Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-16
TARIFF AND TRUST.
How the Sugar Combine Is Favored By
the Mckinley Law.

How tho Sugar Combine Is Favored By
the Mckinley Law.
| There is nothing palmer than the
| relations of the sugar trust to present
and pending congressional legislation.
The Mckinley law presents the trust
| annually with thirty million dollars of
the public funds. The president and
| treasurer of the trust have both sworn
| to this fact. When it became apparent
that this bill would be repealed, the
trust exerted itself to save as much of
the plumber as possible. In the course
of this endeavor it kicked up such q
row as created the hope that the Nc
Kinley bill might be permitted to re-
main on the statute books, and the
| flow of the golden stream from the
treasury Of the United States to the
strong box of the trust would thus be
continued.
The sugar trust prefers the senate
bill to the house measure. for the rea-
son that the senate bill affords it Incl
dental protection, while the house bill
doesn't give it any comfort But the
trust isn't bothering its head about
the house bill. Its concern is between
the senate bill and the Mckinley law,
and its hope is that the senate bill
will be defeated, in order that the Nc
Kinley law may be continued. The
passage of the senate bill would cut off
half of the sugar trusts gratuity. That
is why the trust objects to it's passage.
Moreover, it would guarantee exemp-
ton from an impending treasury
deficit. But neither the republicans
<hat oh hat hot
only concern is the protection of favor
ties and the looting Of the treasury.
If, on the other hand, the senate bill is
defeated, the trust will continue to
draw it's thirty million dollars annual
ly, and treasury deficit is practically
certain to spread humiliation over the
whole people.
Every true democrat is opposed to
trusts, and nearly every democratic
senator is true to his party. But there
are enough protectionists among them
to make complete tariff reform legisla-
ton impossible. 1t is likely that
among those who are most empha tic
in their demands for the Wilson bill
are some who would vote against it if
it was reported by the conferrees.
Senator Hill is in evidence on this
point. He is paroxysmal in his de-
mand that the senate conferrees re-
cede, and if they did recede he would
vote against the report. This is one of
the troubles against which the tariff
reformers are compelled to contend.
1t is agreed among real tariff reform
ers that the purposes they must keep
in view are the decrease of the burdens
of the people and the increase of the
revenues. Both these conditions are
essential. If the sugar trust is en-
abled to extract some advantage from q
measure that subserves these purposes
that can't be helped. Every import
duty helps some interest. But that is
no reason why imposts should be aban-
doned, to the prejudice of the public
service and the destruction of the pub
lie credit. Great men are not swerved
from duty by clamor. If they were,
the rogues would have things their
own way, for they can make the most
noise. The tariff reformers must do
the best they can, without regard to
what the rogues and the rabble say
Kansas City Times.