The morning call., 1894-01-23


that whereas people pay only $4,000, 600
or 100000 a year for this bounty here
tofore you paid $4,000, 600 in the way of
taxes; if that is a tax, then according TO
your own confession we have reduced the
tax S40, 1000. O0O"
Maguire-Why do you object to the
tariff tax?
simply because we can get along with
out it. And under the effect of this bounty
in ten years we will produces in the United
States all the sugar We want. We are now
sending out for S100,000.000 worth each
year and paying money for 1t, and we
want the people of this country 20 manu-
facture that sugar and produce II. And 1t Is
shown that if this bounty continues you
will buy for one-half less than what it was.
You put coffee on the free list and that
never made it any cheaper. The coffee
raiSerS OF Brazil and those countries that
raise il Immediately raised the price ana
not single invoice came in cheaper after
it was placed on the free list, and it is
dearer now than when il paid duty. 1t is
now lower in the United States than it
ever was. If you have to buy it you know
that [hpplause.]
Here by the magic of the Intelligent and
wise public business policy Of the Repub-
llcan party the silent desert plain mas bios
somed into fertile fields, and the waste
places have been transformed into COM
Portable American homes. The act giving
bounty on sugar was contract not
only implied. but expressed in words, and
has proved of the greatest benefit TO all
the people of the United States. Pre-
ciSaly such contract between citizens
would be enforced by the courts. The
sugar schedule in this bill is a deliberate
violation of the contract entered into with
the citizens to develop a great industry,
and now the Government proposes TO ig-
more every moral and legal obligation be-
cause it is the strongest party. owns the
courts, and is sole executor of the law. 1t
does deliberately and shamelessly what 1t
courts condemn and punish citizens for.
The adoption of this schedule will OF
close the Chino factory this year, nor next
possibly, but will prevent the building of
three other factories this year in the Sew
enth District of California. The COM
| panies have already been formed and con-
| sist almost wholly of farmers. This is not
! because a reduction of one quarter Of 1 per
cent bounty per year is here made, but be-
cause it is violation of contract. 1t is a
notice that the party of the first part, be-
| ing the United States, is dishonest, and
will give no security that it will abide by
! the contract 1t proposes in this bill. or will
be honest so long as the present element
controls ii. and so the farmers Of Orange
and Riverside and San Diego and Fresno
counties, as we'll as of all other counties in
all other States, must wait until the Gov
eminent of the United States passes from
the agents of all Europe into the hands of
Americans who will consult the interests
of the American people rather than of for
eign people.
"As has been shown. the United States
produces only about One-tentG of the sugar
consumed. and we pay 500, 100000 TO for
egners. If the present law be continued,
the people of this country will in few
years be paying a greater part of this i'm
mense sum to themselves instead Of TO
foreign people.
Five years ago this last autumn l drove
across the Chino plains. Midway across
there were dozen cheap wooden houses in
a cluster, all but two or three of them va
cant. They were a fragment, reminis-
cence, of the real estate boom that had
suddenly dropped down on the plain one
day and as suddenly departed the next. A
few cattle were grazing, some buZZards
were iaZilv floating in the air, and these
were all the signs of life visible, and over
ali rested the primeval scene of the plains.
Zone year ago last October | was on my
way TO visit Chino again. On the cars con-
verSation had turned TO the sugar-beet in
| dustry. and / noticed that a strongyOung
! fellow was much interested. At last, turn
| ing to me, he said:
az want to tell you what ! have done
this last season. l had last winter a span
of broncos that cost me about SIS. and an
old wagon and harness worth $50. That
! is all had to begin with. ] went to Chino
and hired some land and went to work.
just finished the other day and all my beets
we're sold to the Chino factory, and l have
cleared on my work for less than year a
little over $1,000, and have got the money
'As l have said, l was on my way to
Chino again. The other time l had found
the little cluster of vacant houses. Now
l saw that a great change had taken place.
A factory had been built on the plain,
and from an elevated platform on one side
of this factory l surveyed the scene. On
every side stretched cultivated fields and
| nuDureuS Ol Uusy Uen duu women were al
work in them. From every direction loaded
] teams were coming. and these deposited
! in great bins 400 tons of beets each day.
| Going to the other side of the mill found
a long train of freight cars being loaded
with white sugar, of which that factory
turned out this year $4,000. 900 pounds. TIE
| hum of industry. the sounds of the busy
mill and the laughter of workers in the
field were borne on every breeze. In the
evening l met in fine, spacious hal
500 intelligent, bright. cheerful people.
American farmers and workmen and work
women"
Judge Hilborn, in his speech. confined
| himself almost exclusively to the interests
of his district that would be affected by
the provision of the bill in regard to the
wool paragraph. He said an effort has
| hean mazda In create the imnressinn tha