Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-05-19
A NATIONAL

great and important changes were be-
ing made in the Tariff monstrosity,
which would materially change it. he
was denounced. not only by Senator
Turpie, of Indiana, in language unit
for pablication-language which is
seldom heard outside of a brothel. and
which only a drunken MAI would ut
ter, but every crossroads Democratic
paper took up the refrain and he was
held up to public scorn and ridieule.
1t seldom falls to the lot of man to
triumph in so brief a period as has Mr.
Aldrich. Scarce a week had elapsed
until his words were more than veri-
fed.
He said changes were being made
in the bill, but never did he dream OF
the magnitude of those changes or OF
the power which was effecting them.
He did not know that a Polander,
Schoenhof, an alien, a free-trade the
orist, a man who had several times
failed in business and who had each
time paid off his creditors with rs cents
on the dollar, was to draft the wool
en- schedule in the interest to foreign
ers. He did not know that the wool
growers of America were to be slaugh-
tered by such a wretch; nevertheless
it is true.
He did not know that the Sugar
Trust, in consideration of the $500, ooc
contributed to elect Grover Cleveland
President, was to be allowed to write
the sugar schedule by means of which
the Trust will be enabled, in addition
to its already large profits, to CLEAR
AN ADDITIONAL. PROFIT OF
FROM FIFTY-TWO MILLIONS TIC
FiFTY-SIX MILLIONS-rob The
government and the people of this
vast sum. all because Grover Cleve
land said it must be so.
1t is the Sugar Trust which is again
draining the country of gold witt
which to buy sugar and storing TIL,
sugar until such time as its own meas
ure becomes law.
After the Sugar Trust comes the
Standard Oil Trust, the Lead Trust, the
Steel Beam Trust, and the Whisky
Trust. No wonder Senator Cander
confidently predicts the bill will sooi
pass.
Representatives of these trust
have had the ear of Senators, Cabine
officers, and the President, while tn
workingmen have been denied ever
a hearing in the bright-light of day
The New York Press says:
"The Administration tariff bill is tn,
creatures of trusts, a scheme of fraut
and spoliation, a crime against patri
otism, against justice. against TIL
rights of American citizenship. The
venomous attack upon American WOO
which it makes is in itself a suthcien
reason for meeting it with ~unyieldfns
resistance. The c~onfscation of tn,
hocks of the North by the removal o.
protection from wool will graft,
Bourbon revenge by wiping out a hun
bred million dollars worth of North
ern property and inficting a heavy
blow upon the commonwealth which
sent forth the loyal armies that crush
ed the Rebellion.
mo excuse Or explanation can just
ify this treacherous attack upon
great national staple. Any tariff bill
which strips protection from American
+ wool is a measure of robbery and con
!; fiscation. But the Democratic bill no
onlydestroys American wool; it strike
down American lumber; it strike
down the saltiudustry it strikes dowt
WOODEN manufactures; it cripples, i'm
poverishes and ruins the most import
ant interests of the North. Its enact
ment would wipe out whole industrial
communities, reduce the wages O
millions of Americans to the paupel
level and destroy that industrial in
dependence which is the mighties
source of the nations strength. n y
No Republican should be misled b,
; the tricks of the Cleveland bunco steer
ers. AS Republicans and as Ameri
cans it is the solemn duty of the Sen
ators to resist to the last the nefariou
scheme to beggar American labor an,
destroy the comfort Of American
homes. To allow the Cleveland tarii
bill to pass, through negligence O.
weakness, would be a crime agains
Republicanisfn and humanity. In tn
name of the American people, tn
Press calls upon Republican Senator
TO kill the Administration bill p