Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-08-23

water from bond for nothing. The
farmers Of the West have no protec-
ion for their wool, aad the iron mas
ters of Alabama and the coal miners of
West Virginia are looked after.
The Wilson bill is dead. The Brice-
German monstrosity is on top. The
House died in the last ditch and in the
lowest portion thereof. Thus, says the
Chicago Tribune, there is to be tariff
law which, according to Mr.. Cleve-
lands letter to Chairman Wilson,
means party perfidy and party dis
hoaor.' According to that high DEM
Ocratic authority mo tariff measure
can accord with Democratic principles
and pr, mi es or bear a genuine Demo-
cratic Badge that does not provide for
free raw materials" But the bill
which has Ia-sed imposes duties on
coal, iron ore and sugar. Mr.. Clevela d
SAID to Chairman Wilson a month ago
that the Democracy demanded speedy
action on the tariff, but they demand
not less earnestly that no stress OF
re ,essity shall tempt those they trust
to the abandonment of Democratic
principles. The House Democrats did
yield to the stress Of necessity and
abandoned Democratic rinciples.
True democrats repudiate the Senate
bill, AMI the People, irrespective of
politics, cannot be expected to appryv We
OF 1t. For it does too much good t.
trust and t o much harm to them. Mr..
Wilson stated in the ciucus that
He had been credibt5 informed and be-
lievei that the sugar trust had, anticipat
ing the enactment OF the senate SUI. dr.
schedule, purchased Sll2, 600, 900 worth OF
trno IN hn
profits accruing to the trust from this in
vestment in advance of the enactment OF
the Senate schedule would be at least S4o.-
100000 Mr. Wilson also pointed out at
length the embarrassment attending tho
efforts TO adjust the coal aud iron scncd-
ulcS
The stress of nece :sity" which
forced Mr.. Wilson and his colleagues
to knuck,e down to the trust and give
it forty millions will not have any
weight with the voters this coming
November They will repudiate this
new tariff measure not merely because
it is SURRENDER to the Sugar Trust,
but also because it is a wage-cutting.
factory-clOsing measure. Said Mr..
Wilson
The great battle Is between the Amer.
can people and the Sugar Trust 1t is "a
battle Ia which the trust has taken the
people by the throat, and it will never eHd
until We throw of tine grip.
The voters will seni to Congress in
1894 and also in 1876 re. resentatives
who viii not give way TO the trust as
he has done and who will throw off the
grip he has helped to tighten. 1t is
true that the House procee led at once
to lass bills for the free-listing of
sugar. coal and iron ore. But this is
merely firing OF blank cartridges.
These bills could never get through
the Senate. Those interests which
stood together to force the adoption of
the Senate bill will stand together this
winter. No one imagines that after
the sugar trust has got through bill
which gives it u douceur, or sweet
ener, OF forty million dollars. it wi1
allow another bill to he lut through
the Sena' at the coming session which
will take from it portion OF those ille-
gitimate gains.
The new law will remain unsltered
until the next Presidential election
places the Republicans in power. Till
that time this senate measu will
have to stand "a measure which the
people do not wa 1t, which Mr.. Cleve-
land denount cd, and which is COM
m ended only by the sugar trust, the
whisky trust, and by the POpulists on
account ct the income tax provision
which the Democrats took from them
md put In their bill.