Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-06-13
GLOW did II result o. 7 asked

How did it result?" l asked.
why, Germany is now not only max
ing her own $4O,0O0,000 worth of sugar,
but she is sending S10,000.000 worth OF
sugar to America, and the bounty is now
reduced to l cent"
In a conversation with Henry J. Ok
nard about beet sugar in Nebraska he
said:
I'VE can make $3O,OOOO0O worth of
beet sugar annually in Nebraska, and will
do it if the government will stand by us
until we get started
Then you think it good policy 10 foster
this new sugar industry here?'
''Of course. When we make our own
sugar we will save this country S60,0OO,-
900 Il year. 1t is cheap enough for this
government to pay out S9.OO0,OoO year
for q few years to gain an industry which
will give to our laboring people S60O,OO0,-
600 in ten years. And then we will take
off the bounty and we will have our own
cheap sugar forever"
will the taking off of the bounty Kill
the industryT'
NO but it will stop it's increase. We
will try to keep our factories running to
save our machinery till the administration
is changed, and then hope to extend the
industry again. The citizens of Omaha
had gotten all ready to build a big factory
in the suburbs of their city. Public meet
ings at the Board of Trade have been
this will fall through. Capital is timd.
Sugar, | say, is the salvation of the
wheat farmer and the cotton planter
High prices will come for wheat and cot
ton when we reduce the quantity, and not
till then. and sugar alone will do It rms
60,0O0.OO0 which we will annually save
on foreign made sugar will all go to our
laboring men. 1t will eventually make
cheaper sugar and lift both planter and
farmer to prosperity ELL Perkins.
Republication in Colleges.
1t probably panied the Democratic free
trade soul of President Eliot when he
learned that Saturday last Southern
New England League of College Republic
an clubs was formed in attlllatOn with
the national body, and that Haryard,
Yale Williams, Amherst, Brown, Tufts
Wesleyan, Boston University and the
Worcester Polytechnic Institute were rep
resented at the meeting.
The meeting of these clubs is signih-
cant, as it gives the lie to the statement
so frequently made that the Eastern col
leges especially Harvard. are hOtbeds of
free trade. SO far as Harvard is con
cerned its Democratic Free Trade Club is
dead, while its Republican Protection
Club is alive and kicking, as President
Eliot discovered the other day when he re-
fused it the use of the Sanders Iheater
for its meetings. Of the political COM
Journal says:
OF l53 Harvard men who have held high OF
fee in the state or national government, IA
were believers in the principles OF the Repuo-
lican party and only thirty nine were Demo
Gratis. Of the students who graduated from
Harvard between 1885 and 1892, III were Repub,
licanS and 365 were Democrats, and careful
canvass of the university in 1892 developed the
fact that the Republican majority was greater
than it was in ISSS-that is, that the Republican
strength at Harvard was steadily increasing.
The same is true of Yale College. In
1899 there were % free traders and Is
protectionists in its senior class, while IN
1898 there were So free traders and IL
protectionists in the same class. Fur
thermore, says the Journal:
At Williams a canvass found Ia students who
favored Harrison to only forty seven who sup
ported Cleveland. Amherst in 1892 reported
that so per cent of her students were Repub-
licanS, 16 per cent. Democrats, and per cent
ProhibitiOnistS III the College of Liberal Arts
of Boston University lately the Republicans out
numbered the Democrats five to one. AT IuftS
College a recent graduating class contained
eighteen Republicans 10 one poor soltary DEM
ocrat. At Wesleyan the Republicans comprise
rs per cent. of the student body, and there are
actually fewer Democrats than PrOhibitionlstS.
Though it is Il long time before the next
general election comes off the college
under graduates. as it appears, propose to
put themselves in evidence when the Oc-
casion shall require it and to line up by
the side of the Republican alumni III the
fight with the freetrade enemy. 1t Is
evident. further. that while they take
science literature and the classics from
presidents and faculties they do not take
their politics from them. The college
clubs will be heard from III 1876.