The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09
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We can assure him, in all kindness, that
ninety-five out of every hundred Demo-
the Wilson bill, and would prefer no bill at
all to the Senate bill, with the coal, iron
and sugar schedules as dictated by the
trusts.
The foregoing are the words with which
the Sentinel expresses its very hearty re-
greet CD that Mr.. Bynum has displeased the
President by exercising his right as a DEM
ocrat to lead in calling a party caucus. The
Sentinel is liable to be impulsive and errat-
ic in its judgments of late. Five of one
hundred Democrats in this district would
not know the corpse of the Wilson bill If
the sugar, coal and ore schedules were
omitted from the Senate bill. AS for the
sugar schedule, it is probable that what it
says about the hostility to it is true, not
because it favors the trust so much as be-
cause it will increase the price of sugar
40 or 40 per cent. But why does the Senti-
mel insist that the President is hostile to
a high duty on sugar, or even to the sched-
ule of the Sugar Trust? Here are Mr..
C1eveland's observations in that boomerang
hlONH dS ii WlISO lelleT-
Under our party platform, and in accord
ance with our declared party purposes, SUI
gar is a legitimate and logical article of
revenue taxation. Unfortunately, however.
of the legislation which will be submitted
to the conference that have aroused in
connection with this subject a natural
Democratic animosity to the methods and
-manipulations of trusts and combinations.
| confess to sharing in this feeling, and yet
sufficiently free ourselves from prejudice to
enable us coolly to weigh the considera-
tons which, in formulating the tariff legis-
sugar as a taxable article. While no ten
derness should be entertained for trusts,
and while / am decidedly opposed to grant
ing them, under the guise of tariff taxa
ton, any opportunity TO further their pc
NOT to be driven away from the Democratic
principle and policy which led to the tax
atom ol Sugdr 10y 'ne Lear, qoate ttHeiy e3-
ciple and policy we may indirectly and in
ordinately encourage a combination of SUI
gar refining interests.
There is every word that the President
has had TO say about the sugar schedule
of the tariff bill. The President declares
for a duty on sugar. The Wilson bill. when
sent TO the House, had a duty on sugar,
and il vas knocked off by all the Repub-
lear and a part of the Democratic vote.
The Sentinel forgets this. or else ignores it.
Further. the President has not told Mr..
Wilson to fight the Senate sugar SCHEDULED:
in fact. in the foregoing quotation there
is more : its favor than against il. So far
as the President is concerned, he has al
ready agreed TO a compromise which places
a higher duty on sugars and gives the re-
fning trust as much advantage as does the
Senate schedule. The Journal repeats that
the conflict between the President and the
big six in the Senate is not so much over
the sugar as the coal and ore duty. When
the wage-earners in the Seventh district
understand that free coal is desig ed to
Jake from thousands of American miners
the market of New England, which is now
theirs without a rival. and transfer e TO