The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-09
VERY
SECRETARY CARLISLE VERY
QUIET.
Neither Denies Nor Ahirms--A Singular
Face That Among All the Errors
in the Tariff Bill, Not One
Affects the Interests
of the Trusts.

Affects the Interests
of the Trusts.
Some days ago the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Times,
Democratic, sent the following, which
was published. By reading between
the lines, a large amount OF intamy
can be detected:
There was no abatement to day OF
the interest displayed yesterday in the
statements in the New York Times
about the visits made by the Secretary
of the Treasury to the officers of the
Sugar Trust in New-York, in March
and July. The subject was discussed
everywhere, and with great freedom,
although the objection to expressing
opinions, in the absence of any answer
from Mr.. Carlisle, was general.
At this time the Secretary of the
Treasury has not seen fit to make any
explanation of the report in the Times.
Two visits were made to his Office yes
terday to afford him an opportunity to
say what he saw fit in response to the
very explicit story of the Times, but
Mr.. Carlisle was then indisposed to
treat the report as serious, and it was
only by Indication that it was learned
he was confident that he had been in
New York in July, and that on the day
In March when he was said to have
called upon the Sugar Trust people he
was confined to his room in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel by illness. Until the
statements made by the Times are
cleared up by the Secretary, it will be
perfectly natural that people should go
on commenting upon the fact that this
story is only n of many incidents
that have occurred to illustrate the
tenacity of the hold established by the
corporation that dictated the Tariff bill
of 1894.
It would be a fortunate circumstance
that would indicate n instance in the
history of that bill where the Secretary
of the Treasury OF anybody else out of
the House, managed to blunder for the
benefit of tariff reduction. All the
D40uOCIS SOCA W uoNO DCuC11GSN G4S
trusts of all kinds. The trusts have
never slept, and if there was any error
made in the bill by which the highly
protected interests obtained less than
they started out to get, the error re-
mains to be discovered.
Why should the Secretary of the
Treasury have managed to impress the
business men of New York with the
idea that the only business people in
that great city for whom he was pre-
pared to risk his reputation were the
Sugar trust men, against whom the
country had been inveighing for
months, as the would be corruptors of
the Congress, and the dictators of the
terms of the Democratic TARIFF I'm
happily, the Secretary has not been
equally solicitous to win the approval
of the other business interests. Posi-
bly,, at a time when a great issue was
not at stake, and the Sugar Trust was
not dependent upon powerful interven-
ton to protect it in what it had been
able to get, with great ease, from a SUBJ
servient Senate, the fact that the Sec
rotary of the Treasury had paid two or
more visit to his old friend, Eavemeyer,
might have passed unnotjced. Bankers
and merchants who met the Secretary
in New York in the spring OF 1893, and
who obtained the impression that he
regarded them as mercenary persons,
prone to create difficult situations in
order that they might afterward profit
from distress, regretted then the en-
tirely friendly spirit in which they met
him, and talked with him about the
plan to replenish the gold supply. They
encouraged a feeling Of distrust in the
Secretary g mind, which was soon after
ward expressed in reports proceeding
from the Secretary, and in which the
New York business men were described
in the suspicious and deprecatory Ian
guage that is sometimes used by the
men who never alluded to the business
men of the metropolis without saying
something about the ''goldbUgs" and
money sharks" of Wall street.
Some of the men, who are disposed
to defend the Secretary at this time, al
though they admit that there has been
a ~singularly untoward list of "acci-
, dents" to be charged up against him on
the tariff question, excuse his ''indis-
erection" OF the ground that the Secre-
tary may have been unconscious of the
improperly of going to the headquar-
tiers of the Sugar Trust alone, when the
nurnOsa of his visit waS liahln To hn