Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-28


of all countries is put down as HOB
173,6O0; of the United States as 364 LOO
600, while Australia foots up 39O,oOoooo,
and the Argentine Republic 316. lOO,oOO.
one-eighth Of the total clip of the British
colonies in the newest world produce
one-ffth of the grand total and the Ar
gentine Republic outStrips us. In botn
of these great sheep-raisng countries
land for grazing is almost as free as air.
and the climate is Sc mild that the cost
of tending the focks is a mere tritle. Our
farmers must use the fork, either in hay
ing or feeding, more than half the year.
Clearly it is in the power of Congress to
restore to prosperity or doom to destruc-
ton one of the most important agrlcult-
ural staples of the country
The Tariff and the Farmers.
How much the farmers of the United
States have suffered already from tariff
agitation no man can tell. Their dlrect
loss may not be enormous. but their III
direct loss amounts to millions. The want
of employment for millions of workers,
reduction of wages, have forced down
consumption greatly, and the farmers
have felt the consequences in the lowest
prices ever known for farm produce
The Mckinley law gave the American
farmer the. highest protection he ever
received. Many thought the protection
was not equal to the necessities OF the
case, but it was a great Improvement on
former tariff laws, and on the whole
the farmers throughout the country were
satisfied. Now come the reform Demo-
Gratis in the Senate with an effort to break
down what little protection the farm
ers have under the present law. On this
point the New York Tribune makes this
timely comment:
''To the honor of the Republican states
men who represent manufacturing states,
no hat
earnest and as able in defending protec-
ton for agriculture as their associates
from the great farming states of the
West. But the infamous bill of sale
has the slavish support of Populists like
Senators Allen and Kyle, who pretend to
sold out to the free traders for paltry
favors which give them personally hope
of reelection. The laboring oar in de-
Tense of the interests of farmers, not only
along the seaboard and the northern bor-
der, but elsewhere, has thus fallen to Re-
publican senators like Aldrich of Rhode
Island and the senators from COnnecti-
cut and Massachusetts and other manu-
featuring states, who have shown by their
fidelity how clearly they understand their
duty of securing equitable defense for all
departments OF American industry
1T was to be expected that they would
fail. No power of reasoning, no array of
facts, can convince men who have inter-
est in sugar stocks, or who have blindly
pledged themselves to vote for anything
the Sugar trust and its instruments may
dictate. Because the Democratic Senate
is corrupt beyond all precedent in Amer
lean history, and as shameless as it is
corrupt, the farming interest has to eX-
pect heavy reduction OF the duties by
which it has been in a measure defended
for four years, in addition to the aboli-
ton Of all duty on wool, and the prostra-
of hn ,fnf. t1Ipn xyybi oh NIyy
the home market for farmers products.
Their time will come, when they can vote
again, and it is safe to predict that many
who were Indifferent and wanted to be
carted to the voting places in 1890 and
1897 will go with a definite purpose III
1894 and 1885,
Sugar and the Sugar Trust.
Speaking about the confession of Have
meyer, the Democratic manager of the
Sugar trust, and of the nerve of Senator
Brice in defending the trust as against
the people, the Inter Ocean makes some
remarks accompanied by few important
statistics: "Mr. Brice owes fortune, fame,
and his seat in the United States Senate
directly to his Wall street nerve. 1t is
not surprising, therefore, that he should
be frank about the stock-jobbing maneu
vers in the Senate, and even boast of his
own efforts in behalf of the Sugar trust.
But, happily for the country, there are
few Brices in the Senate. The majority
of the senators were elected on other
recommendations than success in Wall
street. Some of them have fallen into
temptation and have been the victims OF
Brices dazzling promises of wealth, and
some may have come to the conclusion
that a public office is the Sugar trust, as
Congressman Hit has so APPLY described
the present condition of the Democratic
party. But few men are so bold as Brlce
to stand up and carry out openly stock
iobbing scheme which has been so thor
oughly exposed as has this change OF date
for the sugar tariff schedule to take effect.
The central point of Havemeyer's con-
fession is that the object and effect of
the trust as the case now stands is TO
make the public pay 3s of Il cent more per
pound for sugar than it would cost did
no trust exist, and under the schedule
adopted by the Senate the other day the
profits of the trust would be fully cent
per pound. Before passing to any other
part of the confession 1t is well to see
just what this means.
1.-The consumption OF sugar last year IN
this country amounted to 1,S9l,9ll tons,
$50. $40 pounds, 62.09 pounds per capita
of the population of the United States:
Under the new tariff bill the trust would
get, on this basis considerably over S4S,-
900 900 a year. and as 1T IS now 1T gets
in the vicinity of $16,OOO,OO0, or more
than the total value OF all the rehnerles
in the country in 1890.
1T is simply a Democratic contribution
of S4S, OOO,O to the Sugar trust-money
which these senators and congressman
take out of the pockets of the people.
1t is the one great illustration of the
Democratic declaration tnat the cOnSum-
er pays the tariff.
Last year we imported more than
1000, 100000 pounds of sugar. The i'm
portation this year promises to be even
larger. for the sugar countries have, ever
since the Mckinley law made sugar free,
been increasing their production and ship
ments to the American market.
This raw sugar will come into the
hands of the Sugar trust for refining be-
tween July 1, 1894, and January 1, 1895.
That great combination will buy this
sugar crop of the world and bring it into
the United States free of duty. But this
crop is for next years consumption, and
the Sugar trust. will then add the price of
the tariff. which will protect it from
other refners abroad. 1t is estimated
that the average tariff on sugar will be
about Ii cents a pound, and on 4.O0O,-
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