Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-08-22
The Trust is Cmnipotent, and the Tari1 Il
Bill Is Passed.

Bill is Passed.
The President of the United States, and
%he Democratic House of Representa-
lives, have surrendered to the sugar trust,
and the Senate tariff bill becomes Il law.
BOurke Cochran, that distinguished and
.D0ld Democratic leader, says that the
passage of the bill lis the most disgrace
tul chapter in American history" Mr.:
COCHRAN further says: The walls OF
jericho falling before blast OF wind
yielded to force much more tangible
than that which sent the House of Repre-
ssentatiyes Scurrying into an abject. cow
sardly, self-confessed betrayal of the prin-
-ciples which they profess
EX-Speaker Reed says: 1T is useless
TO comment upon the performances in the
House today 1t fifty concludes a long
and disreputable career From Mr.. VIII
sons lame opening to the speakers UNI
fortunate and unjust allusion to Mr..
cochran 1t was all of piece-a struggle
IN the dust, nauseouS Wallowing, a most
unslghty exhibition. The House dealt
with bill that was not before it-lent
itself to 'peridy and dishonor," as the
president says: and not only did it, but
dug down for the chance. That parlia
mentary law was violated is small af
falr, for it has not been unusual in this;
but that they should proclaim with their
voices that they were to fight trusts and
monOp0leS, and then go into a course of
action which made trust shares go up
tour points the very day it was adopted
demands that severe reprobatiOn should
accompany false pretenses. AS for the
alttle bills rushed through. the Subterfuge
is too transparent for even a moments
consideration. It is pure humbug They
pass a bill taxing sugar and coal and
then pass dummies pretending to repeal
st, and all the same day"
Representative Burrows of Michigan
ocharacterizes the bill as "a most infamous
piece OF legislation, IN that it protects Spe-
scIal industries, trusts and combines, but
the method of its consummation is even
more offensive, and is without a parallel
IN legislative history. This constitutes
simply a mask behind which the Demo-
cratic party attempts to conceal its real
purpose Of free trade, that it may deceive
the people in the approaching election"
The Inter-O Ocean says: by action of a
Democratic President. Of a Democratic
Senate and of Democratic House of
Representatives the people will be taxed
at the rate of S4O,0OO,00O or so Il year
for the exclusive benefit of the sugar
trust; but with such absolute power as it
possesses the wonder is that it has not
taxed us more severely. 1t could have
had the sugar duty doubled had it asked
for it.
Rome) were the letters emblazoned on the
should bear the inscription, S. L., p.
s. Sugar Trust, President and Senate)
But first and greatest is the trust"
The Chicago Tribune says: '"Three
Presidents before Cleveland waged bit
ter war with the other end of the ave
nue. Jackson, Tyler and Johnson Hen
~ Clay was the German of both the
jackson and the Tyler contests, with this
very important difference-he was beaten
both times. The country approved the
jackson fight. for he was fighting the
opposition party, but it has always de
tested Tyler, who. like Cleveland got up
u row in his own party. As for John
a jelly, but he had two-thirds majority
IN both houses against him. and his de
feat, while it was a triumph of Il great
principle, reflected no particular credit up
on the generalship of his victors. 1t was
reserved for Arthur Z. German to lead
what seemed a forlorn hope and achieve
IN parliamentary war as signal Il victory
as that won by Gen. Jackson in New Or
leans"