Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-04-14
SENATORIAL. sopHIsTRY.

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son bill, Senator Voorhees, said:
During the present fiscal year
ending June so, there will be paid BY
the treasury Sle. 800, COO as bounty to
the producers Of sugar, and every dol
lar of this vast sum is first collected
frt M those who plant corn, raise wheat,
and engage in all the various pursuits
of labor. Nearly thirty millions of
bounty money have been handed over
to the sugar makers Of the United
States since the law went INTO opera
ton, and each year the sum is rapidly
increasing If the law is TO remain
unrepealed the time is near at hand
when it will confer as mere gratuity
more than $40, 600, 900 per year on a
small fraction Of our population, en-
gagged in no public service. but in
their own private enterprises. I"
The fact that under the Mckinley
law the sugar bounty was limited to
ten years, and the further fact that the
amounts paid as bounty increase each
year, is sufficient to prove that the
production Of sugar is rapidly increas-
ing. Much better is it for those
who plant corn, raise wheat, and en-
gage in all the various pursuits of la
Dor to pay SI2, 500, 900 to citizens of
our own country, than for them to pay
sos, 900, 900 additional each year for
the sugar they use. AT the same
time, under the Wilson bill, they will
pay to producers OF sugar in this
country three fourths of SIP, 900, ooo=
SO, az, 900, and in addition about sos
600, 600 for the privilege of using for
eign sugar, which is now free. Thus
it is clear that while the people save
about s. 900, 900 year, the difference
between the bounty and the proposed
tariff OF 1 rs cents per pornd, they
will pay about SIS, 900, ooo-a net loss
of some S72, 900. 900 year.
The above is fair sample Of DEM
ocratic economy.
Mr.. VOORHEES, concluded as follows:
When the day shall dawn in which
the farmer, the mechanic, and the
wage-worker shall alike have the
right and the privilege to go into the
open, liberated markets Of the land
and buy where their hard earned mon
ey will buy moss for their wants, with
none to modest, to assess, to levy, to
take toll, or to tax, then indeed will
the millennium of labor have come, and
all the sons and daughters of toll shall
rise up and call their government
blessed
Yes, when the day shall dawn in
which foreign governments shall
abolish tariffs and export duties, when
foreign wages are advanced to the
American rate under the Mckinley
law, when the toilers of foreign lands
dress and eat and live as Americans
lived until the advent of Free Trade
Democracy, when the millennium
shall dawn, then, and not till then,
shall 1.-THE farmer, the mechanic, and
the wage-earner have the right and
the privilege to go into the open, lib
Grated markets of the land mark the
word hsAdl and buy where their hard
earned money will buy the most
The only trouble with his theory is
that the markets of this land are now
open to all of our people, ard Demo
Gratis propose to admit those of every
other nation under heaven to our mar
kets, while foreign governments are
strengthening the weak places ii
their tariff laws. Then will they
swoop down upon us, like the LAS
syrian upon the fold.' and rob ant
despoil us, while we are helpless, fol
helpless we will be should the Wilson
bill become law. And the people
of this country, instead of Calling
their government blessed" vii
drift into anarchy, and riot and ruiz
will reign supreme.
The Coxey movement is but an in
cident. Peter the Hermit started t.
the holy land with an army of S, ooc
bows, and the lives of millions of men
women, and children were lost ere tbs
crusades ended. John Browns raic
at Harpers Ferry was looked upon "a
the act of a mailman. 1t was moth
ing more, but the results of that raiC
are felt in almost every home to-day
1t is seen i'll the manned veteran
North and South, felt in the burden
of taxation even now, after the eXpen
diture of billions of treasure, and mos
Of all is the horror of it realized in the
fearful, awful sacrifice of human life
Then, in Gods name, let the Senate
of the United States comprehend thu
enormity of the impending evil anc
call halt before the evil day comes.
XNHEDE WE ABE nDIE-rING