Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-02-09


The Iaci the Wilson bill repeats tho sugar
bounty of cents pound, and places all
kinds of sugar on the free list, is having its
effect, even this distance from the great sugar
growing section Of the South The Bodley
Wagon Works of this place, has had contracts
with the sugar planters running through many
years. to furnish them cars and wagons to
use in gathering and handling the cane. The
outlook for the sugar industry is so gloomy
and the Wilson bill SO fatal to it, if it should
pass the Senate, that the planters are making
no contracts for this season, and consequently
the Wagon Works lose their principal and
most profitable customer. AS a result orders
have been given for shut down. The Wagon
Works have a capacity for 100 hands. = Z
We have in this sugar question lesson that
is tangible and felt. OF course the free ira
ders will have some kind of an excuse for
legislation that proposes to strike down this
great and growing industry, but the people
will understand it all, and not be slow in re-
buking the spirit of ruin that the Democratic
party is inaugurating, for the sake of an alb
stract theory which whenever tried has prov
ed disastrous.-Iost Weekly.
After reading the above the reader will
be astonished to know the facts about the
Wilson bill and the sugar interest. TIE
Wilson bill prorided both protection oaad
bounty for all sugar, cane or beet, maze
IN the United States. 1t made the sugar
interest forever safe by establishing a
bounty which should recede every year
until it disappeared, and protective duty
which should increase every year until il
reached. we think, two cents a pound.
This clause Of the Wilson bill came up in
the House Of Representatives. on Monday,
Jan. 22d. There were few kicking Dem
Gratis opposed to the clause; they wanted
all revenue from that source swept away
so that 4 tax on incomes could be forced Oh
the Democratic party. With those kick
ing Democrats the ,cho!e Republican par
fy IN the House joined, in order to EN-
barass the Wilson bill, and roted for free
sugar. 1t YVES done in a reckless, unpatri-
otto and purely partisan spirit, which would
rather see the cane sugar growers and the
beet sugar growers destroyed-if free sugar
could destroy them-than for the Demo
Gratis to have the credit Of passing q bill
acceptable to all the sugar growers-both
cane and beet. To show the partizan spirit
that animated the act, we copy the follow
ing from the Page, Va, Courier, a Repub
lican paper, published in its issue of Jan.
18th, three days after the Republican 'tri-
umph in the House:
III
the House Of Representatives last Monday on
the sugar bounty. The bill provided for its
gradual reduction, while the kicking Demo-
Gratis aided by the Republicans voted for TAX
ing it off Immediately. The kickers and Re-
publicans did the same thing with the tariff
on wool The policy of the Republicans is
to dose the Democrats ad nGMseGtns with their
own medicine
There is specimen of the partizan spir-
it in which the Republican representatives
in Congress are dealing with the great eco
nomic interests of the country. The child
ish. spitefuI spirit Of school boy, who if
he can't have his own way takes delight in
breaking everything up. And then after
the thing is done by Republicans. to have
our Republican neighbor Of Yost's VsebIy
writing editorials on the results Of this
very act, and hoping the people twill not be
slow in rebuking the spirit Of ruin thai
the Democratic party is inaugurating." Is
it any wonder that when the people are
treated to this sort of enlightenment they
are in the dark about the tariff If the VIII
son bill which gave both bounty and pro-
lection to the cane and beet sugar manu-
facturers had been let alone, Mr.. Lapham' S
beet factory would have had all the protec-
ton it Wanted-so it's owner has told the
writer Of this-alld MI. Bodley would have
had as many orders for wagons from the
Louisiana sugar growers as he ever had.
The Republican party in the House de-
feated the bounty and protective clause in
the bill and ''strikes down this great and
growing industry and Yost's Weekly calls
it the work Of the Democratic party! In
the name of fair play what will we
have next