The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15
rs SUGAR a SUITABLE ARTICLE FOR
a REPUBETCAN PROTECTIVE
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In the New Orleans tPcayune' Of Sun
day last appeared the following tele-
gram from Washington, D, G,
aWashington, Aug. Sin the Republican
campaign text hook, under the heading of
sugar. &c is stated that the Republicans put
that artiole on the free list conditiOnally; that
is, conditioned on reciprocity with foreign
counties, for the following reasons, briefly
That the revenues were in excess of the neetls
Of the government; that Louisiana was in
teusely Democratic and insisted that the
tariff ON sugar was q revenue tax; chat sugar
is 8 necessary of life, and the Democrats were
demanding the removal of taxes from the
necesearies oflife that Fits removal was q
most excellent method Of giving the southern
free trade Democrats an object lesson on the
benefits Of protection. Thu Louisiana people,
Republicans and Democrats alike, have seen
they have demanded the restoration of the
tariff, q demand which the senate was com
PEELED to grant notwithstanding Democratic
principles aud platform"
This is quite a admission, The bounty
was given because the previous admins.
tration which was Democratic left ''money
to burn in the treasury. We arc then
to infer that under present conditions,
with the revenues Of the government
falling behind the, expenditures we can
not expect anything in the form of a
bounty on sugar from the Republican
party.
THE CoURIER feels firmly convinced
that sugar is not an article, that, accord
ing to the true Republican idea Of pro
lection demands a protective tariff. 1t
has not thOughtso since sugar was put on
the free list by the Republicans, when
the. Republican cry Of ''free breakfast
table, was first raised.
We have beer greatly strengthened IN.
our belief after reading Republican liter
ature furnished the editor by one of the
leading Republicans of this Parish. One
of these books entitled american Tariffs
from Plymouth Rock to Mckinley" as set
forth BY no less authority than the Hon.
Jacob II. Gallipger, ofNew Hampshire in
the Senate Of the United States May 16,
II, 10. 1894 and May "a, 1896, expOunds
Republican doctrines very clearly.
On the second page of this book we fnd
the following lucid definition, Of a pro
tective tariff according to the Republican
H
principle.
"A PROTECTIVE TARIFF not only pro-
vides revenue for the expense Of the
Government, but also so discriminates its
duties that they are levied principally
upon imported articles that come in direct
competition with home industries, and
so adjusts the rates that such competing
foreign productions cannot be placed
upon the home market price. BY this
means the high wages Of our home labor.
ers are maintained, and need not be re-
duoed to the low level of cheap foreign
labor ; and under this kind of tariff,
articles of necessity for the common peo-
pie in their household economy, and
which cannot be raised or produced pro
ftaBy at home, are admitted free ofduty,
such as tea, coffee, sugar, etc"
Sugar, then, according TO this eminent
Republican authority, is zone Of the
articles Of necessity for the common
people in their household economy which
cannot be raised profitably at home and
therefore belongs on the free list.
The Democrats believe in "a for tariff
revenue" and assert that sugar is an
ideal article on which to levy a tax il
raising this revenue.
Neither party viii make any increase
in the duty on sugar unless it is absolutely
necessary and, when it is necessary the
CoURIER believes that a Democratic adj
ministration would be more apt to make
the i~ncrsasA than a Republican admins
t~ration, because by the former party su-
gar is regarded as an ideal revenue
yisldlngsarticle.