The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-18
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as we have several times said recently
we are doing our level best to give poll
tics wide berth until we can get orr
sanctum clear Of the fog and miosmo of
the late canvass. But now and then an
object so luminous shoots along the polit-
zeal horizon, like that meteor plaziny
athwart the sky, that we cannot choose
but turn our lens upon it,
The reader has had time to recover his
senses from the distractions of tbe cam
vass sufficiently to remember that the
three preceding Presidential campaions
were made by the Democrats upon the
two issues of the tariff and the trusts
They constituted, indeed, but one issue;
Tor the trusts are but the Legitimate Off
spring of the tariff, if we can apply the
term legitimate to thing that has so
much misbegotten appearance as n
trust. The reader of the News need not
tax his memory to go SO far back for this
"reminiscences, for frequently during the
late canvass we reminded him of it,
We pointed ont that as Mckinley was
above all other things u tariff man. the
author of the last Republican tariff and.
according to his reiterated declarations
from his front porch rostrum in Canton.
resolved upon its restoration when he
came to the Presidency, his election
would be the signal for the trusts to turn
on steam and drive away ut full blast.
we have not had long to wait for the
veriiication of our prediction. The Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company, better
known as the Sugar Trusts the greatest
monopoly of the kind, not only in this
country, but in the world There is n
sugar refining company at Baltimore.
which has just completed the enlarge
ment and fuller equipment ut Curtis Bay,
IN the vicinity of the city, of one OF the
largest and most modern plants in the
United States. The plant has not been
in operation for several years, but Wa
now about to begin work under the most
ilattering circumstances. But the Sugar
Trust acquired control of the stock and
ousted the old board of directors, and nut
i'll set of its own plant TOOLS who an
nounce that the plant will remain lille
for an indefinite time, and that the six
hundred hands who were about gladly to
begin work must look elsewhere for en-
ployment. The treasurer of the Trust
gives out that the overstocked condition
OF the sugar market makes it inadvisable
to reopen this refinery ut Curtis Bay.
But this Is transparency flimsy and
false excuse, since the demand for sugar
during the past few weeks has been so
urgent as to almost exhaust the supply:
ana as IL consequence values have been
steadily advancing. In we'll informed
cilcles it is perfectly understood that the
object of the Trust in keeping the Curtis
Bay refinery closed is to force further
increase i'll the cost of this article that
enters so universally into the consump-
ton of all classes of the American pep
pie 1t is stated that the Sugar Trust
furnishes 10 per cent of the product con.
sumed in the United States, and is abso-
lutte master of the trade east of the
Rocky Mountains.
Now mark the predictions Iniquitous
rs has been the crime of these monopo.
lies their reign will receive n new lease of
licentious pillage and robbery by the in
stalation of. the Republicans in power
with Mckinley as President 1t is the
logical result of his election.
There is Il poetical justice in the new
regime of monopoly making in the city
of Baltimore the first manifestation of the
impnnity with which it expects to prose
cute its licentious career. Baltimore is
the only city in the South, the only city
in the land, where there was not one
leading Democratic paper to stand by
the party. The Baltimore Sun and the
Baltimore News both assisted to the
utmost OF their ability in the election of
Mckinley. Ought these papers to com
plain of having to take dose of their
own physic9 And yet they both do. The
News in particular makes a very ugly
mouth at it. We do not wish to be un-
christian and rejoice at their misfortune
But.we cannot forbear to say that this is n
case of bloody instructions returning to
plague the inventor; and that they should
suffer the pangs of remorse in silence
when even.handed justice commends to
their lips the ingredients of .the poisoned
chalice they have helped to concoct.-
Lynchburg News.