Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-02
BOWDITCH, WEBSTER & co

senatorial combine II any final COM
promise or bargain be effected, he W i'll be
q party in interest before the enacted bill
can be sent to him for his approval.
In this anomalous state of affairs, which
Is discreditable alike to the executive and
to the nation, he is precluded by the
terms of his letter to Chairman Wilson
from antagonizing the sugar trust. His
partisans are endeavoring to fasten upon
Senator German the discredit of being
the attorney Of the refiners' monopoly,
and are quoting Senator Caffery's explicit
statement that the sugar schedule was
dictated by the trust and forced upon the
Louisiana senators. They do not stop to
consider that the president has also taken
q brief for the sugar trust In his letter
he virtually invited the house. which had
voted for free sugar and antagonized the
trust, to accept the revised sugar sched-
ule in exchange for free coal and free
iron. I'VE ought not to be driven away"
he declared. from the Democratic prin-
ciple and policy which lead to the taxa
ton of sugar by the fear, quite likely ex-
aggerated, that In carrying out this prin-
ciple and policy we may directly and in
ordinately encourage a com Animation of
sugar refining interests" Il do not be-
lieve," he added. beating the devil around
the stump in his consecrated way, 1--WE
should do evil that good may come, but
it seems to me that we should not forget
that our aim is the completion of q tariff
bill, and that In taxing sugar for proper
purposes and within reasonable bounds,
whatever else may be said of our action.
We are in no danger of running counter
to Democratic principle"
Nothing could have been more useful
for the purposes Of the sugar monopolists
than this Jesuitical plea In their behalf
Every hint from Washington respecting
a new tariff dicker and final compro-
mise between the president and Senator
German points to large con cessions' to the
trust. II either Senator Villas alleged
proposals or the bids Of the Louisiana
senator's are critically examined, the
trust will be found to " reaching after
increased ad valerem duties on all suR.
ars on tho lines of Secretary Csrlisle,s
schedule. by which its Interest may be
strengthened rather than weakened.
That is the kind of Compromise" which
the monopolists have been encouraged 70
hope for from the presidents interven-
tion, and while they may pretend to op-
pose 1t, they will accept 1t gratefully as a
full return for their campaign invest
ments In 1892. made locally in Demo
cratic states" ,-... .....,. ,
Equally Elusive are the forecasts of
'compromise" respecting coal and iron
Some Washington correspondents hint at
reductions Of the duties on both ores, and
Others at the retention Of the coal duties
with n reciprocity proviso admitting Ca
madam coal on the same terms on which
American coal is allowed to enter the
Dominion. But the president has advo-
Gated in the Wilson bill free coal and iron
without qualification or reserve, and de-
manded In his shrillest tone: "How cau
We face the people after indulging In such
outrageous determinations and violations
Of principles" Reductions of duties will
not square with his ultimatum: "It IA
quite apparent that this question of free
raw material does not admit Of adjust
ment on any middle ground. since their
objection 20 any rate OF tariff taxation.
great or small. Is alike vioiative of Demo
cratic principle and Democratic good
faith" A reciprocity rider upon the coal
schedule would be preposterous leRisla-
tive flmfas In view Of the fact that 90
reciprocity treaties are to be abrogated at
the dictation Of the sugar trust. The
president may dicker with Senator Cor
man. but he can only sacrifice his honor,
reputation aud consistency BY such com.
promises - these. which Involve repudia.
ton of his letter and an abieot surrender
10 Senator Gorman.-lNew York Tribune.