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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
DECEiTFUL DEALING.
How the DinEEey Committee Stuck 20
the Truats.

the Trusts.
1t win be observed that the advocates
of the Dingley bill are careful to speak
of the sugar differential as one-eighth
cf a cent pound, or 1919 cents per 100
pounds. By the ''differential" is meant
the extra duty put on refined sugar for
the benefit Of the sugar trust. Refined
sugar under the present law pays 121ls
cents per hundred more duty than raw
sugar. But this means 1874 cents more
than raw sugar of the lowest as well
as the highest grade. This sdifferen-
tial" ought not to have been in the bill.
II was put there by traitorous senators
who called themselves democrats CO.
operating with the republicans. On ac-
count Of it the republicans denounced
the bill as a trust bill'' because it had
cut down the Mckinley differential only
Is per cent.
In spite of their denunciation Of the
trust bill of 1894, they are willing to adj
NIT that their bill contains the same
differential as that of 1894. This, how
ever. is q deception. The differential is
larger in the Dingley bill, and those
who understand the subject know it.
The tax on raw sugar testing rs de-
grees by the polariscope is one cent a
pound, or dollar per 100. The tax on
refined sugar is S1.s71a per 100 pounds,
or, in decimals, $1.s75. Thus refined
sugar is taxed seyen-eighths OF a dollar
per 100 pounds more than raw sugar of
the lowest grade. Under the present
law it is only 121s cents per 100 pounds,
in addition to the 40 per cent. ad val
oren on raw sugar.
1t is true that the tax on raw sugar
in the Dingley bill is on sliding scale.
For each degree over rs there is added a
by the time we get to 100 degrees, the
tax amounts to s1.75 per 100 pounds,
and 1917 cents added to make the duty
on refined sugar $1.s75. But this takes
no account of the smaller tax on sugar
less than 100 degrees. In point of fact,
if we go back to 1890, when this sliding
scale was an use before, there was no
sugar imported testing 100 degrees, nor.
yet any at 90 degrees. There was a
small quantity at 93 degrees, but adj
imports above 94 were comparatively
unimportant. On the other hand, there
were imported 550,0oo,0 900 pounds test
ing 81 and SIS degrees, and nearly 40o,-
100000 pounds testing 80 degrees. Be-
low "a degrees the qualities imported
were smaller, but still considerable, ex-
tending all the way to and including
rs degrees. The rate then ranged from
$40 to s2.75 per 100 pounds, the latter
for sugar testing 100 degrees, but the
average tax on the whole was about
two cents pound, or about equal to
that imposed on sugar at 80 degrees.
Let us apply this 90 degree test to
the diferentials. Under the Dingley bill
sugar at 90 degrees pays s1.45 per 100
pounds. Taking this as an average,
and subtracting it from $1.s711s. we
have 421a cents per 100 as the true diff
ferential in favor of the trust.-Louis
vile Courier-J Journal.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
QUESTIONS ON WOOL.
Some Things for-Mr. Dingley to Acc
count For.


Some Things f0r-Mr. Dingley to Acc
count For.
Mr.. Dingley has some hard things to
say, in his report on the tariff bill, about
"speculators importing WOOL" into
whose pockets, he says, the money
enormous wool tax his bill provides
for) will be turned that should go into
the treasury. In this connection we
have fair question to ask of the chair
man of the ways and means committee,
who is himself interested In wooden
manufacture. He is said, by Washing
ton correspondents, to be ''touchy"
about this fact, but it is fact. Through
his family, if not directly, he is inter-
ested in a woolen mill at Lewiston. Has
that mill been stocking up with years
supply Of free wool, and will it buy
every pound of free wool it can get hold
of before the Dingley tax goes into eff
feet? VIII it, in Mr.. Dingley's words,
turn into it's own pockets and those of
the Dingley family the money which, he
says. ought to go into the treasury?
On this we have to say that, if the Ding
ley mill is not doing this, it is not doing
what all the other mills are doing. II
its manager is not taking every bale OF
free wool he can put his hands On he is
incompetent, and should be discharged.
II the Dingley mill Is not getting its
wool free while it can it will have to go
out of business. There is nothing wrong
about importing wool in advance of the
duty. What is wrong is. to get up in
congress and condemn, with great show
of virtuous indignation, the thing which
you are doing yourself.-N. Y. Post.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
Necessariea to BE Taxed.

IL increased taxes upon the neces-
saries of life shall not bring with them
increased wages for labor the men who
are framing the new tariff are only sow
ing the wind and will surely reap the
whirlwind. The people of the country
will not submit to increased taxes upon
that which they must commune unless
they realize a compromising increase
in the wages of labor. If in this regard
sl1e new tariff shall fail the revolution
of a million majority against the Nc
Kinley bill in 1890 will be repeated
against the Dingley bill in 1898. We
bag the trainers Of the new tariff bill to
read the impressive lessons of the past,
and to remember that never in all the
history Of this country were the people
SO sensitive as to taxation and so in
clined TO revolutionary action as they
are to-day. A tariff that taxes the nec-
essaries Of life without increasing the
wages of labor to the full measure of the
increased exactions put into it must
provoke revolution, and another revoIu-
ton against q protective tariff would
doom protection to death from which
there could be no resurrection. Phil
adelphia Times.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
LAFAYETTE's COURTESY.

FTis Act OF Homage to nm Americas
Woman.
The visit of Lafayette to America, as
the nations guest, is graphically re-
called by Jean Traley Hallowell, who
writes of when Lafayette Rode into
Philadelphia" one of the notable series
of articles on "Great Personal Events. /"
The welcome given Lafayette in Phila-
delphia is said to have exceeded in it's
warmth and enthusiasm that extended
to the distinguished visitor in any other
city. In connection with his riding
into Philadelphia, the central figure of
a resplendent pageant, an interesting
incident is thus recalled: "Lafayette's
barouche was passing, on Eleventh
street, the house where dwelt the wild
ow of Robert Morris, fnancier of the
revolution, a sister of Rev. Bishop
White. Mrs. Morris was at her win-
dow, and, recognizing her after many
years, Lafayette rose up In his carriage
and bowed to her. The rare courtesy
was instantly discerned by the thou
sands congregated at this point, and it
SSSLiSu oSo Il VIC t1COplS WOuiu go nfdd
with enthusiasm. The recognition of
Mrs. Norris seemed to set them afame.
Even Lafayette seemed surprised that
the simple act should evoke such wave
OF frantic huzzas. Shout after shout
rent the air; women Wed with men in
their efforts to show to Lafayette that
his graceful act touched them. So
great was the fuTpre that the hero had
to rise again and again in his carriage,
and it was several minutes before the
wonderful enthusiasm had abated. But
if the applause subsided at the special
point where it had been waited into a
flame, it was reRindled again and again,
and carried along the entire route of
march. BY simple act he had aroused
the people, and the fruits of it remained
with him all through his visit IN the
Quaker city."-Ladics' Home Journal.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
PRoFLlGATE MEASURES.
No snch Word ms Economy I'm the Re.
publican ProEramme.

Instead of saying one word upon the
necessity of economy in his message
to congress, President Mckinley en-
couraged the very extravaganza that
has produced the deficiency which is
his excuse for the extra session.
He declares at the start that "we
are presenting the remarkable spec
tacle of increasing our public debt by
borrowing money to meet the ordi-
nary outlays incident upon even an
economical and prudent administrafio
of the government" Is q succession
Of billion-dollar congresses and an in
crease in the national expenditures OF
$1,000 900 a year in ten years an evi-
dence of IAN economical and prudent
administration of the government" R"
ample revenues" said the presi-
dent, in closing, must be supplied.
not only for the ordinary expenses of
the government, but for the prompt
payment of liberal pensions"
The cost of pensions has increased
5000. 900 In ten years. This is the
full amount of the deficiency for the
current year. In other words, if con-
gress. 21 years after the close Of the
war, had put a reasonable limit upon
pensicns-as Gen. Grant and President
Garfield both declared it should do
the present tariff bill, even after the
income tax had been nu11ifed, would
have yielded revenue enough.
Our pension list of 100000 now
exceeds the total of the combined
military pension lists of Europe. Ithas
more than doubled since 1885. It costs
more than some of the greatest stand
ing armies in Europe.
Was there any necessity, outside OF
the old soldier denagogy, for the
president to lug in reference to "the
prompt payment Of liberal pensions"
in the face of yawning deficit in the
revenues ?---N Y. World.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
POINTS AND DEMONS.

The Fifty-ffth congress. cannot
make itself popular by applying the gag
rule and passing appropriations at tho
rate of $45o,0oo minute. ST. Paul
Globe.
The woo1en manufacturers want
to reduce the Dingley rate on raw wool:
one-haH. The wool growers want to
double it. Here's pretty row. Utica
Observer.
The new tariff bill will increase
the duties by SIT, ,3o7. .867, and will swell
the profits of the benefciaries by as
much as the combinations can squeeze
out of the people.-st. Louis Republic.
The Dingley bill has done more
in three days to reconstruct and
strengthen the democratic party than
all the harmonizers and conciliators
and managers could have done in year.
Baltimore News.
The Mckinley tariff was intro
duced as measure to reduce the rev
enues, which had been redundant, and
1t had that effect, while now, when the
revenues are regarded as insufficient,
it is proposed to reenact substantially
the same tariff in order to increase
them. P Philadelphia Times.
The tariff built up the trusts and
the trusts are building up the tariff.
Look at the genesis of the trusts. They
controlled nominations. corrupted state
legislatures and Iog-rolled In congress
to get the tariff higher, ever higher. As
q result of the exorbitant prices thus
exacted from the American people the
barons amassed millions, until the arti-
fetal conditions created brought into
existence an excess of industrial plant.
Then ensued the destructive conipeti-
tion which led the manufacturers to
combine as they claim in se1f-defense
into the trusts and put an end to com
petition. Excessive tariffs destroyed
foreign competition, and the resulting
trusts have destroyed domestic conn
tition, anl there you are4-~E. Z. Herald,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
TROUBLE FOR TARIFF MAKERS.
Republican Professions That Wonst
r %T,sH <mx W.

Stand the Test.
1t is reported from Washington that
President McKinley's currency commits
sion for the study of the currency laws
during the recess of congress has not
been abandoned entirely, according to
the declarations of republican leaders.
the tariff shall have right of way.
This means, of courses that in view
of what is beginning to look like des-
perate tariff emergency. the republic
an professions Of favor Tor the pro-
posal to promote international bimetal-
lism must be kept before the federal
lawmakers. All signs point to trouble
ahead for the tariff-makers, and it is
thought to be wise not to let any doubt
as to the republican position in support
of the conference proposition consti-
tute an additional obstacle to the car
rying out of the tariff programme. By
postponing the dispensing OF patronage
and keeping to the front the professed
republican intention to do the fair
thing by silver the administration is
doing all that it can to make the road
0I tAiC tdA1A piAi eAS itbtlG IOchy dS EOS~
sible. y s
What effect this policy will have on
the silver republicans in the senate can
hardly be foretold, but it is not amiss
to remember that some of them yielded
to the siren voice of the international
agreement vocalist last summer, and
they may be prepared to do it again.
They are all protectionists, of course.
and they may consent to aid in estab-
fishing the proposed protective policy.
although their pet product is not in
cluded in its provisions. In this they
will be Influenced. doubtless, by the
hope that their turn will come later,
and no more delusiye hope ever took
up its abode in the human breast.
1t is likely, however, that this at
tempt to play on the credulity of the
silyerites, while it may achieve that end,
will not operate to save the condemned
and repudiated tariff bill from serious
trouble in the senate. That measure is
too clearly terrific blow at the public
interests to admit of any deception as
to its possibilities and purpose. The
patronage will be withheld and the sill
verites fooled in vain.-Binghamto IN.
W Leader.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08

deeds done and the whisky he drinks
is sometimes buried with his bones.
Raley and truly, didn't mean to do it,
but ohest1 upon a time--in my young
and magnolious days-when / was feel
in my feed and gallin around right plen-
tiful and promiscIs LIKE busted up a
whole campmeetin. And oncst upon
hertime busted up the biggest sort
of weddin match, when 1 wouldn't
OF done ita-purposefor the finest young
mule in the settlement. EH. ~
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
HIS ROMANCE.
1t Illustrates the Ficl<1encss OF Man

1t illustrates the Ficlklencss OF Man
as Well as Woman.
"Of course there's romance in my
life assented Fromer, when il was
intimated that there was nothing OF
sentiment in his composition.
II felt when | saw her, It's she or
none ON EARTH is what Schiller wrote in
his Bride of Messira.' That is exactly
what | felt when I met the woman OF
my romance. Nobody can describe a
woman. You can rave about her elas-
sic features, her speaking eyes, her
neck like a pillar Of marble touched
with life, the graceful Psyche knot that
she twists to a crown of beauty and all
that kind of rant, but after it is done
you can meet the woman and not know
her. When | can picture a soul I'll go
into the business.
"Of course was young when ] met
her. Otherwise I would have shown
some slight imitation of sense and sur
rendered by degrees. Love at first sight
is not uncommon, but it is restrained
by a sense of propriety, by pride or
by some other modifying influence.
Every force in my being was coopera-
tive. There was no check, and I fell to
the very depths.
'tshe refused me very prettily and
very properly. | asked her If / could
cherish no hope, intimating that to de-
prive me Of hope would be Immediately
fatal. She gave me a very seant allow
ance. Then l went proudly away to
win fortune that ! might lay it at
her feet as an additional inducenent.
In four years I returned. The woman
was there just as lad left her, but not
my ideal. While was trying for moral
strength enough TO recall my vows,
she was mastering courage sufieientto
tell me. she was engaged to another
nan. She spoke first. Then was SO
mad at the other fellow, whom should
have blessed. that I insisted she had
Ero1en my heart. n--st Louis Republic.
.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08

The democratic policy can be
stated in two sentences, both short: Let
the tariff alone. Reduce expenditures
The Wilson tariff viii support the gov
ernment, economically administered,
and there is cash enough IN the.treasuryI
TO pay the bills until congress, by cut
tin g down ey penses, can make both ends
uaeta--N. Z. T;gaes.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
Spartan Perfnuaerr.

Plutareh mentions visit paid by
Spartan lady to Bernice, the wife OF
Derotarus, tetrarch of Galatia. Thi:
lady smelled SO strongly of sweet oint
ment and Bernice of butter that they
could not endure each others pres.
ence Chicago Chrenicle.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08

what q tremendous
big lot of devil
1nent one mortal
man can do single
handed and alone
under the sun. The
meanness w tic b
vain and feetin
man does is more
than probable to
Ii v e after him,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
fie 1sTerribiee. &. eonfus1onment.r

Eut then, whenewe marched hand in
liand through the crowd and up under
the big bresh arbor, we did raise the
dadblandest flutter and furry that had
ever come to pass in all that skirt OF
the woods. The show was wide open
Then and the goneByest most terriblest
confusionment you ever read aboutwas
goin on around there presently. The
preacher had Jest got into aweayin way
with q powerful and stirrin ser1nont,
but he had TO give it up and turn loose
to catch his breath. On the first flush
some Of the people thought I must be
Gen. George Washington. or King
,Iee1ns, or some other royal monarchy,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
Something Had TO Happen.


If you had went to most any sort Of q
big meetin anywheres in the surround
in country that summer you would of
met up with me and Miss Susy Ann and
whole passle more of the young peo-
pie. But from the general way in which
the talk was carried on you never would
of thought there was any young people
on the grounds exceptin Bunk Weather
ford and Miss Rosebud Castleberry.
They few SO internal high and Skinned
SO blame light, and everybody had
somethin to say about how sweet
and pretty she was and how smart
and fine lookin he was. To be
certainly knowed golnation well that
it was nothin but their extra friI1s and
tineries and fancy trimmins, but at
the same time the general circumfer-
ence was powerful diggin apdsl1urtfn to
me. Bunk Jest simply took the day.
and swept everything before him,
whilst I had. to faH back and hang on
around the edges as best ] could.
This thing has now gone on Jest a
leetle bit further than I can Standard
take 1t. and I will be eveilastinly dad
smashed if it amt got TO stop." says /
TO myself thatsn ghts Bunk Weather
ford thinks there aint nobody IN this
country that can. wear Il otsies exeeptin
him and his onlyest own, but BY the liir-.
in and the Dead + have never yet'seen
a colt so fiery or so fine but what hegots
brought to bis milk and weaned by and
by. hate to do II, Bunk honest to
God, I do mortally hate to do it, but
somethin will have to happen.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
ON PATSALAGY RIDGE.
When Rufas Sanders ana His Best
Girl Turned Out.
"Busted "a Big Campmeetin with Fine
Clothes and Fancy Trimmins''
-But i"Remained Over"
Tall show Was Ont. Ez5f

Hit is the gonebyest most strangest
thing in this round created world to me
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08

The mean temperature of Greees b
81 degrees Tallr.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08
,.Ffxfn 4he Trtwae !

sT'ixtn 1he Trtsgers.''
So coasequentiely fixed the trig4
gers that night, and bright and early
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-08

OF done ita-purpose for the finest young
mule in the settlement. Ha& s ID
Who Should and Who Shouldn't.
That was years and years ago, be-
fore me and mother ever took up a no
tion to walk together in the ten COM
mandments and work in double harness
for better or for worse. 1t was way
down in the old Panther Creek settle
ment, where the Sanders generation Of
people had made their clearins and built
their cabbins in the first settlernent-of
the country. - "a, a 49, sas
Campmeetins was all the go in them
good old days. and indurin that partic-
lar summer everybody-Methodists,
Baptists and all went in kersnooks to-
gether and got up one Of the biggest
campmeetins you ever heard tell of.
They struck camp in big shady grove
over on Patsalagy ridge, and the people
they come for miles and miles around
come in wagons and on horseback and
afoot-till it did look to me like every
body was there.
- Now in that day and generation most
everybody had tolive at home and board
at the same place. They made their
meat and bread and raiments at home,
and even to, the highristocracy of the
land most in generally wore homespun
clothes in summer and winter and the
whole year round. And as for us boys,
il took our level blamedest to climb up
in a suit of store-boughtacl clothes oncst
n year. - !. -.
But was goinon to say,right about
that time was keepin clost company
with Miss Susy Ann stringer and cut
Tin the pigeon wing around her every
Sunday the Lord sent, and two or three
nights in the week for good measure.
At the same time my fellow servant,
Bunk gWeatherford, he was payin his
most feryent regards to Miss Rosebud
Castleberry reglar and constant Well,
if you have ever travelled along that
road You can see how it was. Itdid ra}ey
seem to me like I was about the fin st
lookin youngster in the settlement and
I felt certain that Miss Susy Ann was
way yonder the most loveliest girl in the
whole created human race. Naturally
of course Bunk Weatherford had took
about the same sort Of fool notions in re-
CARDS to Miss Rosebud and himself. I
So in the fullness of time - between
the two pairs--we had worked up fu-
Tious big rivalment aseto who could and
who couldn't-who should and who
shouldn't. Now,s,to tell the gospel
truth, Bunk and Miss Rosebud they
had got the bulge on me and Miss Susy
Ann along in the spring of the year. BY
some shift OR turn Bunk had managed
so as to buy him a bran-spankin new
suit of store-bought clothes, and Miss
Rosebud she had likewise broke out
i'll fresh place with two or three white
muslins and pol1er-dot calico frocks,
with hat and ribbins and plenty of
fancy fixments to matchE They then
took in, all the pic11ies and barbecues
and big meetins together, and cut such
q high and mighty swell everywhere
they went till they laid me and Miss
susy Ann, and everything else for miles.
around way back in the shade. fsESs5
'
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1897-02-17
5uder

Wein aus .3uderrii6en min man sssenz
pdrtig in 8uBldnb fabritmdBig beriteaeA
uno 3tpar 1pa i'm fiOli9en Sbeile oieies Gam
Des 6ereits cine Nttiengsieuf9aft I'M gntz
fteben begriffen fein, Die fi9 NIT Der Ser
TteGung bon @ein aus 3uderrii6en i'm @ro=
BEN befafen min, @s pirb bies bos erte
%1nterne6men bieler Nrt in europa feia.
Nu6 @eI4mad uno 9eru@ fommt Der
3uderriibenipein ben %betannten fpanii9en
Weinen febr nabe. Die ein3ige unbeqremz
li9teit bel Der Sabrifatton beitebt nur noG
barin, baB es ldngerer 3eit bebarf, ebe Der
Wein ftb tldrt. 9o6 AUDI bier barfte Die
moperne @bemie balS @bbiilfe gel9afft
6aben.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1897-02-17
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