The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-03
OUTSIDE OPINIONS.

The people of the First and Third dis
tricts OF Louisiana should put down such
methods, should rebuke such arrogance.
The sugar plutocrats Of Louisiana have
not yet got their heels on the nccks OF
the masses Of the people OF this state. as
they viii discover In due time But, II
the impossible should happen, the repub-
lican party regain control Of the govern
ment and restore the sugar bOuTty. IL
would not be many years before this
state would be dominated by the richest.
haughtiest and most insolent plutocracy
that ever oppressed and insulted the peO-
ple.-New Orleans States (dem).
A Boston dispatch announces that the
big new mill of the Massachusetts cot
ton company is 10 be built I'm Georgia;
and the further statement is made that
"as the company has just increased its
capital stock from Sl.600.000 TO s., 400.-
0OO the plant Is likely to be a large
one" The managers Of cotton mills fol-
low a sound economic in getting as close
as they can TO the cotton fields. Their
eagerness to do 50 now is proof positive
OF their confidence in the improving in
dustrial situation, and that both the
home and foreign markets can be de-
pended upon. - Philadelphia Record
(dem.).
There is no more right or reason for
giving these planters the S10,0000O or
more annually in bounties (Which they
had been getting since 1890 than there
would be in distributing as large an
amount Of government money among
doctors, lawyers, merchants, school
teachers and a dozen other classes of
citizens. Yet this is just what "protec-
ton" in all its forms proposes-bOunty-
ing favored classes at the expense of
every other citizen. The Louisiana
planters are just as much entitled to
bounties as the New England and Penn
sylvania wool and cotton manufacturers,
who under the Mckinley tariff received
an equivalent Of thirtyfOld. and under
the German tariff now receive an equiv
alent of twentyfold the boutnies that the
planters got. But the time has come
when the whole abominable system of
bounties, protection" and unequal tariff
taxation must go.-N. Y. Herald (dem.).
There seems to be some incongruity be-
tween the charge so loudly made by the
McKinleyites that the new tariff bill gave
millions TO the sugar trust and the fact
that the sugar refineries are shutting
down for want Of a demand for sugar,
when the tariff law is only a short month
old. Between the oft-repeated assertion
that the bill was framed for the special
benefit of the trust and the fact that an
oVerstocked market Is causing a shut
down there is room for some explaining.
The existing glut in the sungar market
is easily accounted for, Of course. for
while congress debated, every wholesale
iobber and retail grocer bought sugar as
long as bank accounts and storage ca
pacity would permit I'm anticipation Of
an advance The advance has not come,
because the sugr in stock has not been
consumed, and until 1t is consumed there
will be a stagnant market. But how the
trust is to get thirty or forty millions
year out Of a condition of the trade that
keeps its refneries idle hasn't been eX-
plained.-Philadelph Times (dem).
This is no time to agtate or settle fac
tional differences. Those differences in
this city. at least. have related solely to
questions of state ind municipal poll
tics. They have existed in the past.
They may arise in the future. There,
probably, will always be such differ
ences. The present congressional contest
is one in regard to which no differences
or divisions of opinion should exist at all.
The issue is broadly drawn between re-
publican McKinleyism on the one hand,
the eliminating atrocity of class legis-
lation" and the democratic principle Ct
a tariff for revenue only, OF free raw
materials for manufacture. and Of re-
duced taxation upon all goods which en-
ter into common necessary consumption.
The one vital point is that every demo-
cratic constituency shall send 20 the next
congress a representative who can be
absolutely and fearlessly relied upon 10
take his stand on the right side, that is.
the QelQOCIdLC sue Ol TIE Iut-d ltSD-
lutte opponent of the republican doctrine
of protection, no Compromise" no
trimmer. but an out-and-out supporter
of the democratic administration of Gro
yer Cleveland. and the democratic policy
Of a democratic Platform and a demo-
cratic house-Baltimore Sun (dem.).
1t is a fact which may we'll be re-
garded as significant that notwithstand-
ing the numerous reasons which the pub
lie has for being tired of that subject, the
tariff question seems to be recovering its
former position as a national issue of
prime importance. The events of the re-
cent congress made it for a time mat
ter Of speculation whether or not the pub
lie would again be asked to declare its
opinion on the tariff 10 the practical eX-
cluSiOn Of other issues. 1t is a subject
which one of the great parties ait least
has little enough cause TO allude to with
pride. Nevertheless. not only in Illinois,
where Mr.. McVeagh is waging a cam
pagn of affirmation and aggression on
the subject. but in Iowa. where Mr.. ALI
son is busily talking protection, and in
each of the other more important state
campaigns the tariff Is being pushed with
an energy that threatens to carry ii far
on the way toward 1886. Mr.. Hi him
self Notwithstanding his former bitter de-
nunciatiCns of the Gorman-Brice bill
came promptly to time yesterday in his
speech at the Saratoga convention and
sounded the cali to a defense of that
measure as "a vast improvement of the
vicious. un-American and Objectionable
Mckinley law."-Chicago Record (dem).