The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-22
Entered at the postoffice at Raleigh
N. g., as second class matter.
"THEY ALL TAKE SUGAR IN THEIRN. "

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The Senate does well to pause long
enough before passing the tariff act TO
let the people see that it is a trust meas
ure from beginning to end. OF course 1t
ia sectional, discriminating in everything
against the South except where there is
no competition between the sections. Inat
was expected. 1t was also expected that
the trusts would receive the right to tax
the people for big returns ON campaign
investments. The people ought not to
complain that, having betrayed their in
terests for money to buy the election, the
Republicans managers are sticking to
their corrupt and vicious bargain. But
the people have right to complain at
the hypocrisy that accompanies the pas
sage of the bill. 1t is bad enough to be
robbed. 1t is an insult to intelligence to
be told that you are being helped while
you see the thief rifing your pockets.
The whole pretended disagreement over
the sugar schedule turns out to have been
a farce deliberately arranged to deceive
the people. First, the House Of Repre-
eentatives gives the Sugar Trust nearly
all the bounty they ask. Then the Senate
makes an ineligible schedule that seems
to give them a great deal more. Amid the
clamor of the people against the exac-
ton of the trust, out struts Tom Reed
on the stage and cries, "Fee, 70, fun, l
smell the blood of the Sugar Trust.
Watch me wipe up the earth with my
great adversary" The world looks ON
with applause for Reed, rejoicing that
the people have champion against the
mighty giant. Suddenly Reed waves his
sword in mid air,puts his foot theatrically
upon the body Of the Trust, and proceeds
no cut it's head off to slow music. The
neople cheer as at the contest between
erladiators, for they did not see the
sleight-ofhand trick which was played
upon them until, instead Of being, as
they supposed decapitated corpse, the
mighty Sugar Trust stalks forth with
greater power to rob than before
youchsafed in a schedule ineligible only
to experts. Then, as the fact that they
have been the victims of a confidence
game and spectators Of sham battle
dawns on the people, it is no wonder that
their Indignation at the fraud practised
upon them finds vent in language more
forcible than polite. And is it any Won
der that the people lose confidence in
public men, when they see them wearing
the livery Of trusts and hear them at the
same time swear that they are the enc
mies and antagonists Of the men whose
bidding they do? eee
The Sugar Trusts agents in the Senate
in 1S94-two Of them were Democrats
forced a bounty for the trust into the
tariff bill which is known as the Wilson
act. The result was that the whole Demo
cratic party was discredited and defeated
The Republicans were loud in denounc
ing the bounty the act Of 1894 gave tx
the Sugar Trust, and they were right il
so doing. Now they come along, give
twice as big bounty to the trust, ant
sing the long meter doxology through
their noses, and thank God they are no
as other men-even the wicked Demo
Gratis They think they can fool the peopl'
by this pretense, but if ever there wa
any one legislative favorite more of
fensive ito the country than another
is the Sugar Trust. They pay immens
dividends on stock half Of which is wa
ter, without this big bonus Congress i
giving them. They employ less tha
three thousand men, and it cannot
claimed that the bonus is to protec
American labor. It is a gift, pure an
simple, Of lump sum Of $13,OO0,OOO t
the Trust, and tax Of two cents
pound ON sugar to the consumer.
Will the people stand this?
If so, their necks are already bent 70
the slaves yoke.