Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-08-21
Government Dishonesty |.

In no instance has the dishonesty of the present administration been
 more bare faced than in it's dealing.
 with our sugar producers. When the Mckinley tariff was passed iu
 1890, the Louisiana crop of that
 year was lS0000 tons. Under the
 protection then offered by Congress the sugar output of that state al most doubled, increasing to 350,0O0 tons for the 1894 crop, which was cultivated, grown and harvested on the faith that the laws of Congress would be executed and that the honesty of the American government would not be impeached. It is the same in the case of our beet sugar product, which reached 5000 tons in 1890 and 5000 tons in 1894. the phenomenal advance being made solely through the governments promise of protection.
 The hardship experienced, more particularly by the individual plant CTS and manufacturers of Louisiana, has at length forced upon them the belief that the political party to which they have hitherto belonged is as dishonest as it is incompetent. First of all, the leaders of that party in Congress tried to repudiate the payment of the just claims of the sugar growers and producers. It was due chiefy, however, to their political opponents that Congress insisted upon appropriating the sum of S5,000,000 wherewith to partially meet their demands.
 More than half year has elapsed since that money was appropriated. It has not yet been paid, and obsta- cle after obstacle has been presented by the democratic officials to pre- vent its payment. Every delay and subterfuge that could suggest itself has been practiced so as to defraud the sugar producers, who have over come every opposition and success fully met every argument used against them. For a year past, statesmen, fnanciers, lawyers and treasury experts have discussed the payment of this just claim, and all have failed in successfully opposing it. Finally, the democratic officials in Washington were compelled to form regulations for its settlement. All details for payment were ar ranged and the date was announced, September 1, when the money should be handed over.
 Thus the hopes of the sugar pro- ducers were once more buoyed up. It seemed that the payment of the bounty was inevitable; that there was no escape from it. But the confding people of Louisiana did not know the depth of democratic official degradation. An entirely new obstacle was suddenly set before them, and it now looks as if the grandest period of prosperity that was ever enjoyed by Louisiana will terminate with the impoverishment of her people and a check to her progress that cannot be overcome within a decade. Scores of sugar planters of that state have already Ottu NAONhCO anu AulboOb OlhClo had tided over their troubles by obtaining advances and extensions of credit, owing to the promise made by Congress that the bounty should be paid them.
 But now one official sets himself up to overrule the action of Con- gress, and those sugar producers who were helped temporarily by banks and capitalists, must, many of them, succumb to the ruin and wreckage that had previously over whelmed their neighbors and friends. Not only is it the sugar producers of Louisiana who are injured, but every other industry in the state is directly affected by the prosperity of the sugar people. The treaohery of the free trade party and of the free trade officials, step by step, this entire transaction with Louisiana will, and can, never be sufficiently exposed.-Ex.