The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-10-05

GOV. WILLIAM HKINLEY.
ton of the Hawaiian islands is under the con-
troll of the sugar trust; that country is the field
of its primary operations. The democratic
party took away from the sugar raisers OF the
United States the bounty of s10OOO.0O0 year
and bestowed bounty OF 100000 year ON
the sugar producers of the Hawaiian islands.
giving them an advantage over not only the
sugar producers of the United States, but OF
the whole world outside of these islands
SACRED CONTRACT.
The sugar producer of the Sandwich islands
profits by that tariff OF 30 per cent. while upon
all other sugars the 40 per cent. goes into the
treasury of the United States. do not ques-
ton. my fellow-citizens, nor discuss the pro-
priety of maintaining that treaty inviolate, but
there were other treaties made by the govern
ment of the United States twice sacred
When we made the tariff law of 1890 and took
away all the tariff from sugar we gave to the
cane producers and the beet producers and the
maple sugar producers bounty equivalent to-
the tariff. and we said in that law that that
bounty should stand for fifteen years. That Is
all wiped out by the law OF 1894. Not even thd
bounty of this year is given to the crop that
has already been supervised by the govern
ment of the United States. By that law this Is
taken from the sugar producers OF the coun-
try What is there more sacred in a reciproci-
ty treaty with foreign country than in q
solemn contract made with our own citiZenss
Inc IcEOlJ OI the LOulSldnb piaHIcfS hkdllSe
the party which had smitten them so heavily
was referred to. and Gov. Mckinley pointed
out that 1t was the republican party. so freely
accused Of sectionalism, which conferred ben
eits upon them which had been opposed by
democratic statesmen and removed as soon as
they had an opportunity to do so. The governor
maintained that instead OF being sectional the
republican party had shown itself 70 be en-
tirely unsectional. broad and unselfsh in its
purposes and national in its politics.
Democracy was criticised for increasing the
salaries of certain officials at a time when th6
revenues of the country fell below the expend-
itures. and the money question was touched
on, Gov. Mckinley saying:
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
"Our money is all good. whether It be gold or
silver, whether IL be national bank notes. or
greenbacks. or treasury or gold or silver certif-
icates: every dollar Is good. To get the money
out among the people is the serious problem
to-day. To do this we must not only havs
something to sell. but be able to find some-
body to buy. No matter what we have to sell,
IL there is nobody able to buy who wants 1t, We
must keep 10. II we are compelled to keep IL.
we suffer the loss. in whole or in part OF what
1t costs us to produce.
The banks are filled with money: money was
never more plentiful. or less employed than IL
is now. 1t Is because it is not employed. be-
cause We have the stagnation in business which
distresses the country: and the reason it Is NOS
employed is because the invitation to safe and
profitable investment is not presented.
1t is not the lack of money, nor the kind OF
money. that is our trouble: It is the lack OF
prosperous manufacturing and the absence OF
confidence in the party managing the govern
ment. and we want a faith in the future. When
confidence and hope are everywhere manifest
ed, manufacturers are busy and labor Is en-
ployed. and when both are engaged therein
with fair profits and with fair wages then agri-
culture is prosperous and money has free and
healthy circulation.