The Dickinson press., 1894-09-22
RECOMMENDATION.

WHAT A DEMOCRATIC CON-
GRESHAM THINKS OF THE
ACTION OF HIS PARTY
ON Tt:E TARIFF I
QUESTION. ,
Cost Of the N~ecessaries OF Life-Facts
About Stats Taxes-The sheep Quss.'
tion and the Farmers Who Have No
Sheep-Some Strong Points In Short
Paragraph. :
A Terrific Self-Condemnation.
When the Democratic House had final
ly decided to surrender to the sugar trust
and thereby accept. the German bill Of
'''perfidy and d%ishonor," ex-Speaker Reed,
cowed and se;t-iisgraced Democracy,
numbered forth, out Of your " mouths
has your condemnation come he uttered
u truth which added heavily to the shame
and humiliation of the most shameful oc-
casion the Democratic purity has known
since it passed the fugitive slave law"
But it was reserved for Il Democratic
member of Congress, one in good stand
ing, to hurl scathing denunciation more
burning if ha. be possible, than any yet
uttered by IN Republican, at the cor
rupt and detestable measure called the re
senting one of the Cleveland districts in
Congress, became so thoroughly outraged
in his feelings because OF the hypocrisy,
f~alsehood, cowardice and trickcry of his
party in Congress, that he made U speech
on the subject, which he caused to be
printed in permanent form in the Con.
gressionai Record. Here is q portion OF
the speech which makes very entertaining
reading:
Every man, woman and child uses
sugar. 1t is one of the prime necessaries
the land who will not feel that she il,
robbed by our Democratic tariff re-!
form when she finds that where she got
three pounds of sugar under the Nc
Kinley bill she now, under the Gorma
You and l, with our official Incomes OF,
$1,000 u year, may not feel this tax; Mr.:
Cleveland, with his oficial income OF.
$4,000 a year, may not feel it; our COL
leagues of the Senate, especially those
who may have bought sugar trust stock
great mass Of the people by whose votes
we are here-the great mass of the people
who must count every penny of incomes
not sufficient to enable them to live in
half way decent comfort, they will feel It;
they will feel it at once and feel it bit
te.lS; =, whom ,hev nc. WI, what tn;, t,x
is for what will you tell them? Will you
quote to them Mr.. Cleveland's letter to
MIR. Wilson on the rropriety of taxing su-,
gar? Will you quote to them Mr.. Carlisle's
statement that the needs of the treasury.
and you know, and the people know-I''
was about to say that every dog that
barks in the streets of the capital knows
that the real purpose of imposing this
tax is not to give revenue to the govern
ment, but revenue to the boodlers. You
cannot disguise it from the people, for the
people know it already. that the purpose
of this sugar tax is to put millions and
millions into the pockets of men who are
already millionaires by robbing the people.
They know that this tax on sugar has
been bought through every step of its
way-carried by such open, undisguised
corruption as has never been Haunted
in their faces before; they know that the
sugar trust has purchased this privilege
of taxing them, and that though the price
1t may have paid may be millions, it will
receive back millions n millions before
the treasury gets a cent.
Political decency, no less than political
prudence. ought to prevent Democrats
from trying it under the open charges that
this bonus to the sugar trust ut the ex-
pense of the people is in payment of heavy
contributions made from the funds of the
sugar trust to the Democratic national
committee in the last presidential cam
on the sugar tax, the attitude of Mr.. Car
Isle, the attitude of our own ways and.
means committee in reporting n tax on.
sugar, which W. free trade Democrats
only beat in this House by the aid ofLthe
Republicans, give a color to the charge,
which the action now proposed will carry
in the public mind to certainty, that is
the way in which the Democratic party
is paying the monster trust for election
helR2;.
If we make this surrender we must 20
back to our constituents with the German.
Dill as the approved and Endorsed Demo-
cratic bill-the answer which the Demo-
cratic party makes to the demands of the
people; q bill reeking with notorious bar
gain and sale: Il bill that the Republicans
Jeer at, that the Democratic press has uni
versa!ly denounced: a bill that the Presi-
dent himself has declared an exhibition
OF pertidy and dishonor; a bill that cannot
possibly be defended, and that as GER
talnly AS election day comes in Novem-
per, viii be Indignantly repudiated by the
Tho Party Middle is Complete.
The Atlanta Constitution, one of the
most widely read Democratic papers in
the South, does not feel very much en-
couraged over the outlook for the Demo
cratic congressional ticket this fall. After
saying that the action of the President
was unfortunate and unwise, the Consti.
tuition says:
L party rluddle is now complete.
The organization is now on the thresh-
hold OF Il campaign big with results. and
u Is compelled to assume responsibility
for q measure which its chosen leader
and chief has denounced as perfdious
and to which he has refused to afix his
signature. Was ever a party placed. in
such position before? Every Democrat in
Congress who voted for the bill has been
slapped in the face and every Democratic
chances of reelection sadly impaired By
the refusal of Mr.. Cleveland 10 sign tho
tariff bill: Nor is this all. The pnrty's
majority in Congress is seriously threat.
ened. for it seems impossible that the
make a successful campaign by going be-
fore the people md assuming responsible
ity for q measure which the party's com-
mander-in-chief has distinctly %repudiated
and denounced. and which he has re-
fused to touch with his hand"
The Cost Of tho Necessaries Of Life.
In commenting upon the boast of the
Democrats that they nave reduced the
duties on many articles for the benefit
Of the workingman and the farmers, the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette makes
this striking and interesting exhibit:
I'm looking over the new tariff bill the
reductions made and the imports for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, we have
evolved a table which shows how the
Democrats have reduced duties, and. ac-
cording to their theory, lowered prices
for the benefit of the farmer. the artisan
and the workingman generally, and we
want every farmer anu %worklngman who
reads the Commercial Gazette to cut this
table out and keep it for reference dur
ing the campaign. 1t may be valuable
when listening to some speaker telling
what the party has done:
Imports Re Per
Articles. 1893. duotion Ct.
Paintings and stat
uary ............ $22, 1896, res $432. 657 n
Decorated chinawre G,03S OU 2,233,987 81
Ostrich feathers
and dowers...... 1,6lD, 1O1 2G5, 80 ID
Plate and cut glass M.WN :15.G67 Fl
yewelry ........ GS)G. 1852 5000 IL
Kid glOves..... U 1000 $1,000 22
Laces and cmbroid-
cries .......,..., Ash, :HD3 1851, 500 40