The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
PROTECTION eLAo kMAlL.

PROTECTION eLAo kMA,L.
How tho Mckinley Doctrans IL Preached
by Pampered Psndefers:
No rogue e'er felt the halter draw,
with good opinion Of the law or the
Mirror and Farmer, chief protection
bunco steerer for the state of Ne "
Hampshire, protests most earnestly
against my kicking its large protec-
ton paunche. In reply to my indict:
tnent, it assures the republican voters
, whom 1t is misleading and befoolinR
on this question::
! l. That I am a hired writer for the
! sugar trust. paid by it to defend its
| thefts.
| 2. That there is now no tax on 81
gsr;. that tho Mckinley bill put sugar
on the free list, and that the wicked
| democrats are now trying to put a tax
on suga- that will benefit the trust by
| g. SO per ton.
3. That there never was a sugar trust
| under republican legislation, or while
| the republicans taxed sugar, and that
| 1t is under the law putting sugar on
the Gree list, under the abornina bl e
''free trade in sugar OF the Mckinley
| bill, that the sugar trust has grown
rich and inso1ent.
4. That every man Except one) in
the sugar trust is a democrat, and that
ali the contributions Of the sugar trust
hive been made to the democratic
party.
There are many more statements Of
this kind with which it proposes TO
hoodvink the ignorant and vicious re-
publican voters of New Hampshire
too ignorant to refer to the law and
see for themselves what the facts are;
are when the truth has been shown
them. Each republican vote which
this protection bunco-steerer can re-
tain for the republican party next No
vember is worth $40 in crisp green
backs to the league of four hundred
and fifty American protected trusts.
aud IT b1uff1ng will keep even one vote
from straying, it does not propose to
lose that one. or Ats percentage on any
one It can steer into the game for it's
employers to svvind1e. That it is Grim
inal1y dishonest. that it is partner of
the protection thieves, sharing their
plumber, must be the unbiased opinion
OF any honest man who reads its an
swer to my straightforward statement
OF facts and figures, not one of which
It attempts to impeach.
This World hireltag Of the gang that has
pendous robbery calls the pending bill one to
reduce the profits OF the trust three-fourths.
heels SQUARE In the Stomach Of all us vho nnnsa
It, The well-shod heels OF that aniraal are
the heels OF an ass that is staggering under tho
load his brutal owners have piled upon him.
ana whose voice Is badly broken by the bray
ing which cruel keeper EFFORTS from him
with the gond. But listen further to the noise
that comes echoing from among the bats that
nest In his stomach w through the vacuum In
his skull and out through tho orifces Of his
vile nose"
That is It's only answer to my state
mcnt that the Mckinley bill 'spro-
tects' the sugar trust with a duty of
sl1.2o per ton; that the proposed SEN
ate bill reduces this Mckinley protec-
ton of the trust to a duty of S.. 80 per
ton. 1t cannot deny that the sugar
trust yearly receives under the Nc
Kinley law $50. 900, 900 blood money and
blackmail. 1t cannot deny that the
senate bill substitutes a tax of one
eighth of a cent in place of the present
tax of one-half of a cent, as the pro-
lection of the trust. It cannot deny
that the senate bill compels the sugar
trust to pay into the treasury s15, oOO,-
900 of the $40, 900, 900 blacIzmail now
paid to it yearly by the people. md
that all other taxes on sugar levied by
the senate bill go into the treasury.
under tho Mckinley bill we must pay to
the sugar trust $40, 900, 900 blaclsmail
yearly, as we have done since $50, and it |
does not deny that the defeat of a dem |
ocratlc reform measure which cuts this |
blackmail down is what the trust |
is working for. 1t cannot meet !
facts or figures. 1t dare not quote |
the present law or the proposed law.
There is nothing left but to denounce |
me as the paid advocate of the sugar
trust! Between 1856 and 1890 there was
not a fact figure in connection
with the exposure of the sugar trusts
thefts used in any newspaper or in any
public utterance that did not supply;
10 other writer furnished ANYTHING;
ind this same defender of protection
hen denounced me for my persistent
attack on the sugar trust, as 'the paid
clerk of gang of foreign Importers"
Is "a liar hired by British gold" to de-
anne honest men. The exposure that
made of the sugar trust blaclxmail
between 1886 and 1890 forced a reduc-
ion to the present theft of $40, 600, 600.
Because am fighting now to either cut
his blacl1mail OFF altog ether or reduce
t to 81, 900, 900, this protection bunco-
teerer denounces mo rs the paid agent
# the trust, in order to defeat uny
'hange and keep the &2O, ZOO, 900 black
nail for the trust. It is an old trick of
he pickpocket to Shout ''Stop thief"
It his accuser. This editor has such
confidence in the stupidity and ienor-
nee of his readers that he knows it
will be successful in diverting atten-
ion from himself to call me a hire
ing of the sugar trust" Not one of
lis readers cares enough for the truth
o pin him down to the figures and
acts, if he had sufficient intelligence
0 understand them.-Tariff Rule, in