The record-union., 1896-10-27
1894 ..., 1851. $50

1894 126 1871. $50
Total .................$4 .$453, ,264 702
Until 1890 there was q duty Of 2 1-3
cents a pound on foreign sugar. This
yielded to the Government So, 900, 900
revenue annually, which went to the sup
port Of Government that the people
must maintain by revenue raised In one
form or another. In 1890 sugar was
made free. but q bounty o6 two cents
on homemade sugar was substituted.
Under this law factories were built and
sugar beet growing industry thrfved.
When the Democratic party came into
power the German Wilson bill was re-
ported from the Ways and Means Com
mittee Of the House, OF which Mr.. w. ].
Bryan was q member, and the bounty
was struck down, though Congress had
covenanted with the people that 1t
should remain at least fifteen years. and
investment was made on the good faith
of that proznfsa
What was the result? One dollar a
ton less was paid to sugar-beet growers
in California and Nebraska, for tn
stance; loss to them Of $4,000 q
year. Many factories closed down, and
some went under the Sheriff's hammer;
plantations were abandoned and hands
discharged along the whole line. At the
same time little Sweden increased sthe
number of her factories from to IL.
Germany doubled her product at once,
and the import Of sugar from China
jumped from 6,561. .S75 pounds In 1891
to 27.246,O95 in 1895. Egypt began to
employ tramp steamers to send sugar to
us from that quarter Of the globe, and
America became the dumping-ground OF
sugar for the product Of coolie and other
cheap labor.
The average consumption Of sugar is
sNty-four pounds per person. AL on
this could have been produced at home.
That would have meant disbursement:
For farm labor. ....... S64,OOO,OOO
Factory labor. So,OOo,OOO
Allied labor and supplies 25,OOO,OOO
Total .$125, ,O0O, 600
The acreage necessary for such pro-
duction and supply is placed by experts
at 1000, 900, and the men employed In
the industry at 100000, while the In
vestunent necessary of capital would
have been $150.0OO000.
The question, then, is will Americans
vote to put paddock on the door Of the
factories? For Mr.. Bryan said In Con-
gress in 1892, in the debate ON the
bounty bill: 'T deny the right OF any
Congress to bind a future Congress by a
legislative act Of that kind. The diff
ference between a protective tariff and a
bounty is only differencedn form" In
committee ne declared that a protective
tariff is robbery, and that whoever asks
1t asks to be licensed to rob.
The Democratic platform denounces
and boldly demands removal Of protec-
ton of all forms, save for revenue only,
and that viii not, as II never has done,
protect American industries.
The Republican platform declares
emphathally for a tariff so adjusted as
to admit without restraint those aru-
cles which will not injure the Arneri-
can wage Garner and producer by un-
fair competition, and for tariff that
VIII protect American labor industry,
manufacture and production
| It especially promises protection to
the sugar interests along with others
Of frst moment.
| But Mr.. BRYAN says the tariff can
wait." Why should It wait? While 1t
waits who is to pay the piper? Who to
save factories from falling into ruin?
Who is to pay the interest on the cap
ital invested and earning nothing for
its owners? Who is to gain by the
waiting and who to lose? Who but the
| American worker, investor and pro-
ducer in the sugar industry for one lot
of people and hundreds Of thousands in
other groups They who will gain are
| the German, Swedish, Egyptian and
| Chinese growers, workers and investors.
| One vote for Bryan and one against
Republican Congressman are two votes
to close a great avenue to the worker
and skilled mechanic, on the specious
plea that the consumer will get sugar
little cheaper, casting out of account
| the tens Of thousands who, because Of
this free trade doctrine will be unable
to use sugar at all. have to be content
with a crust and remain unable to con-
tribute to the consumption Of the pro-
ducts Of those who do gain possibly
on the 64 pounds of sugar they use-in
the aggregate but a few cents.
| And all this that the American farm
er shall not grow sugar beets, the
American mechanic not set up sugar
expressing machinery, and the Ameri-
can worker not labor In the sugar fac
| tory.
REASONS WHY.
| Electors should cast their ballots for