The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-29
THE REAL SITUATION.
Mr., Mccartney Makes a few Plain
Statements That
Ii would be Wen for Voters to Think
0ver-He Stribes Straight Oai from
the Shoulder.

WESTON, Ill, Sept zO.-AS some
person was kind enough to send me
copy Of the Morgantown Post last
week, and | saw several items that
l could not fully endorse, espee-
tally that West Virginia was sure to
go Republican again, please allow
me space in your valuable journal
for a few setoffs to Mr. Post First
as to the Louisiana Cane Planters.
The cane planters seem to imagine
that they are the People of Louisi
ana, and that their interest is about
the only Louisiana interest worth
considering. The truth is that there
are other people and other interests
in Louisiana that count for some
thing It is fact that the value Of
cotton produced in Louisiana consid
erablY exceeds the value OF the sugar
product. not counting the bounty
paid out Of the earnings of the
American people as a part of the
value of the sugar.
It. is also fact there is an orange
interest. a salt interest. rice inter
est. as well. and that all these inter
ests are of considerable importance.
The cane planters are rich because
they have tariff fed and bounty fat
tened for many years under laws
passed by Republican Congresses.
But they do not own the State,
and probably they will discover that
they cannot rule the State. The
books of the internal revenue office
in Washington show only 500 licen-
SEES for the production of cane sugar
were taken out last year, and Proba
bly, not more than 500 of these were
taken out by Louisiana producers.
Over nine times as many maple
sugar licenses were taken out, and
yet the maple tree tappers do not
threaten the country with political
Revolution
One would suppose from the ire
mendous ado they make that the
Louisiana cane growers were shame
thliN duuSIAl lVA. anu Ntidb btlNit ~
dustry was destined to utter ex
tinction under the new tariff. The
fact is that under this tariff they
have 40 per cent protection, which
is about equal To : cents per pound
on Sugar, against 2 cents bounty
they have been getting under the
Mckinley law 1t is in order to re
mind them that this 40 per cent is a
good deal more than the "a per cent
they had under the tariff of 1851
1t is also in order to remind them
that their industry did not perish
under the tariff Of 1857. So far from
that they produced more sugar in
one year, at least under that tariff,
than they have produced in any one
year since, and their average annual
prod etion was greater under that
tariH than it has been since. The
cane planters will probably manage
To survive. Indeed they probably
would without any bounty or pro
lection at all.
The undoubted wrong involved in
the latter day Republican practice
of bolstering greedy private interests,
by taxing the people for the support
and enrichment Of the few may not
always appeal to the business man
who is bent on gain and who is not
teo scrupulous as TO the methods
which may be employed in reaching
that end, but to the great multitudes
of business men and workmen who
do not receive any of the tariff.
Plumber cannot much longer over.
look the fact that the persistent agi-
tation of the tariff issue, victorious
one year for protection, and victori-
Gus next year for free trade, must
inevitably prove injurious to them
selves They cannot get rid of this
question, only, by defeating and
driving out of politics the robbers
and beggars who have kept it there,
and who now think that they are to
be given renewed power to fasten
their shackels upon commerce and
industry. Laying aside the moral
aspects of the case, legitimate bust.
ness and honest wealth, which do
not depend upon unjust Laws for
support, may be assured there is to
be no lasting solution of this ques
tion that does not eradicate the false
principles and destroy totally the
doctrine against which intelligent
and self-respecting Americans must
ever contend. Is it likely that so long
as men are free and speech is free,
this monstrous idea that all men
must be taxed for the benefit of
few men ever will be accepted in
this country as the settled policy of
the nation? Is it possible that any
business man is blind enough to sup
pose that while spark of indepen
dence survives in the breast of Amer
leans the heneficiaries of this un
speakable wrong will not be on the
defensive? Let no man deceive him
self. 1t is easy to say, Peace
Peace" but there is no peace and
there will be no peace while this err
ror lasts
1t may blacken the reputation of
it's foes and with the assistance of
corrupt society, it may fortify with
seeming respectability its own de
testable leaders, hut its victories
will he unsatisfying, and temporary,
bringing no settlement and justfying
no reduction in the Numbers neces
sarN for the defence of an institution
which in the nature of things cannot
be at peace with the victims. In the
hour of its mightiest triumphs pro
lection is in the gravest danger
So long as justice is reserved and
injustice is repro ,lted there will be |
forces in battle array against pro
lection. They may not always tri-
umph Their banner will sometimes |
fall from a nerveless hand, but it
will be borne aloft again, and again
to certain, even though a remote
victory. This is the prospect that
confronts the honest wealth and the |
legitimate business and industry of
the land They can make the strug /
gle short or long as they please.
They can do away with this error in |
Il single campaign if they will. III
they estimate correctly the moral
aspects of the question they will not
be deceived by the boasts Of inter
ested classes or beguiled by the clap
trap of politicians.
A great public wrong cannot be
hidden out of sight, Like a skele
ton in closet, it will appear at the