| British troops at Bluehelds. 1t will be
remembered that two years or SO AGO
/ pirates from Old Providence who one
rated under the British flag attempted to
loot the steamer that was wrecked on
boncondor while carrying Warner Miller
and his party down to Nicaragua, and
that they were kept of only by an armed
force sent to protect the wreck. tits under
stood that the navy department contem-
plated saving only the hull of the old YES
sci when it asked for an appropriation:
still it is not likely that the pirates will
be permitted to strip the wreck without
this government making a demand for
PREPARATION
John w. Hutchinson, young lawyer of
New York, who was graduated from
Swarthmore college, at Swarthmore.
Pa, in 1891, paid a visit to that town re
/ Gently for the purpose of participating in
I a college fraternity NEE q. As he was
leaving the place, and on he way to his
train, he was ambushed by party of
/ students and hazed- clothes torn, his
whiskers clipped, his eyes blackened and
other indignities and injuries inflicted
upon him. Mr.. Hutchinson has now
taken steps to prosecute his tormentors,
whose identity he has been able to estab-
fish. The old antagonism of gown
against town." as well as the antagouisn
! between college classes. must be SUD-
pressed, or it will be the worse for tho
colleges.