Middletown transcript., 1894-06-09
THE SUGAR SCANDAL.
The Story Of Shame Told nj Singing
Sentenc ces by a Democrat Paper.

! Seuteu Cos Dy DGHOcfdC l-aDer.
Brooklyn Eagle DEM.
The Sugar Trust has had its way in the
Senate. None of the Democratic Senators
| voted against it except Senator Hill, and
the desire among the rest of the party was
to isolate him. He can afford to be isolated
Before this thing is through some of the
men who voted for the trust on Tuesday
will be lovers of solitude and candidates
| for forgetfulness. Hill has not been specu,
lating in sug ar stock. Had E lward Murphy
John r. Mcpherson has So has Calvin H.
Brice.
The trust had its VI y Throughout
Whether men like David B. Hill or dislike
him, he does not market his vote.
| He does not speculate iii stocks which legis-
lation Can put down or up. and he does add
to the game of politics, which at times he
| plays like desperate, the game of finance,
which sundry Of his colleagues play lik
| highwaymen or bunco steerers, according
| to the audacious or sneaking character of
| their temperament. Tuesday was day of
shame in the Senate of the United States
1t was a day when Republicanism, even
through the unfragrant Chandler, could
taunt Dem ocracy with jobbery and robbery
The sting of the taunt was not in its source.
but in its truth.
Even S100 900 was not too high a
price to pay for United States Senator
and wonder if it was paid? If $780, 900, just
as one installment, was sent from the truss
headquarters in New York to the branch
office which the tIust has lately opened in
Washington, the sum was not too much for
the work required
The heresy and betrayal of adding hun
dreds of millions to the cost of sugar to the
people of the United States will not be con
doned by the fact that hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars have been added to the for
tunes of United States Senators and pole
ticians who control them. The blocks of
stock which the sugar trust holds for these
United States Senators under disguises
which investigation in earnest could easily
penetrate may close the account between |
the Senators and the trust
The shame of it! The 81 anne of it, is |
what honest Democ ats feel Eve y |
step since susp' 'cions were converted to facts
has been n step of shame. When the lights |
were turned on the Ways and Means Com
mi,tee and on BouIke Cochran and on the
traces of the conspirators generally in
Washington last December there was dis
belief. Exposure then was followed by
Trobust denials. The denials were false.
hey have beenshown to be false |
Some of the correspondents told the
truth They were arrested and commanded
to tell who told it to them. They refused.
bat showed how the truth or falsity of what
they said could be determined The truth
of it has been determined substantially in
every respect. Yet these men who told the
truth have been handed over to prosecution
in order to make hubbub about news
paper recklessness and contumacy the bet
ter to create a cover for the conspirators
who have induced Democratic Senators and
Representatives to put the fattening of
their pocketbooks above the honor of their
party, the pledges of their President and of
their platform and the prosperity of their
country.
The story of shame and crime will proba-
bly, go through to the end. Happily, how
ever, Congress is not the people. The peo-
pile will have their innings when Congress
completes its innings. Congress will find
that the people will not be through with
them when they are through with the
sugar trust, and the sugar trust will find
that the people will not be through with it
when it is through with Congress.
This going to be good year for honesty,
after ALL 1t is going to be good year to
live in and to work in. An immense lot of
housekeeping will be done in November.
Brooms, brushes and soap will be made
ready between now and then, and so will
plenty of fire.