The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05
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munlly or pelf and are prepared 10 do
business in entire harmony.
| IL is also expected that the efforts to
secure the passage of a railroad pooling
bill VIII be attended by generous dis
tribution of the coin of the realm in chan
neis where good results VIII flow. Care
VIII be taken next year to avoid the errors
which lost the railroads the game last win
Ter after they supposed they had won it.
"EQUALizING RATES"
Next winter a new pooling bill Will be
Offered in the covert form of a bill TO so
equalize freight rates that the small shipper
viii ever stand on an exact equality Win
the heavy weight. The offensive Word,
pooling viii be eliminated as far as
Possible, or kept discrcetly in the back
ground, and the measure will De urged as
one or broad beneficence and stern equity.
The adjustment of freight rates for the
alleged DenetIt OF the common people VIII
be me central decoy idea.
lite Canadian Pacific and their
New England termlua Will be allied
with heavy shippers like Armour, Nelson
Morris anu the great elevator and Gu title
combinations TO GeIeat the desired leglsia-
| lion. Vast money interests VIII Dc ar
! rayed on each side. 1t VIII be struggle
OF the TltanS. Every agency at the com
mani Of money VIII De employed BOTH Tor
ana against the pooling bill.
lHt udidct COfIpduits VIII IN OD
Ject oil attack. Honest efforts will be
made TO secure the passage OF laws for
the regulation Of these concerns. At
| tempta VIII be made TO specifically include
them within the provisions OF the inter-
state commerce law and also TO establish
fixed rates on mileage basis which will
greatly reduce the tax the travelling Is now
obliged to endure.
the professional lobbyists are also pre-
| ri he lac "a T.
| These great concerns are really more IN fear
| OF the strikers than they are OF the honest
men who are earnestly striving to benefit
the public by cutting down the exorbitant
sleeping car fares.
| Tine PuImans and the Vanderbilts tWag-
ner) know fun web that they have a big
| fight on their hands next winter, and il is
| noe 10 be supposed for an instant that they
| are cglectful of their interestsin the matter.
The brewers are massing their energies
| to repel raiders next winter. They have
been warned that they are going to be at
| tackled, aud have been planning for battle
| ever since last spring.
They at first relied upon help from the
administration to protect them from tue
dollar a barrel, but were subsequently in
! formed that they need not look for help
| from that quarter.
The President may not recommend a tax
| in his message, and Secretary Carlisle may
not advise il IN his report, bat the spirit of
the Treasury Department and or the admin
| istratiou VIII be strongly In favor or rails
| Ing whatever additional revenue may be
required by a tax on malt liquors.
Having tested the sentiment in that To-
Cality To their infinite dissl tisfactinu, the
| brewers began work upon the Republicans.
urging that it would he poor politics to
make enemies OF the brewing and liquor
| selling interests right on the eve of
Presidential election when the only OBJ
| icct that could be attained would be 10
help the Democrats out of the slough Of
| financial despond into which they had
| foolishly engulfed themselves.
| kEfuBLICANS -AUREEABLE-
| This argument Is proving effective, aud
many influential Republicans, who last year
were hot in favor of beer tax, have
veered around, and are new opposed 10 it,
The question OF politics Will enter very
| largely into the disposition OF the beer tax
| issue II Shuuid come before Congress.
| Fearful, however, that they might not
| be able TO get through the campaign " It'll
ont heavy expenditure OF the long
| green me Drew Lave uraugnIeu 10 Inv4r
| financial support the retail hQuor dealers
associations and have given them 10 iully
understand that they must be prepared to
| respond 10 a call for as much money as
/
| Incre are nearly $4,000 retail liquor
dealers in the United States. and an assess
ment OF SIS or SO upon each Uuld not,
| in the opinion of the brew ers, be oppressive.
The brewers are in a IcsiIion 10 enforce
their demands upon the retailers. They
have mortgages on ninety per cent OF the
saloon fixtures and furnishings and have
only TO say the W ord and the drnk-niXers
viii come Eaily 10 the front.
what the brewers fear in reality, more
than they do The prospects OF fresh taxa
ton, is that Congress may take a notion
to regulate the manufacture OF beer, max
ing its production more costly. The brewers
having rai sed great oatcTy agains fur
Their taxing of malt liquors becaGse it
would impose additional hardship on the
poor man, feels that they are in danger
OF being asked 10 look after the poor mans
interests in the awkward and expensive
direction Of improving the quality OF the
beverages they introduce into his stomach.
in other words, they feel that they have
rather oyerplayed the poor man Racket,
and that they will be compelled to prove
their solIcitude was not entirely simulated.
As matters now stand. the manufacture
of beer Is carried On without any restric-
tons as to what shall enter into its com
position. In consequence, very much OF
the stuff that finds its way into the
stoInachs Of consUmers is of a very in
fcriJr, if not positively injurious char
Gc,.r. 1t is said that the administration.
through the Department OF Agriculture,
will make some very urgent and pertinent
recommendations to Congress next winter
bearing upon the protection OF the people
against adulteTated and deleterious articles
of food and drink.
The brewers are really very much Con-
Cerned over the outlook, and it would not
be surprising if active steps were taken
10 bring them up with n sharp turn along
these lines. Whether the strikers and
lobbyists viii he able TO ride such merito-
rious legislation to death is an open ques-
ton. That they will mix in will be
accepted as one of The certainties.
CANAL LOBBY.
Just what shape the Nicaraguan Canal
project VIII take before Congress ca mot
now be determined. The owners of the
concession have been Ddeavoring for sew
cral months to enlist private capital in
the enterprise. but whether they have sue
Ceeded or not is one OF the secrets that
are jealousy guarded.
IL may be assumed, however. that the
canal win be up in some form, and il that
takes the shape of a request for an appro-
priation to dig the ditch the lobby VIII
very likely fatten considerably on the job.
Then, there is a tremendous enterprise
hat ching out in New York for the purchase
of Cuba and its annexation to the United
States.
This scheme is at present In a some
what embryonic state but II is one of
those things that develop fast when CON
ditions are ripe, and its success or failure
will depend very largely on the progress
of the instruction on the island.
II the revolutionists can hang on until
spring it may be possible to drive very
good bargain with Spain for her trouble